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Defending Idol Worship
Birendra (Barry) Nirmal Tiwary
For a long time some people have been heard saying that idol worship is wrong, that it is ancient, and not modern and so on. This argument is advanced mainly by the followers of the so-called monotheistic religions with the aim of attacking and slandering Hinduism and it practices. But regrettably it is also given by some confused people like the followers of some Hindu sects. This author has talked to some people who belong to one Hindu sect that opposes idol worship. One day these people will claim not to be Hindus but the next day, when they meet a staunch Hindu, will say, "We too are Hindus."
In this essay I wish to discuss the great merits of the Hindu practice of idol worship. First of all let us understand that when we Hindus pray in front of the idols of Gods and Goddesses, we are not worshipping the idols. Rather we are worshipping the Gods and Goddesses that these idols represent. These idols are merely a medium to help us focus our thoughts on God. When you go to a Hindu temple, what prevents your mind from wandering and thinking about your stocks investments or about the people you met at the party the previous night. These idols restrict our mind from wandering into different directions and instead focusing on God that these idols represent. Chanakya, the great Hindu teacher from the ancient era says the following about idols. "If you worship God by focusing your attention on a statue made out of wood, stone or metal, and if you worship with love and devotion, you will attain God. God will be pleased with you. " (1) He also says the following. "God does not reside in the statue made out of wood or stone. He resides in the feelings of men and women. In other words when a person worships God with faith, love and devotion, God makes himself present there. " (2) So, the point is that it is not important whether the idol is made of iron or wood or clay. It is not important whether the idol is three feet high or five or ten feet high. What is important is the love and devotion with which we pray to God in front of these idols. If we do not have love for God but merely prostrate ourselves in front of these idols, our prayer is useless. If we pray to God in a temple or at home, but lack the love for God, if we lack the compassion for other human beings, if we do not feel for the sufferings of other human beings, then such a prayer is useless. Idol Worship is the essence of the Hindu way of worship As I have written before, all religions were founded by men and all religions have similar characteristics e.g. believe in religious dogmas. But what differentiates a Hindu from a Christian or a Muslim? If Hindus too stop praying in front of idols but engage in practices that are followed by Christians or Muslims then what sets the Hindus apart from Christians and Muslims? If Hindus were to oppose idol worship, the next step will be to replace the Vedas or Bhagawat Geeta with a Bible or Koran and then the Hindu identity will be destroyed forever. It seems that the enemies of Hinduism are using all methods including bribery, violence, coercion, terrorism, control of the media and psychological manipulation to convert the Hindus into other faiths. Attacking the practice of idol worship is part of psychological warfare waged by the enemies of Hinduism. Swami Vivekananda saw the magic of idol worship when he met his guru, Sri Rama Krishna Thus is what Swami Vivekananda says about idol worship. "It has become a trite saying that idolatry is wrong, and every man swallows it at the present time without questioning. I once thought so, and to pay the penalty of that I had to learn my lesson sitting at the feet of a man who realized everything through idols; I allude to Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. If such Ramakrishna Paramahamsas are produced by idol-worship, what will you have — the reformer's creed or any number of idols? I want an answer. Take a thousand idols more if you can produce Ramakrishna Paramahamsas through idol worship, and may God speed you! Produce such noble natures by any means you can. Yet idolatry is condemned! Why? Nobody knows. Because some hundreds of years ago some man of Jewish blood happened to condemn it? That is, he happened to condemn everybody else's idols except his own. If God is represented in any beautiful form or any symbolic form, said the Jew, it is awfully bad; it is sin. But if He is represented in the form of a chest, with two angels sitting on each side, and a cloud hanging over it, it is the holy of holies. If God comes in the form of a dove, it is holy. But if He comes in the form of a cow, it is heathen superstition; condemn it! That is how the world goes. That is why the poet says, "What fools we mortals be!" How difficult it is to look through each other's eyes, and that is the bane of humanity. That is the basis of hatred and jealousy, of quarrel and of fight. Boys, moustached babies, who never went