I would like to say something about alternate fuels. Lets see the most famed alternate fuels are solar energy, atomic energy, wind energy, tidal energy, electric energy, geo-thermal energy, hydrogen etc. I am not writing this post to discuss the merits and demerits of each energy source (I am sick of listening/reading them). Well then what am I writing now for? Have you ever thought of why we weren’t unable to develop technologies for producing alternate fuels? I will currently talk about some stuff related to that. First of all we need to understand some ground realities and current politics before discussing about this. First read this.
We know today’s economy is depended on oil and we also know that arab countries are rich in fossil fuels. But if we look at them, except for a handful of countries, majority of countries which have oil are still third world countries like Iran, Iraq, etc. Well why aren’t they becoming rich when they have that kind of money? First I want you to read the above mentioned essay to understand what I have to say.
Now oil is traded throughout the world in only on two stock exchanges – the NewYork Stock Exchange and London Stock Exchange(which is owned by an American company). So if you want to buy oil you should use only US Dollar. Without them you can’t buy oil. So we have to export our goods to US to get more currency for buying oil which we use partially for developing the same goods which are again going to be exported to one of these countries. This means if any country was able to develop technology based on alternate fuels, then they no longer need to export goods to US and other European goods which means end of sovereignty of US.
Now let’s see the countries which are in position to develop technology for alternative fuel, but won’t do that.
USA: This the country which put a man on moon and I don’t think if it was necessary, they can’t develop technology for alternate fuels. But the question is will they develop? The answer is a big NO. Because the moment they develop all countries can produce fuel on their own which means no country will be willing to buy dollar by exporting goods. This makes US to fight with other countries for manufacturing cheaper goods. It has to devalue its currency and increase its manufacturing. But currently the US economy is driven by consumerism and not by manufacturing. This is the reason why US doesn’t allow the technologies to develop.
European countries: Once world-rulers, which are now in a really bad shape. Moreover if there is any alternative available to US dollar, its going to be Euro and hence whatever applies to US applies to European leaders.
Now who else in this world has such a manpower and capability to develop such technology?
Russia: There are only few countries which are left in the list and Russia will be the one. Russia is the major part of what once was USSR and USSR is the first country to send a man to space. As USSR is broken into pieces, Russia is left destitute and it needs money to rebuild. It is noteworthy that Russia is the second most oil exporting country outside of OPEC. As long as Russia needs money, it will keep selling oil and its like shooting his own head with a double-barrel gun if they develop technology for alternate fuels. No doubt they got tons of money in the recent soaring of oil prices. This eliminates Russia from the list.
China: Now china is the other growing country which keeps away from headlines. If we look at china, it is the most populous country in world which means it has more energy needs which in turn means more dollars to buy oil. China doesn’t have enough oil reserves to meet its energy demands. So it has to depend on US or European countries for dollar or for Euro. China is ready to do that and it already accumulated one trillion US dollars. It is willing to devalue its currency and export goods to US. It is doing so. And now it is having a huge pile of US Dollars. What is it doing with that money? China is offering to buy yahoo which made yahoo to give secrets to china. China is supporting war in Somalia. It spends its money on space program on how to shoot satellites down. China is the first country to develop that technology. In timeframe US is one year lagging behind china in this issue. So china is safe by having a stock pile of dollars and so it doesn’t want to develop alternate technologies and hence China is eliminated from the list. Also it can bring US to knees by either releasing all its dollars once or by stop exporting goods to US.
India: Now India is the country that is left. Yes India can develop technology, but it takes time. It recently had sent a satellite to moon. It is exporting services to US. India is the second largest country when ranked by population. It has a large demand of energy and hence oil and so Dollar or Euro. Finally it seems like the leadership of India had got some idea about this and they are doing something about this. The bad news is they are going on wrong direction. They are going on asking other countries for technology instead of developing them. Offcourse it takes time and money for developing technology, but it will pay off when India can self sustain for energy on itself. Unfortunately there are no steps taken in this direction from Indian leadership. It is solely due to lack of understanding about global politics and lack of foresight from Indian leadership what is preventing India from develop technology for alternate fuels.
Brazil: The other country which can develop such a technology is brazil and it is on its way. It already had developed technology for biodiesel and doing more. And Brazil is safe on economic terms.
