Comments on: Kanye East http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/10/12/kanye_east/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rani http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/10/12/kanye_east/comment-page-1/#comment-256754 Rani Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:38:03 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5981#comment-256754 <p>i have been to this ashram in pondicherry ... it is quite beautiful there ... however, i was told to actually go inside (the big gold dome) where the meditation takes place ... you have to reserve a spot several months in advance b/c of how busy they were (this was right before the final work was being done ... it could have been to hype it up ... but i had no reason to distrust our guide)</p> i have been to this ashram in pondicherry … it is quite beautiful there … however, i was told to actually go inside (the big gold dome) where the meditation takes place … you have to reserve a spot several months in advance b/c of how busy they were (this was right before the final work was being done … it could have been to hype it up … but i had no reason to distrust our guide)

]]> By: KANE http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/10/12/kanye_east/comment-page-1/#comment-256751 KANE Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:12:35 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5981#comment-256751 <p>yo swamy immma let u finish but son u aint ish on maharishi yogi dat n*gga iz like best of all timez.....w3rd.</p> yo swamy immma let u finish but son u aint ish on maharishi yogi dat n*gga iz like best of all timez…..w3rd.

]]> By: Anony http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/10/12/kanye_east/comment-page-1/#comment-256661 Anony Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:27:08 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5981#comment-256661 <p>"Stephen Prothero, religion professor at Boston University, has long framed the American propensity for “the divine-deli-cafeteria religion” as “very much in the spirit of Hinduism. You’re not picking and choosing from different religions, because they’re all the same,” he says. “It isn’t about orthodoxy. It’s about whatever works. If going to yoga works, great—and if going to Catholic mass works, great. And if going to Catholic mass plus the yoga plus the Buddhist retreat works, that’s great, too.”…"</p> <p>This immediately reminded me of my mom when we were staying in india last, she attended meditation classes at this institute that strongly discourages idol worship, but then she used to stop on her way back home at this Pillaiyar temple quite often. I didn't even know Buddhism was a separate religion till I hit middle school...</p> <p>Outside of stricter sects like Swaminarayans, SriVaishnavas etc. I think most middle class urban Hindus go with the smorgasbord board approach.</p> “Stephen Prothero, religion professor at Boston University, has long framed the American propensity for “the divine-deli-cafeteria religion” as “very much in the spirit of Hinduism. You’re not picking and choosing from different religions, because they’re all the same,” he says. “It isn’t about orthodoxy. It’s about whatever works. If going to yoga works, great—and if going to Catholic mass works, great. And if going to Catholic mass plus the yoga plus the Buddhist retreat works, that’s great, too.”…”

This immediately reminded me of my mom when we were staying in india last, she attended meditation classes at this institute that strongly discourages idol worship, but then she used to stop on her way back home at this Pillaiyar temple quite often. I didn’t even know Buddhism was a separate religion till I hit middle school…

Outside of stricter sects like Swaminarayans, SriVaishnavas etc. I think most middle class urban Hindus go with the smorgasbord board approach.

]]> By: nil http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/10/12/kanye_east/comment-page-1/#comment-256632 nil Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:21:24 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5981#comment-256632 <blockquote>A more amusing version of the Kanye interruption adapted for Obama's Nobel was tweeted by @tomgara: Yo Obama, I like you and Ima let you finish but Henry Kissinger was the least deserving Nobel laureate of all time!</blockquote> <p>or this one by a friend "Yo, Barack, I, I'm really happy for you and I'mma let you finish, but Gandhi was one of the best peacemakers of all time! One of the best peacemakers of all time!"</p> A more amusing version of the Kanye interruption adapted for Obama’s Nobel was tweeted by @tomgara: Yo Obama, I like you and Ima let you finish but Henry Kissinger was the least deserving Nobel laureate of all time!

or this one by a friend “Yo, Barack, I, I’m really happy for you and I’mma let you finish, but Gandhi was one of the best peacemakers of all time! One of the best peacemakers of all time!”

]]> By: Alexander Lobov http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/10/12/kanye_east/comment-page-1/#comment-256543 Alexander Lobov Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:06:07 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5981#comment-256543 <p>A more amusing version of the Kanye interruption adapted for Obama's Nobel was tweeted by @tomgara:</p> <p><i>Yo Obama, I like you and Ima let you finish but Henry Kissinger was the least deserving Nobel laureate of all time!</i></p> A more amusing version of the Kanye interruption adapted for Obama’s Nobel was tweeted by @tomgara:

Yo Obama, I like you and Ima let you finish but Henry Kissinger was the least deserving Nobel laureate of all time!

]]> By: boston_mahesh http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/10/12/kanye_east/comment-page-1/#comment-256528 boston_mahesh Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:53:45 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5981#comment-256528 <p>Kanye West don't like bland peafowls.</p> Kanye West don’t like bland peafowls.

