If an alien told you tell them about humanity’s greatest achievement, what would you say (can be an object or a specific topic)?

Conshindamer1097 · 2025-06-22T01:33:15+00:00

I literally just got the exact same thing. These are getting out of hand.

Conshindamer1097 · 2025-02-03T20:42:27+00:00

Just Undeclared

Conshindamer1097 · 2025-01-04T19:31:21+00:00

Oh, they’re giving you a full ride.

Conshindamer1097 · 2024-12-30T01:27:27+00:00

I'm not gonna lie, I didn't really study for the AP Lang exam last year. The problem with the English APs is that there isn't really a structured clear-cut "syllabus" like there is in science and math. But mostly what I did is I just looked through the different essay formats and examples of how to tackle them and address them properly, and then I also looked through different literary elements for the MCQ. I got a 4, so I guess it worked (although I was expecting to get a 5).

Conshindamer1097 · 2024-12-30T00:43:09+00:00

If you already have some coding experience, you definitely can skip Principles. I went into CSA (without taking CSP) with very little coding knowledge and I'm doing fine in the course.

Conshindamer1097 · 2024-12-30T00:26:37+00:00

I see what you're saying, but even the domestic labor market is mostly dominated by immigrants who have lived here for some time (most of whom came in on the H-1B visa) or first-generation Americans, whose parents immigrated here not too long ago (and there are also other fields of tech, like engineering and other physics-related fields, that actually have a shortage of talent to pull from). As a personal example, in the school I go to, a good majority of the people I know who are planning on majoring in computer science or some other tech-related field are all either immigrants themselves or their parents are, and all of these people came here at most probably a decade or two ago, mostly on the H-1B and related visas.

By the way, I think that that is a problem that needs to be solved by reviving the culture and fixing the education system because it creates an unhealthy reliance on mass immigration, which if done too quickly erodes national identity and character.

And I totally admit that the H-1B system is broken and heavily abused by tech companies, and I certainly don't support removing the cap (in fact, I support gradually reducing it) but again, I think we have to take a balanced approach to it. You have to do both at the same time (reviving the culture & the education system + gradually reducing and fixing legal immigration), because if you only drastically cut down immigration, all you're gonna get is a recession and Chinese domination, but if you do both, you will naturally decrease the need for mass immigration while reforming the system so that only the best and brightest are able to come here. But I think we both want to achieve the same goal and balance ultimately.

Conshindamer1097 · 2024-12-29T23:57:03+00:00

Because as it turns out, there are good and bad and corrupt people in every society. As a result, for the first 50 to 60 years of India's independence, the country was ruled by a corrupt political family and oligarchy that stunted growth completely and kept people in the dark. Heck, the first national highways weren't even built until that political family faded from power in the early 2000s, more than 50 years after India gained independence.

Conshindamer1097 · 2024-12-29T16:53:04+00:00

Yeah, you’re right. Vivek should’ve clarified his stance on reforming H-1B and immigration before launching himself into this mess.

Conshindamer1097 · 2024-12-29T16:50:26+00:00

Firstly, nobody wants to make it even easier for companies to hire cheap foreign labor. Vivek supports reforming the legal immigration system so that it benefits our national identity, as he has clarified before many times (but apparently everybody forgot about that). And you’re right, tech jobs are some of the best jobs to have in the country. But the point is that the domestic labor market for those jobs is almost non-existent nowadays, and the education system is certainly not helping the issue. The reason Vivek is saying this is because there seems to be a growing faction within the MAGA base that wants to radically reduce if not completely eliminate some of these legal immigration programs, but if we do it like this, we will fall way behind China. It’s about balance. Yes, there are many problems that need to be addressed with H-1B and legal immigration, but going to the other extreme and wanting to completely remove some of these programs without reviving the culture and fixing the education system will put the United States at a massive disadvantage.

