CULTURALQA 03-2024-19A Allthe below QA are from QUORA DIGEST tome on 19-03-2024.
SelectedQuora answers by scholars generally interesting are included. Still they need not be 100%correct answers. Goodjokes are also included. Iam only a compiler. Compiled and postedby R Gopalakrishnan, 80, on 19-3-2024 Q1 How do I take care of myself when old orelderly? A1 VenkateswaraSwamy Swarna, Former Scientist, Metallurgist, Quality / NDT Manager atDepartment of Atomic Energy, India (1967–2008)18h I am now nearly 76, old by Indian standards. But, I am able to take care of my personal needs liketaking bath, using the toilet, changing myself, going out for a haircut, go tothe bank if needed. I manage my affairs online. In the same apartment complex where I live, there isanother man who is 100 years old. He is completely bed ridden for the last fewyears and he is taken care by his 80 year old wife and a middle aged maleattendant who stays with them. We have one young female attendant living with us to take care ofmy wife who is recovering from a major health issue from 2022. So, either manage yourself or engage someone who can.If both the options areruled out, you may consider moving to an old age home. Q2 What is the most weird marriage custom ofIndia? A2 AmbikaSukumaran, Lives in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, India (1998–present)Updated 5y I can't say that this as a weird custom, but it is aunique custom followed in a village in Tamilnadu. Mudivaithanendalis a village in Thoothukudi district of Tamilnadu. The marriage custom is very unique in this village. Here the bride need not go to thegroom's house after wedding. Rather it is the groom who comes to the bride'shouse.( Imagine the groom weeping for leaving his parents behind!) Also in this village the girls are given houses by theirparents. So it is the daughter who takescare of her parents till their last breath. The point to be noticed here is the people will belonging to have a girl child. Unlike others the parents won't be saying 'Anyway mydaughter will go to another house after marriage, it is only my son who is going to look after me!'.These dialogues seem a little weird to the people of Mudivaithanendal. Theirdialogue will be a total opposite to the above one. Don't you find this custom unique or may be,according to you, ‘weird’?And I feel so happy to be a native of this village. Q3 What are some mind-blowing facts thatsound unreal but are actually true? A3 Daniel LJacobs, entrepreneur, storyteller, dreamer, 3x founder, 2x exits4y In 1954, thegovernment of Thailand decided to build a highway in Bangkok through a location where anold temple stood. They purchased the rights to the temple, and agreed to letthe local monks move a centuries-old clay Buddha to another location. The clay Buddhawas massive. It stood more than ten feet tall, and its belly was more than six feet incircumference. So the monks arranged for a crane to safely move the Buddha fromthe old temple to a new home. But when the crane began to pick up and move the clayBuddha, it was clear they’d miscalculated its fragility. The idol was cracking.Immediately, the temple’s abbot screamed for it to be lowered to the ground andcovered with tarps to protect it from incessant rains. Later that night, the abbot couldn’t sleep. So hereturned to the clay Buddha with a flashlight to inspect the damage to thesacred idol. As he peered through one of the cracks, he noticed somethingstrange deep beneath the surface. He returned to his monastery, found a hammer andchisel, and chipped away a small section around the crack. He was puzzled bywhat he saw. So he returned to the monastery, awoke the other monks, and askedfor their help. He told them each to bring a flashlight, hammer, andchisel. Together, they returned to the clay Buddha and, synchronously, theybegan to chip away at the enormous idol they’d been protecting for so manyyears. When they finished their work the next morning, theystood back and gazed at what, together, they’d uncovered: their clay buddha wasn’t clay at all. Instead,it was a solid gold Buddha — the largest known solid gold statue in the history of the world. In today’s dollars, just the price of the gold forthis 5,500 kilogram solid goldBuddha is more than one quarter of a billion dollars! Q4 Is there a very engrossing context of mother Ganga'segotism in the pages of Valmiki Ramayana? A4 SURESHBHARNANGA,10h Yes, there's a very engrossing context of mother Ganga'segotism in the pages of Valmiki Ramayana. When Lord Shiva decided to sustain Mother Ganga onhis head, she out of her arrogance thought that she would whisk away Lord Shivaby her unendurable streams. Valmiki Ramayana, Bala Kanda Afterwards, shewho is reverenced by all the worlds and who is the elder daughter of Himavanta, that Ganga assuming anunendurable form and an insupportable rapidity, they say, then plunged from thesky onto the auspicious head of Shiva. She who is an extremely unendurableriver that goddess Ganga even speculated saying to herself, 'let me enter netherworld, indeed whisking Shiva with mystreams. But Lord Shiva, who is all-knowing, all seeing oromniscient, knew about Goddess Ganga's arrogance. In order to destroy her egotism and false pride, Hethought to pent her up in the tufts of his head-hair. And as a result,When Goddess Ganga flowed down into the huge curls of matted hair-tufts on theholy head of God Shiva, she became a detainee in them. Valmiki Ramayana, Bala Kanda And oh, Rama,she that holy River Ganga swooped down into the cavernous curls of matted hair-tufts on the holy head of GodShiva, and she became a detainee in them. Though she strove hard in one way oranother to reach the earth that Ganga is rendered incapable, as she could notgain access for an outlet from any edge of the coils of matted hair-tufts ofShiva, hence she is heldthere in durance vile. Even after making several attempts to reach theearth, Goddess Ganga could not gain any access to escape. She was completely imprisonedthere. However, whenBhageeratha again firmed up in a marvellous penance in the matter of herdescent to earth, Lord Shiva released Goddess Ganga from his matted hair-tufts,aiming at Bindu Lake in Himalayas. So this is howLord Shiva destroyed Goddess Ganga's egotism. He is Hara, who always take away or destroymiseries, ego, and ignorance of his beloved devotees. Hara Hara Mahadeva, OM NamahShivaya~ Q5 What’s the worst candidate who came to an interview? A5 Richard Stubbings, FormerRetired Bookseller and IT Consultant Updated 4y Many years ago my partner,David, was a shop manager and was advertising for a full time shop worker. One morning this kid came intothe shop in dirty jeans and t-shirt and asked about the job. David gavehim an application form and told him to complete it, which the kid did straightaway. David said that he was starting interviews that afternoon and arranged atime. The interview time approached.The kid turned up on time.Still wearing the same clothes, now wet (it had been raining) and nowsmelling of poor body odour. Not a great beginning. First question, what have youdone? Answer “I’m just out of Borstal….” For those who do not know, this is a prison for youth offenders.He was in prison for multiple counts of shoplifting! Why didn’t you change and looksmart for the Interview? - Because I live several miles away and I did not have the bus fare to gethome and back. So I hung around in town all day. David hired him. HR was very very worried. Years later the kid was still employed, nowassistant manager. He turned out to be one of the most reliable andhonest employee David had ever hired. One day he admitted that he turned to shoplifting when he was younger toget caught and taken away from his abusive father. He was safer in prison thanat home. So he was the worst lookingcandidate, with the worst CV, but the best employee -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1663642416.4020510.1710855657950%40mail.yahoo.com.
