Arun, Thanks for trying it out. Wih this, we have a preliminary version of the problem. We still have to apply certain techniques borrowed from Balu's book, to...
I dont have any access either directly or indirectly to the experience of Yogi. Hence no comments. Regarding what we feel warm. This is explained in terms of...
venkateshwara_reddy
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Oct 1, 2004 8:09 am
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Why dont Rajiv posit a falsifiable hypothesis, an hypothesis that has empirical consequences that can be tested. It is time for him to get over the post...
venkateshwara_reddy
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Oct 1, 2004 8:13 am
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natural phenomena: 1. a stick appearing to be bent when immersed in water, but it is straight 2. a coin appears to be elliptical when looked at from an angle,...
venkateshwara_reddy
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Oct 1, 2004 8:52 am
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A friend, claiming to be a hindu, dubbed me narrow-minded and judgemental for saying the following. (1) "That the religion is cultural universal" should be...
The other problems I encountered with intelligentia in various egroups: what we see must be the structure of the world; when one makes a claim about the...
venkateshwara_reddy
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Oct 3, 2004 9:57 pm
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StartQuote Both Dennett and Steven Pinker argue that too many people who are opposed to science use the words "reductionism" and "reductionist" less to make...
venkateshwara_reddy
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Oct 4, 2004 8:53 am
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... <jakobderoover@y...> wrote: ... During colonialism two diverse conceptual schemes met; let us say one was dharma and another was religion. Any...
dunkinjalki
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Oct 5, 2004 5:00 am
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Dear Dunkin: I think you are probably right: many Indians do see Christianity as just another dharma. But not quite in the way you describe it. I would point...
There is yet another problem with Indians: what Dharma is. We keep on hearing that it is a way of life, which is nother redescription. How does one distinguish...
venkateshwara_reddy
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Oct 5, 2004 7:21 am
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I think my objection still holds!! if finding out that religion was not cultural universal was step one in our research, we can't stop at that and think poorly...
dunkinjalki
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Oct 5, 2004 7:27 am
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Dear Dunkin, I have a clarification: What was the stupid remark that Jakob was referring to: Is it the statement that one is not able to come to terms with...
... To make Jakob maximally consistent, he is not saying that the west should stop seeing religions ubiquitiously. That is, he is not saying that it is stupid...
venkateshwara_reddy
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Oct 5, 2004 7:47 am
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dear sandeepak tell me onething can an 'ordinary' indian be able to distinguish between the two? (for you and me the latter is a requirement to understand the...
dunkinjalki
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Oct 5, 2004 8:12 am
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Dear Dunkin, When I say that the remark "it all depends on your definition of 'religion'" is stupid, I mean the following: (a) In "The Heathen," Balu develops...
Dear Dunkin, Please note that I never called any person stupid. The *statement* about the definition of religion is stupid. Even if Einstein made this remark...
Dear Jacob You write "It is stupid because one's understanding of the structure of a phenomenon *does not at all* depend on one's definition of a word. One...
dunkinjalki
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Oct 5, 2004 10:59 am
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When a causal account is provided for Indian traditions, then it is known whether Dharma as everyone calls is a phenomenon. ... understanding of ... word....
venkateshwara_reddy
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Oct 5, 2004 5:18 pm
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Can we really say that we know nothing of the conceptual structure of dharma when the Mahabharata is still with us - instruction in dharma in story form? It...
Dear Jacob please let our discussion not diverge towards these kind of personal clarifications. neither i made any personal comments about you, nor did i take...
dunkinjalki
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Oct 6, 2004 3:09 am
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In a way, the problem itself is ill-posed: Dharma and Indian traditions. It is worth our while concentrating on the structure of Indian traditions. ... ...
venkateshwara_reddy
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Oct 6, 2004 6:18 am
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Dear Dunkin: I don't think it is helpful to offer definitions (even tentative ones) for dharma before we have any idea what an Indian is talking about when he...
Dear Satya I agree with you. Most of the time discussions in these kinds of forums proceed on an egotistic note of proving oneself correct or at least gaining...
dunkinjalki
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Oct 6, 2004 6:42 am
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Dear Dunkin, My post was not a "personal clarification" and the "person" in question did neither concern you nor me. I was referring to this statement from...
I think, Balu addressed a point in his "On very idea of an intercultural dialogue" that one should not take the view of an intelligent commoner as being an...
It is interesting to see explanations in Natural Sciences. What if one says, it is the idea of feeling some kind of smell makes us smell a substance that way...
venkateshwara_reddy
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Oct 6, 2004 7:44 am
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one of my acquaintances, who is a die-hard 'atheist', got pissed off when it is said that seeing religions is religious. And I told him that he is confusing...
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