so i drove Ganesha The Car down to target to transfer some photos from a smart-disk (for which i do not have a reader) to a CD, so that moe can give back the camera that the smart-disk is from, and when i came out of target, there were a couple of “business” cards on my windshield advertising jeezis.
i really wonder what whoever left them on my windshield was thinking? i drive a car that is covered with sanskrit, that has a license plate that says GANESHA, and a bumper sticker that says JESUS IS A GATEWAY DRUG… do they think a couple of business cards, left by what i have to assume is an anonymous “christian”, are suddenly going to change my mind?
and one of the cards says “If we meet and you forget me, you have lost nothing. If you meet Jesus and forget him, you have lost everything!” with a bumper sticker that says JESUS IS A GATEWAY DRUG, how do they think that i could possibly have forgotten Jesus? if it were not for Jesus, i would not be where i am now. i was a christian, and a christian minister, long before i ever even thought about hinduism – admittedly, it is primarily because i didn’t know about hinduism, but still, that’s one of the many meanings of my JESUS IS A GATEWAY DRUG sticker.
not only that, but i wonder if they would have given me the cards if they met me in person, rather than the anonymity of leaving them on my windshield? to be honest, i’m not sure i would have accepted them if i had been offered them in person, but at the same time, if my experience with “christians” is anything to go by, they probably would have been scared to approach me if they had seen me in person, if for no other reason than they would think that their “christianity” would be offensive to me or something… and, to be honest, i would be offended if someone who didn’t know me, who assumed that i don’t know Jesus, offered these cards to me. it’s very clear to me why the cards don’t have any personally identifying information that i could use to get in contact with them personally.
Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest that divinity within by controlling nature: external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy — by one, or more, or all of these — and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms are but secondary details.
— Swami Vivekananda
sheesh… 8/
compared to “christianity”, wal-mart has better marketing…
yours definitely have mine beat for entertainment value, but mine was an “obvious hit” whereas yours could have been a random act…
I think the pamphet we got a while back has this beat.
Hinduism has better marketing? Do tell, do tell.
i’ve been saying exactly the same thing ever since i was a seminarian… that’s one of the reasons i converted to hinduism. 8)
Poor choice of target, then. They’re not going to get good results telling someone who clearly worships another god enough to make an art car that Jeezis is the Way.
I’d guess it was probably for passers-by who might be intrigued by the car and come up to it, rather than for you, but that’s still reprehensible marketing technique. And maybe they were hoping to get lucky and that you’d see it their way, or something. I can’t think of many logical reasons why someone would flyer your car.
actually, i’ve been expecting to come out and see the roof and/or the rest of my car vandalised because of the swastika, but nobody ever looks at the roof, except when i’m driving and they pull along side me in their humvees, or something like that…
nope… mine was the only one that i could see…
That’s a little obnoxious, leaving evangelical propaganda on your clearly marked Vahana. But I’m not really surprised by it, and I kind of expect more of it to occur in this country. At least we’re not Atheists – the Xians really flip out over those guys.
The quote from Swamiji is amazing, as usual. 🙂
Pretty poor choice of target, I’d say, for those business cards. Did all the other cars in the lot have those advertisements on their windshields, too? It’d be easier to attribute this to an indiscriminate flyer-bombing rather than someone who noticed Ganesha the Car and decided to single it out for attention.
I dunno why – I can see it as a ploy to get other people to read the cards if they’re interested in Ganesha. Or I can see them trying to be used like demonic seals or something. Too bad it doesn’t work for them.