Chatting with a stranger

[EGVG]

Hello everyone! Well, today I logged on an anonymous chat room, to chat with ramdon people (boy do I have time) It's the first time I've logged into something like this, I did it to promote a Youtube video I made last night. Nothing really interesting...

So I logged on to Omegle, and started a conversation with a stranger:

You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
Stranger: Ever gone fish-slapping on the Ganges river?
You: what?
You: no
Stranger: ah, then you are missing out
You: I'm sure it's lots of fun
Stranger: it's like fishing, but you wade into the shallowest parts of the river and stun the fish by suddenly smacking them, then you simply pick them up out of the water
You: what do you use to smack them?
Stranger: the beginners use oars, but those who have been fish-slapping all their lives use their hands
Stranger: i used an oar
Stranger: it is best to do it up north, as the waters in the Ganges become almost unbearably polluted as they meander through India to the sea
You: you live in India? that's so cool
You: are you there?
Stranger: no, sadly not, i traveled there as part of an anthropological excursion
Stranger: yes, i have a poor connection, my appologies
You: ooh ok
You: are you an anthropologist?
Stranger: back in the 40s it was much easier to board a ship to exotic lands
Stranger: i was
You: are you human?
Stranger: last i checked, though the view towards the geriatric have changed since the days i was young

Really random stuff, to resume it, I was talking to a 87 year old that had some awesome life experiences, here I'm gonna post some, and one that I think you guys will find really interesting. He was a "researcher" that traveled with rich people around the orient and worked as a translator and also explaining to tourists about the culture of the places they where in.
He also was in the war! He didn't told me much about it, but yeah sounds really interesting, he basically was one of the first anthropologist, or something similar to that.
If you have some free time then continue reading if not, I really don't want to get you annoyed if you find this thread to be completely a waste of your time.

Stranger: the strangest thing I've ever witnessed was actually before my travels
Stranger: during the war i was stationed in china and was once blessed enough to have been invited to a wedding
Stranger: i've always had a gift at making friends quickly despite language barriers and had become quite close to a young man who invited me to his ceremony
Stranger: i can only assume the young lady of his fancy came from great wealth because of the elaborate nature of it all
Stranger: the hall was adorned in red silk and gold, and everyone in attendance was wearing traditional garb
You: wow a rich chinesse wedding, that must be fabulous!!
You: :)
Stranger: i couldn't understand a bit of what was said, nor could i recognize a single item that was served to me, but the entire scene coupled with the ceremonial incense that filled the room created lasting memories in each of my five senses
Stranger: that was probably the spark that caused me to become an anthropologist after the war
You: wow, ancient oriental culture is much focused on the senses than occidental where it's the oposite it's about numbing the sensen, you know what i'm saying?
You: did you ever went to japan?
You: I've always wanted to go there, but now that is radioactive I'll have to wait a lot of time before I get to go
You: it's really sad
Stranger: japan is one of the only countries i never visited in the orient, too much guilt i'm afraid, though i was never on the islands i had flown over them many times as a co-pilot
You: well
Stranger: i was already home safe in the states by the time we bombed hiroshima
Stranger: but i digress, negative thoughts do no good for no man, as they say
You: there's nothing worth regretting
Stranger: the world is far too beautiful to waste it on war
You: I mean the radiation on the fukushima plant that have a huge leak in the past earthqueake just a few month ago
Stranger: yes, i'm aware of it
You: it's 30 km from tokyo
Stranger: i apologize, i am old and slip into my memories from time to time
You: I think war has evolve
You: into something
You: much more evil
Stranger: well put
You: but I think evil will fail
You: I hope so
You: no need to apologize
You: :D
....
Stranger: also, your alien comment reminded me of one of my travels, would you care to hear it?
You: I don't need school to cultivate my intellect or to gain knowledge
You: of course
Stranger: have you ever heard of the aghoris?
You: please tell about it
You: no never
Stranger: once when i was taking a group british travelers through india, my translator told me he had found quite the rare cultural gem for us to witness
Stranger: i relied on my translator to help me get into situations where i may study new cultures
Stranger: he told me we had been invited to a ceremony from a group of hindus known as the aghoris
Stranger: i had been to hindu ceremonies many times in the past, and was expecting chanting, prayers, and the like
Stranger: however when we met the aghoris it was very much a shock
Stranger: it was a group of men, filthy in attire and odious by nature, we were in a small house in ravendrapuri
Stranger: they told us one of their elders had recently died and they were preparing his passing ceremony
Stranger: the translation was roughly "ceremony of eternal life"
Stranger: we were sat down upon mats and served tea, because we were simply there as observers we sat outside of the circle of practitioners
Stranger: the house began smelling of the most putrid stench i had ever come accross, and soon after a trey with various cuts of meat was brought into the room
Stranger: the views of the aghoris are very controversial
You: omg
Stranger: for they feel that if they eat the flesh of their dead they can gain their "lifeforce"
You: omg
You: where they a vegetarian tribe?
Stranger: besides this one particular ceremony, yes, i believe they were
You: omg
Stranger: however i did not stay long after the ceremony, for although i was in no danger i felt it was simply no place for me
You: omg I'm stunned
You: that's a crazy history!!
You: that tells you vegetarians are not mentally sane
You: there's cience behind it
You: science
Stranger: that may be so, however i could not eat meat for quite a while after that night
You: I can't believe they would not think that showing that ceremony to you guys, wouldn't cause you some kind of discomfort
You: well then I can see why they showed that to you
Stranger: i was an anthropologist, i wanted to see new and exciting things
You: you see there are evil force in this world that what us to be vegetarians
Stranger: i simply wasn't quite prepared for that
You: ooh ok
You: well yeah
You: I would probably would wanted to see a special ceremony too
You: wow men, your story was amazing!
You: thanks for sharing
Stranger: my pleasure, what good are travels if you cannot share them with others
You: :D
You: You mind if I share this conversation on a forum?
You: the ceremony part
You: especially
Stranger: you go right ahead
You: yaay! thank you so much!!
You: so If I may ask you
You: what's you name?
Stranger: Simon
Stranger: named after my father
You: nice to chat with you Simon

