yes spirit of christmas is a subjective thing, but that blogger always writes like a 'civilized' tourist in native drag for a photo op, observing and commenting on 'barbarian' sri lankan customs. that is why he has a long record of getting all things sri lankan wrong; from fight against terrorists down to christmas in sl. that is why he thinks there is a competitive election going on when everyone who is connected to the soil knows that it was a walkover from the start and after the irresponsible lies/gaffes of fonseka a boring old trashing. but i will save those thoughts for another post.
this is about christmas.
as regular readers of this blog know i was brought up as a roman catholic. i call myself an atheist simply bc i am unable to believe in god, rather than bc i have any antipathy towards the church or any love or respect for irrational inconsistent confusions of fellow atheists. people i live with, friends with, or in love with, have always been catholics for the most part.
from my point of view this one of the best christmas seasons i have lived through. iow indi padashow is nuts.
parties, carols, shopping, baking, decorating, cards, school holidays for kids (of my partner), wrapping presents, and thousands of other things are already past or on going. there will be mass, opening of presents, visiting and receiving relatives, cake, more parties, eating and drinking, games, to come. all round good cheer.
btw we do our little bit to spread it to everyone.
suburbs i live around are choked full of ppl and lighted up. driving is impossible.
as always this is the best season for businesses (even in mostly buddhist sri lanka). btw as i have written before, i welcome unabashed consumption and commercialism; "world will be boring and poor (literally) if not for the rampant consumerism of this season".
happy holidays, christmas, and a new year to every one!
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christmas movie tweets
as followers of my twitter know i have been watching christmas movies (alone, with others, or with kids,) in past week or so. i haven't finished them yet. but wanted to gather the tweets into one place. i may update it with later tweets.
term 'christmas movies' used loosely. i don't intend to define it.
"the shop around the corner"(1940). charming, funny & touching, but well grounded not cloyingly sentimental 4.5/5term 'christmas movies' used loosely. i don't intend to define it.
btw "you've got mail" (1998) is a remake of "the shop around the corner". while not terrible,it is imo very much inferior. 3/5
'miracle on 34th street' 1947 original in b&w. classic! what more can i say? 4.5/5
'miracle on 34th street' 94 remake on tv. should really show much better 1947 original with edmund gwenn, maureen o'hara & natalie wood.
watched "it's a wonderful life" for nth time . 4.5/5 no need to say more.
talking about "it's a wonderful life" > a 1991 article by jimmy stewart about the film & frank capra http://tinyurl.com/ylem9vg
watched "bishop's wife" for the 1st time. enjoyed it very much. 4/5.
'a christmas carol'-1938 version-short,pointed & nicely put together.1984 ver-fleshed out & real. both 4/5
'christmas in connecticut' starring barbara stanwyck et al. forgotten how hilarious it is. 'moonlight snow and a cow' 4/5
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19 comments:
Adoh Shitting nuts, so even you are wishing people a happy christmas, eh? Wow, i am pleasantly surprised. What did Santa give you last night? A brain ? And sanity?
Ha HA ha HA ha HA.
I am touched and blessed by Suranga nuts' wishes. What a blessing to have this season.
er... santa comes tonight.
lol
and i always post a greeting.
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btw i don't know whether that particular comment was by sanjana hattotuwa, indi padashow, or morq,or who he is referring to ( they were always strangely confused and intentionally confusing about to my identity details of which they were provided with )
however it is just in their style. one of the three certainly. they never have the courage to link their comments to their own blogs but post in each other's name, or in other ppl's
Merry Christmas!
WISH YOU HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
large number of comments identical or similar to first comment above were posted in last few minutes starting from 10.13. under various name including my real name
with probable intention of destroying this thread , if it needs any more destroying
as such i deleted them, since they are almost identical to above and each other i feel there is no need to repost them again
i will repost any comment that is different
in addition to above they also write
"Even when you wish happy christmas that sanjana chap is trolling your already miserable blog, ...? "
clearly someone is trolling
i suspect sanjana hattotuwa, indi padashow, or morq based on past experience and their documented behavior in other blogs .