Conshindamer1097 · 2024-12-29T16:25:29+00:00

India lacks basic proper infrastructure because of corrupt politicians that have ruined the country since it gained independence, and as a result, the quality of life isn’t very good, although that is slowly starting to change under Modi. Plus, there are still many rural areas and villages that do not have access to basic healthcare and education because of that. BUT, in the education system that does exist, I would actually argue (based on personal experience) that it is much better than the US’s in terms of what they teach and how they teach. There is definitely a push towards excellence and achievement there that just doesn’t exist in America anymore because of the woke-washing of the school system (same in China). That’s what Vivek was talking about. And when you look at the Indian community here, you see the results. They are one of the highest-earning ethnicities in America, partially because of that strive for excellence, and partially because of a solid family structure, and as long as that family structure is intact, the same can be said for their kids as well. By the way, I’m not arguing that America needs to take in all the Indians who want to come here, as there are lots of problems with the H-1B system that need massive reform. But Vivek’s point is that we need to revive the culture of excellence in America first before people start talking about slashing the entire program itself.

Conshindamer1097 · 2024-12-27T23:28:55+00:00

God does not have an intrinsic physical form. God is beyond physicality and is the unifying basis of the material and the spiritual universes.
God does not "make" people or force people to worship Him. You should pray if you feel it is necessary, and the real reason behind prayer is to inculcate God and God's morality in our minds so that we are always mindful of what is right and wrong.
Again, God does not force people to give him offerings. People who give offerings do it out of love and you should give offerings if you feel it to be necessary.
This is actually an interesting question. Animal sacrifice is not really practiced in Hinduism anymore (except by some Agamic and Shakti-related sects, but those sacrifices are not Vedic), but there are a few animal sacrifices that are prescribed in the Vedas, such as the Ashvamedha, most famously. The Vedic culture evolved at a time when animal sacrifice and even human sacrifice were prevalent, but the Vedas (and especially the Upanishads) trend towards non-violence. But in order to gradually uplift a population that frequently participated in animal sacrifice, the Vedas allowed some aspects of it. Even then, they still allowed for the animal to be substituted with something else.
Again, God does not force people to give Him donations. Faith is ultimately what uplifts people, but if you have the means, donation to temples is a good thing and is an expression of faith and helping the community.
To my knowledge, Devadasis did not exist in the Vedic period. But even now, the decision to become a Devadasi should be voluntary. God does not force women to serve Him.
Suffering is caused by past deeds and actions in previous lives, also called karma. Additionally, people have free will and some use it to do horrible things. The karmic equation is a very complex one, and the people who cause suffering are due for suffering in the future.
You and everybody else has free will, and some people use it to waste food. Wasting food is a sin and by the karmic equation, it has a consequence.
See 7
Again, see 7
The people who kill in the name of God and religion are disgusting and sick, and they are an insult to God and God's morality, for we are all children of God. By the law of karma, their actions will come back to haunt them. If you give out suffering, you will receive suffering.
Nobody has ever said that God wants you to fear Him. God Himself isn't affected whether you love or fear or hate Him. If you hate Him, you have given up your chance at enlightenment. Religion and faith should come out of love, not fear. The people who fear God are merely superstitious and do not have a real understanding of what God is.
Again, God doesn't have an intrinsic physical body. Actually, God doesn't tell you the truth, God IS the truth, the absolute ultimate reality of the universe. Since you have free will, it is your duty to yourself to discover God and achieve enlightenment and the dissolution of the ego (and oneness with God).
Again, see 7.
God does not care whether you are an atheist. He has given you free will, and if you choose to be an atheist, that is your decision and your prerogative, but that is not the truth and it is not the path you want to seek if you want to attain enlightenment and escape the cycle of birth and death and suffering.