out of Madras, standing up and wanting to dictate laws to three hundred millions of people with thousands of traditions at their back! Are you not ashamed? Stand back from such blasphemy and learn first your lessons! Irreverent boys, simply because you can scrawl a few lines upon paper and get some fool to publish them for you, you think you are the educators of the world, you think you are the public opinion of India! Is it so? " (3) More from Swami Vivekananda's thoughts on idol worship This is what Swami Vivekananda says about idol worship. "Superstition is a great enemy of man, but bigotry is worse. Why does a Christian go to church? Why is the cross holy? Why is the face turned toward the sky in prayer? Why are there so many images in the Catholic Church? Why are there so many images in the minds of Protestants when they pray? My brethren, we cannot think about anything without a mental image than we can live without breathing - by the law of association the material image calls up the mental idea and vice versa. This is why the Hindu uses an external symbol when he worships. He will tell you, it helps to keep his mind fixed on the Being to whom he prays. He knows as well as you do that the image is not God, is not omnipresent. …. (4) Swami Vivekananda continues, as follows. If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. To the Hindu, man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the Infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress; and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the Glorious Sun. Unity in variety is the plan of nature, and the Hindu has recognized it. Every other religion lays down certain fixed dogmas and tries to force society to adopt them. ……The Hindus have discovered that the absolute can only be realized, or thought of, or stated through the relative, and the images, crosses, and crescents are simply so many symbols – so many pegs to hang spiritual ideas on. It is not that this help is necessary for everyone, but those that do not need it have no right to say that it is wrong. Nor is it compulsory in Hinduism. One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots. On the other hand, it is the attempt of undeveloped minds to grasp high spiritual truths. The Hindus have their faults, they sometimes have their exceptions; but mark this, they are always for punishing their own bodies, and never for cutting the throats of their neighbors. If the Hindu fanatic burns himself on the pyre, he never lights the fire of Inquisition. And even this cannot be laid at the door of his religion any more than the burning of witches can be laid at the door of Christianity. To the Hindu, then, the whole world of religions is only a traveling, a coming up, of different men and women, through various conditions and circumstances, to the same goal. Every religion is only evolving a God out of the material man, and the same God is the inspirer of all of them. Why, then, are there so many contradictions? They are only apparent, says the Hindu. The contradictions come from the same truth adapting itself to the varying circumstances of different natures. It is the same light coming through glasses of different colors- And these little variations are necessary for purposes of adaptation. But in the heart of everything the same truth reigns. The Lord has declared to the Hindu in His incarnation as Krishna: 'I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power rising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there.' And what has been the result? I challenge the world to find, throughout the whole system of Sanskrit philosophy, any such expression that the Hindu alone will be saved and not others. Says Vyasa, 'We find perfect men even beyond the pale of our caste and creed.' One thing more. How, then, can the Hindu, whose whole fabric of thought centers in God, believe in Buddhism which is agnostic, or in Jainism which is atheistic? The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great central truth in every religion, to evolve a God out of man. They have not seen the Father, but they have seen the Son. And he that hath seen the Son hath seen the Father also. .. " (4) References (1) Chanakya Niti and http://myads.org/chanakya/religion.shtml (2) Chanakya Niti and http://myads.org/chanakya/religion.shtml (3) Extracted from--- MY PLAN OF CAMPAIGN (Delivered at the Victoria Hall, Madras) The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 3/Lectures from Colombo to Almora/My Plan of Campaign.
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Long story short, a reader of the popular gaming blog kotaku.com emailed his firsthand account of the launch including some video. It documents what seems like chaos with long lines, pushing, yelling, yakuza (Japanese mafia) apparently paying the homeless and non-Japanese (believed to be Chinese) to stand in line and buy PS3 hardware but no software, no police around to assist and et cetera. Kotaku published his story along with a picture and the videos.
