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When Truth Is King: Reflections on the Rule of Law

12/4/2025

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The Foundation of Justice

​Justice rests on enduring principles: fairness, accuracy, and the supremacy of law. These are not abstract ideals but the bedrock of any society that seeks legitimacy. When narratives drift from facts, when perception overshadows evidence, the very structure of justice begins to weaken.

Rex Lex vs. Lex Rex

History offers two contrasting visions. Under Rex Lex—“the King is the Law”—power determined truth. Authority itself was the measure of justice.

By contrast, the modern world aspires to Lex Rex—“the Law is King.” Here, law stands above rulers, institutions, and public opinion. It demands verifiable evidence, not speculation or popular sentiment.
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This distinction is more than historical curiosity. It is the difference between a system ruled by individuals and one governed by principles.

Why Accuracy Matters

Human societies often struggle with the gap between what is formally established and what is popularly believed. Details blur, context disappears, and nuance collapses into simplified narratives. A remark taken out of context, repeated without care, can evolve into something far removed from its origin.

The Rule of Law insists on returning to the record—to what was actually said, done, or proven. It resists the temptation to substitute stories for truth.

Responsibility and Narrative

Responsibility is central to justice. Yet responsibility must be grounded in fact, not in narratives that expand beyond evidence. To own one’s actions is different from being defined by distortions or assumptions.

When decision-making rests on incomplete information or untested claims, the Rule of Man quietly reasserts itself. The safeguard of law lies in resisting this drift.

The Principle at Stake

A just system cannot stand if it is built on errors, distortions, or unchecked assumptions. The principle is not about assigning blame but about ensuring that decisions reflect truth. Fairness requires fidelity to evidence, not acquiescence to convenience or perception.

The Larger Vision

In an age of viral narratives and polarized debates, the Rule of Law remains humanity’s safeguard. It promises that truth—real, verifiable truth—still matters. Not the most dramatic story. Not the most convenient account. Not the one that feels right to others. But truth itself.

This is the promise that allows societies to endure. It is the assurance that justice is not a matter of power or popularity, but of principle. And it is the reminder that every person deserves to be seen through the lens of truth, not through the distortions of narrative.
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Jude Thangarajah
Author, Cosmism: A New Hope for Humanity
Advocate for fairness, accuracy, and the rule of law
www.YodaTheProphet.com
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Colonialism in the Courtroom: The Parasite Still Feeds

10/31/2025

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By Jude Thangarajah | Yoda The Prophet

Canada calls itself post-colonial, but its institutions still carry the soul of empire.
You see it in how power speaks — who it listens to, and who it silences.
For those who come from lands once colonized and try to rebuild a life here, that same cold hierarchy lingers.
The parasite has not died — it has changed its host.

There’s a biological and moral parallel between parasites and colonial systems — both survive by feeding on others’ vitality and calling it civilization.


🧬 1. Dependence on the Host

Parasites cannot live without their hosts.
Colonial empires could not exist without exploiting other peoples’ land, labor, and identity.

The British Empire thrived by draining India’s wealth and dividing its people — but its deeper legacy, shared by empires everywhere, was the power to define others. Across the colonial world, language itself became a weapon: the power to name, to misname, and to erase. In the Americas, hundreds of distinct Indigenous nations were collapsed into the mistaken label “Indian,” a word born of European confusion yet still used today — a reminder of how error can become identity.

​Parallel: Colonialism thrives on confusion — it consumes difference, then renames it.


💀 2. Extraction Without Reciprocity

Colonial powers took the best from the lands they ruled — minerals, crops, art, labor, and even names — and gave little back.
Today, the same mentality persists when minorities and dissenters in Canada face systemic inequality, token inclusion, or bureaucratic cruelty.

Parallel: The colonial parasite may change its form, but not its hunger.


🧠 3. Manipulation and Control

Parasites numb the host’s defenses.
Colonial systems did the same through propaganda, education, and law — rewriting the meaning of truth and justice.
Canada's justice system, for all its aspirations to fairness, can still reflect old patterns: controlling narratives and marginalizing voices that challenge established power.

Parallel: The modern court is the old empire with better manners.


