Jeffrey Lebowski

X is a philosophy inspired by Jeffrey Lebowski, a character from the Coen Brothers’ film ‘The Big Lebowski(1998).’ Started by Oliver Benjamin, a journalist based in Thailand in 2005, its official organisation name is ‘The Church of the Latter Day Y’. They list
individuals like Laozi, Buddha and Epicurus as examples of their ancient prophets while more recent antecedents include Kurt Vonnegut, Walt Whitman and Mark Twain.

Identify the philosophy ?

Met the Tequila-Loving Saint yet?

This Saint has become the "patron saint of the drug war" in Mexico, revered by criminals who pray to her for protection. Often a decorated skull is used to portray her. She's seen as the one who accepts everyone regardless of sex, age, race or orientation. And hence is a favourite of marginalized people in US ans Mexico. Her offerings include tequila, tobacco smoke, chocolate.
      However Vatican condemns this saintly figure, since from their perspective Christ defeated death, his last enemy through resurrection. Hence, veneration of a figure of death is tantamount to dishonour of Christ. 
      Who is this saintly figure am i talking about?

Legends come true!

Baba Sain Mir Mohammed Sahib, a famous Sufi Saint was invited to lay the foundation stone of this celebrated structure. 

According to legends, the mason picked up the stone to place it in a straight line. When the man responsible for the construction of this structure saw this, he chided the mason and said, 'How can you change what a true man of God, a true dervish, has decided? Because of what you have done, the foundation will always be shaky'.

Subsequent attacks on the structure corroborate and verify this apprehension and forecast. Which famous structure are we talking about?

EXHAUSTIVE CONNECT. 

ANSWER-Hanuman,Arjuna, Sanjaya and Barbarika son of Ghatotkacha are the four people to have heard the Bhagwad Gita from Krishna and seen the Vishvarupa form .

    

Ziddi Tortoise !

Q.What does this picture depict ?

Lolcat Eating

The comic was replaced by the flag. What's the story?














Attempted by only Harsh, who gives a perfect and complete answer.
Source: The Weinerworks - Blog of Zach Weiner
Answer: Quoting Harsh -
"The National Organization of Marriage had hotlinked this SMBC comic because they perceived it to be pro traditional sexuality, so Zach Weiner replaced the comic with the rainbow flag, so as to reveal the pettiness of the NOM"

What's for sale?

Answer: Cracked by Rohit, Manu, varun. mit, nikhil, Vinay and paritosh.

Connect

This is somewhat vague. So, hint :

Answer :

Pic 1 - Non-Contradiction

Pic-2- Søren Kierkegaard, who wrote Either/Or.

Pic 3 - Jonathon Keats, an artist who held a petition to make "A is A" a law in Berkeley, California . His petition was rejected for being too weird.

Non- Contradiction , Either/Or and A is A are Aristotle's(hint pic) laws of logic and also the names of the 3 parts of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

Kanfused got Aristotle, and that's about it.

Whose Memorial ?

Answer :

Kahlil Gibran's memorial in Washington D.C.

Answered correctly by Sudhakar Gupta, Vijay and Navin Pai.

Identify

Hint - Mentioned once in a while on imdb.

Answer - Cracked by everyone. This is Rajan Zed.

Connect

   

  

Identify and connect. Also tell how each is connected.. [The last 2 pics should make it pretty easy, if you can identify them ]

Answer

As correctly answered by Abhimanyu and Nakul, the connect is the Theosophical Society. Madame Blavatsky was the founder and Annie Besant her successor ( last 2 pics ). Rukmini Devi Arundale ( Pic 1), the renowned Bharatnatyam dancer made quite a row by marrying Dr. George Arundale, who was a fellow theosophist and close associate of Besant.

Jiddu Krishnamurti(pic 2) was hailed by the Theosophists as the "next big thing ". Unfortunately, he saw through them and left 'The Order of the Star'- the organization formed by the theosophists to develop a "World Leader ".

Evangelism

1. "I am trying to evangelize the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint. It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points." Who is this guy?














2. Simple. Identify.














The Answers:
1. Guy Kawasaki (a Silicon Valley venture capitalist) - cracked by white shirt wacker
2. J. R. "Bob" Dobbs - the SubGenius - cracked by priya

Connect..!!

Identify and connect the three pics...
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2.

3.

Connect

Connect

Connect the 4 photos. ( well- this one's a bit vague)




The connect is this man:



Ramana Maharshi.

Ramana Maharshi has been a central character of the works of the people given above.

1-Paul Brunton wrote a book on Ramana Maharshi The Search in Secret India, which brought the Arunachalam saint into western notice.
2- Henri Cartier-Bresson, famous photographer, has a collection of photos on Ramana Maharshi.
3- Paramahansa Yogananda has a chapter dedicated to his meeting with Ramana Maharshi in his Autobiography of a Yogi.
4- Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge had the character of a spiritual guru based loosely on Ramana Maharshi.

One Shot

X was uncertain about the resurrection of Jesus and demanded to feel Jesus' wounds before being convinced. This is the origin of the phrase Y. After seeing Jesus alive and receiving the opportunity to touch his wounds, X professed his faith in Jesus. X is said to have landed in India in AD 52 and was the first to preach Christianity in India. Give me X and Y.

Yl Goog

1. The word X is a portmanteau of Y and Z, referring to those who profess Y's philosophy in a robot-like manner. An X believes that Y has never done anything wrong and every idea which spawned from Y's head, no matter how mundane the issue, is gospel. Give me X.

2. Some background on A: His father, a medical researcher, is considered a leading authority on intestinal gas. (He bills himself as "The Man Who Gave Status to Flatus and Class to Gas.") One of A's great uncles, Robert May, wrote "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"-the book, that is; another great uncle, Johnny Marks, later wrote the song.
In 2006, he was chosen as one of Time magazine's "100 People Who Shape Our World". Identify A.

3. Has anybody won both the Oscar and the Nobel? If yes, name the person(s).

4. Many of us have read X's essays in school. X had this to say on Sikhism: That if some lucky men survive the onslaught of the third world war of atomic and hydrogen bombs, then the Sikh religion will be the only means of guiding them.
X played himself in a 1967 anti-war movie Aman. He won the Nobel in literature in 1950. Identify.

5. In Japan, what are ‘Soft Beckhams’, ‘Popular Beckhams’ and ‘Hardcore Beckhams’ types of? (Question Credit: indiauncut.com)

6. This controversial parliamentarian was sent to a seminary after schooling, to train as a priest. The rigours of priesthood did not suit him, however, and he rebelled against the authorities of the seminary. He was the first Defence Minister to visit the Siachen glacier, and subsequently visited the glacier 17 more times and took necessay steps to lessen the burden on soldiers patrolling the glaciers. Identify.