]]> By: ass-imilation http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/10/12/kanye_east/comment-page-1/#comment-256525 ass-imilation Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:43:32 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5981#comment-256525 <p>i read the article when it came out a couple of months ago, and found it immensely annoying. this is the interpretation of hinduism which allows people to define it so broadly as to include pretty much any belief (or unbelief) system (and i am not even discussing the point that broadening the definition so it means everything also makes it mean pretty much nothing). similar in spirit to the article here which decides to equate recreational belief and a menu system of picking the gods to worship to hindu polytheism is the other favorite pastime of trying to label atheists as hindus.</p> <p>as an atheist, i always found it pretty annoying that hindus would define me into the carvaka school, a patently ridiculous assimilation given that (a) i had never been exposed to the carvaka school in the process of coming to my decision, (b) the carvaka school is pretty much nonexistent in its influence on hinduism as practiced today that even claims of accidental exposure to the idea are ridiculous, (c) the carvaka school, such as it was, was never a mainstream part of hinduism, in fact almost all the writings on it you can find today are those severely criticizing the school, not ones expanding on its concepts, and it is a joke to now claim atheists in india as hindus by invoking this school.</p> i read the article when it came out a couple of months ago, and found it immensely annoying. this is the interpretation of hinduism which allows people to define it so broadly as to include pretty much any belief (or unbelief) system (and i am not even discussing the point that broadening the definition so it means everything also makes it mean pretty much nothing). similar in spirit to the article here which decides to equate recreational belief and a menu system of picking the gods to worship to hindu polytheism is the other favorite pastime of trying to label atheists as hindus.

as an atheist, i always found it pretty annoying that hindus would define me into the carvaka school, a patently ridiculous assimilation given that (a) i had never been exposed to the carvaka school in the process of coming to my decision, (b) the carvaka school is pretty much nonexistent in its influence on hinduism as practiced today that even claims of accidental exposure to the idea are ridiculous, (c) the carvaka school, such as it was, was never a mainstream part of hinduism, in fact almost all the writings on it you can find today are those severely criticizing the school, not ones expanding on its concepts, and it is a joke to now claim atheists in india as hindus by invoking this school.

]]> By: TTCUSM http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/10/12/kanye_east/comment-page-1/#comment-256494 TTCUSM Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:00:58 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5981#comment-256494 <p>Hmm... I wonder if this has anything to do with Lord Vishnu's Matsya Avatar...</p> Hmm… I wonder if this has anything to do with Lord Vishnu’s Matsya Avatar…

]]> By: Paranoid Android http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/10/12/kanye_east/comment-page-1/#comment-256492 Paranoid Android Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:53:11 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5981#comment-256492 <p>Wow -</p> <p>The level of self-indulgence is quite remarkable. Firstly, just in case there were others vying for it, the first and second prize in the "world's most enlightened atheist" are taken now. Now we should be able to determine who got to first and second spots as soon as we can pull away these two godless bodies apart. But goddamn it, there was "god" in "godless" so that must have been the wrong term. and there was a "god" in "goddamn". This ungodly recursion is driving me nuts.</p> <p>Also - is fair and lovely the Godwin of Sepia? wtf, there is a "God" in Godwin as well.</p> Wow -

The level of self-indulgence is quite remarkable. Firstly, just in case there were others vying for it, the first and second prize in the “world’s most enlightened atheist” are taken now. Now we should be able to determine who got to first and second spots as soon as we can pull away these two godless bodies apart. But goddamn it, there was “god” in “godless” so that must have been the wrong term. and there was a “god” in “goddamn”. This ungodly recursion is driving me nuts.

Also – is fair and lovely the Godwin of Sepia? wtf, there is a “God” in Godwin as well.

]]> By: ShallowThinker http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2009/10/12/kanye_east/comment-page-1/#comment-256480 ShallowThinker Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:58:42 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=5981#comment-256480 <blockquote>So we got a black rapper douchebag running around in India in an RRL jacket and jeans with crop circles on his head. gr8 i will skip my trip to desh this month.</blockquote> <p>So a black guy going to India has changed your mind about going? I know what your saying Ed. You dont want that black body running around amongst the fair and lovely people of India.</p> <p>Anyways. Why do people go to India to escape the life of America? Does it have to do with seeing people who live like trash cans compared to your life in America? "That baby is so poor and now I realize how good I have it. Thanks India."</p> So we got a black rapper douchebag running around in India in an RRL jacket and jeans with crop circles on his head. gr8 i will skip my trip to desh this month.

So a black guy going to India has changed your mind about going? I know what your saying Ed. You dont want that black body running around amongst the fair and lovely people of India.

Anyways. Why do people go to India to escape the life of America? Does it have to do with seeing people who live like trash cans compared to your life in America? “That baby is so poor and now I realize how good I have it. Thanks India.”

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