[color="#0000FF"]^^^ Dhu's post is important.[/color]
Mine, as usual, is not.
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If you were interested*, in your place, I'd ask the grandparents/parents/any relative a generation or two older, press them for details. Hindus don't always tell you everything about the religion, sometimes you may have to you ask them in order to remind them that you don't really know enough. (They might just go about assuming someone else would have already explained it to you or that you already understood it by ... osmosis or something.)
* If you don't know you can't pass it on. If you can't pass it on, come the Dark Ages how is your progeny going to take it back from The Appropriating? (How is this my problem? It's not. <- Which is also why - contrary to your very quaint but oh-so-wrong supposition elsewhere in your post - I don't care what you/etc do.)
2. [quote name='HareKrishna' date='03 December 2010 - 01:38 AM' timestamp='1291320059' post='109614']Husky,i have 2 questions
1.You claim that bindi has a religious value.But every hindu i ask say that bindi is only for beauty and have no religious role.[/quote]To question 1: it doesn't have "a" religious value. It is Hindu from the core outwards. And this is not a "claim", it's just a fact; a very well-known one - at least where I come from.
(Of course wearing it has other genuine benefits to Hindus - just like wearing veebooti etc has great benefits of its own. Rather like how Yoga also has additional beneficial effects. Pottu/bindi and other marks also have the convenient side-effect of being beauty marks.)
Clearly, I am not poised to tell you why the pottu/bindi is Hindu - if that's what you were fishing for.
And I'm going to give "every Hindu you ask" the benefit of the doubt by suspecting they don't want to tell you because they have worked out you won't understand. Besides, how is this your business? (It's not.)
Romani/Honsol/"HareKrishna" - and whatever other aliases you keep reappearing under on this site,
I'm going to say this as politely as I can - for the second time in recent memory (and I advise you not to try this again):
Will you stop trying to dialogue with me?
- Enough with the invitations to dialogue on silly topics that interest only you and have nothing to do with anyone I know, and are most definitely entirely irrelevant to me.
- And I don't want your PMs "to please contribute" on some thread I've never heard of and will never look at. (I'm guessing you would have spammed others with the plea too and didn't just single me out. You're far more likely to have whatever amount of luck with them.)
Still don't know (but don't care) what you are doing on this forum, such as why you keep insistently reappearing here under new handles and why you are frequently/usually/always(?) into the same drab, alien, christo-conditioning topics. Surely your native Romania is a very interesting country - with problems and prospects of its own for you to solve and discuss and explore? Your compatriots will doubtless appreciate your contributions.
Why is it so very important to you to come all the way down here to keep lecturing Hindus what their religion is supposedly "really" about*, when - I presume - no one here but you thinks you know what you're talking about?
(* Doniger and other such persons - being the very last people who would know - are more popular for that tendency.)
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe others are interested. I'm simply not one of them. Not that it can bother: there's a potential audience of 6 billion or so, so you can't notice my truancy. Though to get more of them to listen in on your radio show (this isn't the best place to do Outreach ya know), you would really need to go to a more visible website or something.
Mine, as usual, is not.
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Quote:Sorry I disagree on this business of "ought to know"."Sorry", none of my concern.
If you were interested*, in your place, I'd ask the grandparents/parents/any relative a generation or two older, press them for details. Hindus don't always tell you everything about the religion, sometimes you may have to you ask them in order to remind them that you don't really know enough. (They might just go about assuming someone else would have already explained it to you or that you already understood it by ... osmosis or something.)
* If you don't know you can't pass it on. If you can't pass it on, come the Dark Ages how is your progeny going to take it back from The Appropriating? (How is this my problem? It's not. <- Which is also why - contrary to your very quaint but oh-so-wrong supposition elsewhere in your post - I don't care what you/etc do.)
2. [quote name='HareKrishna' date='03 December 2010 - 01:38 AM' timestamp='1291320059' post='109614']Husky,i have 2 questions
1.You claim that bindi has a religious value.But every hindu i ask say that bindi is only for beauty and have no religious role.[/quote]To question 1: it doesn't have "a" religious value. It is Hindu from the core outwards. And this is not a "claim", it's just a fact; a very well-known one - at least where I come from.
(Of course wearing it has other genuine benefits to Hindus - just like wearing veebooti etc has great benefits of its own. Rather like how Yoga also has additional beneficial effects. Pottu/bindi and other marks also have the convenient side-effect of being beauty marks.)
Clearly, I am not poised to tell you why the pottu/bindi is Hindu - if that's what you were fishing for.
And I'm going to give "every Hindu you ask" the benefit of the doubt by suspecting they don't want to tell you because they have worked out you won't understand. Besides, how is this your business? (It's not.)
Quote:Husky,i have 2 questions
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2. <blablabla "monotheism" blablabla "monotheism" blablabla>
Romani/Honsol/"HareKrishna" - and whatever other aliases you keep reappearing under on this site,
I'm going to say this as politely as I can - for the second time in recent memory (and I advise you not to try this again):
Will you stop trying to dialogue with me?
- Enough with the invitations to dialogue on silly topics that interest only you and have nothing to do with anyone I know, and are most definitely entirely irrelevant to me.
- And I don't want your PMs "to please contribute" on some thread I've never heard of and will never look at. (I'm guessing you would have spammed others with the plea too and didn't just single me out. You're far more likely to have whatever amount of luck with them.)
Still don't know (but don't care) what you are doing on this forum, such as why you keep insistently reappearing here under new handles and why you are frequently/usually/always(?) into the same drab, alien, christo-conditioning topics. Surely your native Romania is a very interesting country - with problems and prospects of its own for you to solve and discuss and explore? Your compatriots will doubtless appreciate your contributions.
Why is it so very important to you to come all the way down here to keep lecturing Hindus what their religion is supposedly "really" about*, when - I presume - no one here but you thinks you know what you're talking about?
(* Doniger and other such persons - being the very last people who would know - are more popular for that tendency.)
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe others are interested. I'm simply not one of them. Not that it can bother: there's a potential audience of 6 billion or so, so you can't notice my truancy. Though to get more of them to listen in on your radio show (this isn't the best place to do Outreach ya know), you would really need to go to a more visible website or something.