🩸 4. Structural Domination

In every colony, hierarchy was the rule: rulers at the top, subjects at the bottom.
In modern Canada, the faces have changed but the structure hasn’t.
There are “model citizens” who are praised, and “problem ones” who are punished or discarded when they challenge power.

Parallel: The empire lives on in the psychology of status and compliance.

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🕳️ 5. Justification of Harm

Colonial powers justified exploitation by saying they were “civilizing” others.
Today’s systems justify mistreatment through “policy,” “procedure,” and “public safety.”
When morality is replaced by bureaucracy, compassion dies.

Parallel: The parasite feeds best when it convinces the host it’s medicine.


✊ The Vigil for Justice

When I stand in front of the courthouse with my signs — House of Lies, House of Abuse, House of Injustice — I’m not only confronting a personal wrong.
I’m confronting the deeper sickness of the colonial mind — the system that still decides whose pain is valid and whose voice is disposable.

My Justice Vigil is an act of spiritual resistance — a way to reclaim my narrative from those who erased it.
It says: We will not let empire hide behind modern language. We will not let silence become law.


🌌 From Colonialism to Cosmism

If colonialism is parasitic, then Cosmism is symbiotic.
It offers an evolutionary alternative — not conquering others, but building together.
Cosmism refuses domination, dogma, or hierarchy. It calls for a civilization rooted in cooperation, truth, and the inherent dignity of every person.

Where colonialism feeds on division, Cosmism feeds on connection.
It is the philosophy of renewal — the healing of the host after centuries of infection.

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Colonialism renamed our worlds. Cosmism reclaims them.
The parasite still feeds — but the cure has already begun.


Author’s Reflection

I was born abroad but have lived most of my life in Canada — the country I call home.
Yet over the years, I have experienced how systems here can quietly punish and exclude those who challenge them.
Through discrimination, misunderstanding, and legal mistreatment, I’ve felt what it means to be erased by the very institutions meant to protect justice.


My struggle is not only personal; it reflects a deeper sickness within society — the lingering colonial mindset that still divides, labels, and controls.
Through Cosmism, I seek a way beyond that darkness — toward a vision that restores dignity, equality, and truth for all.
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The Sexual Nature of the Divine: Reexamining Jesus and John Through Ancient Texts

10/27/2025

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In my book Cosmism: A New Hope for Humanity, I explore one of the most controversial yet largely unexamined aspects of early Christianity: the sexual nature of spirituality in the New Testament, including the possible homoerotic or pederastic dimensions of Jesus's relationship with his "beloved disciple," John.

The Evidence Hidden in Plain Sight

The New Testament itself contains passages that, when examined without modern assumptions, reveal an unmistakably intimate relationship between Jesus and John. Consider these textual clues:

John's Self-Designation: John refers to himself as "the elder" and imagines the church as the "chosen lady" and "bride" of Christ (2 John 1, 5; Revelation 21:9; John 3:29). This positions him as the first among the community of "wives" awaiting their spiritual union with Jesus.

The Virgin Males: Perhaps most tellingly, in Revelation 14:4, John describes the specially selected community as men "who are virgins and have not been defiled with women." This creates an unmistakable homoerotic undertone to the fellowship with the Messiah.

The Language of Union: Paul repeatedly uses explicitly sexual metaphors for the relationship between Christ and believers, speaking of becoming "complete through your union with Christ" (Colossians 2:10) and presenting believers "as a chaste virgin to Christ" (2 Corinthians 11:2).

Historical Parallels: David and Jonathan

This relationship pattern wasn't unprecedented in Hebrew scripture. The relationship between David and Jonathan involved "more than brotherly love." Their covenant is described with striking intimacy: "the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul" (1 Samuel 18:1-4).

When King Saul discovered their relationship, his rage was explicit: "You son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?" (1 Samuel 20:30). The biblical vocabulary—"perverse," "nakedness," "shame"—strongly implies sexual intimacy.

The Secret Gospel: Jesus and Lazarus

Perhaps the most explosive evidence comes from the excised portions of the Gospel of Mark. In 1958, Professor Morton Smith discovered a letter by Bishop Clement of Alexandria acknowledging the existence of a "secret gospel" of Mark. Clement admits that these passages were deliberately removed because they carried "more than a hint of the hierophantic and homosexual nature of the 'lord.'"

