Many ways to salvation?

Many ways to salvation? Do all religions focus on salvation in a similar but different way?


Before i go any further i would like each one to know that i am not a fanatic christian trying to convert others. Now everyone who will disagree with me have their own beliefs and i do respect that. Which religion and what "propoganda"(as many put it) they want to accept and follow is upto them.

I am blogging on what i believe.

This blog has members of 3-4 religions and i am not forcing anything on anybody nor am i indirectly trying to "shoot someone down".This started off with paz and myself having another one of those sessions on Religion,etc.. These sessions usualy end in one of us saying " Dude just let it be... its been a week of argument.... rather leave it at - you-have-your-beliefs-i-have-mine" We have always agreed to disagree.

How can things which differ radically on major points be the same? Yes, there are some similarities, but they are far outweighed by the differences. Some people say thereis a grey side to every story . In reality, there is only one side, the truth, and everything else is a lie. Some people think it doesn't matter what you believe as long as you really believe it. What if you believe a lie? Just because you really believe something does that make it true?

Truth is independent of opinion.

In the Gospels, Jesus used the phrase "I tell you the truth" 80 times.

He also said, "I came into the world to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me."
John 18:37

Jesus either spoke the truth or he spoke lies.


If there isnt a God and the Bible does not contain actual words which came from God, then the Bible is the biggest lie that has ever been befallen on humanity. On the other hand, if it is true the Bible contains spoken words from God, it is the most valuable book mankind has ever seen.

The Bible is called the Word of God for a reason. No other book in the world claims to contain direct quotes from the mouth of God. It is interesting how the majority of the people accept most of the written literature of antiquity without question or second thought. But when it comes to the Bible, they unitedly declare it cannot be trusted without examining the evidence or facts. When it comes to facts which can be verified, the Bible is flawless. No one has ever been able to disprove the truth of the Bible. Thousands of years of scrutiny have amounted to nothing more than fruitless searches and converted skeptics. It is intriguing how the people who are the most vocal opponents of the Bible are the same ones who know virtually nothing about it. How do you really know the Bible is God's Word? First of all, the Bible contains advanced wisdom which mankind had no way of knowing or proving until recently. Secondly, and most importantly, prophecy. Unlike human prophecy, which is nothing more than mere predictions about what might happen in the future, prophecy to God is a promise of what is certain to take place in the future.


The religions which believe in heaven state you can only get there by working for it and trying to live a good life.
You earn your salvation by making yourself worthy enough, but the God of the Bible says you are saved by his grace through faith in what he has done for you. If you can save yourself, Christ died for nothing. If you can work for your salvation, Jesus would have never needed to come to earth and lay down his life. It's human pride that makes one think they can earn entrance into heaven. God hates pride because it is the number one thing preventing people from knowing him and accepting his mercy.
If you could save yourself why would we need a God to save us? You wouldnt need him in this life on earth and we could do all the stuff we wanted to. If you as a human had any part in salvation you would be full of pride and boastfull. You would worship yourself. God has created us for a reason - to glorify him.All creations have a common God- centered goal. God wants all the glory and praise ( i mean hes GOD, afterall!!)This is why salvation must be all grace.


Now if you would go to ask any muslim if he would go to heaven when he dies ... he would say no ( to be honest with himself i.e) Muhammand himslef said that even if he had one leg in heaven he still wouldnt trust Allah to let himin. He says that The only way to go to heaven is "Jihad"They have no assurance because their religion depends on the person gaining enough merits or good points. How can you ever know for sure you have done enough good deeds to get to heaven?Or your just going to heavenm because you have visited a holy place?(Mecca).You can't. You could never know. There is a lot of talk about peace these days, but the fact is there is no true, lasting peace without the assurance of salvation.


You have a promise from God, who cannot lie, that if you accept the sacrifice he made for you and turn from your sins, you will live with him forever in heaven when you die. This is true joy and true peace!