So what you guys think of this ceremony and the fact that they where vegetarians, pretty creepy ain't?

EDU

 

[obyvatel]

So what you guys think of this ceremony and the fact that they where vegetarians, pretty creepy ain't?
EDU

Aghoris are not generally known to be vegetarians - even without their necro-cannibalistic ceremonies. They eat meat, use hallucinogenic substances, perform tantric rituals and largely live in cremation grounds outside of society and are generally avoided by common people. Their actions and beliefs are geared towards realization of God in every aspect of creation - their "extreme" practices said to be a method of social and cultural deprogramming ultimately leading to "self-realization" and freedom from rebirth.

fyi

 

[EGVG]

So what you guys think of this ceremony and the fact that they where vegetarians, pretty creepy ain't?
EDU

Aghoris are not generally known to be vegetarians - even without their necro-cannibalistic ceremonies. They eat meat, use hallucinogenic substances, perform tantric rituals and largely live in cremation grounds outside of society and are generally avoided by common people. Their actions and beliefs are geared towards realization of God in every aspect of creation - their "extreme" practices said to be a method of social and cultural deprogramming ultimately leading to "self-realization" and freedom from rebirth.

fyi

Thanks for that! I think I should have google it before giving this much credibility to a stranger.

 

[obyvatel]

Thanks for that! I think I should have google it before giving this much credibility to a stranger.

Well fwiw, I did not see any reason to question the credibility of the person you chatted with regarding this specific topic concerning the aghoris. From what you posted, it seems that you were pushing the "vegetarian=crazy" idea and on being asked, he replied that he believed that they were vegetarians. There is not much information on the Aghoris and as a foreigner traveling through India, it would be natural for him to make an assumption that religious Hindus are vegetarians.

This particular group could even be vegetarians outside this ceremony - my comment about the Aghoris having been known to eat meat outside these necro-cannibalistic ceremonies is based on general information that exists about this relatively obscure (before the internet at least) group.

Maybe you want to ask yourself why you would bring vegetarianism in the picture in this specific context?

 

[Nienna]

I just want to add something here. I would not believe anything anyone said in a chat room if I did not really know them. My ex-step-father found chat rooms and went in lying through his teeth that he was a rancher and had a 500 acre cattle ranch. He lived on 5 acres and had no cattle at all. He was on the hunt for a new wife - and found one. She was very surprised when reality hit her between the eyes.

