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by jaldhar 7y ago
The Amazon has 50,000 species of beetles which is good for beetles I guess but what makes it wasteland or not is what it does for humans. There as well we can discuss whether cattle or biodiversity is a better improvement but that is a dif
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by jaldhar 7y ago
At the most you’ve established that homeless moms need to live somewhere. It is not necessary to live in a particular house in L.A. for survival.
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by jaldhar 7y ago
Yes, we all started out as hunter/gatherers millennia ago. We are not now. We have been mostly improving the wastelands ever since. (I say mostly because occasionally we re-waste them again but thankfully less and less often these d
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by jaldhar 7y ago
As a society, the moment you allow for freedom of Religion, you take over responsibility for everyone’s practice of religion. As a society, the moment you allow the right to bear arms, you are responsible for providing everyone who wants on
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by jaldhar 7y ago
They are taking away the ability to use the house. They have not received permission to do so. This is theft. And of course you’re good with that because you’re a communist and communism is an extended apology for organized crime. What is
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by jaldhar 7y ago
Pitch to Gwyneth Paltrow: Pooping magnets.
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Ultimately all experiences are mediated by ego (ahamkara) Advaita Vedantas says that ahamkara is a delusion caused by maya (delusion and imperfect cognition) so Brahman can only be known by a negative way I.e. “de-experiencing” all false co
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by jaldhar 7y ago
Advaita Vedanta accepts six pramanas (means of justified knowledge). Pratyaksha (sensory perception), anumana (inference), shabda (the words of the Vedas), upamana (comparison), arthapatti (presumption), and abhava (negation). Experience (
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by jaldhar 7y ago
After I watched Bandersnatch I made a map. Unfortunately it seems to have been thrown out in a bout of housekeeping. But IIRC you are right. There are a lot of initial branches but a lot are dead ends and the rest reconverge into two or t
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by jaldhar 7y ago
My parents arrived in the U.K. in the 1960s so no. Nevertheless I get your point though I must quibble with your specific historical examples. One can argue that it was the King deciding once and for all “This is the way we’re going to wor
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by jaldhar 7y ago
I think you left out “can” before lead. I was born and brought up in England where Elizabeth II is, as the coins say, “By Gods Grace Defender of the ((Protestant) Christian) Faith” and I don’t recall anyone including myself being particula
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by jaldhar 7y ago
Sorry for the late reply but as an introduction I suggest “Encyclopedia of Indian Philosopies Volume IV: Samkhya A Dualistic Tradition in Indian Philosophy” Gerald James Larson & Ramshankar Bhattacharya (editors), Delhi, Motilal Banarsi
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by jaldhar 7y ago
Point of information: that’s not the reason or at least not the primary one. Many of the colonies had an established Church and the framers did not want the Federal government impinging on states rights. Eventually all the states did dise
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by jaldhar 7y ago
A swastika is an established religious symbol btw. Yeah I know in the West it has unfortunately developed a more unsavory meaning. It’s almost like people should evaluate the context of a symbol, be it a swastika or Santa hat, before decid
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by jaldhar 7y ago
Um did you read the “logic and rationality” of the person reporting the bug? It’s all about his feelings. Plus I would argue that Father Christmas is a cthonic deity. Anyway, this Hindu would like to wish all HNers who celebrate (however y
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by jaldhar 7y ago
Yes I have read that Pali could have been a trade language. Interestingly this method of textual comparison has also proven useful in tracing the history of the “Hindu” Samkhya school; one of whose early works, lost in Sanskrit, is preserve
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by jaldhar 7y ago
One also has to bear in mind that the Tripitakha was compiled several centuries after the Buddha is said to have lived and has several divergent versions according to the ideological predilections of its editors. Also Pali was probably not
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by jaldhar 7y ago
The Sanskrit names for the days of the week are named after the same planets. I think both the Indians and the Graeco-Romans originally got them from the Babylonians who were the authority for all things astronomical and astrological in th
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by jaldhar 7y ago
And yet even in that quote Shakyamuni calls himself the ascetic Gotama. Becoming a Bhikshu or a renouncer is the entry-level to the Buddhist path. Although in other parts of Asia there were genuine Buddhist lay movements, in India Buddhis
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by jaldhar 7y ago
No you are reading to much into it. Adharma is the cause. Varnasankara is the effect and Hell for the Pitrs is a further consequence of that. Arjuna (this is his view remember) thinks fratricide is adharmic and the resulting destruction
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by jaldhar 7y ago
Well historically yes. Sometimes women have more agency sometimes less but it only relatively recently they’ve had the same as men. Anyway I don’t see where you are getting “commodities” here. Women are mentioned because they have babies
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Certainly it is better to be good than bad nevertheless even good karma has consequences which cause entanglement in samsara. The only way out is to renounce action altogether. The Aryan Eightfold Path is for the Arhat who is at an exalte
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by jaldhar 7y ago
That doesn’t follow. Take Dr. Ambedkars neo-Buddhist movement for instance. By calling themselves Buddhist, upwardly mobile untouchables could identify with a socially prestigious “world religion” that was still identifiably Indian. Neve
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by jaldhar 7y ago
Not really Buddhist at all. The Buddhist (and Jain, Ajivaka etc.) view is that results don’t matter because the actions themselves don’t matter—they are delusions. Whereas for “Hindus” (for want of a better word.), actions are of supreme i
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by jaldhar 7y ago
When you say modern what you mean is W.E.I.R.D. Historically, even in the West, people thought of themselves as members of a group first. The resurgence of populism throughout the World shows that they still do.
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by jaldhar 7y ago
Sheesh are people still quoting that post-modern gibberish? No “colonialism” didn’t cause the rigidity of the caste system except incidentally. Social mobility in traditional India did occur but very slowly and at the group level for the m
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by jaldhar 7y ago
Who would have thought the descendants of the Puritans would be using words like yoga, karma, avatar or reading the Bhagavadgita? Or there is the joke that the four branches of Judaism are Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Buddhist etc.
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by jaldhar 7y ago
Count the segments of your fingers using your thumb. Use both hands and you can do two (base 12) digit sums.
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by jaldhar 8y ago
Nalanda, (and Vikramashila, Odantapura etc.) were Buddhist vihars (monasteries) which have been retconned into “universities” in modern times. Mind you the Western university grew out of Catholic Church institutions so it is not completely
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by jaldhar 8y ago
It’s nitpicking time. I’ll only address the Indian ones because that’s what I’m familiar with. 1. Madhyamaka. Can it really be said that it is not well known in the West? It is the basis of Tibetan Buddhism which is pretty popular. Per

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