03-06-2008, 03:56 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->(2) It's truly sweet of them to apologise. Christians like apologising. Just like the day the US has finally finished wiping off the native Americans of NA they will apologise for that as well. Just like the Oz minister J Howard recently got the sudden notion to finally apologise to the Australian Aboriginals with some hand-waving about past wrongs and 'never agains'. It's all really sweet.
But nah. Sorry doesn't mean a thing when people have died, and entire civilisations have been destroyed (Greek, Roman, indigenous Australian, various African, native American of N, S, C America) by christianism. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
All this diatribe reflects the schoolboy mentality of most Indians, who keep complaining to their mommies that 'they don't like us, they killed us, they're deceitful' etc. etc.. Complaining will not do. The fact remains....people who refused to evolve were wiped out by those who did.
The aborigines and the native Americans to this day haven't joined the mainstream, they still refuse to be part of the 21st century. They're stuck in the pre-historic age, and their lifestyles, behavior, ideas are very indicative of that. No wonder, they were annihilated by the Christian marauders. Mind you, this isn't a justification of Christian atrocities, but an objective glance at history to understand why these events took place at all.
All life has to be viewed in the context of Social Darwinism, the constant struggle between superior and inferior forces. This has been beautifully and symbolically explained in Hinduism as well, in the form of Deva-Asura wars, which go on forever. Sri Aurobindo also supported this contention with his succinct but pregnant "All life is Yoga." What does all this mean? It means there's no such thing as equality, and that nature doesn't follow any moral laws in this evolution. Survival of the fittest is the name of the game, and evidently, a non-evolving race will NOT survive.
As Hindus, we must learn from history. We must learn that morality alone will not save us, only sheer strength and superiority will. The fact that certain people were able to become conquerors and rule the world is proof of superiority. And the sad fact that certain races, like the aborigines and the native Americans, perished without a fight is further evidence of an inferior, non-evolving race.
So as Hindus, we shouldn't concern ourselves with pitying certain groups, and antagonizing others who succeeded. Au contraire, our only concern must revolve around how to evolve, how to adapt, and eventually, how to prevail. Unfortunately, instead of learning from these events on how non-reforming people were outdone by the rest, we're more interested in breast-beating and sympathizing with people who're totally irrelevant in the scheme of things.
But nah. Sorry doesn't mean a thing when people have died, and entire civilisations have been destroyed (Greek, Roman, indigenous Australian, various African, native American of N, S, C America) by christianism. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
All this diatribe reflects the schoolboy mentality of most Indians, who keep complaining to their mommies that 'they don't like us, they killed us, they're deceitful' etc. etc.. Complaining will not do. The fact remains....people who refused to evolve were wiped out by those who did.
The aborigines and the native Americans to this day haven't joined the mainstream, they still refuse to be part of the 21st century. They're stuck in the pre-historic age, and their lifestyles, behavior, ideas are very indicative of that. No wonder, they were annihilated by the Christian marauders. Mind you, this isn't a justification of Christian atrocities, but an objective glance at history to understand why these events took place at all.
All life has to be viewed in the context of Social Darwinism, the constant struggle between superior and inferior forces. This has been beautifully and symbolically explained in Hinduism as well, in the form of Deva-Asura wars, which go on forever. Sri Aurobindo also supported this contention with his succinct but pregnant "All life is Yoga." What does all this mean? It means there's no such thing as equality, and that nature doesn't follow any moral laws in this evolution. Survival of the fittest is the name of the game, and evidently, a non-evolving race will NOT survive.
As Hindus, we must learn from history. We must learn that morality alone will not save us, only sheer strength and superiority will. The fact that certain people were able to become conquerors and rule the world is proof of superiority. And the sad fact that certain races, like the aborigines and the native Americans, perished without a fight is further evidence of an inferior, non-evolving race.
So as Hindus, we shouldn't concern ourselves with pitying certain groups, and antagonizing others who succeeded. Au contraire, our only concern must revolve around how to evolve, how to adapt, and eventually, how to prevail. Unfortunately, instead of learning from these events on how non-reforming people were outdone by the rest, we're more interested in breast-beating and sympathizing with people who're totally irrelevant in the scheme of things.