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ancient hindu cosmology - by carl sagens

Prof. Dean Brown points out that most European languages can be traced back to a root language that is also related to Sanskrit - the sacred language of the ancient Vedic religions of India. Many English words actually have Sanskrit origins. Similarly, many Vedic religious concepts can also be found in Western culture. He discusses the fundamental idea of the Upanishads - that the essence of each individual, the atman, is identical to the whole universe, the principle of brahman. In this sense, the polytheistic traditions of India can be said to be monistic at their very core.
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Prof. Dean Brown points out that most European languages can be traced back to a root language that is also related to Sanskrit - the sacred language of the ancient Vedic religions of India. Many English words actually have Sanskrit origins. Similarly, many Vedic religious concepts can also be found in Western culture. He discusses the fundamental idea of the Upanishads - that the essence of each individual, the atman, is identical to the whole universe, the principle of brahman. In this sense, the polytheistic traditions of India can be said to be monistic at their very core.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4us… (less)

Prof. Dean Brown points out that most European languages can be traced back to a root language that is also related to Sanskrit - the sacred language of the ancient Vedic religions of India. Many English words actually have Sanskrit origins. Similarly, many Vedic religious concepts can also be found in Western culture. He discusses the fundamental idea of the Upanishads - that the essence of each individual, the atman, is identical to the whole universe, the principle of brahman. In this sense, the polytheistic traditions of India can be said to be monistic at their very core.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4us… (less)

A vast number of statements and materials presented in the ancient Vedic literatures can be shown to agree with modern scientific findings and they also reveal a highly developed scientific content in these literatures. The great cultural wealth of this knowledge is highly relevant in the modern world. Techniques used to show this agreement include:

Marine Archaeology of underwater sites (such as Dvaraka)
Satellite imagery of the Indus-Sarasvata River system
Carbon and Thermoluminiscence Dating of archaeological artifacts
Scientific Verification of Scriptural statements
Linguistic analysis of scripts found on archaeological artifacts
A Study of cultural continuity in all these categories.
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Samina Shaikh (19) and Zarina Shaikh (18), who study at St Xavier’s College and the Maharashtra College, moved the court for police protection after they were “terrorised and threatened”.

Ansari and other men in their locality believe that “only girls with bad character go to college” and did not want sisters to study after school. The family was told that Islam does not “permit” girls to study.

A vast number of statements and materials presented in the ancient Vedic literatures can be shown to agree with modern scientific findings and they also reveal a highly developed scientific content in these literatures. The great cultural wealth of this knowledge is highly relevant in the modern world. Techniques used to show this agreement include:

Marine Archaeology of underwater sites (such as Dvaraka)
Satellite imagery of the Indus-Sarasvata River system
Carbon and Thermoluminiscence Dating of archaeological artifacts
Scientific Verification of Scriptural statements
Linguistic analysis of scripts found on archaeological artifacts
A Study of cultural continuity in all these categories.
http://devavision.org/videos.html (less)

A vast number of statements and materials presented in the ancient Vedic literatures can be shown to agree with modern scientific findings and they also reveal a highly developed scientific content in these literatures. The great cultural wealth of this knowledge is highly relevant in the modern world. Techniques used to show this agreement include:

Marine Archaeology of underwater sites (such as Dvaraka)
Satellite imagery of the Indus-Sarasvata River system
Carbon and Thermoluminiscence Dating of archaeological artifacts
Scientific Verification of Scriptural statements
Linguistic analysis of scripts found on archaeological artifacts
A Study of cultural continuity in all these categories.
http://devavision.org/videos.html (less)

Mosaicer 2.0 - Creates photomosaics. Comes with its source code (written in VB6). Click here to see a gallery of mosaics generated with this application. Click here to download a bare bones version of Mosaicer without the setup program (note: you will need the VB6 run time files or else the generation window wont pop up when you press the generate button).

http://patorjk.com/blog/software/

Sample gallery:

A recursive acronym (or occasionally recursive initialism, and sometimes recursive backronym) is an abbreviation that refers to itself in the expression for which it stands. Due to the nature of the English language, which would infinitely recurse left-recursive phrases, recursive abbreviations are circular definitions.

In computing, an early tradition in the hacker community (especially at MIT) was to choose acronyms and abbreviations that referred humorously to themselves or to other abbreviations. Perhaps the earliest example in this context, from about 1977 or 1978, is TINT (”TINT Is Not TECO”), an editor for MagicSix. This inspired the two MIT Lisp Machine editors called EINE (”EINE Is Not Emacs“) and ZWEI (”ZWEI Was EINE Initially”). These were followed by Richard Stallman’s GNU (GNU’s not UNIX.) Many examples include negatives, such as denials that the thing defined is or resembles something.

Below is some interesting self describing acronyms:

• PHP — PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (originally “Personal Home Page” tools, officially changed for PHP 3)^[3]
• PINE — PINE Is Not Elm, originally; PINE now officially stands for “Program for Internet News & E-mail”^[4]
• PNG — PNG’s Not GIF (graphics format, officially Portable Network Graphics)
• NINJA - Ninja Is Not Just Air.
• GNU — GNU’s Not Unix
• Cygnus — Cygnus, Your GNU Support
• RPM — RPM Package Manager (originally “Red Hat Package Manager”)
• YAML — YAML Ain’t Markup Language (initially “Yet Another Markup Language”)
• Zombie — Zombie-Oriented Machine-Being Interface Engine´

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