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I have always kind of wondered as to why is it that when Good people die early, in rather painful ways aswell, why is it that God doesn’t interfere?
Yesterday, I read about the infamous Junko Furata case after having avoided it for the longest time because I fall weak to these things (same reason I didn’t watch the Kashmir files), and let me tell you something, it was a big mistake, like, a HUGE one.
I lost it completely. At first, I thought that even if her wrongdoers didn’t get their due, they will get it in the the world that comes after this one. But then, I thought, why does it have to come to justice? Why doesn’t god save innocent people to begin with?
A person’s mind is there biggest enemy at times. I spiralled bad. I overthought for so long I got headache. I know god exists: my own experiences account for that, so why does he let people suffer? I looked for answers everywhere, bothered my parents quite a bit, and they were beyond annoyed because I spiral thinking of things that no human being (who isn’t already on a higher spiritual ground, anyway) can answer, it only leads to headaches and anxiety. At first they told me its Karma, but ofcourse my mind was not ready to accept that there’s any karma out there bad enough to warrant that. They were worried for me, because my overthinking had actually landed me in hospital once, so I don’t blame them for when they got angry at me this time.
My father gave me the example of Abhimanyu: how he was not only innocent, but Krishna’s own nephew aswell. He could’ve saved him, but Abhimanyu died a painful death still, in front of his father’s eyes. That this was Vidhi ka Vidhan, and that it was meant for him.
I had been thinking about this issue since yesterday (albiet I hid that I was still thinking about it today) and felt demotivated all day, until the Abhimanyu example came to me again. This time, I thought about it hard, like really considered it, and suddenly, a lot of things opened up to me: Did Krishna not save Draupadi when she called for him? Not save Lakshman by stopping the sun from rising? Not save Prahlad from Holika? Did Mahadeva not save the rishi who composed Mahamrityunjaya mantra? Was this not Vidhi ka Vidhan? Why did Vidhata save them?
I was troubled and needed answers, so I searched Abhimanyu up. And I found something unexpected. Abhimanyu is actually the son of Soma, who needed to go to Earth, but since Soma couldn’t allow him to be away from himself for so long, he had the gods promise that Abhimanyu will be returned after 16 years.
Suddenly, I felt a lot less troubled. I remembered that all of Bhishma’s brothers before him, and Krishna’s except for Balram died aswell, for the same reason, and that made me think, what if all the people we lose along the way, all those whose tragedy becomes inspiration for us to stop future events, what if they are just heavenly souls sent on earth to guide us and facilitate justice?
Abhimanyu, despite the fact that he was meant to die, was still avenged and got justice, so the fact that god gives us justice nevertheless is a given, isn’t it?
All of this, it made me realise something: when tragedy strikes, we take the name of our believed god, and everything gets better eventually. We thank him and feel assured that he’s always their for us, even through our worst. He has always saved us, and he forever will. This lord has defied vidhi ka vidhan for all those who called, and he will always do that. But when someone falls to the monsters in our everyday world, we shouldn’t feel like God did this, because it was the doing of these animals on earth that walk among us.
Why it happened to those people? Its something we don’t understand, was it Karma of past lives? Were they just wayward souls who were sent here for the purpose of bringing such people to justice? I don’t know, and I won’t ever know. This is one of those questions that people can’t answer, unless they are someone like a guru who has reached beyond human intelligence. Dwelling on this will just make you lose your sanity one day, so better not do that to yourself. We don’t know why these things happen, but we do know that one day, in some world, justice will happen, and the victim will see it happen in front of their own eyes.
I’m just leaving this out here for people to read because I don’t want anyone going through the same kind of mental hell that I did in the past couple of days. I hope that those who suffer from the same mental prison read this and can reassure themselves.
That being said, I also hope that the angel that was Junko Furata gets to see her criminals face Karma one day, because I know that the court that comes after this life shows no mercy🙏🏼
It was a tiring day today, and I was happy as well as bashing some people for making most of my week feel like hell. When I read one of your first sentences on Junko Furata, I took a deep breath and remembered everyone who experienced a similar fate as her. Everyone whom we fight for 2-3 days on social media, and raise our voices against the disgusting oppression they faced.
