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by harsi
Fri Sep 09, 2005 7:15 pm
Forum: Free Exchange Amongst Members
Topic: New Orliens and no end...
Replies: 36
Views: 33462

Re: Human beings kaput by end of century

Janus: "A top New Zealand researcher is using a prestigious award ceremony in Christchurch to warn that humans face extinction by the end of the century." Do you think that Amerikas refusal to sign and apply the Kyoto Protocol in its economy, could have something to do with this? Or could ...
by harsi
Thu Sep 08, 2005 7:01 pm
Forum: Free Exchange Amongst Members
Topic: New Orliens and no end...
Replies: 36
Views: 33462

Kula-pavana wrote: "What happened in New Orleans can happen anywhere. Crime is often a matter of opportunity. " (Can someone tell me how to make this nice white quotation in this program?) I was just seeing in this regard a report in one german TV program where it was indicated what went w...
by harsi
Thu Sep 08, 2005 3:42 pm
Forum: Free Exchange Amongst Members
Topic: New Orliens and no end...
Replies: 36
Views: 33462

Re: New Orliens and no end...

I just wanted to share with you a interesting quote I just found on the Internet, which reflects a little bit also the mood I am in this days. "It doesn`t matter if things are going a little slow, but make everything slow but sure. That is a good principle. To do things hastily and incorectly i...
by harsi
Wed Sep 07, 2005 11:38 pm
Forum: Free Exchange Amongst Members
Topic: New Orliens and no end...
Replies: 36
Views: 33462

Re: New Orliens and no end...

Janus wrote: "The predominant consensual conceptual internalized Machine Age World View of reality had several different architects, each of which provided their unique contribution. Bacon, Newton, Locke, Decartes, Smith, all of which provided contributions that built upon those of the others a...
by harsi
Wed Sep 07, 2005 4:19 pm
Forum: Free Exchange Amongst Members
Topic: New Orliens and no end...
Replies: 36
Views: 33462

Janus wrote: "So yes, I should be happy considering my own material circumstances but only Nama shelters me from what I feel from what I see, only Nama sets me free and brings me to a place where material happiness and distress are one to me in the service of the soul of compassion. There is no...
by harsi
Tue Sep 06, 2005 11:22 pm
Forum: Free Exchange Amongst Members
Topic: New Orliens and no end...
Replies: 36
Views: 33462

Re: New Orliens and no end...

Janus: " Or are you referring to Descartes, who dismissed God and any other non-mathematical explanation of reality as being false?" Well yes one can say that the french philosopher Descartes is one of the figurehead of the Western Enlightement. His saying "Cogito ergo sum" I thi...
by harsi
Tue Sep 06, 2005 2:24 am
Forum: Free Exchange Amongst Members
Topic: New Orliens and no end...
Replies: 36
Views: 33462

GPandit " I'm now slightly depressed. " I am sorry for that. 8) Acording to Wittgenstein as to Spinoza joy should be the whole point of doing philosophy. He writes: "The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man". and in his Tractatus 6.43 "Philo...
by harsi
Mon Sep 05, 2005 3:11 pm
Forum: Free Exchange Amongst Members
Topic: New Orliens and no end...
Replies: 36
Views: 33462

Re: New Orliens and no end...

So yes dear Janus, let us speak about the present value system of Amerika which is, in essence not different from that of Germany, or I think any other country of this world. Maybe slightly different from the arabic world. But as I see Amerika and its allies are trying nowadays and are making a grea...
by harsi
Sun Sep 04, 2005 7:55 pm
Forum: Free Exchange Amongst Members
Topic: New Orliens and no end...
Replies: 36
Views: 33462

Re: New Orliens and no end...

Dear Janus, I thank you that you took the time to explain a little bit moore what you meant. I will come back soon, to this interesting topic you mentioned in your reply. Until then, I guess the question remains, how much state we need and how much state we dont need? It seems the expectations to th...
by harsi
Sat Sep 03, 2005 10:49 pm
Forum: Free Exchange Amongst Members
Topic: New Orliens and no end...
Replies: 36
Views: 33462

Re: New Orliens and no end...

Janus wrote: "Why would anyone expect Bush to be different? It isn't as much about race as it is about class. I do not believe Bush cares about the color of the skin of the boys and girls dieing now for him, as long as their blood increases his fortune and power. I doubt that he is sufficiently...
by harsi
Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:37 pm
Forum: Free Exchange Amongst Members
Topic: New Orliens and no end...
Replies: 36
Views: 33462

New Orliens and no end...

I must say that by seeing and hearing what is going on in this area, I ask myself what happened to this great country USA by not beeing able to help its own people? Or so slowly. Is it only that because this catastrophe hit such a big area with such a big population or are there also some racistic f...
by harsi
Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:53 am
Forum: Good Old Days Discussions
Topic: Srila Prabhupada and Gaudiya sampradaya
Replies: 11
Views: 16249

Thank you dear Hari for your nice reply. Srila Prabhupada writes: "Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu taught "O Lord; whether You trample me under Your feet or embrace me or leave me brokenhearted by not being present before me, that does not matter. You are completelly free to do anything, for You ...
by harsi
Sun Aug 28, 2005 9:09 am
Forum: Good Old Days Discussions
Topic: Zonal Acharya, Living Guru, Ritvik , Self Effulgent Acharya?
Replies: 175
Views: 137184

Hari wrote: "Perhaps this thread is long, but I do not know if threads have a lifespan. They seem to go as long as they go. When people stop reading, others might stop writing and thus a topic dies a natural death as no longer important or interesting for the living." I wonder if this is n...
by harsi
Sat Aug 27, 2005 5:01 pm
Forum: Good Old Days Discussions
Topic: Srila Prabhupada and Gaudiya sampradaya
Replies: 11
Views: 16249

Love is within us

Hari wrote: "I don’t see a value in being forced to refer our understanding of the present to the past and to a set of limited statements, frozen in time and not specifically relevant to the questions that confront us now. One should have complete and unencumbered freedom to do what is right ac...
by harsi
Tue Jul 12, 2005 5:43 pm
Forum: Discussions with Hari
Topic: Relevance or significance of Scriptures
Replies: 12
Views: 9468

"From this point of view, the words of Lord Caitanya would make sense even according to what I have been sharing with you in my lectures and writings. I say the guru is a teacher. I dislike the way the word has come to include influence over others, position and elitism, and above all dis-integ...