So here we are today, no major power doing their job of developing alternate technologies.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Christianity - An alternate view
Christianity: (I am writing this essay just to show what Christianity really is and reading this one is more important for my next essay) This is the most populous religion which commands over 2 billion followers worldwide with a variety of sects which includes mainly Catholics, Protestants, Mormons (mainly in US only), Pentecostals, Jehovah Witness, Baptists, Evangelicals, Presbytarians, Orthodox, Roman Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Polish Church are named to a few and major ones. Coming to Christianity, it was started on name of Jesus Christ who is hailed as son of only God Jehovah (according to Christians). We are told that God sent his only son to save mankind from destruction, to show us light and Jesus will be killed for our sins. There are many miracles mentioned in Bible about how Jesus cured ill and revived dead people and he himself came to life three days after he was killed(by Romans and Jews). Lets talk about Jesus later.
We all know that earlier Christians were from Judaism. So christianity inherited scriptures, Gods and some festivals from their former religion Judaism. Christianity also has members from many other religions like Mithraism and many other contemporary religions. This can be found by presence of Karma Theory, Christmas, Priests staying bachelors for whole life (this is a must in the earlier times of Christianity).
Now coming to other side of coin, Christianity ruled Europe for more than a millinia. In many countries it even ruled for almost 1500 years. But if we look at the history, it was the dark ages for entire Europe. No arts were flourished, trade was entirely dependant on other nations like India, china, Persia and Arabia. During the initial years, Christianity fought against Roman empire. There are few stories which Christians want to hide throughout the history like one about St. Augustine. Many Christians agree he is the one whom god gave extra life even after he was poisoned. But they never say that he is one who said that there is compulsion in religion and whoever left Christianity, they should be killed. There are a few historical incidents which Christians don’t want you to talk about like Spanish Inquisition, Crusades(mainly the children’s Crusade), Slave trade(where slaves were employed for development and flourishing of church properties), Goa Inquisition in India and many others. So let’s not talk about them.
Jesus said to forgive everybody. But it seems that church is against his words. They destroyed Romans with help of Romans. Yes, I am not out of my mind and I am not on High. It was Constantine who made Christianity official religion of Rome and finally Christianity overthrew the Rome and took control. Other than Romans, it was Jews who are involved in persecution of Jesus. We all know what happened to jesus under Hitler’s regime. Even though he didn’t kill jews for persecution of Jesus, but still they were killed throughout Europe. Even Stalin killed jews. During crusades, many jews were killed for no reason. This is how the Christians treat their mentors. They destroyed Rome, they killed Jews whenever they find a chance. And this Christianity was hailed as a peaceful religion. There is a saying in Indian languages, anybody will do good for the person who had helped him, but it will only take a great person to help a person who harmed you. This is about persons. Here is a religion which advertises itself as a religion for peace which terminated rule of kingdom who killed their savior but helped them for surviving and expansion and tried to exterminate a maternal religion for getting their savior killed. They even didn’t care to look back and say hey they are the people who gave us God and scriptures and Festivals. Such is the greatness of Christianity.
Lets see a few more great things which Christianity had presented us. After reading this, many Hindus should understand in what way we and our heritage are great than any other religion present today on earth. Offcourse I am going to say about Albigensian Crusade or Cathar Crusade. Cathar crusade is about killing of Christians whose gaffe was to worship Christ in a different way. This is dealt very seriously and they were all killed. Some information can be found about cathars here. Today’s Southern France was completely cleansed(killed) of cathars. Was Buddha, Mahavira, got killed by any Hindu ruler in India? As a matter of fact, many Hindu rulers even supported Buddhists and Jains.
Science and Technology was only developed in Europe after church’s grip on educational institutions was loosened. Even loosening of this grip happened at a greater cost. During that time many people in Europe were not allowed to enter church for centuries. Rage built inside society and it broke in birth of Protestantism which had a death toll of 1.5 million lives. This is the cost Europe had paid only to loosen grip of church and birth of a rival sect Protestantism. I would like to ask you my friend how many lives did India spent for getting equal rights and education to women and untouchables? How many lives were lost for eradicating Untouchability in India? Doesn’t this show that even though we were not highly educated as Europeans, it didn’t took spending of lives to get a change. Did it? If this wasn’t called flexibility of religion and greatness of people, I don’t understand what else to call so.
