On Apr 7, 2009, at 9:14 AM, Duveyoung wrote:
bob_brigante wrote:
MMY was certainly aware that Arjuna hunted deer:
Fuck -- ahhh, not to mention that he and Krishna were totally
espousing genocide. On the battlefield, they slaughtered elephants
and horses too.
Then there's Rama sending his perfect wife to the netherworld....
The intellect can justify anything -- it's a whore for the least
emotion.
And here's yet another thread that should be simply about recipes,
and it rapidly changed.
Threads here have about a four-post lifetime before they're titles
are useless.
Many people think the battlefield analogy is just that: pure analogy
with some iota of historicity. But battle rituals have taken place
since time memorial in India, even up to the present era. These
ritualized battles often end up with bloodshed of some kind and in
fact could be quite bloody.
