(April 29, 2016 at 9:35 am)Jörmungandr Wrote:(April 29, 2016 at 4:20 am)Little Rik Wrote: It also make sense because the whole Indian subcontinent is full of Shiva History and is unlikely that
a billion people follow someone who never existed and never did the things attributed to him.
People claim the same thing about Jesus, therefore Jesus is God. You can't both be correct. The existence of a myth about someone, believed by millions of people, is no evidence that the myth is a true story. The Indian subcontinent is filled with all sorts of magical stories. You don't believe all of them. Why believe these particular stories? You've given no good reason to believe them. You'll accept the popularity and ubiquity of stories as evidence for Shiva's acts, but you don't accept the existence of physical flutes as evidence that ancient Chinese had music. That's a double standard and an irrational stance. You believe the myths about Shiva because it is part of the legendary basis of Yoga. You believe the myths because you believe in Yoga. That's dogmatic belief.
Yog, you are running too fast with your fantasy.
Slow down and think instead.
I never said that those instruments were not capable of producing sound.
You are confusing sound with real music.
I can produce sound with my seashells but that is not music created with the 7 notes.
Capish? (right?)
As far as believing in Shiva and not in today Indian religions and culture that is because
Shiva teaching create progress and I can feel it while today Indian culture and religions only create misery, corruption and dogma.
Take the caste system.
It is absurd and lead to suffering but that is part of the Indian way of doing things.
Shiva was totally against the caste system.
Strange enough these Hindus fanatics thinks that it come from Shiva.