It turns out the BBC picked up on the story in PlayStation 3 hits 'grey market', which Kotaku explains here.
The BBC quotes Kotaku editor Brian Ashcroft who said:
"I witnessed homeless people waiting in line as well as a high number of Chinese customers."
The Kotaku reader's main point as quoted by the BBC:
"Sony should be scolded for staging a national launch event with 80,000 units. An extreme lack of supply ignited an extreme surge of demand - that of which poor Chinese and opportunistic Japanese took full advantage of."
In the meantime there have been reports PlayStation 3s are appearing in used shops and auctions for up to 3x their retail price.
And now, Kotaku has received complaints that the reader's email and subsequent BBC coverage are racist.
For investors in Sony (NYSE:SNE), Nintendo (OTCPK:NTDOY) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), I don't think there are really any stock investing implications here, other than the botched launch due to severely limited supplies. Apparently this has been a common problem in Japan.
The launch has not done much for Sony's shares, which are mostly flat this week, losing about 0.4% yesterday in Tokyo. Nintendo, however, is trading at multi-year highs and reportedly closed yesterday in Tokyo at an all-time high. Both the Nintendo Wii and the PS3 launch in the U.S. this Friday. The Wii launches in Japan on December 2nd and there are reports 400,000 units will be available.
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CEMETERY 1: Old cemetery I: 'Am Judenwall; Herz-Jesu Kirche. IN USE: From 1680 until 1835. NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: none. PUBLICATIONS:
CEMETERY 2: Kölner Strasse. IN USE: From 1834 until 1918. The cemetery was abolished and built over in 1938. NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: None. PUBLICATIONS:
CEMETERY 3: Neuer Friedhof (New cemetery) - Frauenberger Strasse. IN USE: From 1913 until 1942. NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 45. DOCUMENTATION:
CEMETERY 4: FLAMERSHEIM "Im obersten Driefeldchen" between the districts of Niederkastenholz and Kirchheim and in proximity of Arloffer Strasse . The cemetery nearer to Niederkastenholz is the Flamersheim cemetery. IN USE: From prior to 1790 until 1939. NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 30. DOCUMENTATION:
CEMETERY 5: GROSSBÜLLESHEIM 53881 - Alfred-Wegener-Strasse. IN USE: from 1876 until 1928. NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 11. DOCUMENTATION: PUBLICATIONS:
CEMETERY 6 KIRCHHEIM 53881 - In der Mohrenweide – along a footpath in the proximity of Arloffer Strasse , between the districts of Niederkastenholz and Kirchheim. IN USE: From 1790 until 1907. Enlarged in 1856. NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 7. DOCUMENTATION:
CEMETERY 7: KUCHENHEIM 53881 - Robert-Stolz-Strasse. IN USE: From 1778 until about 1929. Additional land acquired 1880 and enlarged 1888. NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 13. DOCUMENTATION:
CEMETERY 8: SCHWEINHEIM 53881 – "Schweinheimer Pfad". Outside districts of Schweinheim on Schweizer Strasse. IN USE: From 1782 until 1911. NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 14. DOCUMENTATION:
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Our first cruise on Princess was an overall wonderful experience but it did not get off to a good start. IcelandAir lost misplaced my luggage and didn't feed us to se arrived at the Embarkation area a few minuts before it opened at 8 AM. Coffee, tea and water were provided but nothing else. Note to Princess - when you agree to transfer passenger thate early - do something instead of letting them sit, starving and bored for nearly 4 hours. We chose amid-level interior cabin for the expected rough Atlantic crossing this time of year. GOOD IDEA. No one expected us to run into Tropical Storm Katia, but we all survived. Good stateroom (and excellent Steward Ricky)but I hadn't noticed it was equipped with bunks which we didn't need. They necessitate setting up the beds as bunks.
