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tapati

God--Save Me From Your Followers

Apr 21, 2008 08:30

Once, years ago, I got a letter from the mother of my children's Christian friends from down the road. Their friends had been allowed to come and play with mine one day, but then their parents noticed our odd names and realized that we were some of those strange Hare Krishnas who lived in the neighborhood. I use the term loosely as it was a rural ( Read more... )

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danaewinters April 21 2008, 16:02:18 UTC

"The blood of your children is on your head"? Oh, SHE sounds like a real peach! I think you handled that as well as anyone could've possibly done. Too bad that the respect you paid to her own beliefs wasn't given in return.

tapati April 22 2008, 09:23:02 UTC

she was also so sickly sweet in person, LOL

this blog entry anonymous April 22 2008, 01:13:23 UTC

The person does not even know his own scriptures. I'm not a Vaisnava, but he claims to be, and one type of Vaisnava might view GR like this ( ... )

Re: this blog entry tapati April 22 2008, 08:46:30 UTC

Such comments are now supposed to go here:

http://tapati.livejournal.com/343245.html

And the guest book at GR refers people to that link to read any comments if they wish to. Seemed like a good compromise to me. :)

In actual response, thanks for the content, but I suspect he would say that while Krsna may waive any offense to Himself, what about the offense to his devotees, especially "pure" ones like Srila Prabhupada? Our devotional creepers are destroyed by such, according to the philosophy, no?

I should remind him of the "no loss or diminution" verse. Or as Ek would say, no loss of ammunition! LOL

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Re: this blog entry anonymous April 22 2008, 21:42:43 UTC

Tapati,

I felt like I was just talking to you, that it why I did not put it on the GR section.

I feel no need to get on pedestal or soapbox. Just was sharing with you.

But if you have friends that you love and want to share it with them because you think it will increase: love, harmony, understanding, goodwill, and wisdom then I guess it's okay.

It was something that I wanted to tell you, that's all [I felt] that I was doing. Sometimes I feel better if I just tell one other person [whatever I am feeling] something. Like a priest's confessional, the Wicca version [smile].

Thanks.

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