T-Shirts

[Tirisilex]

BTW, who is the fundraiser benefitting.

Aum Namasivaya

I've got my eyes on a few places.. There is a Free Dinner place that really could use the money.. There is also food pantries I may decide to help.
I'm even planning on giving a look out for people who are sick and need extra cash? I have a bunch of friends who I may confide with and vote on which needs it most.

I'd like to make a charitable foundation to help those in need..

[saidevo]

namate everyone.

I googled for 'Jesus T-shirts' and found that many of them either have only Christian religious symbols and text on them; some do have portraits of Jesus who certainly looks less divine on them. And then they describe Jesus as 'sin killer', 'Jesus saves with coupons', 'Jesus pop-art', 'Jesus was funky', 'Quench your thirst', "Please Jesus, perfect me from your followers', 'Hero hooded sweatshirt', 'Jesus Liked Dinosaurs', and so on.
http://www.zazzle.com/jesus+tshirts

I am sure, with the spread of the T-shirt fad, Hindu Gods would come to have such portraits and descriptions, and that would be described as 'trendy'.

[saidevo]

namate.

Well, seems I was wrong in the last para of my earlier post no.12, about the possibility of Hindu Gods and symbols going trendy in the crazy T-shirt fad. They already have gone trendy:

Ganesha and other gods cut & pasted to cover your body parts:
http://www.siamese-dream.com/ShirtsHDganesha2.html

Ganesh is my om boy
http://www.teesed.com/search/all-products/Hindu/p_1
http://www.teesed.com/design/9813848.html
http://www.teesed.com/design/31270072.html

WWGD -- What would Ganesha do?
http://www.teesed.com/design/14237317.html

Blessed is he who is destroyed by Shiva
http://www.teesed.com/design/14232639.html

Adi Kumbeswarar temple in dog tee:
http://www.zazzle.co.uk/adi_kumbeswa...34904581049019

Vishnu as Santa:
We Vishnu a merry Christmas!
http://www.teesed.com/design/24395071.html

'Hindu' underwear:
http://www.cafepress.com/+hindu+underwear-panties
(seems there were protests as early as Dec 2007, but
the make and sales continue)
http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=67274

*****

Incidentally, I came across some nice words too:

Don't just do something, sit there
(I used to joke with these same words in Hindi:
"kuch to karo, chup na raho" as "kuch na karo chup to raho")
http://www.teesed.com/design/42908946.html

View God as a parent or teacher as HIndus do,
not as master or king.
Why be a subject or servant, when you can be
a child or student?
http://www.zazzle.co.uk/view_god_as_...55903213889497

AUM: stop, breathe, be.
http://www.teesed.com/design/20192686.html

Om sweet Om
http://www.teesed.com/design/25522478.html

Be in the moment
http://www.teesed.com/design/23952102.html

Reincarnation is my only hope
http://www.teesed.com/design/11547002.html

I am so sari
http://www.cafepress.com/+im_sari_cl...thong,38161248

When I grow up, I want to be...
enlightened!
http://www.teesed.com/design/18367433.html

Inquire within
http://www.teesed.com/design/13746911.html

*****

Here is a thread in HDF where this subject was discussed before:
Things that make you wonder
http://www.hindudharmaforums.com/sho...highlight=bidi

I may not be surprised to see MF Hussain's Hindu God pictures soon on the Western personal wear and tear of men and pets. Kali's currents have so far run over 5,100 years. In the first part blind and bloody rituals ruled the Hindu world until Adi Shankara came and streamlined the practices. In the second, there was mayhem, massacre and bloodshed under the Islamic rule. And then came the wily European colonists with their personal and religious agenda and corrupted the face and core of Hindu Dharma. Now we have the trendiness of ignorance, indifference and perversion out in the open going under the name of fad, fashion and false shows.

[Jainarayan]

It reminds me of the people who get tattoos of Chinese calligraphy characters on them, often taking the tattoo artists' word for what it means, when often neither of them have a clue. ...

I even have one tattoo that is in Ancient Greek. (*) But see, I can actually READ Ancient Greek, and made sure that the tattoo artist copied my notes exactly...

(*) It says, Μολὼν λαβέ, which means, "Come and take them!" It was King Leonidas's response to the Persian Emperor Xerxes at the Battle of Thermopylae, when 300 Spartans held off the Persian army of hundreds of thousands. Xerxes said that the Spartans would be free to leave with their lives if they just handed over their weapons.

As usual I am late to the party, and resurrecting an old thread.

I read a blog where the author who is a specialist in Semitic languages and speaks Hebrew pointed out that a tattoo a young guy got supposedly spelling out Yahweh in Hebrew was actually done backwards so it meant something else.

Btw, I have the same tattoo ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ, on my left biceps. I was going to get Η ΤΑΝ Η ΕΠΙ ΤΑΣ, lit. "Either this or on this", for "Come back with your shield or on it" (but you knew that ). I used the capital characters because small letters were a later innovation for writing Greek.

I have OM on my right delt. It's red but in a yellow circle.

My concerns about wearing clothing with images of deities is the places it would be worn to, getting soiled or torn, and what happens when it is past its useful life? I would not and could not throw it in the trash. I think burning it would be the only respectful thing to do. So, I'm on the fence about it.