The hidden text describes Jesus raising a young man (identified by John as Lazarus of Bethany) from the tomb: "The youth, looking upon him, loved him and began to beseech him that he might be with him...And after six days, Jesus told him what to do and in the evening the youth comes to him, wearing a linen cloth over his naked body. And he remained with him that night, for Jesus taught him the mystery of the kingdom of God."
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Even in our canonical gospels, traces remain: Mark mentions a mysterious youth wearing only a linen cloth who follows Jesus after his arrest—when the mob tries to seize him, "he left the cloth behind and ran away naked" (Mark 14:51-52). John writes three times about Jesus's love for Lazarus, noting that "Jesus wept" for him and that witnesses said, "See how much he loved him!" (John 11:3, 5, 35-36).

The Parable of the Ten Virgins

Jesus himself used sexually charged imagery in his teachings. In the parable of the ten virgins (Matthew 25:1-13), five wise virgins meet the bridegroom at midnight and enter the marriage feast behind locked doors. Jesus explicitly identifies himself as the bridegroom and the virgins as his disciples awaiting his return.

What kind of feast, I ask, occurs between a lord and five virgins at midnight behind locked doors, with no bride mentioned?

The Anointing at Bethany

The ritual anointing of Jesus carries significant sexual symbolism. In Hebrew scripture, "feet" is often a euphemism for genitals. When John writes that Mary anointed Jesus's "feet" with expensive spikenard—an aphrodisiac associated with fertility and eroticism—after dinner in the home of "the people Jesus loved," the sexual implications become difficult to ignore.

Religious scholars have compared this anointing to the hieros gamos (sacred marriage) fertility rituals of other cultures, where a priestess anoints the genitals of the chosen king before ritual intercourse.

Why This Matters: Truth, Justice, and Liberation

I didn't write Cosmism simply to be provocative. This book emerged from my own journey through what I can only describe as an otherworldly concentration camp of injustice—years of being wrongfully targeted by a legal-penal system corrupted by racial and gender bias, where brown-skinned men are automatically cast as villains regardless of truth.

Just as the early church censored and rewrote the gospel to hide Jesus's full humanity and sexuality, our modern systems of power continue to suppress inconvenient truths. They silence voices that challenge dominant narratives. They punish those who refuse to accept comfortable lies.

Understanding the sexual nature of spirituality in early Christianity isn't just academic—it's about recognizing how power structures manipulate truth to control people. Bishop Clement advised his disciple to deny the secret gospel "even under oath, for not all true [things] are to be said to all men." This is the same logic used by corrupt systems today: hide the truth to protect institutional power.

My justice vigil isn't separate from this scholarly work—it's the same fight. Whether it's revealing the censored intimacy between Jesus and his disciples or exposing how the legal system crushes innocent people while claiming to pursue justice, the struggle is for truth, transparency, and liberation from systems built on lies.

Conclusion

Whether Jesus had a pederastic relationship with John or Lazarus, we cannot know with certainty. What we can know is that the New Testament is saturated with sexual imagery, that early Christians engaged in practices we'd find shocking, and that church authorities deliberately censored these realities.

The same impulse that led Clement to hide the secret gospel—protecting power by suppressing truth—operates in our justice systems today. True spiritual relationship with the divine requires honesty about our nature, including our sexuality. True justice requires the same courage to face uncomfortable truths.

If we want rehabilitative and restorative justice rather than mere punishment, if we want systems that serve truth rather than power, we must be willing to examine everything we've been told with fresh eyes—including the whitewashed version of Christianity we've inherited.

The prophets—Jesus, Buddha, Socrates—were troublemakers who challenged their societies' comfortable lies. In that tradition, my work continues.

Posted by: Jude Thangarajah (aka Yoda the Prophet)

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The Real Birth of Jesus: Rethinking History, Reclaiming Truth

10/27/2025

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What if everything we've been told about Jesus's origins was edited to protect power?

 Beyond the Myths: A Question of Evidence

For two thousand years, the story of Jesus's birth has been wrapped in miracles and mystery. But what if the real story—the human story—was deliberately obscured?

