Posted on 05/11/2016 7:47:24 AM PDT by Rusty0604
NEW DELHI (AP) — Donald Trump may find it tough to get Republican leaders behind his campaign, but he's got some faraway fans trying to get the gods on his side.
"The whole world is screaming against Islamic terrorism, and even India is not safe from it," said Vishnu Gupta, founder of the Hindu Sena nationalist group. "Only Donald Trump can save humanity."
Members of the group gathered on a blanket spread out in a New Delhi protest park along with a collection of statues depicting gods including Shiva and Hanuman — as well as photos of a smiling Trump.
Above them hung a banner declaring support for Trump "because he is hope for humanity against Islamic terror."
The group chanted Sanskrit prayers asking the gods to favor Trump in the election, and threw offerings such as seeds, grass and ghee — or clarified butter — into a small ritual fire
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I had not heard that one. THANK YOU!!! It’s wonderful!
Oh I get it.... the Indian guy exacerbated the mood of an Indian teller that already was touchy when you followed him in line.
Slow on the uptake today!
Yes. I don’t speak Bengali, lol! 3 movies following the family of Apu. It’s very much a foreign movie: longish, a bit slow, very little ‘excitement’ and no violence or sex - just a wonderful study of the human condition. No matter where we are on the planet, we all have the same problems.
We taped it off TMC last month.
cool! Thanks for the info!
Missed the TMC viewing. Oh well. I’ll keep my eyes peeled for it. Our local book store is good about ordering stuff if we don’t want to mess with Amazon.
Yes, I have read MM’s posts. Very interesting and fun to read.
I’m glad I traveled to India in my younger years. It’s a tough trip. Don’t expect I’ll be going back any time soon. But never say never.
Make sure you get the Criterion version. The others, I’ve heard, are not good. TMC included a documentary on how it was reconstructed.
Actually, what I was saying was that Indians are even stingy with stranger’s money. She simply didn’t want to give it to me because she thought the bank owned it. I had to complain about her numerous times but she’s still there, still arguing with people before handing over the cash. It’s a ‘different’ culture.
Here’s another story. It’s Sufi in origin. Some of my Christian friends have a hard time understanding this story...it’s about Lucifer and God.
God asks all his angels to bow to his latest creation...man. All do, except Lucifer. God asks Lucifer, the angel who loved God the most, why he displayed such disobedience. Lucifer says, ‘my love for you knows no bounds. I only bow to YOU.’
For his disobedience,God casts Lucifer to hell. So, the Mystics ask, ‘how can Lucifer survive in hell now that he is separated from his love?’ The answer they say is Lucifer keeps on remembering God’s last words to him, ‘be gone!’
And, that’s what hell is...loss of love. You are consumed by your own ego...forever.
I would like to go to India, too, although many friends have said the intense poverty and dirt is very upsetting. A British friend of mine told me to pass up the cities and visit the hill stations of India.
I also finished Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet which is about India during the Second World War and Independence. An amazing book told from the point of view of various Brits, Hindus and Muslims.
It’s a story I love because it helps me be a better parent.
It is an amazing book. I felt it my duty to read it but hated doing so. And I’m glad I did. The author is a dutiful researcher and much of the information is based on Mohammedan sources, others are Hindu sources. The butchery and incredible tortures are beyond belief.
I remember one city (most were walled at that time) the mohammedans were fighting to conquer. The Hindu warriors fought to the last man, then the brahmans (teachers/religious members) took up the arms and fought and meanwhile the women lit a fire and tossed their children in and jumped in, when it was clear the HIndus would lose to the mohammedans. Death by fire was far more to be preferred than the rape, enslavement, torture and death the mohammends gave to all they didn’t kill. They took countless women as sex slaves (as well as children including boys), and took many to their holdings in the middle east.
Bookmarking for the handy homicidal koran quotes.
SPOILER ALERT!! Just now read the link to the Roger Ebert review of “Apu” and it gives a LOT of detail and analysis! Sorry if you have read it and didn’t want the plot elements so starkly outlined.
Do you have the link?
The Yazidis have a story something like this. I think their head Peacock Archangel refused to bow, and was sent to punishment. But he repented and cried so many tears he filled seven large vessels. Then he poured the tears out of the vessels and extinguished the fires of hell.
The Pope—THE POPE—is applauding the Muslim invasion and rape of Europe. Virtually all Catholic bishops echo the Pope’s droolings. Virtually all Western heads of state have been bought and placed in power by the Marxist/Jihad combine.
Along comes Donald Trump—adulterous billionaire—who just may be responding to a divine call to break the conspiracy of silence about the demonic monstrosity that has seized the Papacy, the Catholic hierarchy, almost all Protestant bodies, and almost all other institutions.
One man serves as a model of the stupidity that values NOMINAL Christianity above actual honesty and integrity—Steve Deace.
Wikipedia can make you an instant expert. On non-political subjects, it’s awesome.
Islam was designed by Satan to create personalities that are infantile at best, and diabolically, malignantly narcissistic at worst.
Yes, it can be good. It’s gotten better over the years unless you run afoul over them as my husband and I did years ago.
The last Apu film, The World of Apu, resembles Siddhartha’s journey to find wisdom. I so hoped for a happy ending that I was crying in anticipation. It may be my favorite of the 3 but the first, Pather Panchali (The Song of the Road), is deeply moving as well. It’s portrait of motherhood is both tender and harsh as is all of our childhood memories of mom...
Almost all the actors are amateurs in neo-realism style.
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