--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, I got the quote from another discussion > group, and reposted it just as it was posted there.
Sure you did, Barry. > Don't know where it came from originally. It could > have come from anywhere. If I could find it in under a minute, so could you. Or you could have asked the poster where it came from. Or at the very least, you could have cited the discussion group as the source. I mean, I'm sure you didn't want readers to think you did the research and wrote the material yourself, but it's just, you know, good form to let folks know where you got it from. > But it's good to see that you're still obsessing on > the subject. :-) > > Have you come up with any answers yet for how animal > sacrifice fits into the "heaven on earth" that "Vedic > life" represents according to Maharishi? And have you > come up with a reason why historical and archeaological > records indicate that the Vedic period was a period > of almost constant warfare, to the point that all the > rajas had to maintain standing armies to defend their > territories? Uh, no, these aren't questions that particularly interest me. Not least because, as I've already explained to you, not even scholars can be sure what really went on back then, but primarily because I could care less. The question is, why do *you* care so much? Since you are, after all, the resident > apologist for Maharishi and the TMO here at FFL, Uh, no, that's another of your fantasies about me, one that is very thoroughly contradicted by what you *know* about me from my past posts. Shall I cite the many times I've said that I thought the movement sucked big-time, or the many times I've pointed out that I don't give what MMY has to say about anything but the nature and mechanics of consciousness any more credibility than anybody else's personal opinions? I'd > have thought you'd have come up with an explanation > for all this by now, That's an extraordinarily odd thing for you to have thought. instead of just spending your > time on "detective work" Less than a minute. just to try to find out > where I found a particular quote...and failing. :-) If you're telling the truth about where you found it. But again, if it had been me trying to find material to discredit MMY's understanding of history, and had discovered a quote on a discussion group, I sure would have done my best to track the quote down. And if I had discovered that it had come from a Christian Web site dedicated to proselytizing Hindus, I most certainly would have let readers know that fact. I would also have tried to find relevant material from a less dubious source, because I wouldn't have wanted to risk misleading anybody or being unfair to MMY by presenting potentially tainted information or interpretations. But those, as we all know, are not matters that concern you in the slightest. And *that's* what really interests me: why you are so desperately stuck in your anger at MMY, after all this time, that you don't care about being accurate or fair in your compulsive criticisms. > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > In case anybody had been wondering where Barry got > > the screed about Vedic animal sacrifice he pasted in > > below, it's from a site called "Karma2Grace," which > > purports to be interested in fostering understanding > > between Christians and Hindus but which includes a > > section called "Life Stories," composed of pieces by > > former Hindus who saw the light and came to Jesus. > > > > There is no corresponding section for the stories > > of Christians who converted to Hinduism. > > > > The rather grotesque descriptions of Vedic sacrifice of > > animals quoted by Barry is immediately followed by one > > about animal sacrifice in biblical Judaism, which > > pointedly notes that, unlike the Vedic version, Jewish > > animal sacrifice was "temporary and symbolic"--i.e., > > not to propitiate the divine but to impress the Jews > > with the need for repentance--and links it to the > > Christian metaphor of Jesus as the (sacrificial) Lamb > > of God. > > > > No wonder Barry didn't want to cite his source.
