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[Weapons Enthusiast @MehWep]

@HimanshuKumar40 @TheEmissaryCo Lol, no. Modis changes are far more important and far reaching across society and will continue to exist. Nehrus institutes were a few token instances which have accomplished nothing. The only autists r libertarians. can't even judge importance of mass state driven fundamentals

[Weapons Enthusiast @MehWep]

@Sushant_7Writes In what world are there same opportunities? Europe cannot compete on number of positions, money or growth...

[Weapons Enthusiast @MehWep]

@abhijit_MLab What the hell do you mean all backgrounds? How is it different from other deities?

[John Michael Greer @JMGreerWriter]

I’m beginning to wonder whether the central mistake of 20th century feminism was that it embraced the entire toxic mess that was upper middle class male culture circa 1960 — corporate careers, constant alpha behavior, compulsive sexuality, emotional starvation, and the rest of it — as its model of what empowerment is like.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

1 of the oldest stories in the Markandeya Purana tells of Surya (the Sun), who possessed such blinding, intolerable heat & brilliance that his wife, Sanjna (which translates to twilight/torm cloud), could no longer stand to be near him. She fled to the cooler polar regions, leaving her shadow, Chhaya, in her place.

When Surya discovered the swap, her father, Vishwakarma (the divine architect), stepped in to shave off 1/8th of the Sun’s raw brilliance, restoring equilibrium so the couple could reunite.

For centuries, Western scholars dismissed this as simple campfire folklore. However, modern archaeo-astronomy & ice-core data have completely vindicated the rishis: Recent global analysis of ice cores drilled from Greenland & Antarctica revealed a massive, freak anomaly in the earth's atmosphere: a violent, apocalyptic Coronal Mass Ejection that struck Earth around 7176 BCE. (Reference Paper: https://t.co/79Sz0Tu1Wd)

This event was estimated to be 2 order of magnitude larger than the Carrington Event of 1859. It completely ionized the upper atmosphere, causing the entire sky to blaze with an intense, super-bright luminosity that made the Sun appear blindingly hot even during the day, accompanied by spontaneous, widespread lightning.

The ancient Indians witnessed this terrifying cosmic event, tracked the Sun's eventual return to baseline stability & perfectly preserved the data log of a massive solar max-min cycle inside an unforgettable allegorical story.

[The Intellectual Kshatriya @tikshatriya]

@Zoomerjeet There is an episode in the MBh where King Sagara’s priest requests him to spare the barbaric hordes of NW India that had made inroads till Ayodhya following the devastating raids of Talajanghas, citing they were humans too. Tolerance and secularism ka keeda are deep rooted.

[Chandra @4TR1SVT4]

The Indian presence in China continued even during and after the transition to the Qing. A Qing delegation to the Russian border found an Indian on the frontier, around Mongolia. A Scot in Buryatia found a Hindu there, who told him about the British occupation of Chennai.

[Chandra @4TR1SVT4]

During the the Wanli Emperor's reign, a monk named "Zuoji Guru" was in Beijing. He is described as being either from southern India or from Kapilavastu, was compared to Bodhidharma and was honoured with a Purple Robe. In Beijing, a Temple was built in his honour, named Shuanglin.

[Chandra @4TR1SVT4]

Chinese records of the Ming era record monks/Arhats from Kapilavastu, which they locate in "Central India" visiting China. Another name for India prominent at that time was Da Xitian, Great Western Heaven, Lesser Xitian (Western Heaven) being used sometimes for Tibet.

[𝚛𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚝 @rawatthekiid]

a close parallel appears in the great master ibn arabi’s doctrine of tajallī, where inward purification removes the veils of the nafs so the heart can perceive divine beauty, much like plotinus’ sculptor reveals form by cutting away excess stone.

[𝚛𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚝 @rawatthekiid]

in enneads i.6.9, plotinus exhorts the seeker to “withdraw into yourself and look” (εἰς σαυτὸν ἀναχώρει καὶ ἴδε), comparing spiritual self cultivation to a sculptor who removes excess stone until beauty appears.