If you were to choose your faith based on the assurance of salvation alone, you would only have one choice. Faith in Christ is about God reaching out to you and doing for you what you could never do for yourself. God's requirement to enter heaven is perfection, and you can only be made perfect by God. All other religions involve people attempting to earn God's favor and mercy through living a good life. Make no mistake about it, living a holy life is very important but believers do good deeds because they are already on their way to heaven not because they hope to go there one day.

Lastly and most importantly, when you become a true believer in the one and only God of the universe, he places his Holy Spirit inside your body.

This point cannot be emphasized enough. When you accept Christ as your Lord and Savior, God's Spirit supernaturally inhabits your mortal body. The Holy Spirit who resurrected Christ from the dead is the same Spirit who gives you eternal life. Jesus said no one can enter heaven unless they are born of the Spirit. If you are counting on anything other than the cross of Christ to get you into heaven, you will be eternally disappointed. I realize this point of view is not politically correct, but I am more interested in being biblically correct. We live in a world where all roads lead to heaven. Unfortunately, it just doesn't work that way.

Yes there are two ways to get to USA. But there is only one way to get to Heaven. If not, then God would have never sent Jesus to die on the cross.

In closing, let me add...in all of history, there has only been one man who claimed to be God, who told the world that he was God's son, that he would suffer death, and that he would rise again after three days. The only man that actually uttered the words, "your sin has been forgiven" and the only man that could utter those words without being a blasphemer. This one man's death has changed the course of history, even dating time, more wars have been fought in his name, and more hospitals and schools have been built in his name. Either this man was a lunatic, a first class freak, if you will. OR, this man actually was who he claimed to be...the Son of God, the one and only way to the Father, in which case we must accept His words as true and attempt to live by His teachings, ready to give even our lives for the sake of the Gospel. The decision now is yours...

(thanks a million Beni,for helping me on this and encouraging me. God knows I needed it)
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-Oscar Abraham Varghese, in other words-

"parvathon ki goad maine dhoondtha phira,
suna tha maine kahaniyon mein, tu milega yahan...

teri khoj mein, teri khoj mein,
teri khoj mein, mein chala.."

This song is about a man in search of God in the mountains far and
wide for he heard in stories centuries ago that he could find him
there... the search continues.

Years ago, when I was a confused teen(still confused, no more a teen),I questioned the existence of God,the almighty, the creator/destroyer,the supreme, Yahweh-whatever you want to call him,her or it. Almost everybody in this world worship some form of God, Hindus: the trinity; Muslims: Allah; Christians:The Father,Son and the Holy Ghost, Parsis: Ahura Mazda etc. The common thread in all of this is, that no one has ever seen or heard God. Tomorrow, I tell the world God spoke to me in my dreams and these are his words, will anyone believe me? will I be able to spread the word of God through my mouth?will there be a new religion in my name? or will i be sent to an asylum?, that is not the point here, there is NO proof of the existence of this mystical being, then again when you do a scientific experiment , the scientist is not looking to prove his hypothesis, he is merely testing whether his claim is consistent over a period of time. With this I can say God and science are one and the concept of God is solely on a person's belief or bias. A group of scientists/authors, Andrew Newberg, M.D., Eugene D'Aquili, M.D., and Vince Rause, researched this strong irrational attraction between humans and God and religious practices. They claimed people seek God because our brains have been genetically wired to do so.

Whether or not God is just an electrical impulse or he really exists doesn't matter. In my opinion, questioning the existence of God is futile. Siddhartha Gautama, went to seek enlightenment,to seek God and during his penance he had a revelation, we don't know if he saw God and he says, why worry about whether God is or not when you can be who you are and be a good human. He says, life is to live and it is laid with obstacles and few successes and it is how you look at your obstacles that will lead you to success or otherwise. People talk about going to hell or heaven? is there anything like that? Is there a such place after death? I believe that heaven and hell is right here on earth, we live it. You make hell with negativity and heaven with positive light, God has nothing to do with it. Buddhism describes that after liberation we merge with a ever-growing ball of energy,that is the supreme power.