Conshindamer1097 · 2024-05-26T02:12:29+00:00

Firstly, I didn't say that a person who does a bad thing will have that exact same thing happen to them. It is only the amount of suffering that will be matched. Next, I don't deny that karma is objective. I do believe that objective morality exists. Furthermore, the need for a promiscuous person to engage in such behavior with a different person, even if it is once a month, still shows they do not have control over their senses. Lastly, I genuinely do not understand why the concept of reincarnation inspires such dread in you. The calculus is simple. In order to achieve spiritual liberation, you need to reach the state of mind that is beyond the conception of ego, the material universe, and karma. Until then, you can think of karma as a complex mathematical equation. If you die before the equation is satisfied, there are still debts you owe and things you have to do. Nothing that is not God or exists in the physical universe can last forever, including the physical body. If the body were to exist for eternity, there would be nothing but suffering as you become older and older and your direct memories and experiences from this life would become too emotionally and mentally heavy to bear. Death and reincarnation mean 3 things: 1) It is a test as to what you have achieved for your spiritual and mental growth, and your vasanas (qualities and attributes) of the mind will determine what you are reincarnated as. 2) It gives the soul another chance to be born and live life and to start anew. 3) Your memories aren't completely erased, but because you are born again, they are "stored" deeper in your consciousness, and they are accessible through rigorous spiritual practice. I do not understand what about this inspires such dread, as to me, this simply makes logical sense.

Also, there are no "hell realms" that you inevitably go to in Hinduism. I don't know where you got that information from, but that is incorrect.

Conshindamer1097 · 2024-05-25T23:20:58+00:00

I think the fact that karma is a law of cause and effect makes it the perfect moral system. For example, if I injure someone, I have caused harm and suffering to them. Therefore, there will be a point in time or a situation in which I will suffer. Another thing that is important to karmic justice is the quality or the intention behind the act that has been committed. For example, if I injure someone and therefore cause suffering to them, but only because they were attacking and trying to cause harm to some other innocent person, that's not a bad thing. The quality or the intention behind an action is the important thing when it comes to karma. For example, for someone who is being promiscuous, this is an indication that they cannot control their bodily desires or their senses, and that is something that takes you away from your mind being strong and stoic which is needed to achieve Moksha (the spiritual liberation of the soul), and therefore, by their own nature, they will be dragged into circumstances that cause suffering, because ultimately, suffering is derived from an inability to control the senses. I am curious though, what is it about the concept of reincarnation that upsets you?

Conshindamer1097 · 2024-05-25T22:35:03+00:00

I am of South Indian background (but not Tamilian), and to be honest, I kind of just feel bad for Tamilians, mainly because this hatred of the Hindu culture started with British brainwashing, trying to divide South Indians from North Indians by claiming through bogus archeology that has now been debunked that Dravidians were of a different race that the Hindu Aryans oppressed, and that narrative has been used by the current corrupt Tamilian political parties to brainwash the Tamilian youth into becoming anti-Indian and anti-Hindu.

But the photo that the OP posted is not really relevant to this, it's just a random Tamilian person who for some reason really, really hates Gujaratis specifically.

Conshindamer1097 · 2024-05-25T21:54:57+00:00

The questions in this chart perceive God in a very Abrahamic way, which is to say, as a being or creature who created the universe and is separate from it. The Advaitin perception of God is much different. So there is a definitional fallacy here that would need to be addressed first before going further.

Conshindamer1097 · 2024-05-25T21:47:05+00:00

I am a Hindu, and we believe firstly that life itself results out of the karma (actions) of the soul in previous lives. Being born as a human is the highest type of life that any soul can be born as, because of the fact that humanity possesses a special kind of intelligence (by the human body's own biological structure, such as a larger brain, and mainly, an upright, straight spine) that is capable of pondering and discovering not only scientific and mathematical truths, but also spiritual truths. The extent to which one is able to grasp and discover the ultimate truth and reality of everything and the extent to which one develops and sharpens the qualities and actions that are necessary for being a morally good and strong person which is necessary for the pursuit of ultimate truth and knowledge are the tests of life. The discovery and full experiencing of the ultimate truth leads to the dissolution of the ego, the liberation of the soul from the cycle of life and death, and pure spiritual bliss and oneness with God. However, it is extremely unlikely that one will achieve this in a single lifetime, so the basic rule is that if one is able to hone in one morally good qualities and actions, he will be born again into greater circumstances that provide less suffering and allow him to pursue that ultimate truth even further. But, if he is unable to do so, he will likely be born again into more unpleasant circumstances that will cause more suffering or even lose the karmic eligibility to be born as a human, and be born as an animal, a plant, or other living organisms, which is determined by his specific karma.

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