Mywriting is a bit dire these days. Cause the writing on the wall is a bit dire. Since COVID crawled out of the news like Ringu, bad juju has been following everyone around. Since 2019 me and everyone else have been under this constant level of stress that I don’t even notice anymore. I don’t even notice how stressed I ...
Christians should be focused on planning finances for the glory of God, while keeping in mind biblical principles regarding money management. Financial planning Christian can...
When I look back at these posts say a few years from now, I hope I look back with the same outlook (or something better) than I what I possess. I write this with hopes to reminisce and not regret.
For a while the YouTube algorithm (monetized be thy name) decided that I liked video game cut scenes. Mortal Kombat and Doom mainly. And I guess I did. For me the fascinating thing was watching these games I’d last encountered as a child now play out as full-fledged religions.Game ReligionsI last played these games when they first came out, when ...
Ardhanarishvara, the combined form of Shiva and Parvati, both male and female. அவர்The pronoun debate is interesting because learning one other pronoun is nothing for most people. In the Tamil language there’s different pronouns for you, you (respectful), men, women, gender-neutral (respectful), and animals.Then there’s dozens of terms of address. On any given day I can be called 20 different ...
The different levels of selfWhat if the self was a sliding scale? What if YOU solved some problems, the FAMILY solved others, and the COMMUNITY and NATION did their part? Different 'selves' for different solutions. Today (white) people treat everything as a personal problem and this obviously doesn't work. Take these three examples:The pandemic, in the West, has been defined ...
Madonna and child by Angelo Da Fonseca of GoaOur investment bank delivered a chocolate cake for Christmas. It felt obscene, but such is the nature of compound interest, appearing here in cake form. To those with plenty, plenty more will be given. It’s the opposite of the Bible verse “From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be ...
Image Courtesy – SportsKeeda Last weekend featured a double header at the T20 Cricket World Cup featuring four South Asian nations. The evening match played under lights was between two countries with a difficult relationship, diplomatically distant as of late. The match ended quite calmly, with Pakistan romping to a 10 wicket win, and images of a smiling Indian Cricket ...
As explained thru Hindu comic booksTony Soprano looking at the old world while his wife is trapped in the newTony Soprano was TV's first anti-hero, but the show still has a hero. It's his wife, Carmela. In a very Gita or Kannagi sense, she's a dharmic hero. She does her duty. She's a good wife to a bad man. She's ...
I am alive and... well? I don’t know much about quantifying wellness— but in the age of a pandemic—I feel lucky to be healthy. There hasn’t been much activity in this blog, not just because I have been busy (work really took over life in quarantine), but because I have had a lot to say but no way to say ...
It’s Vesak, but my dog is not a vegetarianYou see, I’m cooking chicken legs for himAnd in my country you don’t cook meat duringVesak; you don’t even break eggsYou don’t cook fishYou don’t cook prawnDefinitely don’t boil crabsBecause it’s Vesak you seeOn other days its fine thoughMost Buddhists here aren’t vegetarian“Aney pau” extends only to the things you see being ...
President of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa pardoned a criminal Buddhist monk who had been jailed for life for possessing two T-56 firearms and 210 numbers of live ammunition illegally. Political monk Uwathenne Sumana Thero was charged under the firearm ordinance of Sri Lanka for the offence he committed in 2010, few weeks ahead of the Presidential. By that time, he was a supporter of Sarath
Photo Courtesy of TIME At the outset In the 19th Century a French sociologist Emile Durkheim coined the acronym ‘anomie’ to describe the then growing absence of norms in society. Today, global trends of governance under the violent, greedy and deceitful similarly require an easy reference. At least for the purposes of this reflection the acronym ‘VIGED,’ will do. It ...
Have you ever, fallen in love? And thought that, it’s a gift from above? Then tell me my friend, my friend with romance, Would you fall again? If given another chance? Have you ever, thought that she’s the one? The one you’d marry, and mother your son, Then tell me my friend, my friend with belief, Were you right? Or ...
Three police teams of Sri Lanka are investigating the death of a Dutch national Buddhist monk who was meditating in a Theravada Buddhist monastery in Sri Lanka. The death is suspected murder. The dead body of the Netherlands national Buddhist monk was recovered on December 08, 2020, from a lagoon in Rathgama in Galle district of Sri Lanka. The 59 years old Buddhist monk known as Ven. Jinawansa
Sri Lanka government says that the government will consult the relevant authorities to make the decision regarding the disposal of the dead bodies of COVID-19 patients according to the health precautions."There are various opinions about the issue," cabinet spokesman Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said to media. "In the cabinet meeting yesterday, Minister Ali Sabry submitted a proposal to consider ...
