First Thing Tasted?
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@tonyshowoff said in First Thing Tasted?:
@scottalanmiller said in First Thing Tasted?:
Sure she "helped" get it partially repealed, but how much sooner might it have been repealed if she had not done this? Maybe much sooner. Sixteen years is a long time.
That's a point I was trying to make as well, if she would've used that time in politics, she could've done a lot more. Maybe her hunger strike did call attention to it, fine, but India needs more politicians who care about things, she's not helping at all by literally doing nothing and saying "I'm on a hunger strike, now you go and do something about this law."
As I said, and I was serious, I hope she can do a lot better as a politician and I imagine she will. The problem is though later on any future political successes with her will be linked with this hunger strike. So future people wanting to make change won't start with the best route which actually did it, but instead just another hunger strike.
At the time, she went on a hunger strike, was a nobody ... In the 16 years that she was on a "fasting strike" (I hope this term is acceptable to you'll), she helped get the cause a lot of much deserved attention ...., After 16 years, she must have realized that she has now gained a lot of support ,in terms of people who'd follow her, which would translate into votes, which may put her in a position, where she may be able to influence some change ... just a theory ... does it sound plausible ?
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@scottalanmiller said in First Thing Tasted?:
And just as a reminder, this post was ONLY a report from SW and it was only there solely because mango lassis made news headlines, nothing more. If the BBC post was offensive in some way, that would be a question for the BBC. It's just rare that people see mango lassis in the news.
Who would have thought that posting an article, simply because it mentioned the name of this forum, would have turned into such a butt-hurt shit show? The easily offended should avoid the internet at all costs.
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@Veet said in First Thing Tasted?:
@tonyshowoff said in First Thing Tasted?:
@scottalanmiller said in First Thing Tasted?:
Sure she "helped" get it partially repealed, but how much sooner might it have been repealed if she had not done this? Maybe much sooner. Sixteen years is a long time.
That's a point I was trying to make as well, if she would've used that time in politics, she could've done a lot more. Maybe her hunger strike did call attention to it, fine, but India needs more politicians who care about things, she's not helping at all by literally doing nothing and saying "I'm on a hunger strike, now you go and do something about this law."
As I said, and I was serious, I hope she can do a lot better as a politician and I imagine she will. The problem is though later on any future political successes with her will be linked with this hunger strike. So future people wanting to make change won't start with the best route which actually did it, but instead just another hunger strike.
At the time, she went on a hunger strike, was a nobody ... In the 16 years that she was on a "fasting strike" (I hope this term is acceptable to you'll), she helped get the cause a lot of much deserved ..,
People kept saying fasting, that's why I was saying it, but yes I know it was supposed to be a hunger strike.
After 16 years, she must have realized that she has now gained a lot of support ,in terms of people who'd follow her, which would translate into votes, which may put her in a position, where she may be able to influence some change ... just a theory ... does it sound plausible ?
Let's wait until after the elections before beating ourselves off.
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also, have you guys in the WEST heard of Yoga ?
I've been reading-up on this guy, for a while now, and it seems unreal to me ... but, check this out ...
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@Veet said in First Thing Tasted?:
also, have you guys in the WEST heard of Yoga ?
Yes, house wives everywhere do it very poorly, but the pants look great.
And if you're going to suggest Yoga can make someone not starve to death, please don't.
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@Veet said in First Thing Tasted?:
Don't you find it strange that basically outside India nobody ever makes claims like this? As in, when such a claim is made, we can already guess it's from India not some place else. Could it be that maybe in Indian culture people are just more apt to believe things like this rather than questioning them? Just a theory.... does it sound plausible?
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@Veet said in First Thing Tasted?:
@tonyshowoff said in First Thing Tasted?:
@scottalanmiller said in First Thing Tasted?:
Sure she "helped" get it partially repealed, but how much sooner might it have been repealed if she had not done this? Maybe much sooner. Sixteen years is a long time.
That's a point I was trying to make as well, if she would've used that time in politics, she could've done a lot more. Maybe her hunger strike did call attention to it, fine, but India needs more politicians who care about things, she's not helping at all by literally doing nothing and saying "I'm on a hunger strike, now you go and do something about this law."
