Gordon wrote on Feb 19
th, 2019 at 9:48pm:
Mattyfisk wrote on Feb 19
th, 2019 at 9:42pm:
Gordon wrote on Feb 19
th, 2019 at 9:21pm:
Mattyfisk wrote on Feb 19
th, 2019 at 9:17pm:
bellamor wrote on Feb 19
th, 2019 at 4:26pm:
That is why the best thing to do about it is to simply respect all the people as we all have different beliefs.
Now now, Bellamor, no one has the right to not be offended.
Except Matty above. Just try to agree with him, okay?
If Aztec/Mayan culture was still going today would you respect their right of human sacrifices?
You mean if they're
tinted?
That's a hard one, Gordon. Do you accept Curry women aborting their daughters and throwing themselves onto their husbands' funeral pyres?
You've been to Delhi. Of course you do.
Remember, WE DON'T WANT THEM HERE.
Are some cultures better that others?
Ah, the very question of the thread.
Moi? I'm a dirty little invert. I have much respect for dirty brown Curries, but do you know? My mind freezes with Hinduism. I love Vedantic philosophy, but I glaze over at the sight of a jolly Hindu ritual - clanging symbols, banging drums, monotone chants, the lot. Siva, Vishnu, Krishna, I don't get any of it.
I honour the ways of the Buddha - a good millenium before Hinduism was systematised and nutted out by various kings, priests and knuckleheads. To this day, I have no idea why so many Hindus bow down before various gods, and I don't think many of them do either. As the great thinker Vivekananda once said (and I'm paraphrasing), it hardly matters whether God exists or not, that's just his tradition, how he understands his
experience of the world and the universe, the object of his spiritual practice.
The Buddha did away with God entirely, even though he came from that tradition. For the Buddha (and the yogis and Sufi mystics and for many Christians, Muslims and Jews too), the end-point lies in silence. For us,
that's God.
Back in the dawn of time, the Vedic thinkers had it all worked out. Language, maths, agriculture, geography and ethics all worked together. It was a golden age. Today?
India is a mess. Tomorrow? We'll never know. Our own culture was a mess during the Dark Ages too, less that a millennium ago.
So no, Gordon, no culture is really more superior than others. We have our gods, but in the end, they hardly matter.
You?