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everyone can read the padashow blog which is run by indi
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as for sanjana hattotuwa, he actively encouraged this behavior in his now defunct moju blog when i disclosed the bias and plagiarisms by prominent peaceniks connected with ngo cpa
posts in this regard can be found at here,here, and here as well in other places .
3/
everyone who was blogging had experience with morq in 2005/2006. this blog too contain his comments, easily found by searching
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no comments (including direct attacks on me) will be deleted here.
as explained in another place only comments that will be deleted are those -
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that violate privacy rights ( the non violating text will be re-posted with full explanation ) .
b/ spam ( only extreme examples at that )
c/ repeated reposting of identical comments one after another as here ( at least one comment will not be deleted )
if anyone thinks i have deleted any comment that do not fall with in the above criteria, by all means post them in any other place and draw ppl's attention to them
i too will link to them, and/or post them here myself thereby disproving any claim of censorship .
i may institute comment moderation temporarily to prevent any repetition of reposting large number of comments one after another
Happy Christmas
Hi, Compliments of the Season, Did you see Indi.ca recently ? It is so funny. He now has a brief Bio which can be summrised in one sentence "I have a Canadian passport" So is kottu his personal property ? Certainly looks like it now cause when you cick on kottu on his blog it takes you to his bio. Totally hilarious
SN, can you give us an update on the current situation in SL?
The peace monkey camp is going into over drive. Heard Mangala is planing to rob this election (akin to Mugabe) with a false delcaration, then do a Iran here. Peace monkeys will provide, food, t-shirts, cash rewards and booze for free to swell the numbers.
@ Anon,
Is www.kottu.org a personal property of www.indi.ca? YES, pretty much like www.linersia.net is a personal property of his father Prof.Rohan Samarajiva who employs his wife and son directly and indirectly. I feel sorry for the donors who may give money to them. All of that goes into the pockets of Samarajiva and his family. No wonder son is like this because father is a corrupt official who supported terrorists (LTTE) to transport telecom equipments. What a family. What a shame.
Isn't it a bit strange when some one who claims to be an atheist goes onto claim that atheists are irrational, inconsistent and confused?
Your love and respect is towards the church. It is very evident from your international and local political allegiances, your family background and your educational background.
This christmas thing is a fully alien thing to us many Sri Lankans but all the same happy christmas. Have a super season with your family.
to all:
thanks to all who offered seasonal greetings to me here .
same to you all!
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anon @12/28/2009 8:15 am:
kottu is his indi.padashow's personal property .
and his limitations are evident whereever he gets personal.
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anon @ 12/28/2009 5:49 pm:
i don't think anybody is going to succeed in robbing the election.
but ppl you mention might be dreaming . and will have to wake up day after .
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indi samarajiva's friend @12/29/2009 7:54 pm:
thanks for the info.
why not have your own blog to expose these kinds of things
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liberal lanka :
"Isn't it a bit strange when some one who claims to be an atheist goes onto claim that atheists are irrational, inconsistent and confused?"
no:-)
is there rules that atheists must 'religiously' follow when dealing with other atheists ? why ? lol
"your international and local political allegiances, your family background and your educational background."
about none of which you have any idea . so don't pretend to be knowledgeable .
"This christmas thing is a fully alien thing to us many Sri Lankans "
'alien'? really ?
then why is it, that it has such a marked effect on the economy and culture ( from biggest sales to copying of certain aspect of christmas to to buddhist celebrations ?
btw you have unanswered questions in other threads of this blog
found this interesting comment by Indi padashow. Thought you might like it. Have a look
http://seesawupandown.blogspot.com/2009/12/oh-doctor-im-in-trouble.html
I knew it. You are a catholic. Your inter-nationalistic, capitalistic views and culture explains it. Every catholic is not like that but very few are, they have no idea or respect about the local culture or religion. Power of brainwashing i guess.
We the true nationalists won us our freedom back. We are going to win this election and we are going to consolidate that win further and take our country back into glorious times. You are most welcome to support us, but you should respect our true values and culture.
anon 12/29/2009 10:08 pm:
i have doubts about that comments authenticity.
but let ppl concerned deal with it.
we don't need doubtful comments to understand what indi.padshow is.
we know from his own blogs.
