For "Powered by kicking" technology you need to run on Windows 98 - Not sure a whole lot of people want to go back to Windows 98.
Vista seems promising on that front with the improved CPU / memory hogging technologies.
Hindus are split on the details of how life began on earth. But like any other religion, it is explained off using the theory of creationism.
The most popular theory goes something like this:
Brahma is the Creator, Vishnu is the Preserver and Shiva is the Destroyer. Brahmas' grandson, Kashyapa is the father of ALL life on earth - human and otherwise.
Time is divided into a cycle of Yugas (eras) - Satya Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dwapara Yuga, Kali Yuga. The yugas see progressively worsening moral values in mankind, Satya Yuga having the best and Kali Yuga having the worst. The end of Kali Yuga will be marked by a great deluge which will destroy ALMOST all life on earth - and hence all evil. Satya Yuga marks the creation of life again.
There is no account of how many cycles we are through yet. But from scriptures, we know that at the last deluge, Vishnu took the form of a fish and saved the Vedas from destruction.
So now you know why we have a Creator, Preserver and a Destroyer.
In the current cycle, we are in the Kali Yuga. There is no definite consensus on when this Yuga and hence this cycle would end. The somewhat accepted theory is that, an incarnation of God as Kaliki will mark the beginning of end. This character Kaliki loosely falls into place with the prophecy of Nostradamus of the blue turbaned conqueror.
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For "Powered by kicking" technology you need to run on Windows 98 - Not sure a whole lot of people want to go back to Windows 98. Vista seems promising on that front with the improved CPU / memory hogging technologies.
Hindus are split on the details of how life began on earth.
But like any other religion, it is explained off using the theory of creationism.
The most popular theory goes something like this:
Brahma is the Creator, Vishnu is the Preserver and Shiva is the Destroyer.
Brahmas' grandson, Kashyapa is the father of ALL life on earth - human and otherwise.
Time is divided into a cycle of Yugas (eras) - Satya Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dwapara Yuga, Kali Yuga.
The yugas see progressively worsening moral values in mankind, Satya Yuga having the best and Kali Yuga having the worst.
The end of Kali Yuga will be marked by a great deluge which will destroy ALMOST all life on earth - and hence all evil.
Satya Yuga marks the creation of life again.
There is no account of how many cycles we are through yet.
But from scriptures, we know that at the last deluge, Vishnu took the form of a fish and saved the Vedas from destruction.
So now you know why we have a Creator, Preserver and a Destroyer.
In the current cycle, we are in the Kali Yuga.
There is no definite consensus on when this Yuga and hence this cycle would end.
The somewhat accepted theory is that, an incarnation of God as Kaliki will mark the beginning of end.
This character Kaliki loosely falls into place with the prophecy of Nostradamus of the blue turbaned conqueror.