Madhur @madhur@qoto.org
Joined Aug 2018
Today we Hindus celebrate #Holi the traditional festival of colours. I share a few of 18th and 19th century artwork of the festival. The common portrayal of Bhagwan Krishna playing Holi with folks of Mathura is also there.
युक्तियुक्तं वचो ग्राह्यं बालादपि शुकादपि ।
युक्तिहीनं वचस् त्याज्यं वृद्धादपि शुकादपि॥१।।
"तर्कसंगत बात कोई बच्चा कहे या कोई तोता, उसे स्वीकारें। तर्कहीन बात कोई वृद्ध या महर्षि शुक भी कहें तो भी उसे त्याग दें!"
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युक्तियुक्तं वचो ग्राह्यं बालादपि शुकादपि।
युक्तिहीनं न च ग्राह्यं साक्षादपि बृहस्पतेः॥ २।।
युक्तियुक्तमुपादेयं वचनं बालकादपि।
अन्यत्तृणमिव त्याज्यमप्युक्तं पद्मजन्ममा॥ ३।।
युक्तियुक्तं वचो ग्राह्यं
बालादपि शुकादपि।
मूढः पश्यति जात्यादि
मूलं शालां च सर्वदा ॥ ४।।
युक्तियुक्तं वचो ग्राह्यं बालादपि शुकादपि।
युक्तिहीनं वचस्त्याज्यं व्यासादपि शुकादपि।। ५।।
युक्तियुक्तं वचो ग्राह्यं बालादपि शुकादपि।
युक्तिहीनं न च ग्राह्यं साक्षादपि भिषक्तमात्॥ ६।।
(Take what is logical even from a child or a parrot, but never take what is illogical even from the best of physicians/doctors.)
युक्तियुक्तं वचो ग्राह्यं बालादपि शुकादपि |
अयुक्तमपि न ग्राह्यं साक्षादपि वृहस्पते: ||७।।
(अर्थ - यदि कोई युक्तियुक्त बात आपसे कही जाती है, चाहे वह् एक बालक या एक बोलने वाले तोते द्वारा कही गयी हो, तो उसे ग्राह्य करना श्रेयस्कर है|
परन्तु कोई अयुक्तियुक्त बात यदि साक्षात देवगुरु वृहस्पति भी आपसे कहें तो उसे नहीं मानना चाहिये|)
युक्तियुक्तं वचः ग्राह्यं बालात अपि शुकात अपि ,
मूढ़ः पश्यति जाति आदि मूलं शालां च सर्वदा।
@freemo But this statement is false.
You sure know your pens @freemo. I have to ask: how much writing work do you have to do these days - outside the hobby part?
My favourite nib from this incredibly fine selection, if I have choose only one, is the 1899 Waterman. With the right ink, and the right paper, I am certain, what it writes may well last for centuries - well beyond anything digital, or anything we have on social media.
US FDA on ingredients of hand sanitizers:
#Unsafe : Triclosan, benzethonium chloride, and 26 others.
#Safe : nothing
#Further_Investigation : ethyl alcohol, benzalkonium chloride, and isopropyl alcohol
#Recommendation : "If soap and water are not available, the CDC recommends using an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains at least 60 percent alcohol."
Madhur
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@madhur Happy Holi! And today it is Purim for the Jewish people!
Today we share a Holiday! :D
Nice!
Happy Purim @Surasanji. Enjoy the day to its fullest!
Its #Holi today.
The famous #Hindu festival of colours.
Wishing every Qoton a #HappyHoli. Have a colourful day! 🏳️🌈🎊🌈☂️
@freemo
Do share the good ones.
@freemo I am not an expert but a shlok in Bhagwad Geeta says, translated roughly :
"Do your karma, don't worry about the consequences."
Where karma refers to that action/work which is your duty/responsibility to do/perform.
Contrast this with what the meme is saying about Hinduism :
"Treat others as you would yourself be treated."
Thus binding an expectation of consequences to behaviour, and hence to action - and appears in direct contradiction to theory of karma in Bhagwad Geeta.
@freemo This does not reflect principles of Karma. In fact, as far as Karma theory is in Bhagwad Geeta, this may not even be compatible.
Now that I am looking, I feel the Buddhist thing here may also be off the mark.
@freemo
Which holy book of Hindus has that?
@Surasanji Obviously information was created/discovered at first by Einstein et al. Then it passed over to you and you used time travel to push the time of creation/discovery backwards. With time machine, timeline of events cannot be set in stone in the way we think history is.
I have a scarier version : Suppose you time travel back and convince the inventor of time machine not to invent the machine and the time machine that you travelled back in time with was never invented. What happens to you after that? What about the machine? How is it even there without being invented?
@Surasanji There are many mathematical tricks around this, but my favourite one is:
That one year, for me, living normally on earth, be counted in Neptune years.
Nitpicking on the Oxford Comma
Recently, @APStyleBook@twitter.com (henceforth, AP) was criticized much after posting a 9 tweet thread explaining their usage of the #OxfordComma (henceforth, OC). Criticism was for the length of explanation (9 tweets!) by those who don't see the grammatical role of OC. Essence of AP's guidelines, given with examples of usage, is two rules:
1. Do not use OC in simple series or anywhere else where it is not needed to bring clarity or accuracy. (the "no OC rule" of AP)
2. Use OC in complex series, where the final phrase of series includes a conjunction, and wherever it brings clarity.
Philosophy behind these is encapsulated in general rule for punctuation: Use punctuation that is needed; don't use what is not needed.
Missing was a demonstration of how blatant ambiguities arise if OC is used everywhere without discrimination. This, I indicate here by borrowing examples given by @svenosaurus@twitter.com :
... If "I want to thank my parents, Ayn Ran and God" is confusing, then so is "Donald will be accompaid by his three nephews, Huey, Louie, and Dewie."
NOTE ON CONSISTENCY OF OXFORD COMMA
The "do not use OC" policy misses the point entirely, while the "use OC everywhere" policy misses is that without AP's "no OC rule", OC in itself becomes totally pointless, while it serves a useful, even essential, grammatical function if used as per AP style. Thus, consistency for OC renders it useless and serves no purpose.
@Surasanji Instant noodles cooked with cheese spread, Tabasco, and heeng (asafoetida).
So far the few people who have tasted it, have liked its taste more than the standard preparation. Everyone of them. As they say - everything tastes better with cheese.
@Shekelcoin
Please answer the second part of question as well. Thanks.
#RandomQuestion for #QOTO :
What do you think of warrant canaries? Do you think that Canary Watch should had continued?
More info:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/canary-watch-one-year-later
Joined Aug 2018