Now let’s talk about role of church in India. Christianity was first entered in India during 4th centuary AD. It happened in the form of Syrian Christians. Syrian Christians were persecuted by Persians not because of their religion as was told us, but because of their relations with romans. This can be found where Persians even supported Persian Christians. The Syrian Christians came through sea route and entered kerala. They were given shelter and allowed to practice their religion by the present day hindu kings. When the portugese came to india in 16th century, they were stunned to see the Christians worshipping Jesus in entirely hindu rituals. This may sound unbelievable but it can also be found even today that many Christians around Nagarjuna Sagar Dam celebrate festival for Mary and they even break coconuts infront of her statues. When Christians entered Goa, they converted forcefully many people into their religion and we can’t expect any better behavior from them. Apart from this, the catholic church sided with Portugese when they invaded India. This betrayal is never told in text books and they hardly took any place during independence struggle. To cover this betrayal now the church is bringing up the murder of St. Thomas by Brahmin priests in Tamil Nadu which is based on nothing but cock-and-bull stories. This story is only taught in india and west stopped believing these stories and in recent times no reputed scholar from west dared speaking these lies, but in India, these lies find their way into newspapers as if they are truth.
Now talking about Christmas, we were told that Jesus was born on December 25. This is not true and many reputed scholars disagree with this. Because until third century, Christians never celebrated any festival on Dec 25 but there already is a great festival on that day whose celebration predates birth of Jesus. It can also be found in here. Mary conceived Jesus in a sheep ranch. Why did she conceived there? Mary and Joseph are on their way to pay taxes during that time and as we all know that December is time of extreme cold in Europe and hence taxes are collected atleast from or after March. This shows that Mary conceived Jesus on sometime between March and September which in no way coincides with Dec 25. Christians also celebrates Easter in which eggs are coloured and are hidden in house. Children are asked to find them out and when asked who hidden them, parents say that a bunny(huge rabbit) hid them. It has no relation with Christianity. Easter is a celebration in remembrance of waking of jesus from death. Is there any relation for Jesus reviving and coloring eggs? This also shows that even Easter has nothing to do with Christianity and is a festival which predates Christianity and most likely it is brought into Christianity probably by Jews.
This is the glorious history of Christianity. In one word Christianity killed communities which gave them shelter, never allowed to flourish arts. There are even many great stories like that of Mormons, but I am saving them for another post. Today during Christmas, our politicians say that we should follow the path of Jesus.
We all know that earlier Christians were from Judaism. So christianity inherited scriptures, Gods and some festivals from their former religion Judaism. Christianity also has members from many other religions like Mithraism and many other contemporary religions. This can be found by presence of Karma Theory, Christmas, Priests staying bachelors for whole life (this is a must in the earlier times of Christianity).
Now coming to other side of coin, Christianity ruled Europe for more than a millinia. In many countries it even ruled for almost 1500 years. But if we look at the history, it was the dark ages for entire Europe. No arts were flourished, trade was entirely dependant on other nations like India, china, Persia and Arabia. During the initial years, Christianity fought against Roman empire. There are few stories which Christians want to hide throughout the history like one about St. Augustine. Many Christians agree he is the one whom god gave extra life even after he was poisoned. But they never say that he is one who said that there is compulsion in religion and whoever left Christianity, they should be killed. There are a few historical incidents which Christians don’t want you to talk about like Spanish Inquisition, Crusades(mainly the children’s Crusade), Slave trade(where slaves were employed for development and flourishing of church properties), Goa Inquisition in India and many others. So let’s not talk about them.
Jesus said to forgive everybody. But it seems that church is against his words. They destroyed Romans with help of Romans. Yes, I am not out of my mind and I am not on High. It was Constantine who made Christianity official religion of Rome and finally Christianity overthrew the Rome and took control. Other than Romans, it was Jews who are involved in persecution of Jesus. We all know what happened to jesus under Hitler’s regime. Even though he didn’t kill jews for persecution of Jesus, but still they were killed throughout Europe. Even Stalin killed jews. During crusades, many jews were killed for no reason. This is how the Christians treat their mentors. They destroyed Rome, they killed Jews whenever they find a chance. And this Christianity was hailed as a peaceful religion. There is a saying in Indian languages, anybody will do good for the person who had helped him, but it will only take a great person to help a person who harmed you. This is about persons. Here is a religion which advertises itself as a religion for peace which terminated rule of kingdom who killed their savior but helped them for surviving and expansion and tried to exterminate a maternal religion for getting their savior killed. They even didn’t care to look back and say hey they are the people who gave us God and scriptures and Festivals. Such is the greatness of Christianity.