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anon 12/29/2009 10:26 pm:
are you sure you forget to sign on as 'liberal lanka' ? bc some of the things you say, your ignorance about me and this blog, and your ip details, all have remarkable similarity to his . lol
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"I knew it. You are a catholic. Your inter-nationalistic, capitalistic... "
obviously you have not read this much
i have always been open about my being bought up as a catholic . and i am a libertarian. alway been one.
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"they have no idea or respect about the local culture or religion....We the true nationalists won us our freedom back. "etc .
where were you fighting ? under some bed ? lol
seriously, since you make such assertions, you should be able to point with links to your doings.
and if you are really proud of yourself and unafraid why be an blogless anon ?
lol
i don't claim to have fought.
but positions i embraced based on libertarian principles ( against terrorists and ngo peaceniks, and for defeating terrorists with violence of needs be, way before any military operations ) everyone can see by reading this blog.
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"We are going to win this election and we are going to consolidate that win further and take our country back into glorious times."
i am not sure about blogless past-less anons winning elections . lol
as have already said in previous posts, mahinda rajapakse is going to win the election by big margin.
you are welcome to express support for him and your voting intentions.
why not start a blog and do that. then you will be able to have some credibility by pointing to your past positions.
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"you should respect our true values and culture."
since you don't have a verifiable past ( in a blog or elsewhere ) to support your claim of having ( let alone defending and fighting for ) your "true values and culture." ( which you don't specify ) your statements are mere useless nothings
lol
Hi
can you pls specify the simalarities the above anon has with me. At least the ip.
I think he is the completely opposite of me. in fact he has things common with you. talking about values, culture, morals, etc. Things that irrational conservatives say.
Atheism is a belief not something you get born into like a religion. If atheists are irrational atheism should be irrational as well. you see so simple.
No, you are free to follow the church 'religiously'.
You need to travel more. What they have in TV is not the only SL my friend. In most parts of this country december 25th is just another day.
liberal lanka:
"my friend" !?
er... i am no friend of yours go somewhere else to find one .
lol@ the presumptuous idiot
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"can you pls specify the simalarities the above anon has with me ..."
why ? everyone can read his previous comment and anon comment at 12/29/2009 10:26 pm, and judge whether they are by the same person.
instead of being 'opposite' of liberal lanka, as i said before, they both engage in assertions about me even though both are ignorant about this blog's past positions and myself . both also share similar views on christians being 'alien'. etc.
as for ip details, i don't give them out .
liberal lanka is free to say he is not that anon. let readers judge
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"talking about values, culture, morals, etc. Things that irrational conservatives say."
so only irrational conservatives do that ? bc if others do that , he has no point. lol
i rest my case as to who is irrational and stupid .
and this fool has the presumption to call me 'my friend' !
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i asked why he finds it 'strange' that i, an atheist, call other atheists 'irrational, inconsistent and confused',
and further asked if there are rules that atheists must 'religiously' follow when dealing with other atheists ?
he has no answer to that , but makes several irrational contradictory statements. see below
(the way the fool contradicts himself and falls in to easily avoidable illogical statements is really too funny. he is too stupid even to realize he is doing it.)
"Atheism is a belief not something you get born into like a religion."
'belief in atheism '? lol
'born into ... a religion'? lol
"If atheists are irrational atheism should be irrational as well" lol
again everyone can see who is irrational and stupid
"No, you are free to follow the church 'religiously'."
well i don't .
he is yet to quote me doing that .
or being conservative , or betraying libertarian principles, etc, as he claimed in other threads.
when asked to do that, he runs like a dirty bitch from a raised stick
and this bitch has the presumption to call me 'my friend' ! lol
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"You need to travel more. What they have in TV is not the only SL .... In most parts of this country december 25th is just another day."
lol
as i said "why is it, that [christmas] has such a marked effect on the economy and culture ( from biggest sales to copying of certain aspect of christmas to to buddhist celebrations ?"
btw who said anything about tv ? it is clear who needs to travel in and get to know sl more. (and leave off tv)
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will the liberal lanka come back to show again what a fool he is ?
let's see :-)
@SN
I don't take political disagreements into personal hate.