And your dilemma is not something unusual. It's infact quite widespread. But many of us won't dig further into knowing the answers because we're too scared. Too scared to face the reality.
But inspite of being under such circumstances, you fought for clues, for hints. You dug deeper. And that's a metaphor of every fighter who ever, for even a split second, tried to find an answer in this enigmatic world.
People like you, them, and bygones inspire us. To know how some answers do exist, they're just out of our reach.
People say oppression is not a competition. It's true. But thinking about all these bygones, just makes me fill so guilty, so remorseful. I think I don't owe them anything, but maybe I do.
When tragedy strikes, we take the name of our believed god, and everything gets better eventually. We thank him and feel assured that he's always their for us, even through our worst. He has always saved us, and he forever will. This lord has defied vidhi ka vidhan for all those who called, and he will always do that. But when someone falls to the monsters in our everyday world, we shouldn't feel like God did this, because it was the doing of these animals on earth that walk among us.
This brought tears to my eyes. Not the good or bad ones, but the ones that sprung me to reality,
With the belief that nature will restore the balance, and the justice will be served.
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it's almost 1 am and i cant sleep :(
#i watched kashmir files yesterday#it was very disturbing#kinda wish i hadnt watched it tbh#my mouth is set in a seemingly permanent frown and i Cannot stop thinking about that movie#im listening to folklore rn to help me fall asleep#not really working#posting this on tumblr cause im lonely as fuck#rant over i guess
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Shat I watched Kashmir files yesterday.
It's so dark, violent and heartbreaking 😢
oh god :( my parents watched it on 19th too and my mom was actually disturbed
i wanted to watch it in theaters so bad but i'll just have to watch it online now
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Morning, March 24 , 2022.
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Last week a day before Holi, I had book tickets for #TheKashmirFiles film on #bookmyshow. The day before yesterday I went to see the film. It was a houseful show. Most of the upcoming shows were fully booked and tickets were not available. I jostled through the crowd to reach to the cinema gate and show my booking to the gatekeepers. I took my seat in the hall and waited for the film to start. It’s been years I have not watched movies in theatres. Last 2 years because of the Covid-19 and before that because of not having big compulsion to watch to a film since Bahubali happened.
The Kashmir Files is the talk of the town now. Since March 11 when it was released, the discussion has been growing. The tv and social media are abuzz with the debate on the film. What did actually happen with the Kashmiri Hindus 32 years ago? Why it was not an act of political terrorism? Why did #jihad happen? Why threats were issued from the loudspeakers atop the mosques to the Kashmiri Hindus to leave Kashmir without their women? The #jihad slogan went like this, ‘ Convert, leave or die’. The terrorists were not the people from across the border. They were common people from the neighbourhood. The announcements were made from the mosque loudspeakers, ‘ Leave Kashmir without your women.’ The slogan was common, ‘We want azaadi , without the Hindus but with their women.’
The film has only one takeaway. They will tolerate you as long as you are 70% or more. If you become less than 70%, they will terrorise you, defile your places of worship; kidnap , rape and kill your women. Their teenage boys will steal , snatch and stab you in the dark alleys. Once you are less than 50%, you will be terrorised day and night, so much so that you will leave your property behind and move away to safe places in others states . But how long will you do that? You have been running away from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh. You had to run away from Kashmir. In the next 10-15 years you will run away from Kerala and Bengal. Then from the north-east. In the next 50 years, you will have no place left to run to. Then you will find it better to convert rather than getting killed. The 10% of you who are rich will settle along with their families in Europe and Americas. The 20% would be killed in genocides . The rest will convert. They will have no choice.
Have you seen the Hollywood zombie movies ? The zombies keep killing you till the whole town becomes zombies. Then these zombies move from one town to another town. Town after town becomes zombie-lands. Once the whole world is a zombie-land , the zombies start eating one another. Finally the world is free from zombies and humans too.
