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RE: Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?
October 12, 2014 at 7:39 am
I had god this morning.
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RE: Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?
October 12, 2014 at 9:26 am
(October 10, 2014 at 10:17 am)Riketto Wrote: (October 9, 2014 at 8:27 am)Chas Wrote: There is absolutely no evidence that yoga started 7000 years ago.
Stop making shit up.
Your stupidity is just behind believe. (As if i wouldn't already know)
Benares or Varanasi which many describe as the older city on planet earth is full of temples dedicated to Lord Shiva and these temple were build thousand of years ago.
But in India there are evidence of Shiva that lives thousand years ago everywhere.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/banga...602326.cms
Here you can't go really wrong.
The evidence that this temple was 7000 years old are all there and in it there is evidence that Lord Shiva was worshipped.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingam
In here you also find out the meaning of Shivalinga as the symbol of Lord Shiva.
An allegedly 7000-year-old temple does not say anything about the origin of yoga. Your thinking is very muddy.
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RE: Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?
October 12, 2014 at 9:37 am
(October 12, 2014 at 8:34 am)Riketto Wrote: I never understand why some atheist swear to God or refer to God here and there?
If God does not exist why on earth these people would refer to someone who does not exist?
That is a way to go mental.
I never understand why some xtians, muslims etc use words like "Wednesday" and "Thursday". If the Norse gods do not exist, why on earth do these people refer to someone who does not exist?
Either that is a way to go mental, or there's a far simpler explanation.
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RE: Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?
October 12, 2014 at 12:11 pm
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(October 12, 2014 at 10:15 am)Riketto Wrote: (October 12, 2014 at 9:26 am)Chas Wrote: An allegedly 7000-year-old temple does not say anything about the origin of yoga. Your thinking is very muddy.
Ok. let me see.
Before you categorically exclude that Shiva lives 7000 years ago.
Non sequitur.
Quote:Now that you got some evidence of that fact you turn at yoga.
What does "you turn at yoga" mean?
Quote:I am sure that if i give you more evidence about yoga being 7000 years old you will turn on something else.
You have provided
no evidence yet.
Quote:How can i make you happy Chas?
I'd be happy if you got some professional help or possibly medication - it could improve your life.
Wikipedia Wrote:The origins of Yoga have been speculated to date back to pre-vedic Indian traditions, but most likely developed around the sixth and fifth centuries BCE, in the same ascetic circles as the early sramana movements.[8][note 1] The earliest accounts of yoga-practices are in the Buddhist Nikayas.[9] Parallel developments were recorded around 400 CE in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali,[10] which combines pre–philosophical speculations and diverse ascetic practices of the first millennium BCE with Samkhya-philosophy. Hatha yoga emerged from tantra by the turn of the first millennium.[11][12]
So yoga is about 2500 years old, not 7000.
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RE: Quick Poll - Do you believe in God?
October 13, 2014 at 8:06 am
Maybe Shiva had a tummy ache?
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