Husky,
Thanks for the detailed reply. I will just give a few one liner responses as this is still a very nebulous area, especially when correlating the pedestrian and overstated Greecian culture with the neighboring originals Egypt, Iraq, Persia. Why does the so stated fountainhead western culture start in the extreme southeast of so called Europe? Obviously it had to with the residual effects of the mideast civilizations percolating upwards. Greece is a highly barren area, near moonlike. Population today is just 10 million.
Are you willing to concede that Buddhist teaching was present with the Greek Therapeutae before Indic monks made the trek there? What about Mongolia? What was the need to copy all those Buddhist manuscripts if every community already possessed that knowledge. Why set up Nalanda? (sorry for the polemic) This is about culture capital as RM would say. When Westerners forcefeed their ancient original greecian culture to the rest of the world it has nothing to do with respect for pagans, but is more a witzelian power trip than anything else.
Muslims have a peculiar brand of rhetoric which they pull up from time to time, that is: the Muslim as the "protector of Asia". Arundhati used this very effectively in her defense of obl. Westerners of course are experts in this brand of rhetoric. A side effect of this film is the intensification of this type of rhetoric among the muslims. In the coalition of thieves that is the abrahamic religions, they will knowingly or unknowingly strengthen each others' hands, at least against the common enemy.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->We don't know whether the Ancient Greeks had religious literature that was as meaningful and profound to them as the Gita is to us.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
They had plenty of chance to spread dionysianism and socratism all over the place but these were obviously nonstarters in terms of influence in the ancient world, where Buddhism reigned supreme. What they did end up exporting was christianity..
Thanks for the detailed reply. I will just give a few one liner responses as this is still a very nebulous area, especially when correlating the pedestrian and overstated Greecian culture with the neighboring originals Egypt, Iraq, Persia. Why does the so stated fountainhead western culture start in the extreme southeast of so called Europe? Obviously it had to with the residual effects of the mideast civilizations percolating upwards. Greece is a highly barren area, near moonlike. Population today is just 10 million.
Are you willing to concede that Buddhist teaching was present with the Greek Therapeutae before Indic monks made the trek there? What about Mongolia? What was the need to copy all those Buddhist manuscripts if every community already possessed that knowledge. Why set up Nalanda? (sorry for the polemic) This is about culture capital as RM would say. When Westerners forcefeed their ancient original greecian culture to the rest of the world it has nothing to do with respect for pagans, but is more a witzelian power trip than anything else.
Muslims have a peculiar brand of rhetoric which they pull up from time to time, that is: the Muslim as the "protector of Asia". Arundhati used this very effectively in her defense of obl. Westerners of course are experts in this brand of rhetoric. A side effect of this film is the intensification of this type of rhetoric among the muslims. In the coalition of thieves that is the abrahamic religions, they will knowingly or unknowingly strengthen each others' hands, at least against the common enemy.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->We don't know whether the Ancient Greeks had religious literature that was as meaningful and profound to them as the Gita is to us.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
They had plenty of chance to spread dionysianism and socratism all over the place but these were obviously nonstarters in terms of influence in the ancient world, where Buddhism reigned supreme. What they did end up exporting was christianity..