--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > > > I guess the REAL point of SV is that if humans > > > can't make their houses fit into nice neat rows, > > > then probably humans shouldn't be living on that > > > land... > > > > Wow. > > > > I just don't know how to react to this. Part of > > me hopes that you're kidding, and another part is > > horrified to consider the possibility that you're > > not. > > > > Do you honestly believe that you can realize > > enlightenment while trying to make your life fit > > into nice neat rows? > > That's the point. If you have to put effort into > community living, then its distracting you from > more important issues.
Well said. We are agreed on this, then. I still think it's a "shut in" phenomenon, the kind of thing that only people who haven't left the rooms they live in for years would consider important. > Now, is it really effortful to live on wavey streets > instead of straight streets? I live on a semi-circle > and I have a hard time figuring out North, but that's > me. HOWEVER, the SV claim apparently is based on some > intuition about the interaction of devas with the land > and the users of the land. It's a religious thing... Yes it is. And it's being adopted by many people who will claim up one side of the issue and down the other that it's not, and would like to pretend that they're buying into it because of rational reasons. > ...obviously, unless some scientific basis can be found > for the claims. > > Are you criticizing the entire Hindu culture and religion > because their tradition says streets alligned with NS/EW > are better than streets that aren't? Yup, I guess I am. And I am doing so unapologetically. Presented as religious belief, the ideas are Ok. Presented as pseudo-scientific fact, I don't think they are. Especially, when these so-called "facts" go so strongly against every other tradition of geomancy that I know of on the planet, and against most people's intuitive feeling for what living in harmony with nature really means.
