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by jaldhar 2y ago
If that’s what the article wants to point out, it does a poor job of it. X’s position is that it will acquiesce to lawful requests but the Brazilian judges demands are actually contrary to Brazilian constitution and laws. One can argue as
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by jaldhar 2y ago
Replacing private monopsony’s with a state one doesn’t help in the slightest. States also engage in rabble rousing, shaping debate and even crime. Questioning the legitimacy of the state or its organs is not harm or mass panic it is the
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by jaldhar 2y ago
You can’t tell the difference between two private parties contesting in a court of law and authoritarian states attempting to suppress the rights of their political opponents? I think you can but who/whom eh comrade?
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by jaldhar 3y ago
Thanks for this. If you can find a copy, I have found “The Annotated ANSI C Standard” by Herb Schildt (McGraw-Hill Osborne Media 1993) to be very useful.
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by jaldhar 3y ago
Interesting but why surprising? Shaligramas which are worshipped as an immanent form of Vishnu bhagavan have long been known to be fossilized ammonites. The highest type of Shaligramas come from the Gandaki river in Nepal so they date back
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by jaldhar 3y ago
Study shows that Asian students are Asian.
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by jaldhar 3y ago
Outrageous. They should have used the well-paid, high social status and totally legal Central Americans who normally do construction in New Jersey amirite? Actually knowing how corrupt the construction industry is around here I would not b
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by jaldhar 3y ago
“Sexual intercourse began in nineteen sixty-three (Which was rather late for me) between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles' first LP.” — Phillip Larkin
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Egyptian Archaeologists Unearth Roman-Era Buddha Statue(news.artnet.com)
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by jaldhar 4y ago
Argumentam ad Hitlerum isn't awesome either. Let me restate my point. A persons reasons for supporting the Nazis in 1933 may be quite different from the reasons you think people are pro-Nazi in 2023. So such comparisons don't ad
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by jaldhar 4y ago
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by jaldhar 4y ago
How do you know they aren’t making decisions based on falsehood right now? You have to get information out there and only then can you evaluate whether it is true or false (or practical or inconvenient which is arguably more important in p
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by jaldhar 4y ago
The period I am referring to is from Alexander’s invasion of India to the height of the Roman Empire. That the siddhantas are influenced by Greek is obvious to anyone who has examined them. E.g. one is called Romaka Siddhanta. Another, Pa
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by jaldhar 4y ago
Sure you can. The parts of Veda I’ve learned were in the traditional with rigour in recitation but no attempt at understanding the meaning. But because I went on to study vyakarana and Kayvas etc. where meaning is emphasized I can underst
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by jaldhar 4y ago
Whether or not you accept “Aryan migration” it would have occurred at least 1000 years or more before the period under discussion so I don’t see the relevance.
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by jaldhar 4y ago
A couple of observations 1. Indian advances in Mathematics are several centuries in the future from the period under discussion. And they owe quite a bit to interaction with the Greeks though patriots might not want to admit it. 2. Pali
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by jaldhar 4y ago
The Greek authors naturally were not completely versed in the ins and outs of Indian traditions so they confused different social phenomena. There was no “Sage caste” but there were different orders of monks following different philosophie
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by jaldhar 4y ago
Yes. Romaka in Sanskrit literature is Egyptian Alexandria not Rome as one might think. It was the major port of trade between East and West during the Graeco-Roman era and an intellectual center thanks to the library. Indian philosophers
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by jaldhar 4y ago
The individual named in the article was a shramana of some type but more likely to have been a Jain than a Buddhist IMO. Customs such as going about naked and ritual suicide are more established amongst Jains (though not completely unknown
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by jaldhar 4y ago
Ok so your point has been proven. Now what’s the plan? You’re going to build a time machine and go back undo the “pogrom”? If you have time travel technology I’ll definitely vote for you. Meanwhile back in reality the one who has a compel
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by jaldhar 4y ago
And then refund the taxes when the governments themselves make deals with the same oppressive countries?
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by jaldhar 4y ago
FYI, Though the ideologies are different Jains socially are just another Hindu sect and definitely upper caste by any definition. But otherwise agree with you. Yogi Adityanath another possible successor to Modi is also not from a privilege
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by jaldhar 4y ago
Pardon me for interrupting in the middle of a “LITERALLY HITLER REEE!” but LOL if you don’t think every every other political party isn’t trying to appeal to some caste or the other particularly at the local level. Of course they do becaus
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by jaldhar 4y ago
That’s a rather tendentious way of putting it. There was a vigorous back and forth between the Nyaya and Buddhist logicians as acknowledged by thinkers on both sides. And barely or not, Nyaya did eventually prevail. Shankaracharyas proble
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by jaldhar 4y ago
What does it mean to practice Buddhism if not a monk? Can you point to specific activities (as opposed to general ethical principles) that must be performed by a layman? Buddhism did develop such things but later than the period under dis
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by jaldhar 4y ago
We know more about changes at the elite level because the archaeological and literary evidence favors it and yes there was a significant shift in patronage but the Bhakti movements grew at the popular level too. Buddhism in that time and pl
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by jaldhar 4y ago
Although travelers paint a rosy picture (what’s a Buddhist monk going to tell the folks at home?) the best days of Indian Buddhism were already in the past by the 7th century. Shankaracharya (who was actually a century later in the opinion
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by jaldhar 4y ago
It's "superstitious" from a Christian (particularly Protestant) point of view but this is what religion has historically been for most people. Even in rural England in the 1970s I saw the farmers had all kinds of observances
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by jaldhar 4y ago
If 99% of cases are being caused by some types of homosexual activity (are you implying that drug-fueled promiscuity with multiple anonymous partners is the only way to be gay?) then it is absolutely right to stigmatize it. Look at COVID; w
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by jaldhar 4y ago
Now do “common-sense gun control”. Politicians of all stripes do this because it works.

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