CULTURAL QA 12-2023-24A All the below QA arefrom Quora DIGEST to me on 24-12-2023.
Selected quora answers generallyinteresting only are included .Still they need not be 100%correct answers. Compiled and posted by R.Gopala Krishnan, 80, former ITS on 24-12-2023. Q1 Whatare the benefits of being a Brahmin in India? A1 RamaG, Lives in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Oct 23 Once we all went out on a pilgrimage. I noticed my puja books were in thehotel and we were out on the farms.It's time for me to pray my God. Just I chose a remote corner and turned towards sun and recited mystothras, slokas etc in a low voice with folded hands. When I finished I got surprisedfinding some fellow traveller. Shesaid, ‘oh. You are a Brahmin? You recited many sthotras without a book. I toocan but need my book.’ I said, ‘one advantage is, >From the childhood we grew up hearingour elders chanting, reciting loud. So, >automatically half the things get byhearted. Remaining we learn by reading >daily. Even Ineed book sometimes. Of late little forgetting in between. For that matter if learns fromchildhood, it's easy to remember for anyone.’ Then,She said something which I wasreally surprised to hear. She said, “that's the reason, invaderscould burn down libraries but couldn't remove the Vedic knowledge or otherreligious things and thinking from you people. Most of your knowledge is orally stored. Kept in your brains. That's whythese many years no one could destroy you completely.” I nodded my head. Said “possible”.Thenstarted thinking… Because, not only Brahmins, many non BrahminHindus know and follow their culture, traditions. They live them. Many thingsthey store in their brains… The advantage of being Hindu Brahminis, their knowledge only safeguards them. However oppressed, insulted, deniedopportunities, somehow they can create something , some way on their own. When all the other doors closed on them,when they couldn't afford many courses in private colleges, many of the Brahminschose chartered accountant course, taxation, ICWA, AMIE, other similar courses, which are tough and there is no competition orreservation. They know only on their merit they can come up and survive. Noother way. Now, alternate medicine is taken bymany. So, the main benefit being a Brahminis their dietary habits and their quick grasping power of the differentsubjects. They can fight brain war though they are scared of physical wars.Their living style is so simple anywhere they can survive. My note- Certain irrelevant portionsfrom the answer is removed and posted. Q2 Whatis something that you want others to understand? A2 VijayOdedra, Lives in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (2021–present)Updated 4y “Why will you spend 3-4 lakhs rupees on my wedding?” I asked my father. We were having lunch and discussingabout a grand wedding that was about to happen in a nearby village. Nearly ₹1.5 Crores were to be spent in three days. My father brought up the point and said,“Instead of spending so much on wedding, they should either donate or help fewpoor girls to get married.” “You can't help few girls, but you can helpone girl. Why will you spend on my wedding?” I questioned. He went silent.What I want others tounderstand? Don't expect donations and charity justfrom rich people only. A ₹5 coin that is feeling uselessin your home since few months can also bring a smile on the face of a poor kidand fill his stomach. Don't hate rich people when they spend lavishly. You earn in thousands and spend inhundreds. They earn inbillions and spend in millions. Maybe you help no one by working, they employthousands of others. Theyhave worked hard for that money. Maybe their grandparents did.Neither you worked as hard nor your grandparents did. Their money. Their choice. Stop being jealous andcritical. My note-For the point, spending crores in a marriage, they also help a number of peopleemploying them for differents. Further after feast most send all the remainingitems to poor homes which cost lakhs and really good. Costly food for the poorhome childrens Q3 Whydo some things when they are heated solidify but other things become a liquid? A3 SilkRoad, AI Expert 8h You see, most substances can exist inthree states of matter: solid, liquid and gas. Solids have fixed shapes and volumes,liquids can flow and take the shape of their containers, and gases can expandand fill any space. Thestate of matter depends on how much energy the particles have and how they arearranged. When you heat a solid, you give it more energy. This makes the particles vibrate