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- 06 Apr 2007 02:58
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 9
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Living Systems are open systems . In such systems, external influences will be embraced, sometimes to the deteriment of the organism (Hinduism). There will always be a Ambhi, for every Shankara or a Ramanuja within the system. There are some, who will spend energies on consipiracy theories and on wh...
- 06 Apr 2007 02:58
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 9
- Replies: 326
- Views: 129883
Living Systems are open systems . In such systems, external influences will be embraced, sometimes to the deteriment of the organism (Hinduism). There will always be a Ambhi, for every Shankara or a Ramanuja within the system. There are some, who will spend energies on consipiracy theories and who i...
- 06 Apr 2007 02:23
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 9
- Replies: 326
- Views: 129883
- 05 Apr 2007 22:31
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 9
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- 05 Apr 2007 19:42
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 9
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- 05 Apr 2007 12:22
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 9
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I wholeheartedly agree with you on the proselytizing part. Doing so will mean compromising the very spirit of Sanatana Dharma. Proselytizing = Viral Marketing. Banning Proselytizing = Trade barriers bad for interal freedom in religion. That SD would loose if we Proselytize it true only to the extan...
- 05 Apr 2007 12:10
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 9
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EJ : Listen heathen, you are worshipping a false-god and are deeply lost in false-religion and you will go to hell. Become an EJ. Heathen : While Christism is good and it is true that i might go to hell as you say and perhaps i am deeply lost in false-religion and all my gods are false. But you are...
- 05 Apr 2007 11:55
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 9
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- 05 Apr 2007 11:06
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 9
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Pulikeshiji Can a tradition that flounts nasadasin-no-sadasit get itself to do these things ? I dont know.. Great question. Not a compromise at all. This moral relativism that has crept into Hindusim is a modern phenomena. Dharma, is closely connected to what maintains order in society. This means,...
- 05 Apr 2007 10:43
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 9
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Even on this thread there is a paucity of people who are able to describe what Hinduism is all about. I was saddened to see that a one paragraph description made by me in an earlier thread was the subject of some praise. Does it take a faulty half-wit Hindu like me to describe Hinduism to people wh...
- 05 Apr 2007 09:30
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 9
- Replies: 326
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- 05 Apr 2007 02:29
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 9
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- 05 Apr 2007 02:17
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 9
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sorry... purist planks won't sell to the below poverty EJ vulnerable class. hence, they need better setup. something they are sold on to.. like a mutual fund that does not behave like a regular loser stock., with that hindu freedom that lets them reinvest in other types of funds, within the market....
- 04 Apr 2007 23:46
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 9
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- 01 Apr 2007 00:55
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 6
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- 31 Mar 2007 08:36
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 6
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But it does not end there. If Indians are completely mentally colonized, blaming the colonizers today is of little use. What Hindus should have done is fight the colonizers of yesterday. I think that blaming the forces of history and the forces that Yahweh and Allah made powerful in the past is a w...
- 31 Mar 2007 06:26
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 6
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- 31 Mar 2007 04:23
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 6
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- 31 Mar 2007 04:01
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 6
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Going back to Shiv's point about things that we may have lost: This article should make the geniuses of Enron who came up with weather derivative blush. Wonder how many chalu farmer could have benefited rather than having to commit suiside because they could not hedge their odds. Seems like we inher...
- 31 Mar 2007 03:56
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 6
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Well said! As long as we spake Meta-Physics onlee and do not understand the needs and desires of society as a whole, we are not on the Dharmic path.TSJones wrote: Maybe you can tell them how atoms are made of energy and Hinduism is at the forefront of scientific thought. That is sure to make them feel better.
- 30 Mar 2007 13:04
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 6
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- 30 Mar 2007 12:46
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 6
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People see divinity in many things, but that does not make it divine. In Exodus 32, the Israelites made a molten calf and then began worshipping it. Now we all know what happened to them. It is ironic, that what did not have a form destroyed a so-called diety that did have a form. The molten calf c...
