What is the craftiest way to dodge a question during a presentation?
Adding to Jon Mixon’s list:“I will address this in one of the subsequent slides”. Some rude listeners will actually come back at this by the end of the presentation and raise the question again, but most of them will be cut off, especially if the talk is long and there are others who want to ask something else.“Let’s take this offline”. This is a very popular phrase, often said in cases where the answer is too long to be reasonably discussed within a possibly tight schedule. However, answering in obscure terms, promising details in an offline discussion and then running away from it, is a reasonable dodging technique.“This is ongoing work”. Not really a dodging technique per se, but a pretty decent way to answer painlessly is to say that your current presentation is about a smaller result and now you are working on something bigger, which also will cover the question being asked. They can always ask for preliminary details, but… you can take that offline, can’t you?Acknowledgement. I once attended a PhD defence where a scientific opponent asked a question in the lines of “what are going to do about X?”. The answer was absolutely brilliant because it started with “we mostly rely on the method published in your book…”. Even on smaller scale, quickly acknowledging that you are aware of the work of the person who asks the question, and you agree that it is related, can help dodging very heavy accusations and/or redirect them to a broader community.
How can I give a fitting reply to my Hindu friend who is trying to invite me to Hinduism by telling me that it is an open source and I can believe or not in anything I want?
Your Hindu friend seems to have failed to understand Hinduism in the first place...The Vedas teach "Ekam sat vipra bahuda vadanti" "That which is One, the sages call by various names"If you call him Rama, or Christ or Allah... there are all different names of the same god...So Hinduism teaches people that the different faiths people adapt towards god, are like different paths that lead to the same destination...The best faith for you is what appeals the most to you ...This is a core teaching of Hinduism... the choosing of the Ishta... the ideal ...You choose your ideal, no one does it for you... no one tells you whom to worship...Hinduism does not teach anyone to give up their faith and take anothers...One has to follow ones own(by choice) path...
Secret Government - UFO coverup ( phenomenon )?
There are many reasons that the governments of the world deny the existence of UFOs and of-course aliens...Let's suppose you had 3 questions you could ask an ET, would not one of them concern "God" and religion in general ??... Well you can bet that question has been asked and they didn't like the answer, so to keep all the "sheeple" grazing in their perspective paddocks they deny everything, cover it all up, and I suspect even murder some poor people who threaten to expose certain government departments, as to their involvement... I am an abductee and I bring this up at all the seminars I attend...You see religion = control, that's why all the leaders of the world profess to be such devout followers of whatever religion is the most popular in their country...Religion on this planet is only on this planet and exists nowhere else in the Cosmos, it is totally man made and local... We have been using alien technology for decades and who has what is all very secretive, so that is another point of their denial, they don't want other governments knowing what they have got, but that is a joke really, because they continue to use it so everyone knows, to a point, I do suspect they hold some back... NASA has air brushed out the images that show structures of buildings which they have found on Mars and the dark side of the moon...The dark side of the moon has many, many structures built on it, some are huge towers... All air brushed out, but now many high ranking military personnel and scientists are blowing the whistle, and it is hard to keep a lid on things when so many people are coming forward....I ask all you skeptics, who would you rather trust, the government, the government bully boys, the government run puppet media; or a credible scientist, a 4star General, various military personnel who have worked on these Top Secret classified agendas and in places like area 51...I know who I trust and it isn't anything to do with anyone's government that's for bloody sure.... They are here now and very soon the carefully constructed house of cards is going to come crashing down around their ears... Very soon we will have direct contact with our Cosmic brothers and sisters, and the governments of the world and the Church will have a hell of a lot of explaining to do....Look towards 2012.... In Light... )O(
General Knowledge: What are the abbreviations we use daily but don't know the full form?
Some of them which are used in daily life isFIR: first information report (people use to do FIR when some thing has stolen or some crime has been admitted .it is the report made on suspects .TEA : taste and energy admitted.EAT : energy and taste( we take food for getting some energy and also we want the food to be tasty .PEN : power enriched at nib .SMILE: sweet memories in lips expression.TEAM : time energy and money.SIM CARD: subscriber information module..IMEI: international mobile equipment identity . It consist of 15 digit numbers…E-MAIL :electronic mail.USB : universal serial bus.YAHOO: yet another herririchal office oracle .Www: world wide web.PNR : passenger name record.STD: subscriber trunk dialling.GMAIL: google mail .FAX: far away xerox.EMI: equated monthly investment .WHO : world health organisation.RDX: research developed xplosive.NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.DNB: diplomate of national board.WIFI : wire less fiedility.MAN: metropolitan atea network .RAW: research and analysis wing.OK: okayLG: lucky gold starPOLICE : protection of life in civil establishment.URL: unique resource locator.LAN: local area network.WAN: wide area network .HTTPS : hyper text transfer protocol secure link .HTML: hyper text mark up laungage.ISRO : indian space research organization.PHD : doctrate in philosophy.