Even though it is evident you hate me commenting here(10 lines for every one line from me) i have to defend myself here. Most are low grade personal attacks. No wonder I am the only one left who use a profile to comment in this blog.
It is famous that you lie when your political stances are exposed but i never thought you would drop to this level. If you have the IPs pls show and I can't understand this time thing.
Where did I say christians are aliens you liar? I said christmas is an alien thing to me bc I am not familiar with your customs and infact it is, whether you like or not. Is it a crime to not to be familiar with your customs?
you poor soul who thinks Christmas is celebrated all around the country. Step out from your elite neighborhoods to see the country.
Why did you take this you been a fake libertarian argument even when I didn't mention that. Maybe you know that you are trying to be seen as a libertarian and an atheist to look educated when in reality you are an god fearing church going conservative whose thinking are based on morals and values? why do you answer that when I didn't even ask it?
I am sorry I was idiotic enough to come to wish you.
ref liberal lanka comment :
what do you know! the dog is back for more . lol
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"I don't take political disagreements into personal hate."
he just lies
liberal lanka's blog commenting moo goes like this-
1/ he makes completely false statements about me on tangent topic, instead of making a rational comment about the post
2/ when asked to back up his statements with any evidence. he initially post several more comments without the requested evidence, but repeating the lies .
3/ finally he runs away like a dirty dog
this has happened time and again here
i do hate liars and do treat them as they deserves . exposing them without any civility .
that is how i treat liberal lanka
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"Most are low grade personal attacks. "
lol
truth hurts liars
he still can't quote me saying anything untrue. so finds fault with me for calling him what he deserves, after giving reasons why i call him that.
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cont >
"No wonder I am the only one left who use a profile to comment in this blog"
lol
ppl can read the threads in this blog and see for themselves .
apart from that, does he think popularity can be measured by no. of comments ?
does he think popularity is a measure of anything principled ?
should looking popularity triumph other aims ?
what about integrity ?
in this blog i put forth my views and defend them using facts and reason (as well as fully justified attacks when required )
popularity and steady increase in visitors is a by product .
btw there were others who said similar things about my isolation in sl blogosphere.
their blogs, name and views are now dust, i am still here with the same blog, name, and views.
i expect liberal lanka to go in their footsteps.
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"It is famous that you lie when your political stances are exposed"
if so 'famous', why can't he point or quote even one lie from me ?
or point out or quote where i have been other than a libertarian?
this in spite of repeated requests
and he thinks my calling him a dirty bitch etc. after that is a 'low grade personal attack' . lol
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"Where did I say christians are aliens you liar? ...."
he said "This christmas thing is a fully alien thing to us ... "
and as i pointed out instead of being a "fully alien thing" to sri lankans "[christmas] has such a marked effect on the economy and culture ( from biggest sales to copying of certain aspect of christmas to buddhist celebrations"
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"you poor soul who thinks Christmas is celebrated all around the country. Step out from your elite neighborhoods to see the country."
as always the fool has a reading disability.
he thinks i said "Christmas is celebrated all around the country" but as everyoen can see he is unable to quote me .
what i said was "[christmas] has such a marked effect on the economy and culture ( from biggest sales to copying of certain aspect of christmas to to buddhist celebrations"...
as everyone can see in these comments, when i say he said something i always quote him .
in contrast, he always fail to do that. why ? bc he is, 1/ foolish and irrational ,2/ he makes up things as all liars always do.
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"Maybe you know that you are trying to be seen as a libertarian and an atheist to look educated when in reality you are an god fearing church going conservative whose thinking are based on morals and values?"
as always he is unable to quote or point out even one instance of my being a "god fearing church going conservative". or my betraying libertarian principles . or my not being atheist.
does anybody need any more proof about this foolish lair's moo.
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"why do you answer that when I didn't even ask it?"
i do expose his moo in earlier threads, to point out him doing the same in this thread too.
why not ? does he think he can get away from his past even though he is acting in the same manner here too. lol
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"I am sorry I was idiotic enough to come to wish you."
everyone can read his first comment, and see for themselves whether he simply stuck to wishing me . lol
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