In Cosmism: A New Hope for Humanity, I examine the Nativity accounts not through the lens of blind faith, but through careful analysis of historical texts, genealogical records, and early Christian sources that were later deemed "apocryphal." What emerges is not a fairy tale, but something far more powerful: a story of real people, real struggles, and a truth that religious and political authorities found too dangerous to preserve.

The Virgin Birth: Symbol, Not Biology

The "virgin birth" has been used for centuries to elevate Jesus above humanity—to make him untouchable, unreachable, impossible to emulate.

But what if this wasn't the point at all?

In my book, I argue that the virgin birth was never meant to be taken as biological fact. It was a symbolic claim about spiritual awakening—about how divine purpose can manifest through human beings who align themselves with truth and love, rather than power and domination.

This doesn't diminish the sacred; it makes it accessible. It says that what happened in Jesus can happen in any of us.

The Hidden Genealogy: Joseph as Grandfather

One of the most puzzling aspects of the Gospels is the conflicting genealogies of Jesus in Matthew and Luke. Scholars have struggled with these contradictions for centuries.
In my book, I propose a solution that has been hiding in plain sight: Joseph may have been Jesus's grandfather, not his father.

Here's the evidence:
  • Matthew's genealogy deliberately emphasizes groups of 14 generations—yet the third set contains only 13. Matthew was a tax collector, skilled with numbers. This wasn't a mistake; it was a hint that someone was missing from the record.
  • Early texts like the Protevangelion of James describe Joseph as an elderly widower with children from a previous marriage when he was betrothed to Mary.
  • One of those sons may have been named Simon—the same Simon who closely accompanied Mary to Bethlehem, according to the account.
This interpretation doesn't erase Jesus's significance—it amplifies it. It shows that divine purpose works through real families, messy circumstances, and human vulnerability. The "Son of God" is also deeply, authentically the Son of Humanity.

A Birth Shrouded in Shame

If this reconstruction is correct, Jesus wasn't born into privilege or purity, but into scandal and rejection.

Early texts reveal that Jesus was called a "child of sin," "basely born," and accused of being "born through fornication." Even his own brothers may have taunted him about his origins. The Gospel of Nicodemus records elders openly criticizing him as illegitimate.

But rather than breaking him, this became the foundation of his revolutionary message: that God's love extends to the rejected, the shamed, the outcast. That no one—regardless of their birth circumstances or past—is beyond redemption or unworthy of dignity.

Jesus's entire ministry became a defiant declaration: I am proof that your labels don't define you. I am proof that truth and love can emerge from the darkest places.

Why This Matters for Justice Today

This reinterpretation of Jesus's birth isn't just academic—it's deeply personal and profoundly political.

Just as ancient authorities rewrote Jesus's story to control belief, modern institutions rewrite records to control truth.

For nearly a decade, I've been fighting to correct false allegations in my own legal record—accusations I never admitted to, was never charged with, but which continue to stain my name and violate my dignity. Despite clear evidence of my psychological trauma and inadequate legal support at the time of my guilty plea, Ontario's legal system continues to refuse to hear my appeal or remove these false claims.

I continue my ongoing Justice Vigils—peaceful public stands for truth and accountability—not out of desperation, but as a moral obligation.

The parallels are unmistakable:
  • Just as Jesus's true origins were suppressed to protect religious authority, my truth has been suppressed to protect institutional convenience.
  • Just as Jesus was labeled a "sinner" and "blasphemer" by those in power, I've been labeled by allegations that were never fairly adjudicated.
  • Just as Jesus's message of redemption threatened the gatekeepers of purity, fighting for truth in our justice system threatens those who benefit from silence.

Uncovering the truth about Jesus is the same work as uncovering truth in our courts: both are acts of restoration. Both are refusals to let power dictate reality.


From Rejection to Revolution

The real birth of Jesus wasn't in a sanitized manger scene. It happened in a cave, amid family conflict, social judgment, and uncertain futures.

Yet from that chaos emerged one of history's most transformative voices—someone who turned shame into strength, rejection into compassion, and suffering into a vision of universal human dignity.

Every struggle for truth follows the same pattern: what power tries to suppress often becomes the voice that changes everything.

This is why I continue to stand for justice. This is why I refuse to be silenced. And this is why the real story of Jesus matters more than ever: it reminds us that those who are silenced, shamed, and rejected often carry the truths the world most needs to hear.

