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CatcherInTheRye

@CatcherInTheRye

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Posted: 11 years ago

#991

Originally posted by: -Shruti
Exactly!

the most weird thing...if they dont believe thn shud not worship...n if one believes thn shud not make fun of that...right shruti...which i really find smtimes in sm threads...which i cant engulf..really not...but as i really dont know much abt MB...so dont indulge all that...alwayz try to stay away from all that😊

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halfbloodprince

@Wistfulness

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Posted: 11 years ago

#992

Originally posted by: ...sandhureet..
the most weird thing...if they dont believe thn shud not worship...n if one believes thn shud not make fun of that...right shruti...which i really find smtimes in sm threads...which i cant engulf..really not...but as i really dont know much abt MB...so dont indulge all that...alwayz try to stay away from all that😊

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halfbloodprince

@Wistfulness

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Posted: 11 years ago

#993

Heavy distortions approaching next week!

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Cotswolds

@Cotswolds

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Posted: 11 years ago

#994

Originally posted by: -Shruti
Heavy distortions approaching next week!

I know. Poor Drupad being a fallguy

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Vrish

@Vr15h

Stunner

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Posted: 11 years ago

#995

Originally posted by: -Shruti
I feel pity for those who believe it's a mythology.

You are under the same misconception that others are - that mythology is fiction. Mythology is not fiction - it's something whose historicity is debatable, but acceptable. Like Greek, Norse or Roman mythology. Just b'cos the incidents b/w Loki and Baldur border unbelievable doesn't necessarily make them fictional.

Same here. In Dr RC Majumdar's Vedic Age, both Ramayan & Mahabharata have been used to reconstruct the history of that era. In doing that, a lot of things that are considered supernatural are either given a metaphoric interpretation, or sometimes completely ignored, while the other events that are perfectly possible, like say the Kurukshetra war, are taken as historical. And events around them are accordingly constructed. Note one thing - when historians try to incorporate such things into history, they only rely on contemporaneous events, and not bhakti derived stuff written in medieval times.

I consider both Ramayan, Mahabharata, Shiva Puranas, et al as mythological. That doesn't mean that I don't believe in them.

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CatcherInTheRye

@CatcherInTheRye

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Posted: 11 years ago

#996

Originally posted by: .Vrish.

You are under the same misconception that others are - that mythology is fiction. Mythology is not fiction - it's something whose historicity is debatable, but acceptable. Like Greek, Norse or Roman mythology. Just b'cos the incidents b/w Loki and Baldur border unbelievable doesn't necessarily make them fictional.

Same here. In Dr RC Majumdar's Vedic Age, both Ramayan & Mahabharata have been used to reconstruct the history of that era. In doing that, a lot of things that are considered supernatural are either given a metaphoric interpretation, or sometimes completely ignored, while the other events that are perfectly possible, like say the Kurukshetra war, are taken as historical. And events around them are accordingly constructed. Note one thing - when historians try to incorporate such things into history, they only rely on contemporaneous events, and not bhakti derived stuff written in medieval times.

I consider both Ramayan, Mahabharata, Shiva Puranas, et al as mythological. That doesn't mean that I don't believe in them.

thn its like na that historians do believe that MB happened...but they dont believe that sm supernatural powers were there with those ppl...they js concieve it as simple as it was really not...they take the battles but not like they were having powers n all...n they worshiped shiva or brahma n got sm boon...so historians dont believe in all that...right????

but afterall...u said MB is a mythology...sorry...m a history student...so curious to know more abt it...dint get vt mythology is...if it is that ppl js take these characters as a myth???...i mean js assumptions...they never exist...????...these r ma ques...m not disclaiming all this???

plz xplain😊

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Sai Datta

@sayeed007

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Posted: 11 years ago

#997

today's episode is full of stupidity and distortion!!!

why did sahadeva get fear of disaster which comes to him?

why does CV love creating comedy shows about bheema only? bheema is not a comedian! he is a just powerful man only.

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Vrish

@Vr15h

Stunner

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Posted: 11 years ago

#998

Originally posted by: ...sandhureet..
thn its like na that historians do believe that MB happened...but they dont believe that sm supernatural powers were there with those ppl...they js concieve it as simple as it was really not...they take the battles but not like they were having powers n all...n they worshiped shiva or brahma n got sm boon...so historians dont believe in all that...right????
but afterall...u said MB is a mythology...sorry...m a history student...so curious to know more abt it...dint get vt mythology is...if it is that ppl js take these characters as a myth???...i mean js assumptions...they never exist...????...these r ma ques...m not disclaiming all this???
plz xplain😊

Example: a historian would not state that the Pandavas were born to Yamaraj, Vayu, Indra, Ashwins. They'd either put the father down as Pandu, or speculate some about who it really was. Similarly, events, like Yudisthir's afterlife, or Arjun's activities in devalok, would not be a part of history.

But things like the Pandava Rajasuya yagna & conquests, the Pandava exile, Karna's conquests for Duryodhan, the Kurukshetra war, the Ashwamedha yagna, et al, would be historical, and described in a factual manner in any historical narrative.

Similarly, in Krishna's war on Banasura, no historian would write that Krishna battled and overwhelmed Shiva. They'd simply state that Krishna had a war w/ Banasura, and liberated Anirudha & Usha from him.

Hopefully, you get the idea.

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Vrish

@Vr15h

Stunner

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Posted: 11 years ago

#999

Today's show was absolutely slapstick, and unworthy of being called a Mahabharata. Ok, ok, we passed that threshold from week 2, probably. The way Arjun, Bhima & Draupadi conversed was anything but the way a new bride to be would talk to her husbands.