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Post by saag on Jul 31, 2009 16:14:35 GMT -6
I am not, I repeat I am not the ONLY anon here.....
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Post by saag on Jul 31, 2009 16:52:29 GMT -6
To the anon here who thinks I am obsessing over them (and we all know who it is).. please don't flatter yourself that I would obsess over you, it's very unbecoming, People here are just calling a spade a spade and as I said I am not the multi-headed anon here that you claim.. sorry but your not the mod here and your threats to not post anymore if we don't behave are a flippin joke!
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Post by Ekantin on Jul 31, 2009 18:33:41 GMT -6
Ekantin thinks GR is a failed project. Like Iskcon? Hmmm, perhaps a GRR is in order? I think it is a failed project because it no longer appears to fulfil the main aims of the site: "examining the impact of GV on our lives" (board guidelines). Nowadays they seem quite content to share music videos, discuss what they had for dinner last night, and post pics of their local area. Nothing wrong with those things as they are pleasurable inevitabilities when a sense of community builds up and people like to talk about their own interests, but there seems to be a dramatic fall in the overall quantity of direct and deep GV-related discussion bar the occasional memory or two. Out of current 168 members (I thought it was 693 last time I looked, did they have a mass deletion?) barely 10 are active posters. They've done much of their processing and have nothing much more to share I guess? Meanwhile ISKCON has a high dropout rate and where are all the new members flocking to GR to tell their stories? There is also the natural life-cycle of forums to consider; they need new blood to keep things fresh and interesting or it'll stagnate and die. I've seen it over and over again. So I don't have anything personal against GR or anyone there. I discussed these things with a couple of the mods but they've either forgotten or haven't taken my suggestions on board. Oh well. Pity really, I quite liked that place but I ended up feeling very unwelcome. It is said that the private parts of this forum is where the best discussions are going on. Imagine the quality if the public parts are so fun already! I for one wants to keep my privilege of posting anonymous so please lets not fry the host. Thanks. Mostly inactive but genteel, the private section is. A recent thread I started has resulted in a slanging match. People are are responsible for themselves, I guess, and make forums what they are.
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Post by gaas on Jul 31, 2009 18:34:38 GMT -6
You are not anonymous at all. You are saag.
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Post by Poppycock on Jul 31, 2009 18:43:49 GMT -6
Let's be honest with ourselves.
We're all here because we're not all there.
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Post by Tomtom on Jul 31, 2009 19:38:14 GMT -6
Some of us are here and there. And some from there have completely gone elsewhere!
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Post by Buddy Holly on Aug 2, 2009 7:53:20 GMT -6
I am not, I repeat I am not the ONLY anon here...../quote] But you ARE most of them. ;D
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Post by saag on Aug 2, 2009 7:59:15 GMT -6
Oh I am soooo bothered... ;D
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Post by Moon on Aug 2, 2009 8:48:32 GMT -6
an I am bored
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Post by Death Throes on Aug 2, 2009 11:30:55 GMT -6
This site looked like it was dying a quick death several times, but manages to survive - in ebbs and flows, however. Kind of like the tide.
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Post by Surya on Aug 2, 2009 13:29:19 GMT -6
Is anyone reading something these days? Should I tell about my current reading, Dostoevsky? Eh, uh, what, should, should not?
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Post by Fiora Femere on Aug 2, 2009 17:41:55 GMT -6
"Sri Krishna" by Baba Premananda Bharati.
me like so far.
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Post by Sakhicharan Das on Aug 3, 2009 0:54:55 GMT -6
"Sri Krishna" by Baba Premananda Bharati. me like so far. I am happy to see that this thread is starting to get back on track. I recently finished, Sri Babaji, the Immortal Yogi of the Himalayas by Romola Butalia which I mentioned earlier in this thread. Perhaps later I will write a brief review of the book. I enjoyed reading it quite a lot. Now I started a book titled, Babaji and the 18 Siddha Kriya Yoga Tradition by M. Govindan, M.A. I have only gotten a little past the introduction so far. The book seems quite promising. Here are a couple of links about the book. ClickClick
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Post by Bed Of Nails on Aug 3, 2009 8:01:07 GMT -6
"An excellent contribution to the little known science of immortality." - C. Srinivasan, Ph. D. Prof. Emeritus of Botany, Annamalai Univ., India
The above is a comment in the way of review of "Babaji And The 18 Siddha Kriya Yoga Tradition", found at the second link on Sakhicharan's last post. Underlining mine.
About that comment, this is the type of claim that causes reasonable people to put otherwise legitimate Indian traditions in the same basket with sword eating, hair pyrotechnics or, depending how far west on the Christian scale one is willing to go, David Copperfield or just good old Satan hisself. What intrigues me the most is not that levitation, hair combustion, long long longevity and such things are at al possible, but how anyone who claims to be concerned with spirituality sees and promotes these things as important. There was a time when perhaps these things were enthusiastically promoted as spirituality, there was a time when West and East would meet frequently in the muddled and noise roads of trade. But when has the Indian soul and Western integrity become so corrupted that the choice hocus pocus of each side has become science? How can a professor with a phd be so irresponsible as to claim that immortality is, from the point of view of science, a fact? And more astonishingly, how can the world be so self-disrespectful as to not strongly reject such claims? No wonder such "science" is little known. It simply isn't so - it isn't even an issue.
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Post by backlash on Aug 3, 2009 9:39:35 GMT -6
This site looked like it was dying a quick death several times, but manages to survive - in ebbs and flows, however. Kind of like the tide. The tide? More like a cesspool.
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