On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
I know we've had this discussion, but I'm still not very clear on what
made you re-enter the rat race. :)
There isn't a single reason. There are several:
* Wanting good geek company. After a while, not being able to share
So we don't have to worry about the petty things anymore. Egypt, Libya,
Tunisia all your efforts and sacrifice is useless. And no IPL5. Yay!
http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/03/06/judgment.day.caravan/index.html?hpt=C1
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Venkat Mangudi - Silk
s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote:
So we don't have to worry about the petty things anymore. Egypt, Libya,
Tunisia all your efforts and sacrifice is useless. And no IPL5. Yay!
Kidding aside, it would be a useful sabbatical to take 3 months
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
Kidding aside, it would be a useful sabbatical to take 3 months off and live
it like it was your last 3 months on the planet (might be a good idea to not
gift away everything you own etc.).
Been there, done that. Be
On 06-Mar-11 9:20 PM, Thaths wrote:
Been there, done that. Be warned that such a lifestyle is highly
addictive (and not conducive to traditional careers).
I know we've had this discussion, but I'm still not very clear on what
made you re-enter the rat race. :)
Udhay
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((Udhay Shankar N))
On 8/5/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Similarly in America, it would be easy for people raised as Hindus to
raise children outside of traditional Hindu culture if they so
desired. Would such children be considered Hindu by Indians? What if
the parents changed their names and the
On Tuesday 07 Aug 2007 5:11 am, Charles Haynes wrote:
If that is not sufficiently clear, what about the hypothetical case of
a Hindu infant, adopted by secular non-believers and raised in a
non-Hindu culture. Is that child still Hindu? Ignore for the moment
how unlikely this is to actually
On 8/5/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If someone was asked who Charles Haynes was, in India, they'd reply
Christian.
Really? Fascinating. Are they really so ready to pigeonhole people
based on nothing more than their name, or their physical appearance?
They are *that*
Charles Haynes [05/08/07 14:49 +0530]:
I may need to take steps to make it more obvious that I am not. Maybe
carry around Betrand Russell or something.
ah, another christian
this, from a place where a lot of the christians, especially those from my
father's generation or from smaller towns,
--- 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
--- 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.
Atheism and religious membership
--- Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are also the Hinduism is a way of life
people
I find it sometimes nice that Hinduism seems so all-embracing and
sometimes stifling...I too am working out whether I am really a Hindu
or not. But going by the responses on this thread, unless I
Hinduism was never one religion, and the collection of people who were called
Hindus were never dogmatic about the identity of God, and never had a book
that identified God for them.
Hindus were never (IMO) required to identify themselves as a religion and name
their God until they were
On 8/5/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Not so easy for an indian outside india, I assure you - if only because
other indians actively seek you out and drag you kicking and screaming if
necessary into the local community
i had this neigbour for a while, a kenyan-born indian. he had this
On Sunday 05 Aug 2007 2:49 pm, Charles Haynes wrote:
Really? Fascinating. Are they really so ready to pigeonhole people
based on nothing more than their name, or their physical appearance?
They are *that* simplistic,
Yes they are simplistic and ready to pigeonhole people _IF_ they are aware
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 8/4/07, 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
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
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
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,
On 8/1/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 31 Jul 2007 9:58 am, Charles Haynes wrote:
Animism is a religion so that syllogism is obvious.
But even if Hinduism is not animism it's clearly a religion.
Is anyone seriously suggesting that Hinduism is not a religion?
My
On 7/30/07, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is an old bearded guy, quite popular in chennai who has declared
himself
Kalki bhagwan... He seems to have quite a following. An old friend of
mine from
school is an ardent follower of this chap. Apparently the world is coming
to an
end
On Tuesday 31 Jul 2007 9:58 am, Charles Haynes wrote:
Animism is a religion so that syllogism is obvious.
But even if Hinduism is not animism it's clearly a religion.
Is anyone seriously suggesting that Hinduism is not a religion?
