vlakshmi wrote:I am a Clinical Psychiatrist ... [and] I am as convinced of 5000 year cycle as I am convinced of Gravitational Force.
Speaking as a Clinical Psychiatrist, do you have no concerns about BKism ... and its victims ... whatsoever?
Do you even recognise that it has made victims suffer?
Have you considered having psychotherapy or psychoanalysis sessions yourself?
To me, you come across as deeply compartmentalised individual, each compartment dislocated from others, the BK compartment being deeply irrational, whereas the medical side must at least be based on scientific procedure and rationalism.
The effects of gravity are rather easy to demonstrate ... you have told us -
yet refused to demonstrate - that simple arithmetics convinced you about the 5,000 years and its 84 births. Instead, you presented to us such errors that an elementary student would not have dreamt of making.
Please explain the mechanism with which the entire universe resets itself, with atomic accuracy, precisely every 43,830,000 hours, including how photons (eg light coming from distance stars) manage to reverse themselves in space.
You claimed to understand entropy. Fine. Explain how it relates resets the BKs' 5,000 Year Cycle theory to us. (I won't expect the maths, but at least start with the theory).
Going back to your first posts, you said,
vlakshmi wrote:Worsening situations, such as increasing population and pollution, means everything had a perfect start. In the past many people knew that history as cyclic, not linear.
Now, as an academic, you will know that the first is a non-sequitor and the second is equally fallacious. "In the past", people thought the world was carried on the back of a giant turtle, or popped out of Vishnu's bellybutton.
Just because an idea is old, does not make it true.
“You can try BKs, they are the re-establishment of original Hinduism.
Only according to the BKs themselves, most academics believe in different, more ancient roots. That is circular logic ... and actually an incorrect statement according to BKism (
the BKs believe Hinduism is an impure relfection and memorial of their original religion).
Rita wrote:The only difference is who is taking the money
You've nailed it in one, Rita.
When Lekhraj Kirpalani ran out of money for his vanity project he had to work out a way to financially support the women who had sacrificed their lives to him.
What is interesting is that this re-invention happened around the same time as they invented their new God, Shiva.
The introduction or invention of Shiva only happened around 1956 within BKism, prior to that Lekhraj Kirpalani was their God, he as known as "Divine Father" "Prajapati God Brahma". They turned their private cult into a money reaping business.
This time was known as "The Beggary Period" within BKism as they were so poor and, at times, surviving on "two rotis and some dahl" each day, they used to say.
Lekhraj Kirpalani would obviously know what sort of money flows into religion in India, as he himself used to throw small fortunes at gurus out of blind faith and in order to earn good luck. Even poverty wasn't enough to make them go out and get a real job though.
They turned to religion instead.