Thanks for your informative and encouraging responses, everyone! I'll need more time to fully assimilate my thoughts, but I have a few quick questions and comments in the meantime.
I guess this is sort of tangential to my original line of inquiry, but I always imagined Hinduism as being "a...
Having come from a monotheistic tradition, one of the condescending remarks I occasionally hear in regards to Hinduism is how it's "polytheistic" (said with a tone of voice that implies anyone who believes that must be cuh-razy!). However, from my admittedly limited research into Hinduism, this...
Thanks for the warm welcomes, everyone!
I used to get giddy whenever someone used the word "penultimate" in a legitimate sentence. Then I read an article in which the author used it in like every other sentence, so I had to run over to his house, break in (he was sleeping), and punch him in...
Hi everybody. I've been looking around for a forum to participate in for quite a while, and when I finally saw this one my brain did a kind of pirouette and said "Yippee!" My brain is way smarter than me, so I figured I'd better give it a try.
Here's a little sumpin' sumpin' to introduce...