I've met God, I've have felt that power in mysterious I will tell you one account of that. Couple of years ago, on a holiday, i went shopping with my friends and we were trying out clothes in the dressing room. I burst out crying for some reason I was suicidal, my best friend tried to calm me down and I kept crying saying I didn't want to live anymore. We were searching for a napkin to wipe my tears and when I reached into my purse, I found a notepad,that i had never used. I was about to tear one of its pages and when I opened it, I saw a writing , and it said "No matter what , I am always with you, you are beautiful", I never wrote that, or maybe I did long ago,but at that time, I felt like God was making a connection and I thought it was incredible. It may sound really silly and cliched, but God does work in mysterious ways, we just have to be more aware of ourselves and the world around us.

There is something else I want to a address. Christianity preaches that, faith in Jesus will save us from our sins, Islam demands that if you devote yourself to Allah you will go to heaven and Hindus say that if we do good,our karma will out weigh the bad and we will be liberated and not suffer rebirth. I appreciate people who do great things in the name of God. But why do it for someone else? Why do people believe that they should good to reach God or be saved? Do good for humanity, do good for the joy if it, do good for that smile on another persons face, don't do it because your motives are not pure. The bottom line is that God exists is and in everything. God is being and doing, good or bad, action and reaction.

“Ask not what God can do for you, ask what you can do with him”

References:
Andrew Newberg, M.D., Eugene D'Aquili, M.D., and Vince Rause
"Why god Wont Go Away"

*~*~*~*~*~*Divya Manjunath~*~*~*~*~*

My Side of the Story.

Before I begin I'd like to say this is not a My Religion V/s Your Religion Showdown. There is no loser in this discussion, even if what I say is proven wrong I still find out the truth (unless all the contributors here are totally wrong). So either way everyone wins!!!

I feel that people from all religions should read this post because there is nothing to lose here.

When I thought of doing this post I was initially going to write about the different ways to salvation. Oscar believes that there is one and only one way; I believed that there were many other ways. But on closer inspection, I found that there were more similarities than differences, and for once Oscar and I reached some sort of agreement on a religious topic rather than saying 'Let it be man......you have your beliefs and I have mine' which by the way is an achievement of sorts. So here I am to present the similarities before you.......

In the Gospels, Jesus used the phrase "I tell you the truth" 80 times; He said "I am the way, the truth and the light".

In Islam the first step is Kalima (Proclamation of Ones Faith) which says, ‘There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet. There is one and only one God who is all merciful all powerful and all wise.

In Hinduism we say "Satyam Shivam Sundaram" which also says that God is the only truth!!

God would never lie to his children because he is GOD!! So therefore if I say that the word of the Bhagwad Gita is the only true word of God, I will be negating the others; and Hinduism never negates any other holy book!!

I as a Hindu can worship Jesus Christ (which I do) and still be a Hindu. According to the Vedas God is one! He is beyond the limitations of time, space and causation. None of these three things are man-made. So how can God be bound by religion which is a man made concept? The fact is that God himself hates religion. He doesn’t want me to think of myself as only Hindu; he does not want Oscar to think of himself as only Christian because by doing that we not only defeat the purpose of religion we also disappoint God!

A volunteer from ‘The Every Nations Leadership Institute’ once told me this, ‘Religion and I mean any religion is man reaching out to God. It is like swimming from India to Brazil; there are different routes, but they all eventually lead to the same place.

Now say A is a better swimmer than B; he will reach there before B even if B follows the same route. But if A takes the longer route B will reach there before him. Neither A nor B can ever guarantee that he will be the first to reach or that the other person will never make it.

Oscar says that being a Christian is the only way to salvation and everything else will lead you to eternal disappointment. He says that even if you are a Roman Catholic (who also believe in Jesus Christ, only in a different way) are in for eternal disappointment. How can this be possible? Out of two people who believe in the same God, one is damned to hell for being a Roman Catholic? God is just and I don’t think that any such injustice will ever be meted out to one of God’s children

If we are lost God will show us all the right way. He won’t let us be ‘left behind’ just because we belong to a different religion.

