i have been out of town a few days, and could only intermittently access the website.
so what happened?
God wins?
Yamaka, Happy Hindu and (maybe) Nara are no longer here?
as a proud one of hindu heritage, personally, i could accommodate their views, and never felt my faith or practices threatened. the world is a large place, and when we have difference within the nuclear family, it is but natural, that many of us, with various experiences of life, come to differ.
Y, HH N - their journeys in life have been different, and HH, N have a knowledge of hinduism, that i could only envy. these two have not only learned more, but learned them well, to come to a stage, to comfortably look critically at our heritage, and call 'a spade a spade'. this is not for arguement purposes that i write this, but my opinion. and my opinion will stay.
i am once again reminded of a uncivil civil society ..
The ability to posture first and postulate later, to shout first and hear later, to be rhetorical always and rational never. This is the new omniscient mutant Indian adult.
our-uncivil-civil-society/
whom am i to point fingers? for i am as guilty, as any member here for being one of the noisy thugs. and these are on both sides.
but sufficiently hard slaps to throw one group out, should distress anyone who has the interests of the forum. after all these were not the jamadagneya types who threatened on members here. these have contributed more than many who had railed against them.
i may be expecting much, but what would be nice, is the group that remains 'winners', to extend a friendly hand, in the best of a tradition initiated by voltaire,
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
personally, godless folks, i think are a boon to us believer - for two reasons; it helps us to sharpen up our own faith and keeps us on our toes, and provide counter arguements; secondly, and this i think is crucial to our future hinduism - becoming more broad based and egalitarian in both outlook and practice - for that is the world of today and tomorrow.
we are now a flat society, where the ancestral scavenger's son/daughter may be treating us in our death bed, and that is the most wonderful thing that could happen to hindus and india. atleast i think so.
for without an opposition, we would become a mutual admiration society, a tone, that is already present here in this thread the past couple of days.
fire and brimstone, hey, that's what makes us an interesting forum i think.
and finally, this is not to cast aspiration on KRS, but more something i was reminded and was pointed out, and maybe a reason why i was kicked out of my brief practice of this forum moderation ie moderator also becoming a participant. i think the example brought out, was how can the judge be also an advocate for the prosecution or defence at the same time. the forum is a tempting morsel, and is difficult to take munch or two, if one gets interested in a topic, and i think, it is difficult to hold onceself back and plunge in. moderation is a pov of the moderator, and my pov when i was a moderator was not acceptable to many, and i had no problems stepping down. again i wish to reiterate, these are in no way reflecting on KRS, but only my own experiences.
the remaining all of us, can keep our chin up, and proclaim, it is 'business as usual' and the forum does not depend on one single person or group. but the web is littered with forums, when some interesting members have left...as we know from our own group of deserters here, and who have now returned.
to sum up, if we consider God exists and is declared a winner, i would consider the victory pyrrhic. at what cost God has to win? does He/She cares?
thank you.