In the Vedas............part 2

The Vedas, in summary, were a an instruction manual. What they instructed was how to conduct ritual prayers.

Vedic rituals centered around a sacrificial fire. The belief was, that anything put into the fire would reach god. You chanted the prayers to invoke that god and ask for blessings. There were different prayers for different gods. This fire ritual was known as "Yajna".

To me, the concept was ridiculous. You put stuff like butter, ghee, rice, coconuts and the like into the sacrificial fire, then you invoke god and expect blessings.

In ancient times, animals were sacrified to the fire. There have been indications that at one time even humans were sacrificed to the fire........but for obivious reasons this practice was stopped.

Now here's the interesting part, I believe the priests, the brahmins, knew that these empty rituals were just that, empty and devoid of meaning. They however stood to benefit greatly from these Yajnas, because according to the vedas they were supposed to be given money and gifts at these Yajnas.

The vedas basically said the duty of the brahmins was to perform at these Yajnas and act as priest and be goody goody......and the rest of us had to well be charitable, in short, the non brahmin population had to finance the brahmins. Nice for the brahmins no?

More than just that, if you were to read the Vedas and the upanishads, you would find that there was an overwhelming bias towards this group of people, known as a caste, as brahmins. Historically, they were the ones who could mostly read and write, so do you ever wonder who wrote these wonderful books?

If you didn't work and couldn't fight, how would you protect yourself? My opinion is that the vedas and upanishads, the holiest books of hindusim, are nothing more than works of fiction, written by brahmins and passed on to the rest of the population as written by divine hands.

An example would be where it says, that if you kill a man, you would be reborn once to suffer for the sin of killing in your last life, the concept of karma, but if you kill a brahmin, you would be reborn 10,000 times to pay for your sins in 10,000 lives.

Forget equality, human rights or decency. According to Hinduism, or at least the most important books of hindusim, a brahmin life is worth 10,000 times more than a non brahmin life..........does that sound like something god would write? or does it sound like something a brahmin would write?

Brahmins, are the worlds greatest and most successful parasites.

I do not know if there was anything to hinduism before these parasites contaminated it. Sad.

I didn't come to this conclusion overnight, it took about 4 years of reading and thinking. During this time I also read the holy books of other religions to see if they were the true path. I don't want to offend anyone so I won't talk of my opinion of what the other religions say.

After starting down the road at 19, at 23 I became a an atheist. There is no god.

To Not Believe In God........part 1

I was grading papers. It was pretty painful, so I decided to take a break.

While I was randomly surfing the net, I ran into some sites discussing religion, for those of you who do not already know.......I'm an atheist.

I don't believe in god and pretty much eat everything, beef and pork included.

It wasn't always like that you know, when I was younger I attended many dinners or functions on days when Hindus are supposed to be vegetarian, quite a few times all that was available was non-veg dishes, on those occasions I just had drinks and didn't eat.

I was very religious. In fact that was what caused me to become an atheist.

Irony.

Imagine if I was your usual run of the mill kind of person, someone who was vaguely religious, I would still believe in god.

What happened is pretty simple. I was very religious because I believed without thinking. I trusted whatever I was told regarding Hinduism. Whenever I went to the temple I used to be so damn impressed with what the priest used to chant. That right there is what made me an atheist.

I wanted to understand more about my religion, I wanted to know what the priest was saying, I wanted to really UNDERSTAND. After doing some research, I found out that what they chanted in temples mainly came from the Vedas. I was 19 and very very idealistic. Naive too.

When I read the Vedas, I began to have doubts about Hinduism, my faith was shaken but not gone........but I'm jumping too far ahead in this story.

There are 4 Vedas, The oldest is the Rig Veda which was chants for the big shot priests,the next most important is the Yajur Veda which was for middle management priests and the third ranking one was the Sama Veda which contained chants for the kucing kurap priests. The last Veda is the Atharva Veda which contained magic spells and some miscellaneous stuff.

I didn't know all this at the time, I just knew them as the Vedas, I didn't even know there were 4.

So, I tried looking in every bookstore in the Klang Valley for copies of the Vedas, translated into English of course, coz as you might guess I can't read Sanskrit. I couldn't find anything.

I pestered my mother relentlessly to get her brother in India to buy and send me the Vedas. After 6 months of whining, my mom, totally fed up, got her brother to send me the Vedas in English. That was when I found out there were 4 Vedas, because there were 4 books in total.

What I found in the Vedas was the start of my eventual atheism. When you're at the temple, the prayers in Sanskrit seem impressive, but that's only because you don't really know what they're saying, but once you understand the meaning of it......its pretty hard to be impressed. Once I read the Vedas I felt conned, but I didn't become an atheist because of that. There's more to the story than the Vedas.

To be continued, too tired to go on now......................................