Hinduism as a religion says ‘Come as you are’. It does not tell you to fulfill any pre-requisites as such. If you are Christian and you pray in a temple; your prayer will not be turned down just because you are Christian!

Quote From Oscars Post

"The religions which believe in heaven state you can only get there by working for it and trying to live a good life.You earn your salvation by making yourself worthy enough, but the God of the Bible says you are saved by his grace through faith in what he has done for you."

This is not entirely true mere Karma will not get you salvation

God+ [Karma (Actions) + Purushartha (Four Main Aims of Life)] = Moksha (Salvation).

In Islam the 5 pillars (Kalima, Zaqqat, Namaz, Ramzan, and Hajj) are the way to salvation and not just actions.

In Buddhism the 8-fold path is the way to salvation. Right actions are only one of the 8 principles.

Quote From Oscars Post

"All other religions involve people attempting to earn God's favor and mercy through living a good life. Make no mistake about it, living a holy life is very important but believers do good deeds because they are already on their way to heaven not because they hope to go there one day. "

Not true. The Bhagwad Gita says "Karma Nye Vaddhika Raste Mafaleshu Kaddachana" which translates as 'Keep performing your Karma without the expectation of it bearing a fruit'. If you do something with the selfish purpose of gaining God’s favor and mercy, it will not be entertained. Only selfless actions will bear a fruit. The path of well-directed karma is the path to salvation, so people who perform good selfless karma are also on their way to salvation.

The four noble truths say that desire is the cause of all suffering thus Buddhism too discourages selfish actions!

Quote From Oscar's Post.

"No other book in the world claims to contain direct quotes from the mouth of God."

The word 'Veda' means the ‘Knowledge of God’ and not man....the Vedas are based on revelations made by God, yet another similarity.

What I am trying to show through this post is that, despite the radical differences we have shocking similarities and no matter how much you try you cannot negate them.

I am trying to promote brotherhood here, trying to show you that we are not so different after all. We live in a secular country here, not only do we need to respect each others religions we need to know what they teach.
You the reader can fiercely cling on to your faith and try to differentiate yourself by bringing up more differences but that won't negate the similarites presented here. I am not asking you to agree with them, I am just presenting some facts in front of you. Call it the truth if you may. You don't have to agree with the truth, just accept it!
Oscar asks me , "If there are similarities why are we different? Why isn't there one religion?"
Well dude I ask you ,"If Christianity is the only way, why do you have Syrian Christians, CNI,CSI, New Life Church etc. etc. Why are people who believe in the same God divided? If you go to Eben's Church why do your church folks frown at that?"
My explaination is that God didn't divide us, we did! That's why the similarities and differences.
As far as the question of antiquity is concerned, Hinduism is way older than Christianity and so is Buddhism or even Jainism for that matter!
If you are saying that all this time no Hindu/Buddhist/Muslim/Roman Catholic etc. has ever gone to heaven and none of them ever will then that is your opinion and I don't agree with it!
If you are saying that by promoting unity and brotherhood and by being a good human being, I will be damned to hell for not being Christian then you seriously need to look your facts up. Gandhi was not a Christian believer, neither was Raja Ram Mohun Roy and if they went to hell for not being Christian believers then I'll gladly join them in hell!!
Take an example from history, before America was discovered by Columbus there was no America on the map! You have to explore be open minded, let your mind go places its never been. Oscar says that Christianity is the only truth.....not totally right, Christianity is the only truth Oscar knows.
Before you know whats right you have to find out whats wrong! If you have explored all other religions before choosing your religion then maybe you can say that which is the right path.
But if you've been brought up in a certain religion and have never looked beyond it you look at the world through a key-hole. Widen your horizons, be open minded!
I agree that on one side there is the truth and then theres everything else, but there are multiple truths and each truth is multi-faceted. The truth is not a simple concept, it goes way beyond the limitations of the puny human mind.
There are so many things we cannot answer and the question, "Why are there different religions despite of the similarities?" is one such question.
The world cannot exist without differences, not even two Christian believers from the same church have the exact same beliefs.
If your desire to be one with God is strong enough God will make sure that you are united with him. No matter how off-track you are he will show you your way, like I said earlier God won't let you go astray just because you don't belong to a particular religion. If a true believer of any religion is going down the wrong road, God will show him the right way, he won't let him lead a whole life going down the path to eternal disappointment. That's just not the way it works!
God is one, he always was he always will be! We are all equal before him and that my friends is not going to change any time soon!

