lol, couple of months back my mother started praising a pandit ji a lot, The pandit ji was from Delhi, and my previous landlord and one of mother's friend actually used to invite him to stay at their house and do prayers and all for 4-5 days the cost of these days were more than 50k with all the stuff they had to buy and pandit ji's fees.
Now it comes to me, none of my business ideas worked and i was in some debt so mother started to seek advices from pandit ji.
Couple of main things about the situation and me -
1. I had lent an old colleague 2 Lac 2 years back which i took from my uncle on interest which he haven't paid back till now, not even interest.
2. I was doing a part time accountant job so i was always back home before 2PM.
3. I used to spend a lot of time playing games like COD and GTA
4. I also spent a lot of time just browsing online coz had too much free time.
Note- My mother has already told all these things to Pandit ji
Pandit ji asked my mother to give them the number of the person whom i lent the money, saying once he hears his voice he will make him pay the amount asap.
Mother asked me for the number i humbly declined. Once she called on speaker while standing next to pandit ji and asked for a conference call and i declined again saying this is my issue i will handle it myself.
After this Pandit ji declared that i haven't given any money to anyone , I have lost all that money in gambling online
why else would i refuse to let anyone talk to the guy ( whom i gave the money to)
Basically I'm a person who lost money and can't be trusted for money.
After a couple of days my mother went to pandit ji again to ask about my sister's future if she will be able to go abroad.
My mom called and asked me and my sis to come meet them , I was already pissed at the previous incident to i asked my cousin to take sis and meet them.
Later that evening my cousin and sis told me that pandit ji said today that you don't even have a job,
You are financially dead ( don't know the right term ), You just go out of the house to do some awaragardi and then come back after 3-4 hours to show everyone that you are working,
Even the EMI's you have been paying either comes from more loan or you are doing some bad things gangster type shit.
I was furious. But didn't do anything .
Even my cousin told them how could i be lying about my job when for 4 months he used to drop me at the office and sometimes he used to come inside and wait for me in there.
But all hail the all knowing pandit ji , Neighbor aunty who was hosting Pandit ji at the time said you should ask someone to follow him a couple of days and see what he does.
My cousin said on the spot if you are so worried about Nikhil why don't you go and follow him yourself for couple of days .
After that a lot happened , some arguments at home , but mother kept defending pandit ji
Till some weeks later pandit ji said my sister won't be able to go abroad. ( well she has been in UK for past 4 Months ).
After that mother doesn't talk too much about pandit ji at home but still sometimes,
when I tease her about past incidents she defends him saying , then why does everything he says to previous landlord and aunty ji comes true ( most of it does by pure coincidence )
Took a lot of efforts too , to convince her he might be a god to everyone but in this house or about me every word he says is always gonna be a lie.
Nice story. Usually it's the parents that worry their children are mixing with the wrong people and falling under their spell. Yours is the opposite
What I have learnt from my personal experience is that you should never try to stop stupidity or try to logically reason with people. It doesn't work, and it ruins your relation with these people. Some people are just wired to believe in stuff without evidence. You should try to make money out of this (such as by starting an app lol) and enjoy your life.
This is the difference between faith and knowledge.
What people forget is if people didn't have faith they were on the right path there would be no knowledge
1) Why did the apple fall. Why do you care. Isn't it a stupid question to ask and a waste of time to figure out?
Oh you think it will help to understand heavenly bodies better. All that will come from learning about the apple is it
2) Another example of that era, was alchemy (borrowed from Arabic) whose roots are a millenia older. The belief there is some magic formula to turn metal into gold. Medieval get rich quick scheme. That's how modern chemistry got started.
3) And while we're on the topic of 'Astrotalk' this last one is out there where the buses don't run
"Drug use and orgies is just a hard thing to fold into NASA’s official story."
www.supercluster.com
Oh you want to be a 'rocket scientist'. Is that a religious term?
'Aerospace engineering' Yes....and you want to go to the moon?
Everybody knows the names of the famous people but more interesting is to see their lives, beliefs and motivations. And you will find they were broad minded to a fault and into crazy shit. But smart enough to recognise when something interesting happened and then pursued with determination. These are people that move civilisation forward with their discoveries and inventions.
Star positions have also changed since the Zodiac sign was discovered, so that argument also doesn't hold much (logical) merit.
I knew this Japanese girl a while back and the weird thing about her when she met new people was to ask them their zodiac sign. She was into Horroscopes
She would then talk about their personality for a few minutes and most of the time get it right as friends would knowingly smile and nod. The birthdays that were on the zodiac boundaries would throw her sometimes. I'd seen her do this with at least twenty random people at least.
Statistically insignificant as a sample size and all anecdotal. You could say she was quite perceptive and a tad over sensitive. Traits that go together with these people. A minor demonstration of a vast subject but she did make me wonder whether at least some of it had value.
Anyway, about astrology, it's up to you whether you want to believe it or not. People want to have hope even if it's false hope and that's a fact. I myself don't believe in all that, but everyone has different opinion and perspective.
Yeah you do. Do you believe your favorite team will win the match. Is that a false hope
No difference with astrology then. This is all about psychology and applies in many areas.
If you trust it works if you don't it won't, as the changes are very very slow and need long patience.
This is one of those weird mind tricks.
Placebo vs nocebo.
A doctor will always try to be positive. Because negative will send you into a downward spiral. And this happens because these days people see the doctor like some god. Like the faith healers of the past.