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Just back from the Feb 9 Fantasy cruise. We had kind of icky weather at Castaway Cay, a bit cool, windy, and with some rain showers. Still had a good day. Took this video of a waterspout visible from Serenity Bay. First time I've ever seen one! http://s80.beta.photobucket.com/user/skylynx11_photos/media/Waterspout_zpsa095f766.mp4.html
I think everyone was too busy running for their cameras to get freaked out. If it had headed towards us instead of away from us, things might have been different ;-) I was so fascinated I couldn't stop looking at it!
I saw it and took pics but kept thinking should we be worried? I asked a CM and he said he didn't know bc he has never seen one there before. Lol. Great pics and memories though. At least the sun came out for a little while after
I also was there it was cool to look at the waterspout then we made our way to the end of the pier to see more of the waterspout and found our bartender, Andrae and had a hummingbird drink! Yummy!
Wow, that's cool! We were there that day too but were busy snorkeling finding the hidden Mickey! It rained pretty good but we were snorkeling so it didn't matter all that much. We went parasailing in the afternoon and it was fun in the misty weather. I got dunked twice (asked for it!) and each time the ocean felt like the best bath water. Despite the not so sunny weather as we hoped for, Castaway Cay still offered up a great day and now a bonus to see this video! Thanks for sharing!
We had a twin spout on our 2011 cruise. You are in such awe that you kind of forget to be worried. Glad everyone was ok!!
Wow, 9 times at CC and never seen one. That's great footage. it looks like it was very cold that day!
We were there also. A guy next to us was kinda freaking out, as he thought it was a tornado! I asked him if he was from "tornado country" and he said no. However, I am from tornado country and knew it wasn't one. I explained to him what one looked like, but I'm not sure he believe me. Anyway, it was neat to see!
Waterspouts are still tornados so I'm confused by your post. . Some come from the sky down and others go from the water up, the later of which generally disappears over land. Either way, I wouldn't wanna be swimming near one of those suckers, lol. They are so cool though. What awesome footage! Sent from my iPad using DISBoards
On our stop at Great Stirrup Cay during our first NCL cruise, we saw 2 waterspouts very close to Coco Cay(Royal Caribbean's island). We were still on the ship at the time and were amazed by them. I wonder what the passengers on their ship(Royal Caribbean)thought though.
Ahhhh! I will forever have a mortal fear of Waterspouts. I was trapped on a roller coaster next to Lake Erie (Cedar Point) during a thunderstorm, and waterspouts started forming and the ride operators LEFT US! 45 minutes we sat there waiting for the storm to pass, I hate those things.
Lol!!! I was life guarding at Soak City one summer during college break. One day, there were THREE water spouts that formed. THREE. I was getting my meteorology degree at Ohio State so I was in heaven! It looked like a scene from a movie with people running and screaming for cover! I was trying to get a better view Sent from my iPhone using DISBoards


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This paper analyses the development of the ratio of corporate taxes to wage taxes using a simple political economy model with internationally mobile and immobile firms. Among other results, our model predicts that countries reduce their corporate tax rate, relative to the wage tax, either when preferences for public goods increase or when a rising share of capital is employed in multinational firms. The predicted relationships are tested using panel data for 23 OECD countries for the period 1980 through 2001. The results of the empirical analysis support our central hypotheses.
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So I've decided to pursue a career as an actuary. If it's not for me, thats okay but It really interests me and I believe I would do well in the field. Anyways, enough of that, my question to anyone who knows the hiring process, I was accepted into a University with an actuarial science major underneath the mathematics dept. However, I'm on the fence about moving and going to school there. I don't want to go there if a specific degree doesn't hold alot of weight. There is an excellent school nearby that offers a great statistics/finance/economic bachelor degrees.
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Actuarial science major here. Only major in actuarial science if you're sure this is the field for you. I'm most likely double majoring in Econ too so I have a backup (it's an easy double major at my school). If you go into actuarial science as a major, the benefits are the networking and the classes that help with the exams. Networking: you have friends in the same major. Make study groups for the P/FM exams. Buy/sell textbooks and study manuals. Attend all events hosted by your school's actuarial science club/fraternity. I have an internship this summer because of my school's actuarial science club (note that a lot of these clubs aren't restricted to actuarial science majors, so take that into consideration).