Before I end I have to say that this post has helped me find more similarities than differences. It has helped me understand the true meaning of my beliefs and also helped me to understand the beliefs of others and respect them!

I may not have exact quotes from religious books (Hinduism doesn't have one standard book). If you the reader agree with me then I will be happy; but if u disagree I will be happier still because then I will have the opportunity to look at it through your eyes. Maybe that will give me a clearer picture than what I already have!And remember at the end of the day God just wants you and me to live together despite our differences. If everyone was the same, there would never be a problem. But that is not the case and no matter how diametrically opposite we are we still have to live with that! And that my friends, is the only truth!!

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>The End<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Paras R. Sharma A.K.A

How to get to heaven from Mumbai or anywhere else.

If you were to ask your friends how to get to Heaven, you would probably receive as many answers as the number of friends you have.But when you are dealing with something as important as eternal life and Heaven, you need more than just the opinions of friends. You need the truth of God's Word!

Who is good enough?
God's Word, in the first place, is very realistic. It teaches that no one can gain entrance into Heaven by good works or even religious practices. The Bible reveals our true condition:

"As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one... For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God"
Romans 3:10,23.

Our personal experience also teaches us that we all have broken God's laws and have not even "done the best we can do."

What is our condition?
The Biblical diagnosis for our condition is clear. We, by nature, are described as being

"[D]ead in trespasses and sins;" Ephesians 2:1 and as "having not life." Ephesians 4:18.

Just as a body without physical life is declared physically dead, so any person separated from the life of God is described in the Bible as spiritually dead. Separated from God, dead in our trespasses and sins, we cannot hope to enter Heaven. We need new lives, cleansed from sin and its penalty. We need to be restored to fellowship with God. We must be born into a new life - we must be born again.

Jesus Christ came to bring us this new life. He said,

"I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly" John 10:10.

Receiving the life that Jesus can give is what being born again is all about. When we think about God's love for us, it is really more than we can comprehend. God sent His Son Jesus Christ from the glories of Heaven to enter the human race and pay the penalty for our sins. This is the extent of God's love for us!

"God commendeth (demonstrated) His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" Romans 5:8.

On the cross of Calvary Jesus willingly bore all our sins and suffered the full force of God's righteous judgement. By His death Jesus provided for our salvation. By His resurrection from the dead, Jesus broke the power of death. Today, the risen Lord Jesus offers new life to all who will receive Him as Saviour. He promises,

"He that heareth My word and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life." John 5:24.

If you will respond to the Son of God by receiving Him as your Saviour, you can have everlasting life right now. On the basis of God's Word you can have assurance that Jesus Christ has totally suffered the penalty of sin for you. And you can be born again into the family of God, knowing that one day you will live forever with your Lord in Heaven.

Are you willing to receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour? Here's how:

"For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved" Romans 10:13

Your part is to ask God to save you - His part is to save you from the punishment of sin and take you to Heaven when you die. If you will do your part, He promises to do His part. You can bow your head right now and sincerely ask Christ to forgive you and save your soul.

"Dear Lord, I know that I am a sinner and cannot save myself. Right now I turn from my sin and accept You alone for my salvation. Thank you for saving me. In Jesus Name, Amen."

