As I successfully predicted earlier, I have fallen ill - nothing major - just the regular - bad throat and mega sneezing. I don't think I actually have a cold but the only way my body knows how to eject anything is through my nose - so even if I have a fever and it's about to break - starts the ah-choos which are violent shakes which leave me exhausted - which I might add has been the case this sunday. AND....there has been noone to fuss after me - say Baby! Can I make you tea? Baby can i make you kichdi? I have survived the entire day on cups of tea and toast and cheese spread - for a variation at dinner I had chapati and cheese spread. Yes! ok this is a whinge fest but I'm allowed to be grumpy and depressed - I'm sick and it's my blog!
I watched ' Khuda Kay Liye' yesterday which is a film whose editor needs to be shot! The film could have easily been shortened by half an hour. The one thing that makes me happy about the movie is how they portray the americans as idiots! Very few films tell it like it is and this one very successfully does even in terms of how religious leaders twist the words to suit themselves and their vision of good and evil.
I've been reading a lot of what I call Christian fiction which is mystery/suspense type novels but based on the bible etc and I find it fascinating - apparently the origin of christianity is so murky and the reasons for it to become a dominant religion. In 'The sign of the cross', the whole crucifixion and resurrection is staged, and in 'The Templar legacy', there was no resurrection. and the question posed in the book which everybody needs to ask themselves is, if you did not know you were going to be resurrected, would you still follow Jesus Christ? I think yes, because his teachings are right - Buddha does not promise eternal life but he still preached a good life. I think the romans were obsessed with immortality and to them that seemed to be the only way to create a mass following. In the oriental world, in India. Here the trick is to leave it all behind and escape this cycle. They both promise freedom but through different means.
I watched ' Khuda Kay Liye' yesterday which is a film whose editor needs to be shot! The film could have easily been shortened by half an hour. The one thing that makes me happy about the movie is how they portray the americans as idiots! Very few films tell it like it is and this one very successfully does even in terms of how religious leaders twist the words to suit themselves and their vision of good and evil.
I've been reading a lot of what I call Christian fiction which is mystery/suspense type novels but based on the bible etc and I find it fascinating - apparently the origin of christianity is so murky and the reasons for it to become a dominant religion. In 'The sign of the cross', the whole crucifixion and resurrection is staged, and in 'The Templar legacy', there was no resurrection. and the question posed in the book which everybody needs to ask themselves is, if you did not know you were going to be resurrected, would you still follow Jesus Christ? I think yes, because his teachings are right - Buddha does not promise eternal life but he still preached a good life. I think the romans were obsessed with immortality and to them that seemed to be the only way to create a mass following. In the oriental world, in India. Here the trick is to leave it all behind and escape this cycle. They both promise freedom but through different means.
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Try "The Red Tent" by Anita Diamant if you'd like to read about Biblical characters but from a story telling perspective.
baby can i make you tea?
on another note there are tons of films that show americans to be dumb-asses. i have a few of them. but kkl, showed both sides of the americans- showed them in a semi non dumbass light too...and also made a comment re how music is a universal language and unites us.
Awww that's so sweet. The 'can I make you tea' part.
Are you better now?
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