Indian boy hits father with brick, becomes "genius"

Druhim

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2202364.cms

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] Wonders do not cease with this: His knowledge of physics and mathematics has left engineering students baffled. Having already penned three books, Rajesh is now looking forward to some research work.

[/FONT][FONT=Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif] In his words: "There is no concept of reincarnation. It is just that memory can’t be destroyed till there are sound waves in the world."[/FONT]

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Yeah, sounds brilliant. I wonder if this publication is the Indian version of the Enquirer...[/FONT]

bsjezz

well i can't read that

Orikaeshigitae

what is this black text shit

Druhim

For some reason it formatted it as black but I fixed it.

DarkPrimus

Color me skeptical, but I think there's a lot to this story that isn't yet known. *cough*Con*cough*

Also, who gives a fuck about engineering students. Shouldn't he be getting examined by neurologists and linguists and such?

Quetzi

I think we should try and see how many threads can have titles about hitting and bricks.

bsjezz

there's actually a really interesting history of magic and miracles in India's press

Rushdie touches on it in Midnight's Children - it's some kind of cultural phenomenon

Druhim

DarkPrimus wrote: »

Color me skeptical, but I think there's a lot to this story that isn't yet known. *cough*Con*cough*

Also, who gives a fuck about engineering students. Shouldn't he be getting examined by neurologists and linguists and such?

No because it's probably all a bunch of bs. Assuming he even speaks "proper" english, he probably learned it by studying and his family is just claiming it was a sudden transformation.

Tossrock

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_accent_syndrome

Tossrock

This isn't really relevant because he isn't speaking his native tongue but whatever

Druhim

Tossrock wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_accent_syndrome

You fail at reading. The wikipedia article clearly states they speak their native language in a foreign accent whereas this Indian paper is claiming he speaks perfect English.

edit: bah, you caught it first :P

Tossrock

Too slow, dru

#pipe

shut up kid and give me a slurpee

B.C.

There is a 3 month window where he did not speak a single word.
3 Months for a relatively talented child is enough to learn English if they study incredibly hard.

His father probably wouldn't notice, and his mother and brother would be too busy working.

fightinfilipino

what caught my eye is that the father is mentally challenged and yet found a woman who agreed to bear not just one, but two children with him.

meaning their mom has sex with retards.


i guess since forumers do it too, this isn't all that strange.

DarkPrimus

Tossrock, are you this Indian boy?

yourclothes

that almost never happens to me

Ol' Sparky

sounds like someone is playing a bit too much Real Lives

yourclothes

is it your mom

InfestedGnome

It is kinda wierd if he speaks full english without an accent. I can understand learning the language in 3 month but he should always have an accent I would think

Druhim

InfestedGnome wrote: »

It is kinda wierd if he speaks full english without an accent. I can understand learning the language in 3 month but he should always have an accent I would think

You're assuming he actually is doing so. Keep in mind this is being reported by an Indian paper and for all we know they may be the Indian equivalent of a tabloid. Even if it's a real newspaper, that doesn't necessarily make them all that credible. So I don't buy that he just spontaneously started speaking perfectly accented English or that they even really know how to distinguish such an accent from something that just sounds kind of close to them but would sound wrong to us. If he does speak fluent English, then he probably just learned it by normal means and then his family claimed that it happened spontaneously.

Air

With Zee News’ constant perusal for truth, the cat was out of the bag when Rajesh finally revealed the secret behind the ‘miracle’. In 2005 on the eve of 26th January, Rajesh was insulted by his teacher when he failed to read out a speech in English. The incident left a scar on his mind, and a humiliated Rajesh vowed revenge. He took up this challenge, and set out on a spree of watching English movies and listening to English songs.

http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=382541&sid=ZNS&sname=

Air

im pretty sure that site is the least reputable though and no one else seems to have that part of the story


i do like the vow of revenge part

Filler Inc.

So... he hits his dad in the head with a brick, his dad being mentally challenged, and he, the son, becomes a super genius?

I think my dad just left for oregon, but when he gets back...

Supersmarts time!

FirstComradeStalin

So he really just learned English, then wrote a bunch of shitty books with shitty philosophies (memory can only be destroyed by sound waves? wtf?)

I am sad to be Indian

Mayday

I thought this was the new Real Lives thread

Air

hey you too huh

edit: t fcs

DarkHawke

Wikipedia wrote:

Historically, The Times of India has been praised for its content.[citation needed]

Hmmm.

FirstComradeStalin

Air wrote: »

hey you too huh

edit: t fcs

Most people say that you shouldn't be ashamed of your heritage, that it should be treasured. Those people aren't born to Indians.

Lucky Cynic

Wow, I think I've really done it now. I am playing Real Life while playing Second Life...

And now I am late to work IRL...

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Butters

That sound wave comment sounds like something that was spit out of an electronic translator.

Druhim

Haha you "play" SL. Remember, down the street not across the road.

Ivar

Since when is Second Life even a game?

Hoz

Butters wrote: »

That sound wave comment sounds like something that was spit out of an electronic translator.

"There is no concept of reincarnation" doesn't make much sense either. Yeah, there is a concept of it. How else could it be discussed?

Graves

This thread doesn't reall interest me, but I ran out of Frosted Flakes so I'm making Scooby Doo Kraft Macaroni and Cheese for breakfast.

oogmar

One day when I was about 12 I woke up with a ridiculous fever and found that I could comprehend English, but for some reason I could only speak in a language that seemed completely unknown but fluently understood to my brain-cooked self.

I tried really hard to explain what was going on to my mother, who started (TO MY HORROR) blathering back to me in this weird sounding speech that I understood just fine.

Then she explained to me that I was raised speaking Finn until she left the church, so I was fluent when I was 5 but hadn't spoken or heard it in like 7 years. Still can't speak it for dick, but every so often the odd thought triggers across my subconscious in a language I'm not quite familiar with. Then my conscious mind goes, "Right, Finn."




Weirdest goddamn thing ever, and pretty much unrelated, but it makes me wonder about this kid.

Meiz

quick, get the retards to mate to make geniuses.

DasUberEdward

oogmar wrote: »

One day when I was about 12 I woke up with a ridiculous fever and found that I could comprehend English, but for some reason I could only speak in a language that seemed completely unknown but fluently understood to my brain-cooked self.

I tried really hard to explain what was going on to my mother, who started (TO MY HORROR) blathering back to me in this weird sounding speech that I understood just fine.

Then she explained to me that I was raised speaking Finn until she left the church, so I was fluent when I was 5 but hadn't spoken or heard it in like 7 years. Still can't speak it for dick, but every so often the odd thought triggers across my subconscious in a language I'm not quite familiar with. Then my conscious mind goes, "Right, Finn."




Weirdest goddamn thing ever, and pretty much unrelated, but it makes me wonder about this kid.

Gosh you're fucked up.

Neat. But that's totally fucked up and would scare the piss out of me. Consider this, if you developed another finnish personality it could actively plot to kill you while you're totally aware of it's scheme because you would have no idea what that alternate personality was thinking since it would be finnish. Scary stuff.

Neli

Finnish is arguably one of the most horrible sounding languages ever

trentsteel

Oogmar that is interesting and Bizarre.