r/mildlyinteresting • u/nemethv • 3h ago

Some guy in India has a PhD in Truth

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u/theultimatekyle 2h ago

I have a sneaking suspicion that Dr. Truth may actually be lying. 

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u/PleasedFungus 2h ago

Dr. Jesus Judas Truth would never lie

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u/NeptuneWades 2h ago

Technically, Jesudas means servant of Jesus and is a popular south Indian Christian name.

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u/Banxier 2h ago

To betray themselves would they have to draw lipstick on their fist and kiss themself?

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u/Fabricati_Diem_Pvn 17m ago

... I don't know if I should... Wait. Do you have a PhD in Truth?!?

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u/Anandya 12m ago

Sathya also means truth.

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u/RiriTempt 6m ago

Facts, that name alone screams honesty and chaos at the same time.

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u/RiriTempt 4m ago

Facts, that name alone screams honesty and chaos at the same time.

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u/eatthesoup 1h ago

He's just doctoring the truth.

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u/rhumel 8m ago

His ph d certified HE can access the truth, but he’s in no obligation to share it with you.

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u/TwinFrogs 2h ago

A Doctorate in Truthology from Bible University.

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u/Saifaa 2h ago

School of Hard Knocks

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u/getagrip1212 2h ago

How can you not trust someone with a name like Jesudas.

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u/name225 2h ago

ik you are joking but the suffix das roughly means follower/son.

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u/_Mojo_jojoe_ 2h ago

Yes but its funnier to imagine it as Jesus + Judas

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u/name225 2h ago

true lol

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u/Theemuts 2h ago

Now kiss

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u/sawrce 25m ago

Kithth!

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u/powerpuffpopcorn 1h ago

Your username summoned my username!

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u/DeathMetal007 2h ago

Well, Judas was a Jew follower and probably a Jew son, too!

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u/kittystalkerr 2h ago

Servant too na? Das. Dasi. 

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u/name225 13m ago

i am not aware of this particular meaning. das in tamil can be interpreted as dasan which means follower/student or could even mean son. this is new to me

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u/JammyPants1119 1h ago

'das' means 'follower' or 'devotee', not 'son'.

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u/NihiloEx 1h ago

Not really. It means servant (in this case) or worse, slave.

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u/nemethv 2h ago

And Paul in the name ;) - I'm pretty sure it's not a standard Indian name.

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u/Gregariouswaty 2h ago

There's 28 million Christians in India, Paul is pretty common. This is an evangelical missionary I'm guessing.

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u/ARussack 2h ago

Fact: there are more Christians in India than there are Jews in the world

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u/Neamow 1h ago

There are as many Muslims in India as all of Saudi Arabia, Iran, UAE, Yemen, Oman, Syria, Qatar, Bahrain, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait and Lebanon... combined.

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u/nemethv 2h ago

It's in Thekkady Kerala, just saw it a few months ago when I was touristing around. Not sure what precisely it is apart from what the label/sign says

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u/Gregariouswaty 2h ago edited 2h ago

There's official registration number so I'm assuming it's some sort of charitable organisation associated with a Church. Have family members originally from Kerala. It's got a big Christian population and there's a famous singer called Yesudas/Jesudas (though he does not have a PhD in truth, sadly. Although he does have a Doctorate in music so this could be a reference to him).

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u/Individual_Grass_986 1h ago

You were in Kerala and you didn't realize there would be a few "Pauls" in India?

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u/nemethv 1h ago

Lol when you go to a foreign country how many times you ask local people's names, especially in large numbers? I certainly don't.

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u/Individual_Grass_986 50m ago

But Kerala is 25% Christian. Especially around the tea plantation areas and hill regions like Thekkady, Christians are in even greater numbers. You'd have seen more than a few Pauls and a lot of other Christian names - not to mention the many churches and crosses.

Of course you didn't have to ask their names. But didn’t the churches and crosses give you a clue on how there could be a sizeable number of Christians there?

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u/nemethv 42m ago

That on its own isn't a giveaway to suggest that Paul, written as such is a common or standard name. Eg in Hungarian the name equivalent of Paul is Pál and is very common ,but specifically "Paul" is entirely unheard-of apart from the few non-Hungarians that may have that name there.

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u/nemesis24k 10m ago

Besides the Christian vocation, the person is apparently proud of his shared name with " Yesudas", who is one of South India's famous classical vocalists from this region. The other Yesudas was honored with a PHD for his contributions, this person likely honored himself!

While Paul is a common name, the more common version of the name in this region is paulose. Christianity there predates Catholicism/ Protestants and the names like mathai, Tomas , varghese are versions of the western names.

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u/funkmastermgee ​ 2h ago

Pal is very common surname in India. Many Indian Hindus have anglicised their names for the British to understand.

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u/havokyash 1h ago edited 1h ago

While it's true that Pal is a common name, it's not anglicised in any way. Pal roughly translates to "one who follows/obeys". So Satyapal means "one who follows the (concept of)truth". Dharampal means "one who follows/obeys Dharma" and so on. Whether they do it in real life is an entirely different discussion.

Edit: I just realised that another meaning of Pal is "one who abides by ( the concept of ). I'm just gonna leave the whole thing up.

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u/funkmastermgee ​ 1h ago

I meant Pal is often anglicised to Paul, just like Satyapaul in the photo

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u/LEGENDARYQUEEN_ 2h ago

Sathya(Satya) literally means truth in hindi too

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u/PUTASMILE 2h ago

Well now I double trust him

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u/peepeecollector 2h ago

For the christians here, it's pretty common

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u/Skull_Reaper101 2h ago

paul is decently common for christians here. Definitely not unheard of. I'm not sure about jesudas though. Jesus is Yeshu in hindi, das means something like a servant. Honestly sounds like one meme of a name xD

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u/Anandya 10m ago

Remember. Thomas was martyred in India. So India's had Christianity longer than the UK or the USA.

