An assignment 'bout hinduism

I got an assignment from my religion teacher earlier about hinduism:

Hinduism: A national or international religion?

I have trouble understanding this assignment and this teacher never picks his projects from our book. I've read the whole section bout hinduism and the only thing i found/figured out is that hinduism is such a tolerant religion that it doesnt turn down any other religions as being "wrong". It means that all religions has something good in it and that "were all climbing the same mountain but choose differnt pats up to the top. This makes it a international religion with connections to all religions in the world as long as they dont mean that they are the only one with the right "solution".

So my answer to this assignment in short is "Yes hinduism is a international religion but with close bonds to india."

I discussed this with another teacher and he said that that probably was what he was looking for in this assignment!

Any thoughts, comments or anything?

Christofer

And yes our teacher is a bitch. He never gives an easy assignment with a normal answer.

[Spirit of '22]

Name one national religion....

The religion of most indiginous peoples.

Just make yourself out to be a crazy christian fundimentalist fanatic and quote things from the bible like " thou shall not worship false gods" and accuse him for trying to brainwash you with religions that are blasphemous.

On the other hand you could google Human sacrafice and the hindu god kali, and write a shocking sadistic essay that points out all the evils of the hindu religion.

^^^

Good ideas.

Also on a humanistic view, throw in some of the racist history and the present day social slavery of the Brahmin (caste) system.

Few things.

You can write about a few religions that are quite heavily influenced by Hinduism; Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism. Although not international, the basic Hindu ideas cover a lot of Asia; esp. through Buddhism. Sikhism, even though started as teachings to abolish certain thing in Hinduism (like the caste system), is more closer to Hinduism than Buddhism. I don't know a lot about Jainism, but I'm sure you can find a lot about it online.

quote:I've read the whole section bout hinduism and the only thing i found/figured out is that hinduism is such a tolerant religion that it doesnt turn down any other religions as being "wrong".

I know people don't represent the religion but there have been massacres in India over religion, and the Hindus weren't any less peaceful than the other side.

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[Spirit of '22]

Also on a humanistic view, throw in some of the racist history and the present day social slavery of the Brahmin (caste) system.

Gay

quote:Originally posted by Spirit of '22:



Gay

How exactly?

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^^^ It's not literally "Penis the a man's anus" gay.

I think he meant that the caste system is gay (teenage deragotory form).

It's gay because it basically enslaves an entire population of the peopls of that country.

[Spirit of '22]

No. I have a high opinion of any civilization that demonstrates an understanding of caste (medieval European, Roman, Norse, Japanese, Aztec, Indian, Chinese, to name a few). I said gay because he was mocking it from an ignorant perspective that doesnt know a goddamn thing, using modern ideology and modern points of view to criticise something with no roots in anything modern, that seeks to address problems and issues the modern world ignores, neglexts, denies, or tries worships.

^^^

What the fuck are you talking about?

I can justly judge how their caste system works. It doesn't matter where the roots are coming from, it exploits people and is not aligned with God,YHWH, Jesus, or Karmic Law.

[Spirit of '22]

It has nothing to do with exploitation anymore than law enforcement has to do with corruption; the system itself is sound and logical and ethical, but obviously, just like ANYTHING in the world, it can be misused and manipulted. Of course I think the caste system leaves the least amount of room for this manipulation, as compared to something with social mobility, which actively promotes the most cunning, most ruthles, and least honorable.

Caste is a social way of giving a man the potential to most fully realize himself as himself; all the factors contributing to his identity are taken into account and he is given the freedom then to develop and perfect his identity and form without care for other roles and duties not fit for him.

A warrior, for example, is a Warrior at heart, not just by profession, and needs an entire culture developed by and for this identity in order to fully realize himself as a warrio, as himself. He cannot be worried about making money, because this is not what makes one a warrior. In the caste system, the warrior leavers making money to the men who are born to make money. The men who are born to make money want to make money, not risk their lives in distant lands. They do not have to do this because of the Warrior caste.

[Digital_Savior]

I know this is unimportant, but it bothers me that your name is so similar to mine.



I am sure it wasn't on purpose, but STILL...

quote:Originally posted by Spirit of '22:

It has nothing to do with exploitation anymore than law enforcement has to do with corruption; the system itself is sound and logical and ethical, but obviously, just like ANYTHING in the world, it can be misused and manipulted. Of course I think the caste system leaves the least amount of room for this manipulation, as compared to something with social mobility, which actively promotes the most cunning, most ruthles, and least honorable.

Caste is a social way of giving a man the potential to most fully realize himself as himself; all the factors contributing to his identity are taken into account and he is given the freedom then to develop and perfect his identity and form without care for other roles and duties not fit for him.

A warrior, for example, is a Warrior at heart, not just by profession, and needs an entire culture developed by and for this identity in order to fully realize himself as a warrio, as himself. He cannot be worried about making money, because this is not what makes one a warrior. In the caste system, the warrior leavers making money to the men who are born to make money. The men who are born to make money want to make money, not risk their lives in distant lands. They do not have to do this because of the Warrior caste.

Perhaps the ideology works for you, but one is not predestined for a certain career, especially by bloodline. Are you completely fitting for your fathers line of work?

I know I'm not, my dad is a "warrior" he serves in the military, I could never do that.

[Spirit of '22]

This is the modern world, not a Vedic one; men do not make a living based on caste, so what your father dos for a living is irrelevant. Men make a living in america because of the monetary rewards offered, potential for benefits, etc, not because there was a cult built around it that gave that job meaning and depth and sanctity, or even because your actually want to do it.

But no one gets their job now from caste, so what your dad does does not matter. There is no "manager for an AT&T data center" caste in India anyway....