Most of the privileged elites in are affected by Westernization more so than they think.
For example, people take deep pride in learning Western languages as if it's an achievement despite we haven't mastered our own languages.
Tourist destinations popular amongst Westerners is also popular amongst the Westernized elites. For example, people want to visit places such as Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka all popular Western destinations.
Very few want to visit interesting places such as Mongolia or Central Asia because they don't seem to be popularized by the Western tourism market.
This is not to say all destinations, but in general many of them. Another thing I notice is people want to learn languages such as Thai or other languages popular amongst Westerners such as French, Japanese and others.
Most elites don't want to know their local languages and history. And this is despite the fact that many of us don't watch Hollywood movies or eat at fast food restaurants.
If one did, then he/she would acknowledge how Westernized he/she is. But the way many elites try to understand the world in their quest for global understanding leads them to Western type mentalities even without realizing it.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
What VenomFangX's agenda was in my judgement
I first came across VenomFangX in 2007 when I was in search for anti-Islam videos on YouTube.
A few days later I searched for videos that "prove" the existence of God or at least some videos that try to prove the existence of God using some logical, scientific explanations and amongst the top results came VenomFangX again.
This was when he caught my interest. Not long after many rebuttal videos were posted in response to his pseudoscience. Soon YouTube was filled with videos refuting and ridiculing him.
Even after watching more and more of his videos where he misquotes the Bible, such as the Earth being spherical when everyone else pointed out it clearly says circle, he simply ignored the rebuttals.
After several instances of such misquotes and dis-proven theories, I concluded that VenomFangX was not who he presented himself to be: a right wing Christian fundamentalist.
I guessed him to be somebody deliberately trying to defame Christians and at the same time incite hatred between Christians and Muslims.
After watching many of his videos, I managed to get a close observance on his appearance. Looking carefully through his appearance, I guessed he was Jewish. Now this may sound racist to some readers, but I'd like to clarify a few things.
Firstly, I have no issue with the Jews. It has been in my opinion that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an issue between the Jews and the Arabs and that Pakistan should stay out of it.
Secondly is the idea that judging somebody's ethnicity by their appearance is somehow "racist."
Living in a multi-cultural continent for almost ten years now, I have managed to distinguish various peoples races by their appearance. It involves no such hateful ideas.
I have been able to distinguish Jews of European descent from regular Europeans as much as I have been able to distinguish people from Northern European descent than those of Southern European descent.
Even another Pakistani Muslim friend of mine in a conversation told me there was simply no way of telling VenomFangX's ethnicity through his appearance and dismissed my theories.
But I confidently held on to this idea of who he is and what his true agenda on YouTube was.
I lost all interest in VenomFangX and his videos for almost two years. Then in March 2010, out of boredom I searched him on YouTube to uncover the whole scandal that led to the closure of his account.
I watched the videos that led to this and it turned out I was correct on his Jewish background the whole time.
As I viewed videos on the controversy, in some of the videos it was stated that his parents wanted to send him away from their household because of his right wing Christian beliefs.
I then came to the idea after learning of his activities on the Internet, he made up the whole story of his parents wanting to send him out of the house for his Christian beliefs, since I was already convinced he was faking his right wing Christian views.
There were other things in the videos on his scandal that raised question marks in my mind and brought out reasonable answers, but I'd rather not discuss them to avoid being accused of trying to breach the privacy of his family.
My theories on him posing as a Christian to defame Christians as a whole and to incite hatred against them into Muslims and vice versa was because I had come across Jews in my school who had a hatred for Christianity and Islam.
So what better way of hitting two birds with one stone than to do what VenomFangX did?
What's more is there are fundamentalist Jews in the West who promote pro-Jewish sects inside Christianity to suit their agenda.
It's very similar to how Arabs are funding Islamic institutes in non-Arab countries that promote Wahabbism or a sect in Sunni Islam that makes Arabs the superior race over non-Arabs.
This is also a tactic shared by the Iranian government which extends it's influence in the Muslim by supporting Shia fundamentalists that glorify the Iranian state.
But my whole point is to share my belief that VenomFangX was not what everyone else thought him to be.
Many of his haters believe that he kept returning to YouTube under a new account. I believe that it's one or more of his haters who are trying to impersonate as him and try to elevate his troubles.
I also want to point out to readers who may accuse me of privacy breaching that VenomFangX is now a famous individual on the Internet and is mentioned in various websites. His videos have all been reloaded onto YouTube and other blogs also discuss him and his controversy so there is no way my post can be a violation of his privacy.
Neither have I mentioned his full name, nor have I discussed in detail his personal life. All that was mentioned was his activity on the internet, which many people are already aware of, so there is no privacy violation on my part.
A few days later I searched for videos that "prove" the existence of God or at least some videos that try to prove the existence of God using some logical, scientific explanations and amongst the top results came VenomFangX again.
This was when he caught my interest. Not long after many rebuttal videos were posted in response to his pseudoscience. Soon YouTube was filled with videos refuting and ridiculing him.
Even after watching more and more of his videos where he misquotes the Bible, such as the Earth being spherical when everyone else pointed out it clearly says circle, he simply ignored the rebuttals.
After several instances of such misquotes and dis-proven theories, I concluded that VenomFangX was not who he presented himself to be: a right wing Christian fundamentalist.
