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Each August for the past 11 years, Beloit College in Beloit, Wis., has released the Beloit College Mindset List. It provides a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college. It is the creation of Beloit’s Keefer Professor of the Humanities Tom McBride and Public Affairs Director Ron Nief. The List is shared with faculty and with thousands who request it each year as the school year begins, as a reminder of the rapidly changing frame of reference for this new generation.

How many did you get right?

Answers tomorrow.

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Too funny!

This is a lovely clip produced by a devotee on YouTube:

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While it is normally only considered cliché that "laughter is the best medicine," specific medical theories attribute improved health, increased life expectancy, and overall improved well-being, to laughter.

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After delivering a extended philosophically intricate Bhagavatam lecture, the Temple President announced that he wished to meet with the temple board after the program, in his office. He returned to the office to find that the first person to arrive was an older Indian man, whom he didn’t recognize.

“Pardon me, Prabhuji,” the President said, “I think you misunderstood my announcement. This is a meeting of the board.”

“I know,” said the man. “If there is anyone here more bored than I am, I’d like to meet him.”

A while back I posted the original comic as it appeared in Al Franken's Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them. Since the topic came up in a discussion of Christianity with a couple of students yesterday I wanted to check it out again, and when I googled it this video came up. If you want to see the original post you can check it out here, but the video is even cooler.

Part of being "inclusive", innit? :-)

After two weeks of going AWOL my commanding officer General Vaisesika Prabhu court marshaled me and order me back to my post in San Jose to join the troops for our Monthly Sankirtana Festival, which begins Friday evening in downtown Palo Alto with nagar sankirtana, then book distribution on Saturday and Sunday.

by Kaunteya das

It's holiday season (at least for those Christians who believe Lord Jesus was born on 25 December), and materialistic mercantilism runs wild. We present some unusual Christ-conscious gifts, or rather some Christ-connected commercial novelties. Warning: those allergic to weirdness are strongly advised to avoid this gallery.

While it is nice to glorify devotees who are expending an effort trying to please Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga, and whenever any discussion centers around who is advanced and who is not, we should bear in mind the following “One has to learn this science of activities in terms of the modes of material nature, otherwise one’s life will be misdirected”.