Everyone's saying you can major in anything and still be an actuary by passing exams. If you get lucky and have a really good head on your shoulders, this is good advice. Problem is an increasing number of jobs and internships are going to all the actuarial students first and the math/econ/stats students second. You can still do it with a math degree or whatever, but the odds are a lot less than they used to be. And if you're totally set on being an actuary, you might as well major in it and get all the benefits.
In the end, the degree you have will carry little weight in the interview process. Actuarial degree is just as valuable as math or econ, because the real substance lies in your internships and exams and involvements. This is where the actuarial degree comes in handy, because it helps you greatly with all of the above. If you're confident in your networking skills and know you can study independently without trouble (thus not needing any actuarial courses), then you can play it safe with another degree.
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I disagree with majoring only if you're sure it's the right field. I think it depends on the school you go to. My school has a lot of people who start out with actuarial science and when they realize it's not for them they have no problem switching majors. The other way is true with people who want to pick it up. I think graduating with an actuarial science major is very helpful, but it doesn't matter how you start. Then again, some schools are different in how easy it is to switch / pick up actuarial science.
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I'm a senior Actuarial Science major at a University in New York. Unfortunately I've had a horrible experience with my school. None of the teachers who teach the classes are actually actuaries, most have never even passed a single exam. The undergrad major only prepares you for exam P and about half for both FM and MFE. I have a 3.8 gpa in my major however when I began studding for the tests I noticed more than half of it I never learned in my classes. The only thing that I really benefited from is getting my VEE credits. As was previously pointed out, it's a good idea to double major in Economics as well just for added security. I'm on my last semester and I only know a handful of kids in the actuary major who passed a test, however I met a math major who had 3 tests already passed. The major as a whole isn't a very necessary part besides the networking. Unfortunatly my expierence with job searching in America is that the firms are very racist. If you are white it is much much much harder to get a job/internship. My study group are all kids with 3.7GPA's and above who each have at least 2 tests passed. None of us could get an internship no matter how many applications we sent out. As I speak now I still don't have an internship however two black kids in my class with C+ averages and no tests passed have a great internship at AIG this summer.
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Why is their race relevant?
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They have to meet racial quotas as a government standard
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Maybe the students just interviewed well
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Like Epicwarren, I too was an actuarial science major. I got to take courses for all 5 prelims, taught by professors who were credentialed actuaries. I also got a lot of exposure to employers, and got a network and go on lots of interviews. Lots of the major actuarial employers recruit their interns and entry level hires at schools with established actuarial science programs. By the time I graduated, I felt very comfortable with the industry and confident in my ability to pass exams.
But. The entry level job market is a bitch. Having a degree that is specific as actuarial science is not helpful if you're applying for related, but non-actuarial jobs. Some recruiters/employers might not even know what it is. I would really reccommend double majoring in economics or computer science (I'm leaning towards CS over econ, personally). You will gain additional skills that will help you as an actuary, but also help you outside of the field.
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I disagree with others, especially if you look at the specific pros. If exam passing is an issue, think about how tough it will be passing exams without classes once you start your job. I wouldn't be so opposed to these exam specific classes if the prelims are actually relevant to jobs, but they are not.
In terms of networking, if you feel being an act sci major is the only way to network properly in your school's career services in terms of getting actuarial jobs, then i guess you have no choice. I don't see why a company would look at an act sci major candidate vs a math major candidate differently, given they both have exams under their belts.
Truth is I think exam learning classes are a rather waste of academic time because of how specific the material is, which will never really be used in actual practices. I think it's more important to broaden your knowledge in math/statistics field which will give you an advantage once you are working when you can come up with actual methods that other students cannot.
