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Untouchability and Sex

Shantanu Dutta January 11, 2007

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#79 Posted by teshah on February 1, 2007 7:07:07 pm
Re: # 56 & 57

You are both the pic of the chowk.

The Qurani Allah says that all the humanity was one `Umma` but the prophets divided it. Can truth be divided as so called faiths(Which should perhaps rightly be called as `Aqeeda` or Dogma) are?
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#78 Posted by KaalChakra on January 28, 2007 1:11:54 am
nak45

Yaar, you guys are funny. First the gentleman writes an article, showing no ability or effort to defend his assertions. Then you jump in clapping approval without any attempt to check things for yourself. :)
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#77 Posted by nak45 on January 26, 2007 1:54:22 pm
a frank and honest effort unfold an hineous crime,covered under the barhamen veil.
keep it up
NAK45
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#76 Posted by nb on January 22, 2007 5:58:32 am
Re: # 73
No, he`s just a stirrer!
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#75 Posted by Annu on January 22, 2007 5:18:52 am
Its a shame.
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#74 Posted by Annu on January 22, 2007 5:18:41 am
Its a shame.
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#73 Posted by Maharana on January 18, 2007 2:35:06 pm
Noe where is the author of this article? Does he care to respond to some valid questions raised by interactors here?
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#72 Posted by sattar2 on January 17, 2007 10:43:19 am
... haven`t read the article, but the title gives a new meaning to ``look ma, no hands``
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#71 Posted by Shah2 on January 15, 2007 10:04:31 am
The Kanchi Shankaracharya, Sri Jayendra Saraswathi...the name is so big that i cant pronounce it ...is thid your brahmin hinduism ??????
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#70 Posted by jang on January 15, 2007 7:27:58 am
#68 abu, shiva parvati story is not to be taken literally. parvati is the power (shakti) who apparently had a child while siva was away. siva being an alpha male type was angry and chopped his head off. parvati however made him see his mistake and made him fix it and accept the child as his own. so its a story of original feminism..to date all women of india (some of them muslim too) pray that they get a husband as ``bhola`` (innocent) as siva.

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#69 Posted by majumdar on January 15, 2007 1:09:43 am
Abu safwaan,

(Horse travelling with the speed of light is unfathomable however shiv ji attaching a elephant head on a dead baby just to save himself from the wrath of parvathi hence creating a haathi GOD makes all the scientific sense in the world. )

Most Hindus dont believe that their scriptures are literally the word of God, most Muslims do. In fact if you dare to disagree in many countries you may be bumped off. Therein lies the difference.

Regards
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#68 Posted by abu_safwaan on January 15, 2007 12:32:18 am
Re: # 65

Haramoaa,

you are dead on my ``sabji`` friend, Horse travelling with the speed of light is unfathomable however shiv ji attaching a elephant head on a dead baby just to save himself from the wrath of parvathi hence creating a haathi GOD makes all the scientific sense in the world. practicing hindus talking about common sense is like muslims giving lectures on ugliness, it just can`t be!
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#67 Posted by KaalChakra on January 14, 2007 11:30:59 pm
Harimau

I meant no such thing!! Please don`t put me in more trouble than I make for myself here. LOL :)


re: teshah # 58

shah ji, in fact, when faith begins to justify itself rationally, it turns doubly dangerous - it not only takes over imagination (as do all approaches to tanscendence) but also puts reason (which should be left free to saunter through the world) under house arrest.


srk

Agreed. In Kaliyuga, that is what happens to good rulers who are not sadists.


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#66 Posted by teshah on January 14, 2007 7:52:46 pm
Re: # 58

Faith being a subjective matter can never perhaps be subjected to rational discussion. One of my late uncles who did farming in an arid land depending entirely on rain and believed too much in god, made very good use of his faith. Whenever there was no rain in time he would abuse god for that in Punjabi saying ``Khuda di maan noo`n...etc.``. He would remember god similarly when there was too much rain which threatened washing away his dams. On the other hand late Khomeini used god to kill Rushdie but god killed himself instead. So there are many uses to which a faith in superior beings or its pretention is put depending upon the circumstances of each person. Faiths vary so much that they defy any definition even thereof. In Pakistan btw they could not find any definition of the term `Muslim` till today (vide Munir Inquiry Report).
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#65 Posted by harimau on January 14, 2007 6:12:14 pm
Ref kaalchakra #57

[To prevent misunderstanding, let`s understand a lie. A lie is a deliberate untruth, an assertion that can be established to be untrue with a little bit of effort on anybody`s part.

So ``Christ was the Son of God`` is a belief. ``My horse flies, yours doesn`t``, can be shown to be a lie.]

So, what are you saying about Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) flying on a horse to Jerusalem and/or jannat?

Are you implying Christianity is a faith but Islam is based on, gasp, lies?
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#64 Posted by ramchandar on January 14, 2007 5:17:27 pm
Ref#63
PVN Rao was the best prime minister India had after Nehru.

Congress has passed it use by date. Congress has only one consistent policy and that is Muslim appeasement.

They have never taken any constructive step to help the Muslim community. They always treated Muslims like mushrooms that is they kept Muslims in darkness and fed them shit.
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Interact Index

    #79 teshah
    #78 KaalChakra
    #77 nak45
    #76 nb
    #75 Annu
    #74 Annu
    #73 Maharana
    #72 sattar2
    #71 Shah2
    #70 jang
    #69 majumdar
    #68 abu_safwaan
    #67 KaalChakra
    #66 teshah
    #65 harimau
    #64 ramchandar
    #63 SRK
    #62 swarrier
    #61 KaalChakra
    #60 parthaab
    #59 Maharana
    #58 tahmed32
    #57 KaalChakra
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    #55 harimau
    #54 VRV
    #53 ramchandar
    #52 okhla99
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    #37 jang
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    #35 KaalChakra
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    #32 KaalChakra
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    #29 swarrier
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    #26 jang
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    #19 Ishwar
    #18 harimau
    #17 Ranjit
    #16 mubakr
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    #14 dost_mittar
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    #12 taikonaut
    #11 bbabu
    #10 Shah2
    #9 VRV
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