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> From: crawlingwageslave@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: zen4less@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Got Yer message
> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 04:50:51 -0700
>
> Byron Werner heard or read somewhere that you are into
> a Hindu kick and asked me if it's true. Will it last longer than
> your passing obsessions with theater, Dada, Surrealism, Ayn Rand,
> Republicanism, the John Birch Society, George McGovern, feminism,
> electronic music, Mercedes Benzes, Mesa Boogie Amps, Stratocaster
> guitars, get rich quick real estate schemes, etc. etc. etc.????
>
> Just being a smartass.
>
> Will you find Hindus to be just another bunch of liars
> as are the John Birch Society snotheads? Let me know
> so it saves me all the unnecessary reading.
>
> Satan Trubee
>
>
> (to which I just replied:)
>
> I've been interested in Eastern philosophies since I used to go to the
> Krishna Temple (ISKCON) in NYC every weekend back when I was a teenager
> with Barry Burkan. We'd eat free food and listen to them lecture us
> about Krishna. I didn't believe it, I didn't understand it, but I
> found it endlessly fascinating. When my father died many years ago, I
> placed a set of Krishna chanting beads in his coffin to be buried with
> him. Just a symbol.
>
> Krishna is not presented as a real person. Nor is Radha, his feminine
> side, nor Rama, or his earlier incarnations. There are some people who
> believe that Krishna is real, but there's no actual indication (kind of
> the same way some people believe Buddha to be God, even though he never
> claimed to be). The stories of Krishna like the Ramayan (my favorite)
> and the Bhagavad Gita and the Mahabarat represent Krishna as the good
> and evil inside all of us, and our constant internal conflicts and
> moral crisies. Meditation and chanting OM bring us closer in tune with
> our inner, central selves, relaxes us, and better enable us to make
> important daily decisions about the complexities of right and wrong.
> The stories are fun, the conversations between the characters are
> interesting and educational, and I like it.
>
> Do I believe it? Not quite yet, but I'm trying. Until then, I'll keep
> meditating (something I've done all my life), eating Indian food, and
> wanting a sitar for Xmas. Ultimately, I don't think it matters whether
> any of us believe in a God or not--what matters most is doing the right
> thing on this planet while we're here. A good deed, regardless of the
> source, is still a good deed. Ayn Rand said to serve yourself. So
> does Krishna.
>
>
> --Zoogz Rift
> http://zoogzrift.4mg.com/
News Flash: You can't BE a Hindu unless you are BORN a Hindu. It's
right there in the book. Besides, why would you even want to? You have
to struggle all your life just to jump up one caste when you're
reincarnated. One slip, and you start all over as a dung beetle.
Pretty raw deal, if you ask me.
If I had to choose, I'd be a Sikh. You get to look all fierce in a
beard and turban, you got swords and daggers and all kinds of stuff that
tells people "don't fuck with me," plus the women are waaaaay better
looking. Lots of professional wrestlers are Sikhs too. Right up your
alley.
pb
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