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RE: Noteworthy News
January 24, 2023 at 12:55 am
I am sure that this is her choice and not systematic religious child abuse
Quote:Eight-year-old Indian diamond heiress who became a nun
Eight-year-old Devanshi Sanghvi could have grown up to run a multi-million dollar diamond business.
But the daughter of a wealthy Indian diamond merchant is now living a spartan life - dressed in coarse white saris, barefoot and going door-to-door to seek alms.
Because last week, Devanshi, the eldest of the two daughters of Dhanesh and Ami Sanghvi, renounced the world and became a nun.
The Sanghvis are among 4.5 million Jains who follow Jainism - one of the world's oldest religions, which originated in India more than 2,500 years ago.
Accompanied by her parents, she arrived at the venue in the city's Vesu area, bejewelled and dressed in fine silks. A diamond-studded crown rested on her head.
After the ceremony, she stood with other nuns, dressed in a white sari which also covered her shaved head. In photographs, she is seen holding a broom that she would now use to brush away insects from her path to avoid accidentally stepping on them.
"She can no longer stay at home, her parents are no longer her parents, she's a Sadhvi [a nun] now," says Kirti Shah, a Surat-based diamond merchant who is a friend of the family and also a local Bharatiya Janata Party politician.
"A Jain nun's life is really austere. She will now have to walk everywhere, she can never take any kind of transport, she'll sleep on a white sheet on the floor and cannot eat after sundown," he added.
"From a young age, Devanshi has been praying thrice a day and even performed a fast at the age of two," the paper added.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-64327940
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Noteworthy News
January 24, 2023 at 12:57 am
(January 23, 2023 at 11:51 pm)Helios Wrote: So gun nuts are all excited because a state banned a bank for not choosing to do business with the gun industry because this was somehow deemed an assault on the second amendment. I can only imagine the 180 on this if it was a right-wing-run finical institution and the state banned them for not doing business with an LGBT group. They would lose their freaking minds. It's also hilarious to me that private businesses are permitted to ban guns on their premises but a private business can't refuse to do business with the gun lobby.
But but but cancel culture....
Totally not fascist behavior..nope...
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RE: Noteworthy News
January 24, 2023 at 6:25 am
In a massive win for conservatives, M&Ms is now getting rid of their spokescandies. Tucker Carlson must be so relieved.
America is safe!
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RE: Noteworthy News
January 24, 2023 at 6:33 am
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2023 at 6:52 am by arewethereyet.)
(January 24, 2023 at 6:25 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: In a massive win for conservatives, M&Ms is now getting rid of their spokescandies. Tucker Carlson must be so relieved.
America is safe!
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What's next? Will they be coming after Snap, Crackle, and Pop? Surely, they must be gay...three guys been hanging out together for decades.
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RE: Noteworthy News
January 24, 2023 at 6:45 am
(January 24, 2023 at 6:33 am)arewethereyet Wrote: (January 24, 2023 at 6:25 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: In a massive win for conservatives, M&Ms is now getting rid of their spokescandies. Tucker Carlson must be so relieved.
America is safe!
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What's next? Will they be come after Snap, Crackle, and Pop? Surely, they must be gay...three guys been hanging out together for decades.
Probably, since Carlson's main complaint was that the green M&M wasn't sexy enough when she went from go-go boots to trainers.
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RE: Noteworthy News
January 24, 2023 at 6:54 am
And through all this people are losing their minds over the 50th anniversary Pink Floyd logo.
I suppose as long as the 'stick up the ass' crowd is keeping an eye on things, we'll be safe.
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January 24, 2023 at 10:45 am
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(January 24, 2023 at 6:54 am)arewethereyet Wrote: And through all this people are losing their minds over the 50th anniversary Pink Floyd logo.
I suppose as long as the 'stick up the ass' crowd is keeping an eye on things, we'll be safe.
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January 24, 2023 at 11:46 am
Charles McGonigal, the senior FBI official who led the 2016 investigation which found ‘no link’ between Trump and Russia has been arrested and charged with laundering money for Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
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RE: Noteworthy News
January 24, 2023 at 12:26 pm
There's a surprise. /s
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RE: Noteworthy News
January 24, 2023 at 2:14 pm
Andrew Tate is complaining that his prison cell in Romania is infested with cockroaches and lice.
I’m sure he’s right, in more ways than one.
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