Lets see a few more great things which Christianity had presented us. After reading this, many Hindus should understand in what way we and our heritage are great than any other religion present today on earth. Offcourse I am going to say about Albigensian Crusade or Cathar Crusade. Cathar crusade is about killing of Christians whose gaffe was to worship Christ in a different way. This is dealt very seriously and they were all killed. Some information can be found about cathars here. Today’s Southern France was completely cleansed(killed) of cathars. Was Buddha, Mahavira, got killed by any Hindu ruler in India? As a matter of fact, many Hindu rulers even supported Buddhists and Jains.
Science and Technology was only developed in Europe after church’s grip on educational institutions was loosened. Even loosening of this grip happened at a greater cost. During that time many people in Europe were not allowed to enter church for centuries. Rage built inside society and it broke in birth of Protestantism which had a death toll of 1.5 million lives. This is the cost Europe had paid only to loosen grip of church and birth of a rival sect Protestantism. I would like to ask you my friend how many lives did India spent for getting equal rights and education to women and untouchables? How many lives were lost for eradicating Untouchability in India? Doesn’t this show that even though we were not highly educated as Europeans, it didn’t took spending of lives to get a change. Did it? If this wasn’t called flexibility of religion and greatness of people, I don’t understand what else to call so.
Now let’s talk about role of church in India. Christianity was first entered in India during 4th centuary AD. It happened in the form of Syrian Christians. Syrian Christians were persecuted by Persians not because of their religion as was told us, but because of their relations with romans. This can be found where Persians even supported Persian Christians. The Syrian Christians came through sea route and entered kerala. They were given shelter and allowed to practice their religion by the present day hindu kings. When the portugese came to india in 16th century, they were stunned to see the Christians worshipping Jesus in entirely hindu rituals. This may sound unbelievable but it can also be found even today that many Christians around Nagarjuna Sagar Dam celebrate festival for Mary and they even break coconuts infront of her statues. When Christians entered Goa, they converted forcefully many people into their religion and we can’t expect any better behavior from them. Apart from this, the catholic church sided with Portugese when they invaded India. This betrayal is never told in text books and they hardly took any place during independence struggle. To cover this betrayal now the church is bringing up the murder of St. Thomas by Brahmin priests in Tamil Nadu which is based on nothing but cock-and-bull stories. This story is only taught in india and west stopped believing these stories and in recent times no reputed scholar from west dared speaking these lies, but in India, these lies find their way into newspapers as if they are truth.
Now talking about Christmas, we were told that Jesus was born on December 25. This is not true and many reputed scholars disagree with this. Because until third century, Christians never celebrated any festival on Dec 25 but there already is a great festival on that day whose celebration predates birth of Jesus. It can also be found in here. Mary conceived Jesus in a sheep ranch. Why did she conceived there? Mary and Joseph are on their way to pay taxes during that time and as we all know that December is time of extreme cold in Europe and hence taxes are collected atleast from or after March. This shows that Mary conceived Jesus on sometime between March and September which in no way coincides with Dec 25. Christians also celebrates Easter in which eggs are coloured and are hidden in house. Children are asked to find them out and when asked who hidden them, parents say that a bunny(huge rabbit) hid them. It has no relation with Christianity. Easter is a celebration in remembrance of waking of jesus from death. Is there any relation for Jesus reviving and coloring eggs? This also shows that even Easter has nothing to do with Christianity and is a festival which predates Christianity and most likely it is brought into Christianity probably by Jews.
This is the glorious history of Christianity. In one word Christianity killed communities which gave them shelter, never allowed to flourish arts. There are even many great stories like that of Mormons, but I am saving them for another post. Today during Christmas, our politicians say that we should follow the path of Jesus.
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