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Ganges River: India's dying mother

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Re: Ganges River: India's dying mother

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Post by sp332 »

jkdkfgkhlkhsdfg wrote: post #6

"Hindus revere the Ganges as a god. They believe she came down from heaven to cleanse the Earth, and that bathing in her waters can wash away a person’s sins." What a bunch of bullshit by some random westerner who does not understand jack shit. It is quite common knowledge that in the divine sense of Ganga, she originates from the dreadlocks of Lord Shiva and thus is a manifestation of purity in some sense. Mount Kai…

Actually it was the Swami who was quoted as saying "People think Ganga can take care of my sins".

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Post by WiseWeasel »

jzawodn wrote: post #2

Wow, someone needs to talk to an interaction designer. That "scrolling" behavior gives me a headache.

This story actually showed me how I've been doing parallax scrolling effects wrong this whole time. Showing two fixed background images at once with a scrolling transition between them is kinda neat, and something not possible with my previously flawed understanding of how to implement the effect.

When done right, the effect provides an intuitive break to process one morsel of data before starting the next. It's like a web page's version of a chapter marker, allowing for compartmentalization while maintaining simple navigation.

Re: Ganges River: India's dying mother

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Post by piyush_soni »

jkdkfgkhlkhsdfg wrote: post #6

"Hindus revere the Ganges as a god. They believe she came down from heaven to cleanse the Earth, and that bathing in her waters can wash away a person’s sins." What a bunch of bullshit by some random westerner who does not understand jack shit. It is quite common knowledge that in the divine sense of Ganga, she originates from the dreadlocks of Lord Shiva and thus is a manifestation of purity in some sense. Mount Kai…

Yes, it was a mistake to call it god, but I think that can be excused. At least almost every religious Hindu still believes that bathing in Ganges can wash away his/her sins, so that part is correct. Bringing religious angle is important here to show that it should be even more important for us to keep it clean.
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