faster and move apartfrom each other. If the solid reaches its melting point, the particles have enough energy to break free from their fixed positionsand form a liquid. This iscalled melting. But not all solids melt when heated. Some solids react with oxygen in theair and burn instead. This is called combustion. When combustion happens, the solidchanges into different substances that are usually gases or ashes. Take wood and paper, they burn whenheated and don't melt. Somesolids don't melt or burn, but they change directly into a gas. This is calledsublimation. Dry ice (solid carbon dioxide)sublimates when heated and becomes carbon dioxide gas. Now, when you heat a liquid, you alsogive it more energy. This makes the particles move faster and farther apartfrom each other. If the liquid reaches its boiling point, the particles have enough energy to escape from the liquid and form agas. This is calledboiling or evaporation. But not all liquids boil when heated.Someliquids decompose into different substances when heated. Take milk curdles when heated, itbecomes solid cheese and liquid whey. My note- Very beautiful and simpleexplanation. When one studied about three stages of matter whether they werethis much clear? Most may not. But some exemptions remember more than this. Q4 Whatare jokes about doctors? A4 GopalkrishnaVishwanath, I know lots of them. But most can't be narrated without spoiling mygood name.9h I hope you enjoy this as much as Idid. A Dentist, doing his first extractionon a patient, was understandably nervous. When he got the molar out, his handshook, he lost his grip on the instrument, and the tooth dropped down into the patient's throat."Sorry," said the doctor. "You're outside my specialty now. Youshould see a laryngologist! [throat specialist]." By the time the unfortunate victimgot to the laryngologist, the tooth had worked its way much further down. The laryngologist examined the man."Sorry,"said the doctor, "You're outside my specialty now. Youshould see a gastrologist! [stomach specialist]." The gastrologist X-rayed the patient."Sorry," said the doctor," the tooth has traveled into your lowerintestines. You should see an enterologist! [intestinalspecialist].'' The enterologist took some X rays."Sorry, the tooth isn't there. It must have gone down farther. You shouldsee a Proctologist! [a specialist in diseases of the rectum; anus]. The Proctologist's examined thepatient.... inserted a proctoscope inside the . . . . and remarked..... "Goodheavens, man! You've got a tooth up there! You should see a dentist!" My note- I recollect an incidentwhile working at Tutucorin during 1975’s. A new dental clinic I saw in anannexure of a good home. I had severe tooth ache of an inner tooth. I wentthere. A young lady came from home, wore doctor dress and started to remove mytooth. Successfully she removed the tooth. She sat on a chair, sweating. Without my asking she told- Being a new Dentist, I wasfeeling very difficult to remove the tooth independentally. Later Igathered, there was one more senior doctor and he was absent at that time!! Q5 Whatare some of the most mind-blowing facts? A5 YateshRajput, Lives in Himachal Pradesh, India Updated 6y This is Liechtenstein. One of thesmallest countries in the world with the area of roughly 62 square miles. It is double landlocked countrybetween Switzerland and Austria. In 1868, the country disbanded its army of 80 soldiers and declared itspermanent neutrality, which was respected in both the world wars. ***In 2007 Switzerland accidentally invaded Liechtenstein when 170 Swisssoldiers marched towards the capital city. According to their government, theydidn't even know until the Swiss government told them about this. ***What happened afterwards is nottold in the answer. Google search result gives- “The troops returned to Swissterritory after they had travelled more than 2 km (1¼ miles) into the country.The Liechtenstein authorities did not discover the incursion and were informedby the Swiss after the incident. The incident was disregarded by both sides” Wait,these are not the mind blowing facts. The best is yet to come. Its last military engagement was in 1866,during the Austrian-Prussian war. They sent 80 soldiers to guard an Italianmountain pass and none of them got injured. In fact, they befriended anAustrian soldier who joined them way back home to Vaduz. 80soldiers left and 81 returned, arriving to Liechtenstein as a stronger forcethan they left. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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