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by thevardanian 8y ago
For example breathing techniques help in concentration "The Yogi masters were right – breathing exercises can sharpen your mind. New research explains link between breath-focused meditation and brain health" http://www.
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by thevardanian 8y ago
In fact Ayurveda itself has a long history of both surgery (like cataracts, or facial reconstruction), and medicine. The fact of the matter is that for thousands of years it's foundation is based on: "Anusandhana" "Anves
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by thevardanian 8y ago
Sikhs worship Shakti and Gurunanak makes references, even praises, "Hindu" gods, ideas, and symbols. Does that make them Hindus as well? Furthermore, you do agree that Dharma isn't just a religious term. Right? But I do agree
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by thevardanian 8y ago
Here how about this. What do you think of the term "dharma" being used in the context of the corporate form/guilds in India? It is a well documented fact that Srenis would have to declare their Dharma by which they, and their
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by thevardanian 8y ago
I never said that each were equivalent, I'm saying that they're using the same vocabulary to describe and translate their ideas. That's it. That is to say there is no universal, central, or dogmatic theory of "dharma&quo
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I'm sorry but Dharma in its original context, that being India, is far more a broad term than simply a religious one. For example the conduct of the corporate form in Ancient, and Medieval India was often defined by certain publicly st
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by thevardanian 8y ago
The idea of Hinduism is nonexistent. What unifies all "religious" and scientific/mathematical theories in India, is the fundamental idea of Dharma. Sikhism, Jainism, Buddhism, and the various schools that are characterized as
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by thevardanian 8y ago
Again, I'm not refuting your claim, merely saying that doesn't preclude, or deny the claim you're responding to. History, while complex, and civilizations more points on a spectrum, than a closed system, doesn't prevent
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You maybe an Indian, but you are no Historian. As such the same logic can be applied to the term "West" or "Western Civilization". While no single civilization, or people create anything original, there are definitely hi
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I absolutely adore Sapolsky, and suggest everyone also listen/watch his human behavioral biology lectures. They were infinitely more interesting to me than my intro to psyc class, and perhaps more informative.
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Well if that's the case Tech companies in China are going to have to learn to adapt, and start hiring older people considering the coming steep decline in the working age population of China. Millions of people are going to be vanishin
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In all honesty this seems more a problem with Western Academia, and Indology departments than with "Hinduism" itself. It seems the West cannot free itself from the impulse to create divisions. Perhaps a better analysis would be to
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by thevardanian 8y ago
Hinduism should in fact simply be generalized as "Dharmic Traditions" instead. I think that would also reinvigorate the philosophical traditions, and ideas that each region of India has. However with that said you're also ign
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by thevardanian 9y ago
The lever is a primitive technology but also an apt descriptor of it. I'm not describing technology, but rather describing the application of it. >Do you think laws should not be applied to the Internet? Depends. For now I think it
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by thevardanian 9y ago
Technology was supposed to leverage human capacity, and not centralize it. The problem is a technology one in the sense that the paradigm for a different business model have been co-opted, and usurped by authoritarian corporations. What in
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by thevardanian 9y ago
Just out of curiosity how much leverage do advertising companies actually have?
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by thevardanian 9y ago
I honestly think that the whole oppressed conversion theory is wrong, for the most part. For most of Christian, and Islam the history was a top down conversion. Furthermore India, and Hinduism stands in stark contrast to this narrative. Esp
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by thevardanian 9y ago
>I don't see how any of this argues against the linguistic and sociocultural similarities between subsets of early Europeans and subsets of early Indians which point towards shared ancestry for these two subsets. I'm not arguin
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by thevardanian 9y ago
What is the proof Aryan Invasion. Note the current research says that ANI (Ancestral North India) and ASI (Ancestral South India) both are ancient genetically divergent (same even older ancestry) that recently went through and admixture a
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by thevardanian 9y ago
>Which presumably correlates in part to the India having experienced a large number of migrations over a fairly long period of time. This meme will end up being the last causality in a long line of poorly written narratives extrapolated
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by thevardanian 9y ago
People going to theaters is on the decline. If MoviePass reverses that trend they will have shown their value. I'm going to wager they're at a tipping point.
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by thevardanian 9y ago
Is it really better than WholeFoods though?
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What happened in France, America, Britian, India, or a whole host of other countries that became unsatisfied with the power structure that was in place. In history we mostly learn about the successful revolution, and rarely hear about the f
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by thevardanian 9y ago
by... communicating with each other? Users aren't the product, they're the revenue stream. The product is an easy to use communication tool.
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That looks so much better tbh.
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I don't care if I can convince you or not. That doesn't matter. Realistically only time will tell which one of us is right, and give either one of us the satisfaction of saying "told you so". With that said are you sayin
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by thevardanian 9y ago
Not yet. You bet your ass that if Bitcoin gets large enough State actors will use coercion to regulate it, track it, tax it, and do what bureaucracies do best. Nothing escapes the Leviathan. The USA uses Eminent Domain to steal land, and us
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by thevardanian 9y ago
> No, you mentioned it yourself: Bitcoin is a store of value. Moreover, it's one with a high liquidity, strong brand, limited supply, available in 180 countries, without banks involved and super reliable (gold doesn't have that
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by thevardanian 9y ago
Well. That's true until the government gets involved regulates it, and starts to actually monitor all transactions. For Bitcoin like technologies completely lack privacy.
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Well yes, but fundamentally it's backed and guaranteed by physical paper bills. So when I say E-Coin I mean a purely digital/mathematical abstraction like Bitcoin, or other Cryptocurrencies.

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