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  1. ShivaFan

    Breaking News

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  2. ShivaFan

    Happy Holi 2017!

    however ... maybe I won't. Why? Because last night my Mother called to say she had "a powerful dream". She first told my wife, then demanded I come to the phone. She told me, "(blank), now listen you do what I am telling you. I had a powerful dream last night. I dreamed you were doing...
  3. ShivaFan

    Happy Holi 2017!

    Holika Dahan or the burning of Holika will happen Sunday night around 10 pm the evening before Holi on Monday. This year however I won't throw colors, but will burn Holika. I will setup a pyre, albeit tiny one, and set Holika - made like "straw + rags doll" - to burn her in my backyard. A...
  4. ShivaFan

    Happy Holi 2017!

    Holi is March 13 Monday here in California. Happy Holi! Besides the festival of colours, here we say the Vampiress Holika is defeated by the Vishnu devotee named Prahlad.
  5. ShivaFan

    Breaking News

    Great news! I have been a member of Modi's app for a long time, sometimes I take tasks to complete to prokote his agenda.
  6. ShivaFan

    Malik Obama tweets Obama's Kenya Birth Certificate

    OMG ... so this is it. Breaking: Malik Obama Tweets Alleged Barack Obama Birth Certificate in Kenya Malik Obama shares photo of brother Barack's Kenya 'certificate of birth' - The American Mirror
  7. ShivaFan

    Monastery Adopts Dog as Monk

    See link, TOO CUTE! Cute pup adopted by monastery melts hearts around the world Fray Bigotón (Big Moustache Friar), adopted by a monastery. Now our little friend is loved by the world!
  8. ShivaFan

    Questioning the Guru

    I can understand your view, FH. But also, mine is a bit different. Having personally known Gurus - even renown - yes, the great ones mostly exhibit a presence of BHAKTI or it could be LOVE or even FUN ... yet the lingering ones that can powerfully be a partner in life are, should I say? ...
  9. ShivaFan

    Trumps tantrums again

    My tantrums are keeping me up at night. But these are sweet tantrums. This is my vision of our great future. But painted in black. IVANKA! I dream IVANKA! Ivanka our pale lady President 2024 dressed in black! Until my dream comes true - I will be in tantrums awaiting!
  10. ShivaFan

    The Pro-Trump Marchers in Berkeley

    The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for this Friday March 03, 2017 shows 53% approval rating of the hugely popular President Trump, he has been over 50% for weeks and will likely end up being the most popular President in decades. The very fact that 200 pro-Trump marchers...
  11. ShivaFan

    The Pro-Trump Marchers in Berkeley

    Today, I happened to be in Berkeley in regards to a UC Berkeley errand for my daughter, and I was coming down from the West Campus driving down Bancroft off Shattuck Ave heading right towards Milvia St where Bancroft dead ends into Milvia. I was planning on turning right on Milvia when I had to...
  12. ShivaFan

    CNN article on myths about Hinduism

    It is a nice article but it is also as much myth as the other way around. Many of the items in the list "myths about" are as much feeding western aspirations about what some would hope westerners would see Hinduism as by some in HAF (of which I am a member) who happen to be Indians "trying to...
  13. ShivaFan

    Mother India

    Rishikesh Jain temple of Adinatha, Ranakpur Sanchi Stupa, Sanchi Jain temple of Kolkata (Calcutta) Varanasi (Kashi) Village In the North
  14. ShivaFan

    DOW 22 Thousand?

    Right now
  15. ShivaFan

    Trump's first speech to Congress

    More than 43.4 million watched Pres. Donald Trump‘s first address to Congress last night on the broadcast and cable news networks, according to Nielsen. This does not include the estimated 16 million that watched using data streaming such as Xfinity's internet web services, nor the estimated 6...
  16. ShivaFan

    Trump's first speech to Congress

    Frazzled Democrat former Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear calls himself a Republican in his rebuttal speech, then corrects himself and says he's a Democrat. Basically, his role was to come out after Trump's fantastic address to America last night to put on some antic with the theme "Howdy! Wez da...
  17. ShivaFan

    UFO Sightings Hit All Time High

    New data gathering indicates that UFO sightings are again on the rise, "worldwide sightings are an all time high". Of course one reason could be that gathering a plethora of sighting types is much easier today thanks to data sharing and technology than in, oh, the 1960s or the days of Project...
  18. ShivaFan

    U.S. Religious Tolerance on the Rise

    Actually, America has always been very tolerant of religions, the Founding Fathers had many involved in off "mainstream" religious "societies" (even secret cults - and not "secret" because of fear of reprisal, but "secret" because it helped with the "sales job" and made them even more attractive...
  19. ShivaFan

    Is Cobalt the New Gold?

    Well, the thing about cobalt is, while no one can corner the market - though you find it in the DRC, parts of China, Canada, US too - the demand is rising but the speed of getting it can't keep up. Because it is becoming the "modern man's gold" in one way, there are startup mining companies and...
  20. ShivaFan

    Can Hindus be atheist?

    Generally, if one definition of atheism is that there is no one "controlling power with a personality" viz "God", yes you can be an atheist and a Hindu. I fall into the "Village Hindu" category, that is I believe in many powers that have Names and Personality, that is Devatas, Devi, Gods and...
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