The year was 1986, & I was sitting at the Marina Beach with parents, near my house, to enjoy the sea breeze. This fake Christian Godman was speaking there. " Yesterday, Jesus Christ visited me. He asked me to build an Engineering College. Jesus told me, " I want my children to get the best education,& I chose you to build such a college. Ask ppl to donate in my ( Jesus's name)." My emotional mother was among the 1000s who took off all their jewellery, to offer to 'Jesus's' orders.
In his various meetings at Marina Beach, Dhinakaran wd say," Last night Jesus took me to heaven. He gave me a strong 3 Roses tea. He asked me to get donations."
Paul Dhinakaran, his son maintains 'Karunya University ' at Coimbatore till date. His 'Jesus Calls' ministry has collected 1000s of crores of rupees, promising to heal such ailments as blindness, deafness, stroke & loss of gait.
Exploiting the misery of the gullible suffering pts. Now, after collecting enough money, their family has settled abroad, just as Nirav Modi & Vijay Mallya. Recently the GOI recovered 120 cr Rs,& 4.5 kgs gold( all unaccounted ) from his Chennai premises in a raid.
Why only blame Nithyananda & Jaggi? There r fake Godmen in all religions, after ur money.
Thank you. The important part is zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. Best way to put money in someone’s pocket is to not take it out in the first place. Bottom half is only 3% of total tax revenue. But it’s very meaningful to that person. Zero it out.
Always choose clean pain over dirty pain.
Clean pain is the pain of telling the truth. The pain of leaving. The pain of disappointing someone. The pain of starting. The pain of being bad at something new. The pain of saving money instead of buying the thing. The pain of going to bed while the party continues. The pain of facing the blank page.
Dirty pain is the pain of avoiding clean pain. The pain of staying too long. The pain of lying. The pain of living above your means. The pain of being known inaccurately. The pain of watching your life shrink around a fear you refuse to face. The pain of managing the consequences of cowardice.
Clean pain is often sharp and brief, dirty pain is dull and chronic.
Self-respect is paying the clean cost early.
Key to winning:
Choose to be positive and grateful. Then, just keep at it. Time is the great compounder and will do the rest.
So many people just don’t have the discipline to stay positive and grateful. Then time compounds the bitterness instead.
Thank you everyone for your kind words. It was an honor to sing The National Anthem. I wrote the arrangement in a very specific way to honor Whitney Houston- I hope that was heard. Thank you to the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, the Sainted Choir, the Color of Noize Orchestra, Steve Hackman, and Kenny G for joining me on stage. And thank you Adam Blackstone for writing such a beautiful choir part. I love music so much.
Punxsutawney Phil's weather predictions have been right 35% of the time since 2006.
@ElonMusk's predictions about Tesla being on the verge of solving autonomous driving have been right 0% of the time.
Every day is groundhog day when it comes to Elon's broken FSD promises.
Given these plummeting ratings, President Trump really needs to fire his immigration team.
The entire Trump 2.0 agenda is going up in flames because of @ICEgov and @DHSgov violence and incompetence.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
This is absolutely shameful. Agents of a federal agency unnecessarily escalating, and then executing a defenseless citizen whose offense appears to be using his cell phone camera. Every person regardless of political affiliation should be denouncing this.
Madam Secretary Hillary Clinton,
If you are convinced that torture is taking place at CECOT, El Salvador is ready to cooperate fully.
We are willing to release our entire prison population (including all gang leaders and all those described as “political prisoners”) to any country willing to receive them.
The only condition is straightforward: it must be everyone.
This would also greatly assist journalists and your favorite NGOs, who would then have thousands of former inmates available for interviews, making it far easier to find additional voices critical of the Salvadoran government (or willing to confirm whatever conclusions are already expected).
Surely, if these testimonies reflect a systemic reality, a much larger pool of sources should only reinforce the claim, and many governments should be eager to offer protection.
Until then, we will continue prioritizing the human rights of the millions of Salvadorans who today live free from gang rule.
Respectfully,
Nayib Bukele
google's genius:
by not selling TPUs, google allows Nvidia to maintain high GPU pricing,
which in turn props up market price of inference.
google then captures that inference price premium by running TPUs for inference on GCP.
$goog