--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <salsunsh...@...> wrote: > > On Jun 1, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Randy Meltzer wrote: > > > Thanks Vaj for saying that. I am not here to do the > > "pile on Vaj" thing. Its just when you make statements > > like "the shankaracharya order is Vaishnavite" and my > > experience is soooo the oposite I had to chime in. > > I couldn't agree more, Randy...every time Vaj > or anyone else makes a dumb-ass > statement like that I just want to punch them. > The "shankaracharya order is Vaishnavite" indeed! > > > And yes, I did have a small axe to grind about you as > > someone pointed out in a previous post, because I felt > > your comments in the past about my experiences were > > disrespectful. In any case, its nothing personal. > > Just trying to keep the facts staight > > Yes, the facts about the shankaracharya order being > Vaishnavite or not is as clear-cut as crystal, and how > anybody could miss that is beyond me. Thanks for clearing > all that up!
The "facts" are that you guys are arguing about whether an obscure religious sect worships one imaginary deity or another. >From the outside, without being a part of that obscure religious sect. I understand that it's fun for you, and is as good a way to pass the incarnation as any, I guess, but I'm reminded of the sociologist who postulated that beings a few centuries from now are going to find American shopping malls and not know what the hell to make of them. They are obviously centers to which large numbers of people flocked on a regular basis. In other societies this is synonymous with churches and other centers of religious or spiritual activity. So these future soc- iologists are going to decide that shopping malls were the churches of America. And who or what did the people worship in these huge churches? Deities named Calvin Klein and Hugo Boss and (genuflecting before speaking His holy name) Versace. These sociologists will spend hours arguing about which of these gods the long-dead people of America worshipped *most*, and which was the "ultimate" god of the shopping malls the one that the religious order was founded to worship. And, obviously, it's Hugo Boss, right? The name says it all.