My interest in the question relates to the idea that if
On 7/31/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How does one look at animism and say This is Hinduism or This is not
Hinduism?
Ceci n'est pas Hinduism
Thaths
PS: Apologies to French grammarians
--
Homer: He has all the money in the world, but there's one thing he can't buy.
Marge: What's
Ceci n'est pas Hinduism
the great pipe dream of definition
(with a doff of the bowler hat)
On 8/1/07, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/31/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How does one look at animism and say This is Hinduism or This is not
Hinduism?
Ceci n'est pas Hinduism
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 07:12:24AM +0530, shiv sastry wrote:
When I look at definitions of animism, and compare that with what I have been
taught as a Hindu, the only conclusion I can reach is that Hinduism is
animism - perhaps organized animism. Does that make it religion?
Yes.
On 7/30/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I look at definitions of animism, and compare that with what I have been
taught as a Hindu, the only conclusion I can reach is that Hinduism is
animism - perhaps organized animism. Does that make it religion?
Animism is a religion so that
Charles Haynes [31/07/07 09:58 +0530]:
FWIW it seems to me from admittedly casual observation that while
Hinduism might have animistic elements, it clearly has worship of
non-animist gods as an important, seemingly primary - even central
element.
Let us put it this way - hinduism is the sort
On 7/31/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Charles Haynes [31/07/07 09:58 +0530]:
FWIW it seems to me from admittedly casual observation that while
Hinduism might have animistic elements, it clearly has worship of
non-animist gods as an important, seemingly primary - even
Charles Haynes [31/07/07 10:22 +0530]:
That matches my casual observations... but if one assumes that
Hinduism is a syncretism of the various indigenous religious beliefs
then what does it mean to talk about Hinduism as a thing? Is it useful
It probably makes the same kind of logic the
About a year ago, I read the Left Behind series. It was a very nice
work of fiction, at best. After the second or third book, it had a very
strong similarity to all the God Vs Devil (or your favorite demon) like
the numerous Bollywood/vernacular Indian movies. I was literally ROFL
reading the last
On 7/29/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
About a year ago, I read the Left Behind series. It was a very nice
work of fiction, at best. After the second or third book, it had a very
strong similarity to all the God Vs Devil (or your favorite demon) like
the numerous
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 09:53:51PM +0530, Venkat Mangudi wrote:
of people in US of A who believe that the Rapture is very near. Anyways,
here is some more proof of that... Unbelievable...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/rapture-ready-the-unauth_b_57826.html
You're really
Thaths wrote:
Some years ago, I read Amar Chitra Katha's Dasa Avatar series. It was
a very nice work of fiction, at best I was literally ROFL reading
the last book because this Kali avatar is supposed to just kill his
enemies in assuming the shape of some weird animal. Whether he talks
to
On 29/07/07, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some years ago, I read Amar Chitra Katha's Dasa Avatar series. It was
a very nice work of fiction, at best I was literally ROFL reading
the last book because this Kali avatar is supposed to just kill his
I think you mean the Kalki avatar.
On 7/29/07, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
thousand years, so I don't think we need to worry much that Kalki is
around the corner waiting for us sinners :)
There is an old bearded guy, quite popular in chennai who has declared
himself
Kalki bhagwan... He seems to have quite a following. An
On 7/29/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I am not sure what you are implying by this post. But where is the
comparison between a New York Times Bestseller and Amar Chitra Katha?
Apples and Oranges?
Not Apples and Oranges. Peaches and Mangoes, maybe. Both popular
literature
On 7/29/07, Binand Sethumadhavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think you mean the Kalki avatar.
Correct. Mea culpa.
It is after all, mythology. The concept of Kalki is probably similar
to Armageddon or Apocalypse or whatever the other mythologies call it.
If I remember correctly the kali yuga
On 7/30/07, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/29/07, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
thousand years, so I don't think we need to worry much that Kalki is
around the corner waiting for us sinners :)
[...]
school is an ardent follower of this chap. Apparently the world is coming
to an
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