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by jaldhar 5y ago
Because that’s where his political enemies are? Most politicians don’t have very deep reasons for why they act. The set of people who worry about the state of the internet does not overlap very much with the set of people who worry if they
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by jaldhar 5y ago
The Pali canon contains one sects idea of the kernel of Buddha’s teaching. It so happens that sect has survived to this day while many of its competitors did not. That does not make its claims any more valid. The site you quote itself sa
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by jaldhar 5y ago
The neo-Hindu view of the Buddha is indeed misrepresentation. Buddha couldn’t have been a Hindu because “Hinduism” as they understand it simply didn’t exist at that time. But your view isn’t any better. 1. There is no reason to believ
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by jaldhar 5y ago
The village I’m referring to (in Rajkot district) is less than 5% Muslim and those are Ismaili, Vohra etc. Even for them what happens to Sunnis in Ahmedabad might as well be on Mars as far as they care. What the RSS think about Hinduism i
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by jaldhar 5y ago
I gave you actual examples of improvements I’ve seen with my own two eyes. People can’t drink gdp. I don’t doubt there could be an IT cell. What I was reacting to was the idea that it is a major reason for Modi’s success. Like “Russian c
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by jaldhar 5y ago
Let us assume that this idea of “no national alternative” is stupid. Who is this person then? Name a name.
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by jaldhar 5y ago
Can we stop with all this IT cell bullshit? Modi got in because he was more competent than the rajputra of the Nehru dynasty. My family are from Gujarat. We’ve known about Modi since he was governor. We moved out of our ancestral village
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by jaldhar 5y ago
As a votary of a non-Abrahamic religion I like this but I also can’t help but wonder is it really the case that Abrahamic religions are more violent or you (we?) are less familiar with the history of non-Abrahamic religions?
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by jaldhar 5y ago
The amount of bloodshed then is responsible for the humanization now by steadily removing the most violent and anti-social from the gene pool. How is a horse or dog domesticated? Humans are no different. And I think whiggish history needs
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by jaldhar 5y ago
We don’t? A few days in the blue city in a blue state where I live, a young Black man was shot (we have strict gun control laws) by a young Hispanic man over something he may or may not have said to the latters girlfriend. Still, I’ll agre
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by jaldhar 5y ago
First of all few people “live by caste”. It is salient for certain domains such as marriage, religious beliefs/rites, food and occupation and not much thought about for others. So how a Hindu might feel about outsiders* depends on ho
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by jaldhar 6y ago
Just stop; I have for the past four months or so. I carry one with me and will put it on if requested like in a shop or public building (Increasingly no one asks.) And I voluntarily wear it in situations where it might actually help e.g. o
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by jaldhar 6y ago
I’m proud to be a Brahman and quite orthodox in my behavior despite not having been born in India. And my children are also proud despite now being third-generation Americans. I ask myself, do I feel superior to other people. In a vague
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by jaldhar 6y ago
There are things in that article that seemed plausible but the “patting on the back to see if he is wearing a sacred thread” one seemed like paranoia to me. First of all, only in South India is an automatic marker of Brahmanahood. My fami
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by jaldhar 6y ago
Conservatives often say Republicans or the Republican Party establishment are dumb. Google the phrase “The Stupid Party”. So I believe that Trump (who has actually been a Democrat at points in his life) said something like that on TV. An
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by jaldhar 6y ago
...All the tweets that Twitter Inc. determines to be too sensitive for your delicate eyes.
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by jaldhar 6y ago
Then why do we bother with Democracy? (Imagine thinking philosopher-princes are a viable alternative.)
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by jaldhar 6y ago
Imagine people actually understanding the pros and cons of a particular issue and then using reason and common sense to do the right thing instead of blindly imitating “leaders”.
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by jaldhar 6y ago
Nah its mostly gibberish and the few facts in it are cherry-picked. But what would be the point of arguing about it? If someone finds this useful so be it. I will say that the mainstream view is that the Kaliyuga is 432,000 years long and
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by jaldhar 6y ago
Yes this is a huge problem. After several years of shunning Facebook I installed WhatsApp last year because it’s the only way to stay in contact with much of my family these days.
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by jaldhar 6y ago
That’s some kind of systemic problem but is it systemic _racism_? If a white or Indian etc. was murdered would the police union stonewall any less?
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by jaldhar 6y ago
I think originality is a relatively new concept in human thought. The Sanskrit book I’m reading at the moment ha a startlingly new interpretation of an ancient school of philosophy but the author takes pains to note that he is not saying a
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by jaldhar 6y ago
Counterpoint: Michael Bloomberg recently spent almost half a billion dollars trying to convince people to make him a presidential candidate. How did that work for him? What a lot of people don’t seem to understand is that propaganda doesn’
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by jaldhar 6y ago
Pet peeve: “Vedic Astrology” isn’t Vedic. The Vedanga Jyotisha of Lagadhacharya is only concerned with the calendar and fixing the times of rituals. This system was abandoned in favor of the five siddhantas which form the basis of contemp
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by jaldhar 7y ago
Well after I wrote that I did some reading and it seems that Northern Italians have more Germanic (e.g. Lombard) ancestry while farther South you get Greek and even some Arab. From the fall of the Roman Empire to the reunification of Italy
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by jaldhar 7y ago
I find most Italian-Americans around here (NY/NJ) claim to be Sicilian or Neapolitan etc. That’s quite genetically distinct no?
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by jaldhar 7y ago
Saying “Property is theft” is a good sign of being a communist. I have no wish to relitigate “True communism” (another hallmark of a communist confronted with reality.) but I will say “tyrannical dictatorship” far from being opposed to com
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by jaldhar 7y ago
Waste as used in e.g. the Domesday Book literally means “land not under [human] cultivation.”
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by jaldhar 7y ago
Just a while ago weren’t you arguing that social needs trump individual rights. (I.e. the right to property.) If society through its chosen spokesmen decides homeless moms don’t need to be provided housing (they are still free to find it in
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by jaldhar 7y ago
Sure. It is possible to be against theft and for compassion at the same time. However I am not in CA and it seems “society” over there has decided its not interested in housing homeless moms.

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