[quote name='agnivayu' date='27 July 2010 - 06:16 AM' timestamp='1280191129' post='107634']Man makes God in his image, so the idea that God is of only one form is flawed.[/quote]Absolutely false: the predicate rests on a false assertion.
The Gods are their own forms. Their individual forms (just like their individual characters) are moreover natural to them, and are an identical representation (in 'physical' exterior form) of their Nature. All of it is Divine: their 'exterior' and qualities perfectly mirror that 'interior' Divine.
The Gods (incl. their forms) have absolutely nothing to do with any consequence of mankind and its whims or flaws or whatever.
Don't peddle untruth just because you don't know better. It's still a crime.
You must think Hindus (and others) are very gullible/believe as you do, to make such impossible and unrepresentative assertions.
Sounds very non-existent.
Especially when combined with the denial of the Gods. (Claiming the forms of the Gods are of man's invention/'genius' IS denial of their forms. And denial of the forms of the Gods IS denial of the Gods themselves. The logic carries further, of course, but does one really have to state the obvious?)
More concrete indicators of the denial - not that further instances were needed, the initial statement sufficed:
What's wrong with your "argumentation"? You - like many another today - sell heathenism in order to do it. In this case, you deny the reality of the Gods so as to score some non-existent point (and you just sank the point, BTW, whatever it was supposed to be). Note how real "heathens" never did that: they always argued for their Gods. It's ... very different. (Can you even tell?)
(In fact, your "argument" becomes another enemy to them heathens, and in some pitiable future they will have to fight the nonsense you - but not merely you - just helped peddle. I hope you don't expect them to be grateful for your intervention. I'm no mind-reader, but I predict they won't be.)
"Husky is so mean." (Yes...?)
Sell my religion=Gods, I sell you. (It's only fair.)
One of the great tragicomical ironies is that today's Hindus - most famous for scoring self-goals of even greater note (hard as that may be to imagine) - will nevertheless insist on going around advertising how "Hinduism is the last remaining heathenism". Oh wake up. Angelsk-speaking vocalist Hindus stopped being heathens a long time ago. We're just famous for parading about in words like "us pagans", "we heathens" and "we're the last, look we're so special". No. We're quite extinct. Like a sort of living dead: living past our expiration, simply because we just haven't noticed yet/are in denial that we're a bunch of spooks, shadows of our kind's former/original/natural state. I.e. subverted beyond recovery.
2. My post (~3 up) on Advaitam and (Nirguna) Brahman was in defence of an aspect of/a view in Hindooism. It has little enough bearing on the religious life of my family or most Hindoos I know. (And as far as I can be a judge of what goes on in their private minds.)
3. Hmmm. On proselytising. This excerpt again. (While it is stated in the context of the famously genocidal proselytising ideologies, the blue bit of the argument holds more generally) -
http://www.ysee.gr/index-eng.php?type=english&f=faq#17
The Gods are their own forms. Their individual forms (just like their individual characters) are moreover natural to them, and are an identical representation (in 'physical' exterior form) of their Nature. All of it is Divine: their 'exterior' and qualities perfectly mirror that 'interior' Divine.
The Gods (incl. their forms) have absolutely nothing to do with any consequence of mankind and its whims or flaws or whatever.
Don't peddle untruth just because you don't know better. It's still a crime.
You must think Hindus (and others) are very gullible/believe as you do, to make such impossible and unrepresentative assertions.
Quote:We are a part and parcel of Brahman."Brahman." And more blablabla.
Sounds very non-existent.
Especially when combined with the denial of the Gods. (Claiming the forms of the Gods are of man's invention/'genius' IS denial of their forms. And denial of the forms of the Gods IS denial of the Gods themselves. The logic carries further, of course, but does one really have to state the obvious?)
More concrete indicators of the denial - not that further instances were needed, the initial statement sufficed:
Quote:An Advanced Alien civilization will depict God in their form not like a human. [...]An alien civilisation - advanced or not - can do as it pleases. It won't make their Gods any more real if they invent them ("shape them after themselves"). <- The Heathen Argument.
Quote:What if I insist that you should worship God in only my form?More trite argumentation, coming not more than a breath after the one about Hindu Gods.
What's wrong with your "argumentation"? You - like many another today - sell heathenism in order to do it. In this case, you deny the reality of the Gods so as to score some non-existent point (and you just sank the point, BTW, whatever it was supposed to be). Note how real "heathens" never did that: they always argued for their Gods. It's ... very different. (Can you even tell?)
(In fact, your "argument" becomes another enemy to them heathens, and in some pitiable future they will have to fight the nonsense you - but not merely you - just helped peddle. I hope you don't expect them to be grateful for your intervention. I'm no mind-reader, but I predict they won't be.)
"Husky is so mean." (Yes...?)
Sell my religion=Gods, I sell you. (It's only fair.)
One of the great tragicomical ironies is that today's Hindus - most famous for scoring self-goals of even greater note (hard as that may be to imagine) - will nevertheless insist on going around advertising how "Hinduism is the last remaining heathenism". Oh wake up. Angelsk-speaking vocalist Hindus stopped being heathens a long time ago. We're just famous for parading about in words like "us pagans", "we heathens" and "we're the last, look we're so special". No. We're quite extinct. Like a sort of living dead: living past our expiration, simply because we just haven't noticed yet/are in denial that we're a bunch of spooks, shadows of our kind's former/original/natural state. I.e. subverted beyond recovery.
2. My post (~3 up) on Advaitam and (Nirguna) Brahman was in defence of an aspect of/a view in Hindooism. It has little enough bearing on the religious life of my family or most Hindoos I know. (And as far as I can be a judge of what goes on in their private minds.)
3. Hmmm. On proselytising. This excerpt again. (While it is stated in the context of the famously genocidal proselytising ideologies, the blue bit of the argument holds more generally) -
http://www.ysee.gr/index-eng.php?type=english&f=faq#17
Quote:Does Ethnic Hellenic religion engage in proselytizing?Good.
[color="#0000FF"]Certainly not, we are dealing here with a clearly ethnic polytheistic (natural) religion, that is to say one that concerns a very specific Ethnos. If a non-Hellenic origin wants to honor our Gods, then he is always welcome to decide this for himself, as we will never try to convince him.
The phenomenon of proselytism belongs exclusively to the anti-ethnic and 'ecumenical' monotheistic religions. Their aim is to foster a denial of previously held correct views and replace them with novel alien ones. Proselytism involves crude attempts to misguide naive and spiritually weak people. To us it is wholly detestable, both as a means to an end and as a way of making a point.[/color]
We are enemies of all forms of proselytism, because it nullifies autonomy and free will. In our country, all foreign religions engage in proselytism, including the ruling one that practices it with especial audacity, calling it 'catechism' (and even emphases the 'importance of catechism' in the state education system). The outrageous laws of the Metaxas dictatorship grant 'Orthodoxy' the sole right to proselytize, making it unlawful for its competition. All forms of proselytism are raw violent attacks against human liberty.
Death to traitors.