Madhuri

You're right they look so similar. I didn't know that Hindus use/d beads. I knew about Buddhists but not Hindus.

I'm still learning new things even by being away lol. Have a nice day Madhuri.

Hi Madhuri. Muslims use beads to aid us in counting after we finish our prayer when we are required to utter the words Subhan Allah (Glorified is Allah), Alhamdulilah (Praise be to Allah) and Allahu Akbar (Allah is Great) 33 times each.

Some people use those kind of beads which either number 33 or 99 or we just count using our fingers (mainly those of our right hand)

A proper image of the beads which we call Tasbih

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Yes although we see Devas as demons =/...and Ahura Mazda is the supreme being. Ahura is linguistically close to the word asura, which are demons in Hinduism. I think it had to do with an indo european split between two groups, who basically changed the religion to fight each other. Fire is holy in our faith, just as it is in hinduism. However in the gathas (which are Zoroasters texts) Ahura Mazda is implied to be a universal consciousness, and Ahriman is implied to be chaos/entropy. However due to our human nature we personified them into a monotheistic God and the devil, whose concepts transferred onto Judaism and Christianity.

Yes I was brought up a Zoroastrian and still hold many beliefs to be true. But I'm not the type to think only my religion is true. I believe many people throughout millenia were able to attain a higher sense of consciousness. Zoroaster, Buddha, Jesus etc. There's a lot of similarities between Zoroastrianism and the Dharmic faiths, but quite a bit between Zoroastrainism and the Abrahamic faiths as well. It's like a bridging faith lol.

not a single family member wished me happy birthday yesterday on my birthday

Not even when 3 of them came to my house for 10 minutes after the fiasco where they thought I might be hurt.

Thanx for the bday wishes!

hey umm... like is Shiva destroying of ego... then who recreates it??!?!

Ok im sleep deprived sorry im going now >.<

Do I look like Russell Peters?

What took your family to India, are you East Indian originally? Do you speak Bengali? Ke mu na cho?

I was born there, lived there for many years in Bombay (Mumbai). My family is from there, we immigrated to Canada many years ago. I've seen all the Hindu festivals, they make 4th of July celebrations look like an old lady's picnic.

I'm okay! I'm just moving yet again into a new apartment. I have a nice boyfriend, and things are okay. Spiritually speaking, I'm always questioning and always in a rut, but sometimes I just want to leave it alone. XD How about you?

i didn't notice your messages, but:

" Are they individual representations of some aspect of Satan? Or are each and all of us representative of his complete nature? Or something else?"

Is more along the lines of my beliefs. We represent a mirror image of the nature of Satan, we are created in his image and literally in his dying body-form of Leviathan (physical Universe). Now The Vessel part that acts as the true form of God moving in this body... that is God too, in a pure uncreated and extra-physical form.

Why bother loving then when I can in the next life?

It was easy. No need to wait for other staff consensus. Actually its mid afternoon and I'm procrastinating with uni work...waaa!

yes thank you. wow that was quick. slow night huh?

love doesnt make sense when nothing cares about you

Thank you for changing the thread title, or at least for helping get it done

You're very welcome!

ohh well most recently like last day or 3 im identifying as a lucifer/luciferian,

what are you studying?

sure i would love that but it dont post much on the weekends because its the gfs time for my attention.so i may or may not be able to send that till monday. i hope you will reply with some of your story as well as questions =D