Learn More

For deeper exploration of Jesus's hidden origins and the struggle to reclaim suppressed truth, read these chapters from Cosmism: A New Hope for Humanity:
  • "The Real Son and the Real Messiah" – Re-examining Christ's lineage and the politics of messiahship
  • "S + M = J" – The genealogical evidence for Joseph as grandfather
  • "Abuse, Abandonment, Anger, and Anguish" – Jesus's early trauma and its theological meaning
To learn about my Justice Vigil and how you can support the fight for truth in Ontario's legal system, visit my press kit and blog updates at www.YodaTheProphet.com

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Posted by Jude Thangarajah (Yoda the Prophet)
Fighting for truth—in ancient texts and modern courts
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Rethinking the Myth of David and Goliath: Power, Truth, and Human Complexity

10/27/2025

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Introduction

Last week’s Justice Vigil was both a public statement and an inner act of reflection. Standing before the courthouse with my signs and messages, I was reminded of how easily truth can be shaped—or suppressed—by those in power. In that spirit, I revisited an appendix from my book on the myth of King David and Goliath. It’s a story we all know, yet few pause to question how it was written and rewritten to serve authority. The parallels between that ancient narrative and modern systems of power, distortion, and redemption feel deeply personal.
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This blogpost explores those parallels—how institutional myths are created, how history is selectively edited, and how reclaiming the human story beneath legend becomes a form of moral and psychological restoration.

1. The Mythic Layer

The traditional version—that a shepherd boy slew a giant with faith and a stone—is a political myth, likely constructed to glorify David’s dynasty and secure his authority.
In contrast, older sources suggest:
  • David’s brothers served in Saul’s army, while David himself was a cupbearer and musician to the king.
  • A warrior named Elhanan, also from Bethlehem, is actually credited with slaying Goliath of Gath (2 Samuel 21:19).

2. Evidence of Later Insertion

Several inconsistencies indicate that the famous 1 Samuel 17 episode was added later:
  1. Saul already knows David well before this chapter, yet suddenly acts as if he doesn’t (1 Samuel 17:55–58).
  2. The text claims David stored Goliath’s armor “in his own tent,” suggesting he was already an officer.
  3. Later chroniclers change the record to say Elhanan killed Goliath’s brother—a clear attempt to preserve David’s hero image.

3. The Historical David

The historical David appears not as a boy-shepherd, but as an ambitious and strategic officer who gradually consolidated power:
  • He built a personal army loyal to himself.
  • He played Saul and the Philistines against each other.
  • He seized political opportunity after Saul’s death to become king of Judah, then all Israel.
  • His reign was marked by moral and political corruption: adultery, coercion, forced labor, and family revolts.

4. The Deeper Meaning

By peeling away the layers of political mythology, this reading reframes David not as a flawless vessel of divine will, but as a complex, flawed, and deeply human figure—capable of both vision and deceit, courage and compromise.

This matters because it reveals how institutions craft moral narratives to sanctify power and suppress inconvenient truths. It is a timeless reminder that even sacred histories are edited by those who prevail.

In my own reflections and public advocacy, I see parallels to this dynamic: the rewriting of personal stories by authority, the struggle to reclaim truth from distortion, and the ongoing process of moral and psychological restoration. To revisit David is, in a sense, to reclaim the right to be human—imperfect, evolving, and self-aware in the face of systems that prefer legends to living truth.

​Posted by: Jude Thangarajah (aka Yoda the Prophet)
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Why I’m Beginning a Hunger Strike – A Call for Justice

7/28/2025

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Posted by Jude Thangarajah | July 28, 2025

On Wednesday, July 30, I will begin a peaceful, water-only hunger strike at Springer Market Square in Kingston, Ontario.

This is not an act of desperation—but a moral stand. It is my last resort after nearly a decade of being denied justice, silenced, and misrepresented by Ontario’s legal system. I am protesting not only what was done to me, but what is done far too often to people who are racialized, mentally injured, unsupported, or misunderstood.

⚖️ What Happened to Me

In 2017, I pled guilty to charges arising from a domestic incident. But my plea was made while I was suffering from psychological trauma, untreated PTSD, and without effective legal support. I did not fully understand my rights or the process. I was never properly advised of my right to appeal.

