Pledge “altriuist”
"I will not add any surname to my children. I will try to eradicate the religion and caste based discrimination. but only if 1,000 other people will do the same."
— bagdevi, The Altruist. (contact)
Deadline to sign up by: 31st December 2008
35 people have signed up, 965 more needed
Country: India
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This is the place for the people who considers themselves to be human beings,not a hindu, muslim or christian.We have witnessed that religion and caste based division is a great problem for the human race and this is the root cause of most of the agitations.Friends,if we believe there should be no caste and religion based division, we should find ways to eradicate it.I have a way. We can't apply it for ourselves, but we can apply this on the next generation.Let's name our offspring without a surname.May be they will still remember to which caste/religion they belong.But the differences will reduce and by the time our grand children are being named, caste and religion feeling will be still lesser.May be this is a time consuming procedure,But I m sure it will work. So please join with me.Let's discuss more ways to eradicate this chronic disease from our society.We can respect any or many religion according to our acceptability but Let's be no Theist or Atheist,just be ALTRUIST.
Current signatories (
= they've done it)
bagdevi, the Pledge Creator, joined by:
- Amit Kumar
- sandeep kumar
- soumyadeep Nandi
- ipsita
- Sambit
- shankar
- Suja.O ( Anu)
- amit
- swarupa
- priyanka
- MAMTA
- Nishant
- Paramjeet
- Dola
- Dillip
- Sujit Mahapatra
- praveen rai
- Nisha
- Abha
- swatitanmaya
- Prabodha Kumar Pradhan
- Narendra
- seema
- manoj
- basudev
- Reema
- RAMAKRISHNA
- Prayas
- Dr Sami Chidiac
- Birendra Kr.Soni
- bagdevi
- priyanka
- Soumyndra
- 2 people who did not want to give their names, 1 of whom has done the pledge
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"We can respect any or many religion according to our acceptability but Let's be no Theist or Atheist,just be ALTRUIST."
We can eliminate the surnames from the naming system to elimilate the social discriminations but still we can respect any religion. Let's make everybody to decide to which religion he should respect and follow. Let's not impose the religion or caste on anybody.
What do you say ?
Instead, I would prefer to follow the rule of 'Youth for Equality' where you just compete and proceed! Only thing we need to do is try to provide equal opportunities to all which can come only by education and realisation of our responsibilities and duties (not just the rights). Hope it make sense!
I think each person thinks his/her religion is good. Why to mention even the religion?? If we follow a good life style and we have our ethics with us, let our 'attitude' speak, not the 'surname'. We can not change people's behavior towards us but definitely we can change the way we respond to them. :)
It's sometimes easy to be different, but what matters eventually is WHERE?
And its important that this feeling grows, from the point of its conception and then I am sure the perception would be THE same, if not today but surely later.
ENCORE!!
Carry on.
First qustion "Whaz wrong in adding u r surname? Don't-u like to keep u r father's name or family's name at the end of u r name!! AGAIN, Hardly anybody knows about the connection between surname and religion-caste. What about Mishra vs. Misra; Pandey vs. Panday vs. Ponda vs. etc etc? Can u guys tell what relision are these surname(s) belongs to?
Next, how it sounds like some one call u "Miss Nancy" or "Miss Clarkson"......what about ...Dr. Nancy or Dr. Clarkson".....Dr. Das or Dr. Askok?
When "WE" or "You" people think about these small things......I guess "Its a nice way of choosing wasting our / u r time"...There are lot of other things in this world to do ...FOLKS.
I dont want to create enemey (ies) so, I dont want to argue but I dont accept this concept also.....
prasant here..and from phulbani .i would like to congratulate first ,for your commitment, and ur initiative.
actually its a good starting....from a drop we can make a pond. but some has to start, i feel happy someone from phulbani has done this much ....its really good.
I must say the first name of a person can also determine the religion, and/or origin of a person.
Humans should live to embrace difference not ignore it. we are naturally different colours and our belifes build up with experience, knowledge and tolerance.
I am a Muslim, before I belived in Islam, I reserach each religion, I believe in God and the major religions to be correct, but for that time and those people. I believe in the sacred books of all religion but the last and final religious book to be revealed is the Quran. Also I believe, if any one researchs into the religion of Islam accurately, they will embrace it.
Lastly every one is different and will be different no matter how much we try. We do not need to change the difference we need to embrace it. We have different jobs, some one is a doctor, and some one is a teacher; we eat differenet foods according to our tastes, and wear different clothes depending on our style... we live in different countries.......we have so many differences and this fact will remain the same......we just need to celebrate difference!