Yes, you read it right! Instead of calling it Festival of India, we decided to address it as Festival of Krishna, since it’s all about Krishna. The students were so happy about the whole exhibits and the special prasadam that we prepared for them, the atmosphere was almost perfect you know the bhajans and the devotees presence just set up the peaceful mood until our friend Joey came, the Fanatic/Lunatic Christian Preacher! They call him the Turlington Guy, I don’t exactly know why but one thing for sure he’s really a pain in the a$$! He’s been harassing us since the beginning of this year and at same time disturbing the students. I can still vividly remember the first time he started his outrageous preaching which is actually just yelling! Out from nowhere he just appeared right in front of us and started his below the belt accusations to the devotees, saying things that “Krishna is an idol”, “Hare Krishna’s are devil worshiper” and that “Krishna is not God but rather just a hindu mythology”My God! What is wrong with this guy? This was the first thing that came in my mind. And then I thought maybe he’s just going there to spread his glories because of the long line of students waiting patiently for prasadam and in this way they can hear what stupidity he’s saying. That could be true, oh ok I think it is true but I think also that he is just envious of Krishna thats why he is doing such non-sense, whatever is the reason it I don’t really care. As a devotee, we learned to be tolerant and merciful, so we didn’t do anything to him we just ignored him and pretend that he doesn’t exist but then again Krishna protects his devotees and He made some special arrangements, it turned out that the students were the one defending us and fighting for us. Students would do all this funny stuff just to stop Joey, sometimes they would yelled back to him “1234 we don’t want your religious war!” or “Shut the F up and go back to Turlington”
I really feel bad for him because somehow he had some good intentions for the people like the way we do its just that he’s on the wrong path or the wrong way of preaching about Jesus. Every time Joey is there, I just think that maybe that’s Krishna’s mercy to him because no matter what non-sense he’s doing he’s still able to hear the glory of the maha-mantra. Anyway, here’s some Krishna Lunch videos during the Festival and of course Joey was there too :o)
I’m glad you could use my videos! The festival was so lovely. ‘Turlington Guy’ didn’t seem to be as disruptive as he has been in the past, and I haven’t even seen him around campus lately! He is, without a doubt, the most annoying personality at UF.
In the first video, you can hear a girl sitting near me call one of the desserts ‘baklava.’ That was pretty funny.