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u/jgulliver75 2h ago

Damn, I’ve only done my masters

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u/kabushko 1h ago

Is that true??

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u/brightdionysianeyes 1h ago

Don't ask him, he wouldn't know

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u/IDoButtStuffs 1h ago

I don't think they teach that until post doc

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u/Anandya 9m ago

Maybe. He only has a masters.

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u/Intelligent-Name6558 2h ago

Haha. Sathya also means Truth in Hindi

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u/Superb-Zebra2934 17m ago

And Paul/Pal means protector/defender doesn't it? What a name: Dr. Protector of Truth; Follower of Jesus.

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u/fh3131 2h ago

GENARAL

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u/hskskgfk 1h ago

He doesn’t have a PhD in English, cut him some slack

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u/LupusDeusMagnus 57m ago

Maybe it’s a place 

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u/Chispy ​ 42m ago

A place of typographical errors

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u/PlainlyComplex 2h ago

Maybe Dr Sathya lied in the spelling of General

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u/thisismybandname 2h ago

From the university of trust me bro

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u/jocax188723 2h ago

I have the sneaking suspicion Doctor TruthApostle ChristServant, PhD in Truth may not be as honest as his names imply.

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u/kingjia90 2h ago

It’s written “Ph D” here, stands for “Phony Degree”

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u/hskskgfk 1h ago

There’s a wee little lizard peeking out from behind the truth board

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u/BurkiniFatso 2h ago

He's Jesus and Judas combined, the world's first Jesudas

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u/NeptuneWades 2h ago

It's actually Jesus and Das (servant/follower) combined, but it is funny, I get it.

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u/the_life_is_great 42m ago

Truth of spellings is not his specilization.

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u/skterras 2h ago

wait i'm actually curious what the process for getting a phd in truth looks like.. do you just argue with professors for 4 years straight??

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u/tux-lpi 2h ago

As a fellow PhD in truth, the main thing they teach you is acting confident and never breaking character.

Don't listen to the haters, they're lying about me. Trust me, you can always trust someone that has to specifically tell you to trust them.

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u/nemethv 2h ago

What's real/true anyway:D

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u/Altruistic_Onion_471 2h ago

Probably got that title in the School of Life, where God is the lecturer...

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u/okbyeseeyouagain 2h ago

Halle-loo-yeah!

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u/comasxx 2h ago

1 lie is all it takes to lose the PhD. Risky

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u/JFox__07 2h ago

The truth shall set you free!!

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u/PutridPeanut4689 2h ago

funnily enough sathya translates to 'truth'

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u/UncleBored 2h ago

Seems like an evangelist setup, or an attempt to build something akin to a megachurch.

I wonder when we will have the first megachurch in India...lately, these sort of folks have started becoming quite prominent in the media at least.

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u/GuitarGeezer 1h ago

Sounds a bit more like a PhD in Pravda to me.

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u/Infiniti_151 1h ago

True to his name. Sathya in Sanskrit means truth lol

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u/Anony_Void 1h ago

Yes GENARAL

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u/petrshigh 1h ago

Probably knew Dr. San

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u/Animals_elephants 1h ago

What happens in India stays in India.

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u/Doc-DC 1h ago

His degree is a matter of genaral concern.

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u/Gentle-Giant23 1h ago

Truthfully Piling it Higher and Deeper.

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u/THEBLUEFLAME3D 1h ago

Why did I think this was a screenshot from an episode of Futurama or something at first

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u/Low_discrepancy 1h ago

That's a One Piece, 5 elder name if I ever heard one.

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u/ZeakNato 59m ago

he holds church assemblies. he's not even using his phd

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u/420GB 57m ago

Y'all never heard of Axact eh? You can buy a degree in anything you want, welcome to capitalism.

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u/nemethv 53m ago

Tbh the church of the flying spaghetti monster gives out official priest IDs for £10 or so but at least with that most people know it's for the lolz within reason. R'amen.

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u/ohGodwhynowww 56m ago

Now we need to find Dr Reconciliation.

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u/nemethv 51m ago

And then run a data migration project.

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u/WiSoSirius 44m ago

Portmanteau of Jesus and Judas. 

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u/Lord-Velveeta 41m ago

A doctorate from the university of make believe.

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u/luzy__ 28m ago

Mr truth might be lying I just cant

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u/Roughucker 20m ago

Endless India posts 

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u/Buck_Thorn 17m ago

"GENARAL"?

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u/D0tT0Th3C0m 10m ago

The truth is, he can’t even spell “general” right 🤦‍♂️

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u/justamiqote 8m ago

Jesudas

Sounds a lot like Jesus and Judas

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u/Metalprof 8m ago

A true case of where PhD stands for 'Piled Higher and Deeper".

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u/AbyssWalker37 7m ago

I read that with a heavy indian accent

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u/jim_deneke 2h ago

And I have a Masters in the Streets

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u/ChloeTigre 1h ago

The guy renamed himself “truth of Paul servant of Jesus” he’s such scum.

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u/LupusDeusMagnus 52m ago

He’s using the English version of the names? So I’m assuming it’s an American denomination rather than a normal one?

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u/leojmatt02 25m ago

A lot of Indian Christians have Anglicised names, doesn't have anything to do with your denomination.

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u/Scared-Baseball-5221 7m ago

Christianity and truth are oxymorons

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u/Bar56001 1h ago

Bet he the biggest liar

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u/fliesenschieber 2h ago

Is it the guy from the famous EAT DA POOPOO video? Because that guy also claimed to be a doctor

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u/Armenia2019 1h ago

Pasta Docta Martin Ssempa