[Rauðgrani ᚱᛆᚢᚦᚴᚱᛆᚿᛁ @GraniRau]

Most of the early christianizers, except Hákon the Good(christians called him an apostate) went around killing the local landowners, torturing people into conversion, destroying shrines, and slaughtering local religious figures.

[Weapons Enthusiast @MehWep]

@GreyBeardSilly Chicago is not exactly the same, why are you just repeating yourself? Just look up winter flight cancellations. Toronto gets none of the crazy snow storms other places get.; except last year it has barely snowed for many winters..

[Weapons Enthusiast @MehWep]

@idk497645 Soccer is an ideal sport as it doesn't require the crazy physiques that American style sports do

[Weapons Enthusiast @MehWep]

@BalakHasta @gajak06 Canons were NOT invented in the Balkans or by the Ottomans... They used to usually have a more western European to help cast their anyway

[𝖗𝖎𝖆𝖓 🌞ॐ࿗ @rian_vlbt]

One of the things I like most about the Trika approach, especially as interpreted by Abhinavagupta, is its notion of hierarchical inclusivism. It's because there are at least three possible approaches to the differences between religious traditions:

1. We can become dogmatic exclusivists and try to claim a monopoly on truth, insisting that my own tradition is the only valid one and that all others must be rejected. This is the sort of thing we see in many Abrahamic sects and, unfortunately, among some followers of Madhva, for example.

2. We can become relativists and say that all positions, even if they contradict each other, are equally correct and that there’s no fact of the matter to settle the issue. This is a view that sounds appealing to modern ears but comes with serious costs in terms of plausibility and consistency.

Or we can take the third option and say that all traditions contain something valid from which we can learn, without clinging to any dogmatic fixation, even if one of them (perhaps mine, perhaps not) goes deeper than the others. This implies some kind of hierarchy, but it’s an inclusive rather than exclusive one. I think this is the healthiest approach available and that, regardless of which tradition one sees as closer to the truth, it’s an admirable attitude and enjoys prima facie plausibility (as David Peter Lawrence explains in the print below).

Mark Dyczkowski also notes this in his Doctrine of Vibration:

"This understanding of reality allows for a range of insights into its nature which complement and sustain each other without conflict. Almost every school of Indian thought aspires to lead us to a plane of being and an experience which it believes to be the most complete and satisfying. This is the liberation it offers. All these views are correct insofar as they correspond to an actual experience. But this is because the absolute, through its inherent power, assumes the form of all the levels of realisation (bhūmikā) which correspond to the ultimate view (sthiti) each system upholds. Dualism is not an incorrect view of reality although it corresponds to only one of the levels within the absolute.

Citing the well-known Jaina example, Abhinava explains that the exponents of different systems are like blind men who, presented with an elephant, touch one part or another and argue amongst themselves about what it could be. This is not because they disagree completely but because their agreement is only partial. Ultimately, differing views of reality are the result of the capacity (śakti) of the absolute to appear in different forms. Rather than reject all views as incorrect because they are not completely true, the Kashmiri Śaiva prefers to accept them all because they are partially true. System builders are all equally concerned with reality, but are like children of feeble intellect (sukumāramati) who have not yet reached the supreme summit (parakāṣṭhā) of the absolute, the experience of Supreme Oneness. They cannot, as yet, look down to the lower planes and see their role within the whole. Accordingly Maheśvarānanda says:

Not accepting each others’ point of view they talk of Your universal nature in terms of that which is to be refuted and that which refutes it in order to reject [their] opponents’ position."

[Spatel @Rjrasva]

https://t.co/L38cAg5AwP
The dishonorableness of certain trades in England persisted till Adam Smith's day at least

Smith mentions butchers as among the "dishonorable" trades in Chapter 10 of his "Wealth of Nations"

[Weapons Enthusiast @MehWep]

@yajnadevam @idjnyx @mihir_ratn Wiki says 2nd century

[Spatel @Rjrasva]

https://t.co/Th7lxAMUGQ
Untouchability in many different societies (e. g. Buraku in Japan, Paekchong in Korea) evolved convergently. French Cagots & unehrliche Leute in Germany r Euro examples

Died due to industrialization

Ancient Jews practiced it against Gentiles (Acts 10:28)