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Re: Rules regarding administrative changes
vivek@cs.rice.edu (Vivek Sadananda Pai) wrote:
>Now, back to your post, in which you address a total side issue:
I thought the post started off with Ajay Shah stating that posts alleging an
alternate identity for Dr Maharaj would not be allowed. I believe you protested
and the other issues like posts in Hindi etc. were also addressed. May be I'm
mistaken, in that case sorry.
>|> IMO, the first post by Vivek (I think) alleging that Dr Maharaj is someone
>|> called Jay Stevens should not have been allowed.
>
>The source of my posts, interestingly enough, was a post of yours
>to which Jai replied to a quote taken out of context. You were
>referring to Sanskrit scholars in the US, and he clipped the context
I said I didn't like Srila Prabupada's translations and Jai Maharaj said that
he too did not like some of the translations (in a different context) and posted
this cosmography stuff (which later became a thread).
>and followed up with some drivel. He then did the same for some other
>posts, mainly arguments from alt.support.ex-cult.
In this thread he posted excerpts from ase-c, I remember. I think Bon Giovanni
also posted some excerpts.
>So, if we're going to start finding the "demon seed", you need to
>look back a little further and ask why these sorts of cut-and-paste
>jobs were allowed in the first place, especially when the whole point
>was just to have "Dr J" air his vendetta.
Well, lots of times people get quoted out of context. I think I was quoted out
of context by Jai, but it wasn't way off.
>Actually, the arguments were attacked in the newsgroup in which they
>were first raised, alt.support.ex-cult, and I pointed interested
>parties to the archives of that group. A few other people also raised
>the same points here on SRH, but I didn't see the need to rehash the
>original author's misunderstanding of what he read.
>
>I hope this clarifies matters.
Well, I don't know who you mean by the original author. I guess Eric Pement
(sp?). As HKS and you pointed out, Eric may have misunderstood "concepts" like
the moon having a "soul" etc. However Bon Giovanni did not seem convinced by
your (or maybe Vijay's) arguments. In any case I plan to read that book (Vedic
Cosmography ...) over summer, and you can expect my comments on this matter in
about a month or so. A slightly late followup to that "Moon" thread, but it's
better to get things settled.
Ramakrishnan.
--
Two monks were arguing about a flag. One said, "The flag is moving." The other
said, "The wind is moving." The sixth patriarch happened to be passing by. He
told them, "Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving." - The Gateless Gate
http://yake.ecn.purdue.edu/~rbalasub/