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Why you shouldn't watch #Kashmir Files
Why you shouldn’t watch #Kashmir Files
Kashmir Files stumped me yesterday. I started watching the film thinking it to be another torture porn, another take on a gruesome genocide, sitting half-interested with the remote in my hands to change it whenever I am done with the violence. But I couldn’t. Instead, I stopped multi-tasking with the phone in my hands and sat up to watch it with interest. Yes, violence was there. Gruesome…
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‘Everything Has Been Lost. Except Our Resolve to Fight Back’: Shah Faesal on Kashmir The Wire
Decades of Insular Pakistani Leadership is to Blame For The World’s Failure to Care About Kashmir Eurasia Future
Asia is the right place for a US ‘Green New Deal’ Nikkei Asian Review
The Koreas
Nuclear Weapons and Their Pride of Place in North Korea Wilson Center
Post scandal lays bare mythology of corporate Japan FT
China
China Summons Hong Kong Officials to Shenzhen to Discuss Unrest Bloomberg
Helmets, goggles sent from Taiwan to HK protesters Asia Times
Defend your home against radical protesters, Beijing urges Hongkongers amid ongoing extradition bill unrest South China Morning Post
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1st China-Kyrgyzstan joint counter-terrorism exercise Xinhua
Multiply this by tens of millions:
To better care for her family, Chen Chunlian moved back to her hometown in Shaanxi province and opened a pedicure shop from her apartment.
Learn more: https://t.co/qCfSLDfZc0 pic.twitter.com/AywVjYHbXz
— Sixth Tone (@SixthTone) August 7, 2019
Protest is not enough to topple a dictator: the army must also turn Aeon
Trump Transition
China just showed why Trump can’t win with tariffs The Week
The Push to Expand Gun Background Checks: What You Need to Know New York Magazine
Justice Department Backs Trump’s Suit Over Accountant Records Bloomberg
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico Supreme Court to decide fate of new governor CBS
Democrats in Disarray
Elitists Roll Out “Stop Rebelling And Support Biden, You Insolent Little Sh*ts” Campaign Medium. While at the same time in a moral panic about white supremacy.
Democrats still at square one Stuart Rothenberg, Roll Call
L’Affaire Joffrey Epstein
Messages left for Jeffrey Epstein ‘suggested his friend might be procuring two 8-year-old girls for the pedophile to sexually abuse’ state court docs filed by victims’ lawyer Daily Mail. Again, the focus on the awfulness of the individual at the center of the network, but nothing on the network. Odd.
Florida governor orders state criminal probe into Jeffrey Epstein case McClatchy
Health Care
Why Won’t Democrats Blame Hospitals? The Atlantic
Vital Signs: Pharmacy-Based Naloxone Dispensing — United States, 2012–2018 CDC
Our Famously Free Press
Indicators of news media trust Knight Foundation
Times public editor: The readers versus the masthead CJR
Black Injustice Tipping Point
Stopped, Ticketed, Fined: The Pitfalls of Driving While Black in Ferguson NYT (UserFriendly).
Those Feral Hogs
What about the 30-50 feral hogs? Man’s defense of assault weapons goes viral Guardian
Fair use:
30-50 private equity managers, rolling around in a pile of cash they took from an unsuspecting public while firing the retail workers who are struggling to make ends meet as it is. That’s the tweet.
— Pennsylvania Treasury (@PATreasury) August 6, 2019
Imperial Collapse Watch
America’s Other Original Sin The American Conservative
Millennials are killing these 7 military traditions DuffelBlog
Class Warfare
Student Debt and Racial Wealth Inequality (PDF) Marshall Steinbaum. As it happens, a universal benefit that raises everybody to a baseline disportionately benefits those farthest beneath the baseline. Who would have thought?
Revealed: Amazon touts high wages while ignoring issues in its warehouses Guardian
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Class interests:
Randa Ragland got a letter: "Your eyesore is affecting the resale value of OUR homes."
"So many things" had happened, Ragland says. She posted on Facebook, asking people to "try being kind."
She never could have imagined the kindness that came next. https://t.co/gXKCwDw4sX
— CNN (@CNN) August 7, 2019
Nuisance Ordinances: The New Frontier In Social Control Current Affairs
Masked gunmen reportedly set RVs on fire in West Oakland Oakland Reporter
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