11-27-2007, 04:23 PM
I thought it might be good for us (Hindus/Dharmics) to start learning about the Real Traditions in the world.
We've wasted so much time learning about (and exposing ourselves to the bad influence of) the undeserving religions of christoislamism. And we have given so much so respect (not to mention credit/credulity) to them. How many Hindus talk about jesus and mohammed as having been some 'great teachers'? How many Hindus believe in them and their 'teachings' and respect them deeply? (Even though many of these Hindus are ready to put Ramayana down as myths, they'll knock you over with a boulder if you try to say <i>you know for a fact</i> that jesus is a myth and mohammed a terrorist villain).
Yet we've not learnt about the deserving and valid traditional systems of the world - the ones we share things in common with, and/or whose ideas may inspire us. The very ones that ought to be acknowledged and known, have remained forgotten.
I feel that learning about these Natural Religions will help us in many ways:
(1) Better understanding and familiarity with True Traditions of other peoples. Good to learn about wholesome religions!
(2) We'll know we're not alone.
(3) Puts us as Hindus into context.
(4) Christoislamicommunist terrorists can scream we're "backward and ridiculous" all they want, but we'll see how very normal and respectable we really are when we learn how our most animystical selves are part of a very diverse group of respectable traditions. We're in good company!
(5) No longer get christoislamicommunised by continuous exposure to their distorted world-view which involves strange nonsensical concepts like monopolytheism, idolatry, "myth" and other nonsense that we don't get and yet we start using. We have to let go off their thinking patterns that they've forced us to absorb by excluding the other Natural Religions from our knowledge.
(6) We can draw points of similarity with our own Dharma - even though there might be no historical link, there's might be a similar way of looking at things.
We can discover things that we share with the rest of the world or shared understanding of things. (And in the process realise that christoislamicommunazism is the real oddity/aberration.)
There's already many other threads here where people posted bits of stuff of other cultures: Iranian, Greek, African, Native American, Japanese...
If anyone ever comes across any of that again, can they cross-post it here?
We've wasted so much time learning about (and exposing ourselves to the bad influence of) the undeserving religions of christoislamism. And we have given so much so respect (not to mention credit/credulity) to them. How many Hindus talk about jesus and mohammed as having been some 'great teachers'? How many Hindus believe in them and their 'teachings' and respect them deeply? (Even though many of these Hindus are ready to put Ramayana down as myths, they'll knock you over with a boulder if you try to say <i>you know for a fact</i> that jesus is a myth and mohammed a terrorist villain).
Yet we've not learnt about the deserving and valid traditional systems of the world - the ones we share things in common with, and/or whose ideas may inspire us. The very ones that ought to be acknowledged and known, have remained forgotten.
I feel that learning about these Natural Religions will help us in many ways:
(1) Better understanding and familiarity with True Traditions of other peoples. Good to learn about wholesome religions!
(2) We'll know we're not alone.
(3) Puts us as Hindus into context.
(4) Christoislamicommunist terrorists can scream we're "backward and ridiculous" all they want, but we'll see how very normal and respectable we really are when we learn how our most animystical selves are part of a very diverse group of respectable traditions. We're in good company!
(5) No longer get christoislamicommunised by continuous exposure to their distorted world-view which involves strange nonsensical concepts like monopolytheism, idolatry, "myth" and other nonsense that we don't get and yet we start using. We have to let go off their thinking patterns that they've forced us to absorb by excluding the other Natural Religions from our knowledge.
(6) We can draw points of similarity with our own Dharma - even though there might be no historical link, there's might be a similar way of looking at things.
We can discover things that we share with the rest of the world or shared understanding of things. (And in the process realise that christoislamicommunazism is the real oddity/aberration.)
There's already many other threads here where people posted bits of stuff of other cultures: Iranian, Greek, African, Native American, Japanese...
If anyone ever comes across any of that again, can they cross-post it here?