Of course all of this is assuming you can shoulder on exams while studying for other classes. It also give you a good taste of how life will be like once you begin working (studying/working at the same time). Just my 2cents.
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Converting the bike to high fender (the way I did it) is not trivial but it is not too difficult. It does require you to solve a few problems because it is not a "kit" so you have to make a few things up.
Riding wise, it was a must do for me. The old 950s front fender sits pretty much right on the tire unlike the new 990s.
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Eh, I just plug my Wii U into a car adapter already, and, if my bro wants to play, I use the composite cables to plug into the built-in TV.
All I've been seeing from Europe in the past year is that a minority of its population like Nintendo games....
This wasn't really a surprise....
Don't worry, there's still the option to go in guns a'blazing or go stealth mode.
It's not a complete change.
Fix the washed-out colors, make it easier to see, (Had to turn the brightness all the way up to avoid running into walls), give the characters a backstory or something so you care when you lose one.
Hunting, with a liscense, is used to control animal population. Any other kills, without a liscense, over the liscense's limit, or out of season, is poaching.
Same goes to those hunting tigers, that is poaching, not hunting.
I see a lot of you confusing poaching and hunters, and I just want to point that out.
Also, remember, the man is an intelligent soul and possessing free will, but the animal is a soul guided by instinct.
Hunting is used for reducing overpopulation. That's why they only give out a certain number of licenses out at certain times a year with only certain amounts of allowed kills. If there were something to be mad at, it'd be poachers, not people who follow the law.
This game is incredibly unrealistic as far as I can tell. This is nothing like the real deal, lol. Don't get your panties in a twist.
Uh, so what's wrong with him wasting his money on a Wii U? He bought it, he can do what he wants with it.
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If you're after a historical biopic of
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Fun Run
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Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 1/2 |
Directed by | Greg Daniels |
Written by | Greg Daniels |
Production code | 401/402 |
Original air date | September 27, 2007[1] |
Running time | 42 minutes |
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"Fun Run" is the first and second episode of the fourth season of the American comedy television series The Office, and the show's fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth episode overall. Written and directed by executive producer and showrunner Greg Daniels, the episode first aired on NBC in the United States on September 27, 2007 on NBC.[1]
In the episode, Michael Scott believes the office is cursed after he accidentally hits Meredith Palmer with his car. After being taken to the hospital, Meredith is found to have rabies. In an attempt to make amends with Meredith, Michael sponsors a fun run for rabies. Meanwhile, it is revealed that Jim Halpert and Pam Beesly are dating, while Angela Martin is mad at Dwight Schrute for killing her cat Sprinkles.
The episode received mixed reviews from the varying critics, while most praised the episode for Jim and Pam's relationship. However, critics had differing opinions when it came to how Michael behaved throughout the episode.
Over the summer, Jan Levinson (Melora Hardin) moved in with Michael Scott (Steve Carell), and Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) broke up with Karen Filippelli (Rashida Jones), who left Dunder Mifflin Scranton. Jim and Pam Beesly (Jenna Fischer) claim that they see each other socially but only as friends. The documentary crew catches Pam picking up Jim in her car. They kiss and drive away. When faced with the footage of them kissing, Jim and Pam admit to the documentary crew that they are secretly dating.
As he arrives at work, Michael accidentally hits Meredith Palmer (Kate Flannery) with his car, sending her to the hospital for a fractured pelvis. Forced to join a group visit to Meredith in the hospital, Angela Martin (Angela Kinsey) leaves Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) with complicated instructions on the care of her ailing cat Sprinkles. During the hospital visit, Michael fails to obtain forgiveness from Meredith. When Angela returns to the office, Dwight informs her that her cat is dead. Dwight explains to Angela that he killed her cat because it was suffering, and that this is normal on the farm. Angela is furious, because being euthanized prevents Sprinkles from being in "cat heaven."