As I said, and I was serious, I hope she can do a lot better as a politician and I imagine she will. The problem is though later on any future political successes with her will be linked with this hunger strike. So future people wanting to make change won't start with the best route which actually did it, but instead just another hunger strike.
At the time, she went on a hunger strike, was a nobody ... In the 16 years that she was on a "fasting strike" (I hope this term is acceptable to you'll), she helped get the cause a lot of much deserved attention ...., After 16 years, she must have realized that she has now gained a lot of support ,in terms of people who'd follow her, which would translate into votes, which may put her in a position, where she may be able to influence some change ... just a theory ... does it sound plausible ?
Yes, going on a fast and going on a hunger strike are very different things. Fasting can include denying any particular thing. Like some people fast only by not eating red meat or only at certain times of day. Hunger strike means you will die in under 40 days no matter what unless the strike ends (perhaps not by your choice.) That's why I called it a "taste strike". She stopped tasting food, and that's a big deal of course, but it's not a hunger strike. She may have intended a hunger strike, but unless she intended to die, she didn't. And since she announced it, I don't think it can be counted.
That she gained popularity is kind of my point. Of course she did. Don't you think that she was counting on that? And that very thing is the problem - knowing that going on a strike of some sort gets you personal attention.
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@tonyshowoff said in First Thing Tasted?:
Yes, house wives everywhere do it very poorly, but the pants look great.
well, I guess that's how deep the west thinks of yoga, and probably most other things .. sad..
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@Veet said in First Thing Tasted?:
also, have you guys in the WEST heard of Yoga ?
I've been reading-up on this guy, for a while now, and it seems unreal to me ... but, check this out ...
Yes, VERY aware of yoga AND very aware of that scam making the news. And that's exactly how we saw this person. Do you see how damaging things like this are? Specifically because of the obvious fraud like this happening, this girl not "eating voluntarily" for sixteen years comes across immediately as a hoax. We assume that the term hunger strike is applied in the same way to her that "not eating" is applied to the 70 year guy. Obviously he's gotten food and liquid somehow, obviously. This isn't even good news for the National Enquirer.
That these two come across as similar or that her hunger strike will make future hunger strikes meaningless because people know that they will be force fed instead of dying, simply makes a mockery of the whole thing. That's the problem.
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@Veet said in First Thing Tasted?:
@tonyshowoff said in First Thing Tasted?:
Yes, house wives everywhere do it very poorly, but the pants look great.
well, I guess that's how deep the west thinks of yoga, and probably most other things .. sad..
Actually that's part of the problem, the west feels the same way about India's views on it because crazy claims like people not needing to eat when doing yoga come out and it actually make it far enough for someone to talk about it. It may seem like the west takes it casually, but that's exactly what we hear from India here.
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Remember that just recently someone was jailed in India for disclosing that people in a Catholic shrine were drinking toilet run-off water that was dripping over a statue. This is something that the government intentionally stopped from being disclosed because it is a crime in India to question religious beliefs. That means that unless the doctors saying that these claims are true are from another country, it is the same as there not even being a credible report of it yet because the local doctors are legally barred from disclosing that he's been eating or drinking.
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@Veet said in First Thing Tasted?:
also, have you guys in the WEST heard of Yoga ?
I've been reading-up on this guy, for a while now, and it seems unreal to me ... but, check this out ...
Remember that when audited, they found that he had not been monitored around the clock and was only monitored for a very short duration. He had plenty of time, they admitted, to have drank plenty of water. And fifteen days is not a length of time to starve without food. I have gone 28 days with zero food (but obviously with water) before even experiencing what most people call hunger pains. Yes, I have an especially slow metabolism in that way, so that's not exactly normal. But it's a real world number. Twenty eight days of normal activity, not sitting still or meditating or doing anything to lower my consumption rate. In fact, I was very active. Had I wanted to go for a record, I could have done a lot of things to get a lot more time out of that.
So that he didn't eat for fifteen days tells us, literally, nothing at all. And that he was not actually monitored around the clock tells us that... no one has looked into his claim at all, in reality.
Also, you are aware that the Daily Mail is a tabloid paper, right? Not a newspaper.
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don't get me wrong guys.. . I don't believe in blind fate .. I'm from the same field as you'll which is governed by logic and facts ... I would not have mentioned this, if I did not have credible facts to back it up...
