Posted on: 04-09-06 22:58:22
I also had this question of not eating meat or any non vegetarian food on Tuesday. Now with these Mars…Heat…the real reasons; eating non veg. in Canada could be OK. This being a cold country, heat won’t be a problem.
Wonder why they have some good deals on chicken items on Tuesdays…
-Ben
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Originally posted by meghal
If any of Hindu practises had any scientific basis, their relevance still needs to be questioned in modern world when technology has advanced so far.
Wonderful. Emphasize the phrase "their relevance still needs to be questioned".
The practices may be all well and good, but this doesnt mean to put a full stop to rational and analytical thinking, with a questioning mind.
Regards.
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Originally posted by ThinkingOne
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Originally posted by meghal
If any of Hindu practises had any scientific basis, their relevance still needs to be questioned in modern world when technology has advanced so far.
Wonderful. Emphasize the phrase "their relevance still needs to be questioned".
The practices may be all well and good, but this doesnt mean to put a full stop to rational and analytical thinking, with a questioning mind.
Regards.
Absolutely right. However, when you question a person who is neither wise enough to be able to understand the reasons himself, or is not talented enough to convince a person on such beliefs, it does NOT mean that the belief is wrong. Hense one should question only those who have the capacity to undestand the beliefs - most mortals are only capable of following the belief.
As an example - if you asked me - an accountant, why does a TV start showing images as soon as you press a button on the remote, I will not be able to give you a correct reply - though I am educated enough to be called a sane and educated person. However, that will not mean that MY BELIEF that if I press a remote control button, the TV will start operating, is WRONG.
And I will continue living with that belief for the rest of my life without questioning anyone.
Chandresh
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Chandresh
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ok Chandresh,
I invite people with knowledge to answer a few questions which are raised in this discussion already, but are being followed as superstitions. Will anyone?
And if someone questions their elder, the knowledgable elders get angry pretty fast and say - hey, do dont say anything. Why is there not a simple answer for a simple question?
Regards.
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Originally posted by ThinkingOne
ok Chandresh,
I invite people with knowledge to answer a few questions which are raised in this discussion already, but are being followed as superstitions. Will anyone?
And if someone questions their elder, the knowledgable elders get angry pretty fast and say - hey, do dont say anything. Why is there not a simple answer for a simple question?
Regards.
Simple questions not necessarily have simple answers. Try these for example:
1. Why is the earth round?
2. Why there is a physical difference between a boy and a girl.
3. Why did not man have feathers like birds to enable him to fly?
Elders usually get angry because of two reasons:
Firstly, most of the times, youngsters do not put their questions as a desire to learn, but more as a retaliation when asked to follow something blindly.
Secondly, even if put as a desire to learn, the elder who gets angry feels he/she is being challanged on his belief, which he himself had never questioned when he was young. If that elder had questioned, he would normally not get angry because either he would have an answer, or would have found that he has not been able to get an answer despite his desire to learn and can relate to the question being asked of him.
Chandresh
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Chandresh
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Secondly, even if put as a desire to learn, the elder who gets angry feels he/she is being challanged on his belief, which he himself had never questioned when he was young. If that elder had questioned, he would normally not get angry because either he would have an answer, or would have found that he has not been able to get an answer despite his desire to learn and can relate to the question being asked of him.
Can this be equated with ego-problem? Like..... hey kid - No Questions, No Arguments, Just Follow me!?
and perhaps internally the old man is thinking - well, why am I doing/following this myself? (simply because I didnt question, and just followed)!?!?!?
TN can be called bastion of the so called “Self-Respect” movement in India encompassing all beliefs against superstitions, religion and god (read only Hinduism and only Hindu gods). But funnily those who are supposed to be non-believers and against idolatry themselves visit the statue of their leaders at important traffic junctions in cities, garland and pray (!) with folded hands and closed eyes. Some of the “rationalist” leaders write columns in newspapers saying that their departed leader appeared and spoke to them in their dreams. When things go wrong they get frustrated and exclaim “it is all because of my horoscope”. Last not but least, quite a few of the non-believers actually are believers within the four walls or let their better-halves do the job of believing so that they can have the best of both worlds.
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