And, then, you have all of those lonesome girls/women who are horribly taken advantage of when they finally decide to meet up with their chat room buddies.

So my advice, if you want to continue going to chat rooms is to not believe anything you are told until you check it out with research of your own.

fwiw

 

[anart]

Thanks for that! I think I should have google it before giving this much credibility to a stranger.

He was probably a 12 year old in his mother's basement, on her computer. Starmie, you really need to work on your discernment and naivete - it is going to get you seriously hurt some day.

 

[EGVG]

Thanks for that! I think I should have google it before giving this much credibility to a stranger.

He was probably a 12 year old in his mother's basement, on her computer. Starmie, you really need to work on your discernment and naivete - it is going to get you seriously hurt some day.

I sure have to work on that. I don't wanna get more hurt.

I just want to add something here. I would not believe anything anyone said in a chat room if I did not really know them. My ex-step-father found chat rooms and went in lying through his teeth that he was a rancher and had a 500 acre cattle ranch. He lived on 5 acres and had no cattle at all. He was on the hunt for a new wife - and found one. She was very surprised when reality hit her between the eyes.

And, then, you have all of those lonesome girls/women who are horribly taken advantage of when they finally decide to meet up with their chat room buddies.

So my advice, if you want to continue going to chat rooms is to not believe anything you are told until you check it out with research of your own.

fwiw

This was my first time in this kind of chat room, and I think it's safe to say it's my last to.

Thanks for that! I think I should have google it before giving this much credibility to a stranger.

Well fwiw, I did not see any reason to question the credibility of the person you chatted with regarding this specific topic concerning the aghoris. From what you posted, it seems that you were pushing the "vegetarian=crazy" idea and on being asked, he replied that he believed that they were vegetarians. There is not much information on the Aghoris and as a foreigner traveling through India, it would be natural for him to make an assumption that religious Hindus are vegetarians.

This particular group could even be vegetarians outside this ceremony - my comment about the Aghoris having been known to eat meat outside these necro-cannibalistic ceremonies is based on general information that exists about this relatively obscure (before the internet at least) group.

Maybe you want to ask yourself why you would bring vegetarianism in the picture in this specific context?

At the moment it just made sense to ask that, since he was talking about India I was thinking in some of the C's sessions and my mind kinda unite some dots and that question came out. Also just before that I was telling this stranger about fish oil, so my mind was already in the dietary section, so it was an easy mental jump.

 

[RyanX]

Hello everyone! Well, today I logged on an anonymous chat room, to chat with ramdon people (boy do I have time) It's the first time I've logged into something like this, I did it to promote a Youtube video I made last night. Nothing really interesting...

starmie,

Like the others have said, you should definitely be careful in internet chatrooms. If you've got a lot of free time on your hands, maybe you should look into getting some sort of constructive hobby, something that isn't going to put yourself at risk? If you're into music and video, there are endless possibilities to keep you busy, I'd think.

Also, promoting your video in a chatroom doesn't seem like a very good way to market your work anyways. You'd be better off just creating a FB and MySpace page for your stuff and leaving it at that, I'd think.

 

[EGVG]

Hello everyone! Well, today I logged on an anonymous chat room, to chat with ramdon people (boy do I have time) It's the first time I've logged into something like this, I did it to promote a Youtube video I made last night. Nothing really interesting...

starmie,

Like the others have said, you should definitely be careful in internet chatrooms. If you've got a lot of free time on your hands, maybe you should look into getting some sort of constructive hobby, something that isn't going to put yourself at risk? If you're into music and video, there are endless possibilities to keep you busy, I'd think.

Also, promoting your video in a chatroom doesn't seem like a very good way to market your work anyways. You'd be better off just creating a FB and MySpace page for your stuff and leaving it at that, I'd think.

Thank you RyanX, I do have a lot of free time, I normally read or sing, but yesterday I don't know why the idea of promoting my video in a random chat room seemed good.
Lately I've been having some memories rise up in my mind, weird stuff, and that kinda makes me wanna go spend my time in something that will consume my entire attention, like singing or Youtube or go running or walk my dog.

I feel the diet is doing great things for my body and mind, but I feel left behind by myself, like if I was making this much progress and I'm getting ready to face some truths but I don't want to I'm scared to know the whole thing about myself.