https://youtube/watch?v=KKBPrLey_6U The man is amazing! Not just is he peddling the canard that Hinduism and Hindutva is the same thing, he is also using the standard crap that the religious give: that their favourite imaginary friend is the creator of all else. Not clear? Let me explain the sentence. The first part: Hinduism is a philsophy / set of philosophies / religion / set of networked religions. Hindutva is merely a political strategy. Same? REALLY! The second part: Hinduism / Vedic religion is clearly and factually NOT the base to every religion. Abrahamics have no Vedic substrate; nor do Chinese religions. Even in Indian religions, Jainism predates the Vedas, which are the earliest books of Hinduism. In the Rig-veda, which is accepted as the first of the four vedas, there are clear references to Rishabhdev, the 1st Tirthankara, and to Aristanemi, the 22nd Tirthankara. The other vedas also have similar mentions. So, perhaps, Jainism was the base to Hinduism? The word Hindu itself, was of course coined much later than the time when the vedas were written, and actually refers to the geographical marker of those living in the valley of Sindhu (River Indus) and beyond - from the perspective of the only civilization that could observe the great Indian civilization - those lying to the West of India - early Persians / South-Central Asians. (The sound of S and that of H was at various times written with the same symbol, something similar to, but unrelated to the Greek letter we know as theta - Ɵ ). (The Northern civilizations were cutoff by Himalayas and the deserts, the Eastern by the mountains and thick jungles of the East). Further, the Cosmos clearly is a continuum (the Big Bang is not claimed to be the Absolute Beginning, nor is the observable uiniverse, claimed to be all there is, in the Cosmos - for the want of a better word). If so, it is ridiculous to talk of a base to everything else. We do not even know when time began, or even, if it did. So how can anything be a base to everything else, even of a given class, for as you go farther into the past, the current classes themselves morph into different classes, obliterating themselves. Finally, to put all unknown questions in a box and answer it as God, or Hinduism, is really a proof of intellectual bankruptcy. If that was the beginning of all else, because of the logic that nothing can exist without a creator / precursor; how can the entity thus claimed not have its own creator / precursor? Are there any limits to the moronism of these ideologues?
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 20:21:58 +0000
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