If you prayed that prayer from your heart just now, I want to assure you from the Bible, that God will do what He said He will do!

"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." I John 1:9.


If you meant business with God, He has heard your prayer and forgiven your sin - that's His promise.


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Oscar Abraham Varghese.

Talk About A Devolution- Taken From HT

This is an awesome article i read in HT.


THERE'S SOMETHING almost `magical' in the claims made by the faithful and those with a yen for reason. It seems that most people -- on both sides of the clashes about religion and science raging in the US -- share an opinion that undermines the ability of religion and science to deal with the complexity of the material world and the mystery of creation.
The difference between belief in magic and an appreciation of mystery has never been clearer than in the debate over `intelligent design' and the alleged challenge it presents to evolutionary biology. Our predicament is simple: We humans know -- and are capable of knowing -- far less than we would like to know about how the world came to be and what kind of beings we are. For all our inventiveness, what we don't know still dwarfs what we do know. In the words of Wes Jackson, a biologist and sustainable-agriculture researcher, we are fundamentally ignorant. That doesn't mean we know nothing, but simply that we don't know enough to understand as much as we would like, as deeply as we desire.
What to do in the face of those limits? One possibility is to acknowledge them and understand life as an endless engagement with the mystery that we can, at best, only partially comprehend. Another approach is to craft magical `solutions' that purport to give definitive answers. Unfortunately, too many take this latter path.
This is obvious in the arguments of supporters of intelligent design, an approach that holds that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection."

Unlike traditional creationism, this approach doesn't identify God as the designer, though it's nearly impossible to find an intelligent-design proponent who doesn't believe in such a God. But the shift from God-as-creator to unidentified-designer is strategic, not principled; by declining to inject religion directly into the debate, intelligentdesign campaigners can make arguments that appear to be rooted in a call for objectivity -- the `teach both sides' rhetoric.
Instead of arguing for the supe riority of intelligent design, its backers simply argue it should be taught as a competing scientific theory alongside evolution.
The problem, of course, is that intelligent design is not open to being tested experimentally and has no basis in science. It is speculative philosophy that should appropriately be taught in a course that deals with various cultures' origin myths. Such treatment is not disrespectful of people's religious beliefs, but simply intellectually honest.
Polls in the US suggest that most people disagree. In one survey last year, 65 per cent of people favoured the teaching of creationism (not just intelligent design, but traditional Christian creationism) together with evolution in science classrooms, and 37 per cent thought creationism should be taught instead of evolution.

Secular people who believe science is a more compelling way to resolve this question tend to find this perplexing, at worst, maddening. As one person put it in casual conversation with me, "Why can't they (creationists) just accept that evolution is the answer?"
While I also weigh in on the evolutionary theory side of this debate, I am uncomfortable with the declaration that there is any `the answer' concerning the origin and development of life. Is not a belief in science's ability to provide definitive answers also a kind of mag ical thinking, a willingness to believe beyond our capacity to know? Could there be forces beyond evolution-through-natural-selection also at work that we don't yet understand? Can we be sceptical of mystical assertions and yet open to alternative avenues of inquiry?

Both religion and science, taken down these limited magical roads, impoverish our imaginations. But the problem isn't that of religion or science per se; the best traditions in both realms don't talk in such absolutes.
Science is based not on claims of absolute truth, but on evidence marshalled to support a theory. It works on the principle of falsifiability: Ideas must be capable of being proven false to be scientifically valid. Rather than saying something is true, we can only say that to date it has not been proven false.
And, of course, the history of science is a history of change, as claims once widely accepted give way to more robust ideas.

