Re: [silk] Did anyone else see the Dark Knight?

2008-07-23 Thread Venkatesh Hariharan
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:10 PM, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i thought the worst one (probably among the worst films, ever...) was the joel schumacer one with george clooney and arnold schwarzenegger ... 'batman and robin' ... ? But Kim Basinger was dishy as Vicky Vale :-) Ooh la

Re: [silk] Anarchy

2008-07-23 Thread Madhu Menon
ss wrote: The fundamental error (introduced IMO by people who originally came with their one god in their minds) and observed Hindus was to assume that the people they called Hindus were all defined by a god or gods (just like the observers themselves were). Theists who observed Hindus

Re: [silk] Did anyone else see the Dark Knight?

2008-07-23 Thread Sumant Srivathsan
Burton invented a background for the Joker (Jack Napier the small time gangster falls into vat of chemicals and emerges as disfigured, insane, and somehow more powerful villain, the Joker.) which has no basis in any of the comics *The Killing Joke* (Alan Moore, Brian Bolland) tells the

Re: [silk] Did anyone else see the Dark Knight?

2008-07-23 Thread Sumant Srivathsan
Wrong movie, though. Kim Basinger was Vicki Vale in Tim Burton's *Batman*. Clooney, Arnie and co. were disastrous in *Batman and Robin*, and not even Uma Thurman and Alicia Silverstone could save that mess. But Kim Basinger was dishy as Vicky Vale :-) Ooh la la... -- Sumant Srivathsan

Re: [silk] Did anyone else see the Dark Knight?

2008-07-23 Thread Sumant Srivathsan
What's with Batman's voice? He's all normal when he's Bruce Wayne but once he's in the mask his hissing voice is just so crappy! It's part of the 'Batman rules'. The weird voice is to make sure nobody can use it to find out that he's Bruce Wayne. That said, it's a bloody awful voice. But

Re: [silk] OK Tata byebye. I want one of these!

2008-07-23 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Super cool (heh). Anybody know more? Using google, I found: http://www.theaircar.com/ is the official website, it goes into some detail on the history of aircars, but is very reticent about current future plans.

Re: [silk] OK Tata byebye. I want one of these!

2008-07-23 Thread J. Andrew Rogers
On Jul 22, 2008, at 11:53 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: My first impressions from looking at the picture gallery - it looks like an enclosed golf cart with a fancy paint job, and those huge tanks look scary. OTOH it is supposed to have a top speed of 150km/h and the gas tanks are tested to be

Re: [silk] Anarchy

2008-07-23 Thread va
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A common error. Religions do not require God. Religions may or may not require faith but they certainly don't require God. Buddhism is a religion by any reasonable definition of the word, but has no God. Umm...According

Re: [silk] Anarchy

2008-07-23 Thread Divya Manian
On 7/23/08 4:17 PM, va [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Umm...According to a roshi/zen master, for people in India (and probably elsewhere) he/his statue represents the closest they get to God (this despite Buddha preaching an 8-fold path/concepts as against idol worship). In some Japanese temples

Re: [silk] Anarchy

2008-07-23 Thread Charles Haynes
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:44 PM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 23 Jul 2008 7:28:27 am Charles Haynes wrote: A common error. Religions do not require God. Religions may or may not require faith but they certainly don't require God. Buddhism is a religion by any reasonable

Re: [silk] Anarchy

2008-07-23 Thread ss
On Wednesday 23 Jul 2008 11:34:18 am Madhu Menon wrote: Can you please tell me what Hinduism is defined by? It seems to be an ever-evasive thing. I keep hearing it's not this and it's not that, and even that it can be anything you want it to be (which seems like an unfalsifiable claim.) In

Re: [silk] Anarchy

2008-07-23 Thread ss
On Wednesday 23 Jul 2008 3:25:11 pm Charles Haynes wrote: I gave up silly sophmoric semantic arguments when I was a ... sophmore. That word, religion, you keep using it. I do not think it means what you think it means. What's a sophomore? Not more sophistry I hope. The error was mine, and

Re: [silk] Anarchy

2008-07-23 Thread Biju Chacko
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:30 PM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is Hinduism Christianity? The high priests of Christianity don't seem to think so, although some Indian Christians have no problem calling themselves Hindu, perhaps because Hindu is not a religion label that denies you any particular

Re: [silk] Anarchy

2008-07-23 Thread ss
On Wednesday 23 Jul 2008 3:39:34 pm Biju Chacko wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:30 PM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is Hinduism Christianity? The high priests of Christianity don't seem to think so, although some Indian Christians have no problem calling themselves Hindu, perhaps because