I guessed him to be somebody deliberately trying to defame Christians and at the same time incite hatred between Christians and Muslims.
After watching many of his videos, I managed to get a close observance on his appearance. Looking carefully through his appearance, I guessed he was Jewish. Now this may sound racist to some readers, but I'd like to clarify a few things.
Firstly, I have no issue with the Jews. It has been in my opinion that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an issue between the Jews and the Arabs and that Pakistan should stay out of it.
Secondly is the idea that judging somebody's ethnicity by their appearance is somehow "racist."
Living in a multi-cultural continent for almost ten years now, I have managed to distinguish various peoples races by their appearance. It involves no such hateful ideas.
I have been able to distinguish Jews of European descent from regular Europeans as much as I have been able to distinguish people from Northern European descent than those of Southern European descent.
Even another Pakistani Muslim friend of mine in a conversation told me there was simply no way of telling VenomFangX's ethnicity through his appearance and dismissed my theories.
But I confidently held on to this idea of who he is and what his true agenda on YouTube was.
I lost all interest in VenomFangX and his videos for almost two years. Then in March 2010, out of boredom I searched him on YouTube to uncover the whole scandal that led to the closure of his account.
I watched the videos that led to this and it turned out I was correct on his Jewish background the whole time.
As I viewed videos on the controversy, in some of the videos it was stated that his parents wanted to send him away from their household because of his right wing Christian beliefs.
I then came to the idea after learning of his activities on the Internet, he made up the whole story of his parents wanting to send him out of the house for his Christian beliefs, since I was already convinced he was faking his right wing Christian views.
There were other things in the videos on his scandal that raised question marks in my mind and brought out reasonable answers, but I'd rather not discuss them to avoid being accused of trying to breach the privacy of his family.
My theories on him posing as a Christian to defame Christians as a whole and to incite hatred against them into Muslims and vice versa was because I had come across Jews in my school who had a hatred for Christianity and Islam.
So what better way of hitting two birds with one stone than to do what VenomFangX did?
What's more is there are fundamentalist Jews in the West who promote pro-Jewish sects inside Christianity to suit their agenda.
It's very similar to how Arabs are funding Islamic institutes in non-Arab countries that promote Wahabbism or a sect in Sunni Islam that makes Arabs the superior race over non-Arabs.
This is also a tactic shared by the Iranian government which extends it's influence in the Muslim by supporting Shia fundamentalists that glorify the Iranian state.
But my whole point is to share my belief that VenomFangX was not what everyone else thought him to be.
Many of his haters believe that he kept returning to YouTube under a new account. I believe that it's one or more of his haters who are trying to impersonate as him and try to elevate his troubles.
I also want to point out to readers who may accuse me of privacy breaching that VenomFangX is now a famous individual on the Internet and is mentioned in various websites. His videos have all been reloaded onto YouTube and other blogs also discuss him and his controversy so there is no way my post can be a violation of his privacy.
Neither have I mentioned his full name, nor have I discussed in detail his personal life. All that was mentioned was his activity on the internet, which many people are already aware of, so there is no privacy violation on my part.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Columbia house DVD club needs to be shut down.
Back in 2006 I took an offer by Columbia House DVD Club for buying nine DVDs for 49 cents each.
I was gullible and ordered them. Next thing I received a package of the fourteen DVDs on full price. I refused, knowing the offer was 49 cents each.
Then about a few weeks later, I got a letter and a bill adding to the amount which claimed I hadn't paid the original amount. They made all sorts of legal threats including extracting cash from my credit card info and reduce my credit rating or something of that sort.
Luckily I had no credit card. Knowing I had clearly not asked for this and was cheated, I did some research on the Internet to learn that people had the same problems as me and some even worse.
Columbia House DVD Club even opens accounts or sends DVDs to people without their permission and charges them without consent.
This is clearly illegal. It is a surprise that this company has survived by stealing and fraud. I was lucky since a friend of one of my parents worked for a sister company for Columbia House and had my account closed.
Before that I was part of an online group that had petitioned for legal action against Columbia House. Nothing has happened ever since, but this needs to be brought to the attention of the government for a court order to sue the company for it's theft and terminate it permanently.
The problems described by most people can be seen in this video:
I was gullible and ordered them. Next thing I received a package of the fourteen DVDs on full price. I refused, knowing the offer was 49 cents each.
Then about a few weeks later, I got a letter and a bill adding to the amount which claimed I hadn't paid the original amount. They made all sorts of legal threats including extracting cash from my credit card info and reduce my credit rating or something of that sort.
Luckily I had no credit card. Knowing I had clearly not asked for this and was cheated, I did some research on the Internet to learn that people had the same problems as me and some even worse.
Columbia House DVD Club even opens accounts or sends DVDs to people without their permission and charges them without consent.
This is clearly illegal. It is a surprise that this company has survived by stealing and fraud. I was lucky since a friend of one of my parents worked for a sister company for Columbia House and had my account closed.
Before that I was part of an online group that had petitioned for legal action against Columbia House. Nothing has happened ever since, but this needs to be brought to the attention of the government for a court order to sue the company for it's theft and terminate it permanently.
The problems described by most people can be seen in this video:
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