Scientists know this, as do many lay people. But in a culture that glorifies the products of the scientific method -- especially dazzling hightechnology machines -- many believe that science offers definitive answers. In that sense, culture corrupts science by demanding magic.
Much religion, on the other hand, is based on claims of truth. But the best interpreters of religious traditions steer the discus sion of faith away from claims of certainty and toward ongoing engagement with the questions.
Jim Rigby -- a progressive theologian and pastor of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Austin, TX -- puts it this way: "Religion and science conflict only when one or both forget their proper bounds. When religion makes competing claims with science it is like a retina moving to the front of the eye; it cannot help but stand in its own light." For Rigby, "The proper concern of religion is not declarations of truth, but the search for meaning."
On the origins of life, evolutionary theory appears to be a compelling framework. It is folly to disregard it out of a need to believe in religious magic. But it also is folly to believe evolutionary theory is the last word on the subject and all that remains is to work out the details.
A more sensible path is to acknowledge that we live in a material world and are part of creation.
We can look at the material world and be grateful for how some scientists have helped us understand, in limited ways, its workings. And we can be disappointed in the way some science has contributed to the degradation of the world's ecosystems, in large part through arrogance and an underdeveloped sense of our intellectual limits.

We can look at creation and be grateful for the ways that some religious people have helped us understand, in their own ways, its meaning. And we can be disappointed in the way some religion has encouraged people to narrow the scope of inquiry into the meaning of human existence, in large part because of that same arrogance and problems with comprehending limits.

As we struggle with the timeless questions about the meaning of creation, we face the urgent problem of creating sustainable systems in the material world. This is the task of our moment in history, and to succeed we will need the best of both these traditions.

The writer is professor of journalism, University of Texas, US and author of Citizens of Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity

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Will bring me down in vein

Will bring me down in vein

Before we fall apart

Give me one chance before it's gone

Before you walk away

Take another chance before the world

Will bring me down in vein

Will bring me down in vein

Archives -Sandpeople

Why I Love Sand People.
Cuz

1. My Fav sis (bavan) is from the Gulf pronounced [geu-llf] (sorry
christine your #2)

2. The've got something(too much of it actually) anybody would kill for
-too many damn irritating mallus. No wonder the iraqi's attacked Kuwait.I mean look at this more than 80% of the population in the gulf are mallus and
abt 75.9% of them are irritating.

3.Acc to a recent survey done by NOTV 95% of your time is spent watching
footages based on Amerikaner soldiers killed in Iraq and watch stupid people
cry for world peace. So thats great right? Entertaintment... Die Amerikaners
DIE!!!Acc to my Sociology textbook XII Std. (A Maharshtra State Education Board
recognized one mind you) many people in India do not have entertaintment so
they indulge in the only entertaintment they have SEX, hence India has a
MASSIVE Poplulation.So like i said earlier if it werent for sandpeople .....[cries like the women in
beauty pageatns after they win]

4.I've got 3 Uncles and 4 Aunties Livin there who always gimme gifts so
uh no 4 is taken care of.

5. Hmm lets see okay ill go with uncle sam on this one. The've got OIL!!!You know like they say Gimme OIL!!! Yeah Gimme OIL!!! Woohoo! [no?]

6. Oh yeah My girlfriend is one of the sandpeople so uh yeah this ones for her.
[makes those rolling eyes]

7. They are they only cowards in the whole world who chanlenge the infidel
Amerikaners.I Mean someone has to do the job right?

8. I think its damn hilarious when Ossama chants "Fatwa Fatwa!!!" in
sandpeople language.Watch Southpark (episode) Ossama has farty pants.

9.I love it when the dumb Iranian President acts over confident and makes remarks
about wiping Israel of the map.[sigh][if only he knew, if only HE KNEW]

10. I love irritating my Girlfriend by singing the sandpeople song..... It goes
like this A one,A two and A three....

Sandpeople Sandpeople

Sandpeople Sandpeople

Taste Like Sand

Talk Like People

SandpeopleSandpeople

Fatwa Fatwa!Chant with Ossama!
SandpeopleSandpeople
Hakka Hakka Dakka Dakka DAkka

Amerika AmerikaFatwa Fatwa!

OHH Jihad Jihad!

SandpeopleSandpeople.