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Trolls, Nilesh Oak and Myself
I often get updates from some people on what the Internet (or often specifically Twitter) Trolls have to say about me. I used to react to them and write articles, but usually only when it gave me a chance to clarify the analysis on some important point directly or indirectly raised by them, or when the abuse got on my nerves. But now, I have stopped reacting to troll tweets of the second type, since I realize that when people have nothing concrete to say, they descend to vulgar personal abuse, and resorting to personal abuse without having anything concrete to say is the surest sign of the troll having accepted that he stands defeated.
In the last few days, there seems to have been a spate of abuse, and, far from reacting indignantly I only find the abuse amusing, exhilarating and even flattering as an indication of their acceptance of defeat. So this article is not a reaction to these abusive tweets, but to a rather funny outcome of one such abusive tweet. This abusive tweet, in turn, came as a reaction to a tweet by what seems to be one of the ultra-orthodox traditionalist “Vedic” enthusiasts:
This original tweeter https://x.com/adithya had tweeted as follows:
https://x.com/adithya/status/1898635930283704352
“"Appa, how old are the Vedas?" "They are older than you can ever imagine. They have veen existing since time immemorial" "Oh! Did they exist even before dinosaurs?" "Yes!" "Did they exist before the big bang also?" "Yes, Vedas existed even before the creation of this universe and even before the Pralaya or the dissolution of the earlier universe! Vedas are the breath of the eternal Brahman and were discovered (not invented) from the cosmos by the Rishis through their special ears. Hence the Rishis are called Mantra Drashta (discoverers of Veda Mantras) and not Mantra Karta (inventor or composer). The only thing that is ALWAYS there and has stood the test of time are Vedas. Can you imagine that the Rudram you are learning now was chanted in the exact same way by our ancestors thousands and thousands of years ago?" "WOW! THIS IS AMAZING Appa!"”
I do not know whether the above tweet was serious or tongue-in-cheek. But it had a lot of supportive and derisive reactions. One of them was the following troll tweet by a member of the AIT-supporting-Brahmins gang whom I have had occasion to refer to in some earlier articles:
https://x.com/shrikanth_krish/status/1898805638068883569
“This kind of traditional attitude is more
honorable than the dishonest historicism of the likes of Nilesh Oak or for that
matter Srikant Talageri”
Apparently, there were many more tweets in reply to this, either supporting me or concurring with his condemnation of myself as “dishonest”. Nothing that I saw fit to reply to.
But now comes the funny part. One person tweeted the following:
https://x.com/TradDeshastha/status/1898815015333044724
“Talageri afaik is not in the category of Nilesh Oak. What even.”
So here we have two tweeters writing comparing together Nilesh Oak and myself. And Nilesh Oak, thinking he was being complimented to my detriment, immediately jumped into the fray to tweet:
https://x.com/NileshOak/status/1899669315361902886
“This I agree. While both of us have done original work, when it comes to absolute chronology, for reasons inexplicable to me, Shir Talageri ji gives up all sense of scientific acumen, empiricism and logical reasoning. I tried to show these errors and after repeated attempts, gave up.”
This seems to have surprised the tweeter to whom he replied, who expressed his surprise as follows:
https://x.com/TradDeshastha/status/1899693360975343732
“The funniest shit happened 
I actually wanted to say that Talageri is notches higher than
Nilesh Oak. Oak thought I meant the opposite.”
Rather than reacting indignantly to tweets abusing or criticizing me, nowadays I find myself amused even by the most abusive of them.
But the above exchange was priceless!
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