I could post similar articles on this guy, from some other credible INTERNATIONAL publications
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@Veet said in First Thing Tasted?:
don't get me wrong guys.. . I don't believe in blind fate .. I'm from the same field as you'll which is governed by logic and facts ... I would not have mentioned this, if I did not have credible facts to back it up...
I could post similar articles on this guy, from some other credible INTERNATIONAL publications
Infact, I'm still not convinced about this guy ... India has a lot of these so called "Yogis", "God-men", "Holy-men", and most of them are posers ...
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@Veet said in First Thing Tasted?:
don't get me wrong guys.. . I don't believe in blind fate .. I'm from the same field as you'll which is governed by logic and facts ... I would not have mentioned this, if I did not have credible facts to back it up...
I could post similar articles on this guy, from some other credible INTERNATIONAL publications
Even credible internal sources, though, are governed by the laws that forbid them to disclose if it is a fraud. Very credible sources like the medical facility at Harvard have said that it is an outright scam. Now, not saying that Harvard is a good medical resource, it's in the US. But they tend to be pretty good about things like this. And given the Indian religious non-disclosure law, we can't accept any internal source as credible in a religious subject case. They easily have a gag order keeping even very good doctors from telling what they know.
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@Veet said in First Thing Tasted?:
don't get me wrong guys.. . I don't believe in blind fate .. I'm from the same field as you'll which is governed by logic and facts ... I would not have mentioned this, if I did not have credible facts to back it up...
I could post similar articles on this guy, from some other credible INTERNATIONAL publications
That is the same study that when audited, they found that the CCTV cameras were only on him most of the time, not all.
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What's also fishy is that they wait for seventy years to point out that they have this miracle going on? That's weird. Why wasn't this making headlines continuously since the second month? That someone goes one month without food, that doesn't make news. But two months, even for a serious yogi, that's gonna break some records. People would be talking about this, everyone would be monitoring and doing so for decades. It would always be in the news and well known. It wouldn't suddenly pop up after seventy years.
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@scottalanmiller said in First Thing Tasted?:
What's also fishy is that they wait for seventy years to point out that they have this miracle going on? That's weird. Why wasn't this making headlines continuously since the second month? That someone goes one month without food, that doesn't make news. But two months, even for a serious yogi, that's gonna break some records. People would be talking about this, everyone would be monitoring and doing so for decades. It would always be in the news and well known. It wouldn't suddenly pop up after seventy years.
well, this is India ... there're places in India, where people still don't have access to water or electricity .... So, years ago, this guy could've been holed-up in some village, and while he may have been popular in his village, he may have been unknown to the rest of country ...
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fake or not fake ...did it get any of you guys thinking of possibility ? or just how absurd it is ?
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@Veet said in First Thing Tasted?:
fake or not fake ...did it get any of you guys thinking of possibility ? or just how absurd it is ?
Only that it's an extremely obvious scam, especially as it was in the tabloids, not in the news. The world is full of totally ridiculous claims. You can't think that those with no credibility can be true each time. Does that mean that sometime, somewhere one real one might get missed? Of course. But we are bombarded with fake claims all day, every day and being able to differentiate when something has enough potential to be credible and when something has no basis for credibility is absolutely essential not just for normal life, but especially for our jobs. Think about how we have to know what is spam or social engineering, when an end user makes up an obvious lie, etc. And that's just work. Look at Facebook... it's full of people who can't differentiate possible truth from totally baseless insanity. You have to know what "might be true", what is "unlikely true but possible" and what "isn't even worth looking into."
Sadly, this falls firmly in the last category. It's reported in the tabloids and only in the tabloids, it's in a place where disclosing the truth is illegal in this case and no actual study of it has even been done. There isn't even a viable reason to look into it further. It's like saying that aliens were walking around Manhattan yesterday afternoon... is it possible? Um, I guess. But did it happen? No, we have literally nothing that suggests it's even worth looking into it to see if aliens were in Manhattan yesterday because we don't have any trigger to alert us to the potential of something worth investigating.
Does that make sense? This doesn't make the "worthy of further investigation" category. It's so clearly false that it ends there. And that no one else is looking into it either .... is an unbelievable amount of substantiation. This is not being treated as something that anyone closer to the source believes in either.