- 28 Mar 2007 12:20
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 5
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yawn, wake me up when something fun happens again.. we are back to advaita/dvaitha rehash. Forgetting the Person-C (Customer) :evil: We got ourselves to blame for not creating any new product in eons! We can't even agree if we have a product :shock: The only way to beat EJ is to help Person-C ( &...
- 28 Mar 2007 05:02
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 5
- Replies: 321
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- 28 Mar 2007 04:12
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 5
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- 27 Mar 2007 21:16
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 5
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- 27 Mar 2007 21:11
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread - 5
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What is God's relationship to Creation?
On the face of it, the characteristics of transcendence and immanence appear to be in conflict. A transcendent God is one who is beyond perception, independent of the universe, and wholly “otherâ€
On the face of it, the characteristics of transcendence and immanence appear to be in conflict. A transcendent God is one who is beyond perception, independent of the universe, and wholly “otherâ€
- 27 Mar 2007 09:35
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread 4
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This rice powder paste modelled as a lamb (Pishta-Pasu) on the baked plantain leaf will be hard-baked after folding the leaf edges. Parts of the figure will be cut out and ritualistically offered to fire-god (Homam), with the assumption that it is truely a lamb. Yum! it is good to be a God and enjo...
- 27 Mar 2007 08:43
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread 4
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Pulikeshi - There have been numerous threads on this forum, going back to 1998, before those discussions were banned in the first place. My commentary is based on all of those discussions. Perhaps the conclusion is unpalatable, but it is justifiable. Calvin, I am sure I have been around since the b...
- 27 Mar 2007 08:16
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread 4
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I agree with you on this, but perhaps you have also recognized that yours is a minority view. Most people would proscribe the conversion in the first place. Did you take a poll? Or is it only from data you collected on this forum? If the latter, you don’t believe us forumites to be worthy of such...
- 27 Mar 2007 07:50
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread 4
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Our God is a fair God. However, you will be judged. You can potentially be reborn at the last minute and you can be saved and be with Abba, but that doesn't necessarily mean you will be one of the plank owners. That is your belief and may you own many planks :mrgreen: Let the rest of us own nothing...
- 27 Mar 2007 04:37
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread 4
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- 26 Mar 2007 12:35
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread 4
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- 26 Mar 2007 10:28
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread 4
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Regardless of which faith you believe in, do you think that God takes your permission before he decides to do something with you? Not if you are a monist or even a dualist in the Hindu religion. The Hindu Gods have to act within the rules of their creation, preservation or determined destruction â€...
- 26 Mar 2007 09:07
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread 4
- Replies: 321
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You have an opportunity in this lifetime to see the truth. If you are a Hindu - you will get more lives to keep looking. If you are not Hindu - well - your one chance to find the truth is gone after this life- someone will explain it to you once you are gone. Hi Shiv, Great post, but have a small n...
- 26 Mar 2007 08:57
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread 4
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- 26 Mar 2007 06:35
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread 4
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Calvin, I agree with you that there is something dysfunctional about this discussion on religion. However, for an entirely different set of reasons - 1. Arguments on whose belief is better – never result in anything productive, this I agree with you. 2. To call Hinduism great – seems to bother y...
- 24 Mar 2007 11:23
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread 4
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Hindu society is fairly impervious to change e.g. look at Indian Hindus taken to the Caribbean 150 years ago to work as indentured labor in sugarcane plantations. Their traditions have survived more intact than the traditions of Hindus in India inspite of them being a relatively small community thr...
- 24 Mar 2007 07:55
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread 4
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- 24 Mar 2007 07:48
- Forum: Religion Discussion Archive
- Topic: Religion Thread 4
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SaiK, Thanks for that interesting article. It would be interesting to know your opinion regarding that article. First, the author seems to be hell bent on viewing Hindu renaissance through the prism of what Christianity went through. Natural Science stands opposed to Christian belief. Science had to...