On Saturday 04 Aug 2007 6:04 am, Charles Haynes wrote:
If I say I don't believe in dharma, reincarnation, karma or in any
gods can I be a Hindu? At what point does Hindu become so watered
down as to be useless as a description? At what point does it become a
distinction without a difference?
If I say I don't believe in dharma, reincarnation, karma or in any
gods can I be a Hindu? At what point does Hindu become so watered
down as to be useless as a description? At what point does it become a
distinction without a difference?
Interesting question, really :-) Reminded me of an
On 8/3/07, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 07:00 -0700, Thaths wrote:
*cough*gmail*cough*?
is gmail an MUA? i thought it was only webmail. what do you do on an
airplane, or elsewhere you need a local copy of your mailbox?
It _is_ an MUA. It is an MUA that
On 8/2/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Right-ho! Finest minds by whose standards?
Another example: www.tallbergfoundation.org.
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On 8/4/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 04 Aug 2007 6:04 am, Charles Haynes wrote:
If I say I don't believe in dharma, reincarnation, karma or in any
gods can I be a Hindu? At what point does Hindu become so watered
down as to be useless as a description? At what point
On Saturday 04 Aug 2007 9:15 pm, Charles Haynes wrote:
But that
raises the next question - just how sticky is that cultural
Hinduism? If that person rejects their Hinduism, moves out of Hindu
society, and raises their children without Hindu traditions, are their
children Hindu? For how many
Thanks, both of you... Just experienced xkcd. Here is something I felt
was quite funny...
http://xkcd.com/232/
Venkat
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
i may have said this before, but i love xkcd. this one [1] is just so
sweet.
-rishab
1. http://xkcd.org/162/
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 13:07
Not interested in touching the rest of this discussion, but just
weighing in on this bit:
shiv sastry wrote: [ on 10:14 PM 8/4/2007 ]
Certainly symbolic necrophagia and cannibalism are central to
Christianity, and explicitly ordered by God. If it's believed and
practiced that widely, how
Yes, xkcd is one of the greatest little secrets on the web ;) #162 is one
of my personal favs. Its the epitome of geek sentimental.
On 8/4/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks, both of you... Just experienced xkcd. Here is something I felt
was quite funny...
Charles Haynes wrote:
So I can see that someone born into a Hindu family in a Hindu society
will be considered Hindu - culturally if not religiously. But that
raises the next question - just how sticky is that cultural
Hinduism? If that person rejects their Hinduism, moves out of Hindu
society,
On 8/5/07, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are also the Hinduism is a way of life people who tell me that I
can be a Hindu despite my atheism, but I've never been able to get a
straight answer from anyone about what exactly that way of life entails.
I begin to wonder whether merely
Yes, xkcd is one of the greatest little secrets on the web ;) #162
is one
of my personal favs. Its the epitome of geek sentimental.
reminds me of a story I read a long time ago -- some people have
perfect pitch; the protagonist here had perfect phase. At the end of
the day, he'd
On 8/4/07, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
You missed out the important adjective symbolic in what Charles
said. I would be willing to bet that you were indeed aware of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_%28liturgy%29#The_Communion_Rite
On the other hand, there is a tradition of saintly Relics
shiv sastry [04/08/07 22:14 +0530]:
Charles Haynes wrote:
Hinduism? If that person rejects their Hinduism, moves out of Hindu
society, and raises their children without Hindu traditions, are their
children Hindu? For how many generations?
That remains to be seen IMO. There seems to be a
On Sunday 05 Aug 2007 1:39 am, Charles Haynes wrote:
Seems to me that even that may not be required, I don't think those
people will think you stopped being Hindu just because you stopped
breathing.
Well, Hindus tell me that only Hindus will explain to you that death is not
the end of life,
shiv sastry wrote: [ on 07:00 AM 8/5/2007 ]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_%28liturgy%29#The_Communion_Rite
No No - The body and blood of Christ was never consumed by anyone. At least I
was not informed about it.
[Some] Christian dogma holds that the bread and wine you consume
during
On Sunday 05 Aug 2007 1:31 am, Madhu Menon wrote:
There are also the Hinduism is a way of life people who tell me that I
can be a Hindu despite my atheism, but I've never been able to get a
straight answer from anyone about what exactly that way of life entails.
Nobody seems to have an answer,
I'd be especially interested in comments from Vip and Rishab.
http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/
Udhay
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