On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:03 PM, do.rflex <do.rf...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > MUMBAI : Indian astrologers are predicting violence and turmoil across the > world as a result of this week's total solar eclipse, which the > superstitious and religious view as a sign of potential doom. Let me get this straight. This is what we're meditating twice a day to become? > > In Hindu mythology, the two demons Rahu and Ketu are said to "swallow" the > sun during eclipses, snuffing out its life-giving light and causing food to > become inedible and water undrinkable. Anyone dumb enough to eat that food or drink that water is fulfilling the Darwin Principle. > > > Pregnant women are advised to stay indoors to prevent their babies > developing birth defects, while prayers, fasting and ritual bathing, > particularly in holy rivers, are encouraged. Stay indoors but take ritual baths in rivers. So these people have their houses built upon rivers? > > > Astrologers have predicted a rise in communal and regional violence in the > days following the eclipse, particularly in India, China and other Southeast > Asian nations where it can be seen on Wednesday morning. We're talking India and Asia. Do the Indians ever vote a politician out of office any other way but being dispatched by their Sikh bodyguards? > > > Mumbai astrologer Raj Kumar Sharma predicted "some sort of attack by > (Kashmiri separatists) Jaish-e-Mohammad or Al-Qaeda on Indian soil" and a > devastating natural disaster in Southeast Asia. > This is like predicting day follows night (except in times of eclipse). > > An Indian political leader could be killed, he said, and tension between > the West and Iran is likely to increase, escalating into possible US > military action after September 9, when fiery Saturn moves from Leo into > Virgo. > This is the way of Indian politics. > > "The last 200 years, whenever Saturn has gone into Virgo there has been > either a world war or a mini world war," he told AFP. > Plus or minus 100 years of the even, I suspect. > > > *"Primarily, what we see with all these soothsayers and astrologers is > that they're looking for opportunities to enhance their business with > predictions of danger and calamity*," he told AFP. > > "They have been very powerful in India but over the last decade they have > been in systematic decline." But there's hope. There's Maharishi Jyotish.