When I finally attempted to correct this through the courts, my motion for an extension of time to appeal was denied—despite credible legal arguments and documentation of my mental condition at the time.

Most disturbing is the existence of a false and humiliating sexual threat allegation that I never admitted to, did not commit, and was not formally charged for—yet it continues to stain my name and violate my dignity. This accusation was neither fairly adjudicated nor removed from the public record.

🧾 What I’m Asking For

This hunger strike is a protest rooted in conscience, hope, and truth. I am calling for:

  • A fair and impartial hearing of my appeal
  • The removal or proper review of the false sexual threat allegation
  • Public attention to the racial and mental health biases in Ontario’s legal system
  • Accountability for the systemic failures that silenced me and many others

📎 Read My Full Press Kit

I’ve created a press kit that includes:

  • A personal letter explaining why I’m doing this
  • A press release outlining the facts
  • A legal memorandum summarizing the core arguments in my case

👉 [Click here to read or download the full Hunger Strike 2025 Press Kit (PDF)]

🤝 How You Can Help

  • Share my story on social media using the hashtag #JusticeForJude
  • Visit me at Springer Market Square if you are in Kingston
  • Reach out to media or legal professionals who might help amplify this call for justice
  • Email me if you want to support, collaborate, or ask questions

🙏 Final Words

I have no desire to suffer or draw attention for its own sake. But I can no longer live under a system that refuses to hear the truth.

This is not only my story—it’s the story of countless others trapped in a system that prioritizes procedure over people, and silence over fairness.

With sincerity and hope,
Jude Thangarajah
📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.YodaTheProphet.com
📞 (343) 363-1635
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answers to the logical questions

11/27/2024

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  1. Answer (b). Gandhi assumed the Western world is not civilized and was remarking that it would be a good idea for it to become civilized. Because his assumption is not the questioner’s assumption, the comment is humorous. (Source: https://www.sfu.ca/~swartz/logical_reasoning/09_dowden_pp_283-315.pdf)
  2. Answer (b) & possibly (c). The logical inconsistency in this allegation shows the real abusers in this case. But the wicked people in the legal & media system of Kingston and the province of Ontario have been doing everything to suppress the dark-skinned man from voicing his concerns. 

Please uphold truth and justice. I kindly request the people in this system and society to show some integrity and humanity in their actions. I request investigative journalism into my case.

​I want to be heard. Stop the suppression. Stop the abuse. Years of this abuse is utterly traumatizing and debilitating me.

The sexual abuse, the racial abuse, the psychological abuse and the legal struggle are relentless and intolerable. It's suffocating me everyday. I am struggling to reintegrate and live in this society. I require investigative journalism into my case. Until then, I must continue my civil protests to get heard for the sake of morality. I cannot live my life suppressed and cancelled out maliciously like this in this world.

Sincerely,
Jude Thangarajah
​aka Yoda The Prophet

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R-Rated Media Kit

9/27/2023

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Media Kit - Rated G

2/17/2023

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This one is rated G for everyone.
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Update–A Cosmic Victory!

9/6/2022

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“One man’s woo-woo, of course, is another’s deeply held belief system.” 
Julia Moskin (1*)

“I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness, to make sure it continues into the future.” 
Elon Musk (2*)

Hello humans,

​As the microcosm I live in necessitates, I have started promoting my book and religious idea on the streets directly to the people. I have obtained the city’s permission to do so. Even after many years of conscientious effort, the first publishable review of my book had convinced me that this world’s unjust discrimination would just not end. Since I will always be “ugly” to them, in one way or another, I have decided to use the image of Pan or Faun as the chief spirit of my pen name & prophetic persona. 

Pan is a Classical Greek god of the wilderness and pastures, of flocks and herds. Also, in line with his mischievous nature, I have started wearing two types of masks during book promotions. One is that of Pan and the other is that of a goat or scapegoat. Since both masks have horns, many passersby miss out on all the other details and quickly judge me to be someone dressed like the devil or some lunatic scaring the normal people. But I dress up only as a scapegoat or Pan (the good or the ugly), not as the devil (the bad). I hope the image and brand of Yoda the Prophet will encourage people to think more broadly, think about alternatives and other possibilities before judging someone or interpreting something in this fast-paced world.

