Tag Archives: India

Jesus’ Tomb – 2013

March 15, 2024 – 1:45 pm

“What is Jerusalem worth?” the knight at the end of KINGDOM OF GOD asks Saladin, the leader of the Muslim army.  “Nothing.” Saladin answered and walked away, then turns and says, “Everything.” For centuries faith has determined the worth of Jerusalem for the Jews, Christians, and Muslims. As an atheist I think they all believe […]

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GUNGA DIN by Rudyard Kipling

November 11, 2023 – 8:33 pm

When I was a young boy, I loved the movie GUNGA DIN. The hero was an outcast water-boy. The lowest of the low in the ranks of the British Empire, but Rudyard Kipling recognized their worth to a man dying of thirst and wrote the following poem. GUNGA DIN BY RUDYARD KIPLING You may talk […]

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THE MEANING OF PURE by Peter Nolan Smith

December 7, 2021 – 7:10 am

In the summer of 1995 my baby brother died of AIDS. Our family buried his body in a grave south of Boston. After the funeral I left the USA and sought solace for Michael’s soul at the holy sites of Asia. I lit candles before the Buddha in Chiang Mai. I circumnavigated Lhasa’s Jokhang Temple. […]

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The Meaning of Pure

December 7, 2021 – 1:06 am

This is a video of my story THE MEANING OF PURE. In 1995 I crosse the Himalayas and traveled to Benares. Swimming in the Ganges washed away your sins. My bath in the Mother of India was dedicated to my baby brother who had passed from AIDS earlier in the summer. Michael Charles Smith comes […]

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Kill For The Sake Of Cali

November 10, 2020 – 3:07 pm

GUNGA DIN was one of my favorite movies as a child. The cinematic version of Rudyard Kipling’s poem about an untouchable bisthi or water carrier had elephants, fakirs, religious fanatics, comedy, thrills, and the horror of the Thuggees, who killed the innocent for their multi-armed goddess, Cali.

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