The combination of Meredith's accident, Sprinkles' death, and a virus on Pam's computer (which is cleaned by the company's tech support employee, Sadiq, portrayed by Omi Vaidya) convinces Michael that the office is cursed. He insists that he is not superstitious, but rather "a little-stitious". Dwight discovers that Meredith has had a precautionary rabies shot due to several animal bites. Michael immediately takes credit for saving Meredith's life by sending her to the hospital and declares the curse over. But, still feeling guilty about hurting Meredith, Michael organizes a charity five-kilometer fun run to raise awareness of the dangers of rabies. Over half of the money raised is spent on the check presentation ceremony. Few take the race seriously (Creed, Oscar and Stanley sneak off to a bar while Jim and Pam visit a garage sale) and while Toby Flenderson (Paul Lieberstein) wins the race, Michael becomes ill, having "carbo-loaded" (he ate fettucini alfredo before the race) and abstained from water. In the hospital for dehydration, Michael is visited by Meredith. In recognition of his efforts, she forgives Michael.
Meanwhile, Ryan Howard (B.J. Novak) is enjoying his new life at Corporate, and Creed shocks everyone, particularly Jim, when he begins listing painkilling drugs off the top of his head at the hospital.
"Fun Run" was the eighth episode of the series written by Greg Daniels and ninth episode directed by him.[2] The episode was the second of the series in which Daniels was both the writer and director. Daniels also wrote and directed the first season episode "Basketball."
After initially reading the script, Kate Flannery asked producer Kent Zbornak if Meredith was going to live, to which he replied "This isn't All My Children." Flannery was nervous about doing her own stunt, so Zbornak did it first to show her that she would be fine. Flannery recalls "[I] kind of got competitive with him, and I thought, 'I can do that. I can do that better than he can.'" At first, Flannery would flinch before hitting the glass, until director Greg Daniels was able to get her to not think about it.[3] Flannery's arms were bruised, due to having to film the scene multiple times. During the hospital scenes, Flannery and Steve Carell improvised a few times.[4]
Pam and Jim finally getting together went over well with most critics. Zap2It's Rick Porter thought "the show handled the PB&J (Pam Beesly and Jim) stuff as well as it always has, underplaying the romance as much as the NBC marketing folks overplay it."[5] Although, Christine Fenno from Entertainment Weekly was happy about Pam and Jim finally dating, she was critical of them being secret about it, reasoning "I mean, nobody's cheating. Can't the Pam and Jim plotline have a bigger obstacle than self-imposed, weakly enforced secrecy?"[6] TV Guide's Jack Rodgers was glad "the writers aren't jerking us around anymore, and the pair are finally busted when Jim hops a ride home with Pam after work."[7]
Reviews for Michael in this episode were a little bit more mixed. Rick Porter said that "there was a little too much Bad Michael in the hour for my taste."[5] Travis Fickett, of IGN, disagreed, saying that "the best stuff in the episode comes from Steve Carell. There's his reaction to hitting Meredith, how he breaks it to the office, and his fear that the office is cursed."[8] Will Leitch, a writer for New York Magazine, said that Michael hitting Meredith with his car was "one of the most shocking moments in the show's history" and "nothing that came afterwards could quite top what happened in the first 25 seconds."[9]
- ^ a b "Fun Run | Season 4 | 27 September 2007". NBC. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
- ^ "GREG DANIELS". NBC. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
- ^ "The Office Convention 2007 Cast Q&A". theoffice.wikia.com. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
- ^ "Dunder-Mifflin Infinity". TV Guide. 2007-10-02. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
- ^ a b "Office premiere: Cat heaven is a beautiful place". Zap2It.com. 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
- ^ "Crash Dummy". Entertainment Weekly. 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
- ^ "Joining Together in the Fight to Cure Rabies!". TV Guide. 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
- ^ "The Office: "Fun Run" Review". IGN. 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
- ^ "The Office: Support the Rabid". New York Magazine. 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
External links[edit]
- "Fun Run" at NBC.com
- "Fun Run" at the Internet Movie Database