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Re: Why thsi Ramakrishan-Vivekanand bashing?
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To: alt-hindu@cis.ohio-state.edu
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Subject: Re: Why thsi Ramakrishan-Vivekanand bashing?
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From: vivek@cs.rice.edu (Vivek Sadananda Pai)
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Date: 26 Jan 1995 16:42:49 GMT
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Distribution: world
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From news@larry.rice.edu Thu Jan 26 11: 30:22 1995
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Newsgroups: alt.hindu
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Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
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References: <3g3vl7$c84@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
In article <3g3vl7$c84@ucunix.san.uc.edu>, vgr@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (G. R. Vishwanath) writes:
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|> I don't eat meat: but i don't have problems with meat-eaters who
|> traditionally have been so. As an aside, i find that as a general rule
|> people who have been veggies since birth seldom make a song and dance
|> about their vegetarianism.
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|> >We did not pick this fight. RK did.
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|> You indulge in all sorts of name calling. You have always
This name-calling thing goes both ways, doesn't it?
I find that people who have not been name callers since
birth seldom make a song and dance about their clean mouths.
|> insulted Ramakrishna and Vivekananda which prompted all this.
|> You could have voiced your strong misgivings about them without
|> ridiculing them.
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|> You write so boorishly and crudely that sometimes i think that
|> it must be some conspiracy to discredit ISCKON. Belive me,
|> once upon a time I had respect for ISCKON. I respected your single-
|> minded Nishta towards Krishna and the scriptures. But your attitude
|> puts me off.
Hmmm... After the paragraph above this one, I can only imagine that
you added this paragraph in for ironic effect. However, I think
you'll find that directness, even if it isn't what everyone wants
to hear, isn't a crime. If you want to be coddled and told that
"this is OK", and "that is OK", even when there seem to be clear
scriptural injunctions against it, you're probably talking to the
wrong group of people. Might I suggest that if you can't handle
an alternate viewpoint being expressed, you're in the wrong place?
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|> >constantly tried to kill him). And these events were in
|> >more enlightened ages; how can anyone expect the material world
|> >to be kind to the devotees in this degraded age of Kali?
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|> Don't whine. You give respect, you will get it back.
You ask for a very strange form of respect, especially since your
original posts weren't exactly sincere. Doctor, heal thyself.
-Vivek