Personally, it is not easy to stand around and be thought of as a nutcase or demon, and it is not at all that helpful when promoting a new book, especially a religious one. But I believe in my strategy to create the much-needed buzz. It seems my passion for God’s house will consume me. Let’s see how it unfolds. After all, your prophet is the LADY’s suffering servant and can carry many social labels, heavy burdens, and people’s sins upon his broad shoulders (cf. Isaiah 53 & 50:4-10). 

               So, it was in such gruelling circumstances that the second review arrived earlier than expected. It was from Kirkus Reviews. It took me a few days to even process their professional and critical evaluation of my book. I am happy and thankful that it is fair enough. Neutral enough. The integrity of their report is good enough. The link to the whole review is available here. In short, they call the book:

“Immersive, providing readers with plenty of food for thought.…The blueprint for an energetic new religion—composed mostly of woo-woo and blather.”

Plus (+) Points
This is what they say in the review:
  • A book that presents a new cosmological theology.
  • Oraiah writes all of this with a profusion of narrative energy and a generous amount of quotation and allusion; the book is immersive, providing readers with plenty of food for thought.
  • Oraiah adds an element of blasphemy to his work by constantly invoking Carl Sagan in the context of Cosmism. 
  • Sagan’s book Cosmos (1980) is called “one of the sacred writings that is part of the Bible of the religion of Cosmism”—a statement that would have surely irked the rationalist atheist Sagan. 
However, I believe Sagan would have surely been pleased with my earnest efforts in advancing the rationalist theist view of the world.

Minus (−) Points

    Firstly, regarding the word “woo-woo” they use for my book, I say that the element of woo-woo or mystical or supernatural is necessary to synthesize a religion. And when science is at its core, a religion can be used as a social tool for the spiritual health and growth of a civilization. Religion doesn’t have to be at odds with science. As the physicist Brian Cox says to the podcaster Joe Rogan in this interview, it is okay to philosophize and theologize and creatively have supernatural beliefs as long as it operates within a scientific framework (3*).

Some might call my new beliefs as nonsense like the other religions’, but out of the many options available, Cosmism is the one that really aspires to give supernatural love, hope, and visions to people while standing on the shoulders of science and history. Cosmism is the religious model that is designed to change and evolve with scientific observations and developments while keeping its believers united and updated. Cosmism provides a common platform for the scientific, spiritual, and political minds to work together, inspire people with hopeful messages, and maintain healthy societies in a multiplanetary civilization. 

Even your favourite billionaire playboy and serial entrepreneur, Elon Musk, wishes there was a theology of curiosity. He has recently tweeted:

“A new philosophy of the future is needed. I believe it should be curiosity about the Universe — expand humanity to become a multiplanet, then interstellar, species to see what’s out there.…God would want us to see Creation…” (4*)

I know Cosmism is the answer and I hope it will become a viable option to others. The second book review has given me a flicker of hope in humanity and the gatekeeping media of Canada and US. I have done my best and drafted a crude blueprint for a new Space Age belief and philosophical system. Now my duty is to continue to boldly stand and speak out in my adoration of the Supersoul of Cosmos and to gather and form a capable, good-hearted founding team. The goal is to build further the structure of Cosmism into a world religion and a non-profit organization that is supported by its believers—people who find value in Cosmism and want to support its success through participation and donation. 

    Finally, regarding the word “blather,” I know that absurdism is a clear literary device in some pages. But that’s where the wit and wisdom of this gadfly also lie. That’s where the book’s “immersive” energy is hidden. That’s where “plenty of food for thought” is kept. Oh, what a joy to see them call it as blather! This messenger is rated R, after all.  

Cosmic blessings be upon you all,
Yoda Oraiah
Yoda The Prophet

REFERENCES:
1. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/dining/27yoga.html?pagewanted=1&8dpc
2. https://aeon.co/essays/elon-musk-puts-his-case-for-a-multi-planet-civilisation
3. 
https://youtu.be/dE3dqlFzDeg
4. https://medium.com/belover/elon-musk-proposes-a-new-religion-c01731a7dbbd
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