Of faulty traffic lights, long assignments and banned commercials

It's been a terrible day, so tiring. Exams around the corner for most of my students, assignments going to be handed in next week, loads more assignments already collected waiting to be graded. I'm tempted to grade using two dice.....the higher the score the higher the grade and vice-versa, don't think I can get away with it.....but belum try belum tau. lol

The only silver lining is that most of my classes will be done by the end of this week. I'm writing now cause I can't sleep at all. :(

My day started out late, hit the snooze button on the alarm, told myself......"another 5 minutes"....you can guess what happened, but it wasn't like I hadn't thought of that.Unlike most people, I have a back up alarm.

The back up alarm didn't work today, because my back up alarm had to attend a wedding early in the morning, doesn't it just figure.......the one day I need her to bang on my door....the woman isn't there.....every other day of the week.....like clockwork...murphy was a wise, wise man.

Anyway the traffic lights were out at the junction near my house, I needed to get to the highway through that junction, to make a long story short.......almost had a massive accident. Totally awake at that point and fuming to boot, the driver and I who almost became closely acquainted started a honking war...naturally because in our minds it was totally the other persons fault.

That was the just 8.35am.

Class, class and more classes.

I got into my morning class at 9am when I should have been in at 8.30am. This class is mostly advanced accounting. Half the syllabus concerns accounting standards, which is assessed by way of theoretical questions. My students in this class are alright, all things considered, with one most unfortunate exception.

Their English is bad to the point of not being able to express themselves coherently in writing. As a result, most of this class didn't do well.

I offered them a bonus assignment, which if they did it, I promised at least a pass for the coursework. The assignment is rather large, they have to summarize the events mentioned in the 1989 song by Billy Joel 'we didn't start the fire'. There are 120 events listed in total, each of my students, and there's about 50 or so, needs to write 150 words on each event, a 100 of those words must be original.

That translates to 18,000 words per assignment. 50 students. Do the math. Pity me, LOTS, LOTS of reading I have to do.

I had good intentions in setting this assignment. Their English would surely improve after that much reading and lets face it, this generations hold on knowledge and world history is tenuous at best and I'm being generous here, so I reckoned this would do them good.

I ignored the fact that they'd have to work their butts off, well maybe the word isn't ignored, god knows they've been complaining, lol, I guess when they were the ones who had to WORK, I didn't mind.

Now I have to read through so much.......arghh.

The thought of that much work.........oh dear god...haha.

With so much to do,I decided to procrastinate, I decided to randomly surf the net.

While on youtube, I had an idea. I used to have a HUMONGOUS collection of banned commercials saved on my old PC, hundreds. I lost this collection along with lots of other cool stuff when my hard drive fried on the old PC.

Youtube now, isn't youtube supposed to have zillions of things so I tried looking for these adverts.............EUREKA found them.

I'm going to put 2 here. There are tons of adverts, but I'm only gonna put 2 here.
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I would like to mention that these are BANNED commercials, coz they have sex,violence, sick humour in them.........but for all that, they're still hilarious.
I downloaded bout 25 or so videos.

Those of you who are less that 18 years of age and those of you easily offended, please stop reading............but the rest of you degenerates........ READ ON...

1.Bridgestone add for tires, from Thailand...... uses a dog,crazy funny.





2. Remember the mastercard priceless adverts. check this out.

Random things crossing my mind on my first post

My Blog is titled Infinite Monkey. It has been suggested than a monkey banging on a keyboard could one day reproduce the entire works of shakespeare, provided if it lived forever, that is if it lived infinitely and also if it could be persuaded to continue to bang on the keyboard, presumably forever.

Hence my blog title............you like? I'm pleased with the name.

I have a new favorite song, see the video on youtube, click here.

People are chasing me to hand in my exam papers for the coming finals. I have all the exam questions for the subjects I teach. It's not that I'm lazy, it's just so hard for me to get in front of a computer and start typing. I think I have some sort of phobia when it comes to doing administrative work. I should really pay someone to do my typing for me. Strangely I can type provided its not work. I think its some sort of psychological disorder, so I really shouldn't be blamed, people should be nicer to me. Haha.

I need to start getting serious about reducing weight and getting into shape, I've been saying it forever but I guess it's time to actually get down and do it instead of just planning to do it. Exercising and eating right sound really easy but it's anything but.

I'm planning on writing a book. I'm gonna blog to practice. I haven't decided on the genre, any suggestions? I think either fantasy or science fiction, maybe non fiction.

Lecturing is so much easier than tutoring, I guess because when lecturing the onus is on the students but in one to one tutoring the onus is on the teacher. My life is a lot less stressful now.

I'm gonna go type my exams now. I do not know how long I'll be at it. Maybe, I should go have some roti canai and teh tarik before I start typing.