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  1. Jainarayan

    Finally set up shrine … finally!

    Thanks! Aw no worries about delayed response. Everyone's so busy nowadays. I have even more statues that are currently still packed. I may put up shelves for them that will be objets 'art, not worship. The murtis I have on the altar reflect those deities I feel close to: Vishnu and His...
  2. Jainarayan

    Finally set up shrine … finally!

    Thanks. :)
  3. Jainarayan

    Finally set up shrine … finally!

    Ah there we go!
  4. Jainarayan

    Why Does God Allow Suffering?

    Riiight! :rolleyes: I'd have used the laughing emoji but we frown on that.
  5. Jainarayan

    Finally set up shrine … finally!

    Thanks. :) I tried to upload a pic of the shrine corner but I get message that the pic is too big. :shrug:
  6. Jainarayan

    Why Does God Allow Suffering?

    I didn’t ask you to comment. I don’t care about your perspective and need to rip Hindu philosophy apart or prove it wrong. I presented it to you thinking you might be open to learning something. Clearly I’m wrong.
  7. Jainarayan

    Why Does God Allow Suffering?

    Sure they do, at a very superficial level. You’d do well to read this article. Problem of evil in Hinduism - Wikipedia
  8. Jainarayan

    Finally set up shrine … finally!

    We moved on June 14, but it was today August 31 that I finally set up my shrine. I was truly missing my shrine and doing puja and arati. My table was already in the corner of the living room I chose, so that was the first step. It’s 288 degrees WNW. That’s almost fully due West. You know I’m a...
  9. Jainarayan

    Why Does God Allow Suffering?

    Ok, that’s your belief. :shrug: Do you have a better explanation for “why bad things happen to good people?” Can you live with questioning and not understanding God’s motives?
  10. Jainarayan

    Why Does God Allow Suffering?

    You don’t understand Hinduism, nor do you seem to want to understand, so I won’t continue to engage. If you decide to learn Hindu philosophy check out Nine Beliefs of Hinduism – Hinduism Today Pay particular attention to these points:
  11. Jainarayan

    Why Does God Allow Suffering?

    Then you don’t understand the laws of karma … none of us do. We have to divorce ourselves from the idea of karma having a one-for-one relationship of action and reaction. Why is a soul born into a body that will be ravaged by cancer? Who knows? Maybe five or ten lives ago it was a doctor who was...
  12. Jainarayan

    Why Does God Allow Suffering?

    Disclaimer: This my belief as a Hindu, and pretty much the Hindu belief in general.Others may believe and explain it differently. Why is it God's job or responsibility to stop suffering or evil, or to cure cancer? As Hindus, we don't believe that God/dess controls any of that. Not that He or...
  13. Jainarayan

    What's Your Theme Song?

    As soon as you're born they make you feel small By giving you no time instead of it all 'Til the pain is so big you feel nothing at all [While my mother "fawned" over me and was overprotective, trying her best to keep me sheltered, my father paid little attention to me. He was not an emotive...
  14. Jainarayan

    Should you lie in a job interview?

    I did once, and got the job. I said I was an experienced proof and transit operator. I was young (about 21 or 22) and dumb. Proof and transit is a bank function that encodes and prepares bank teller work (checking account deposit slips, checks, savings deposit and withdrawal slips, etc.) for...
  15. Jainarayan

    Your Complaints About Christianity?

    Yes, I know this post is 6 months old, but I stumbled on it from a jump in my Notices. I don't think a thread on Your Complaints About hinduism would attract much attention or many responses because, while there are approximatley 1.2 billion Hindus worldwide, Hinduism doesn't have the influence...
  16. Jainarayan

    What do you think of Paul the Apostle?

    I'm not a fan. I think he was self-impressed, self-absorbed, and self-centered. As far as I'm concerned he turned what should have been Christianity into Paulism. Modern Christianity is only a pale shadow of Jesus. It's mostly Paulism and "Constantinity" ... two bodies separated by 300 years...
  17. Jainarayan

    When an artist changes bands or paths

    I love Chris Stapleton's voice, I loved his vocals with The SteelDrivers (I think The SteelDrivers were better with him). I'm not so wild about his solo work. Actually it's not entirely solo, he teams up with other artists. I added his discography to my Spotify library, and I gotta tell you, it...
  18. Jainarayan

    Recreating Your Avatar

    Thanks. :) True stories... I was at the mall one day dressed in black sweat pants, Timberland boots, a black mock turtleneck with a black windbreaker, and a black ball cap. I was standing outside one of the store waiting for my husband and the kids. As people passed by they sort of gave me a...
  19. Jainarayan

    Recreating Your Avatar

    I don't know how they did this but I like it. It's something I always imaged. I wish I had become a cop. Someone said ... oh wait, it was my husband ... that I'm such a hard-*** I would pull my own mother over and arrest her. I said no, I most certainly would not arrest her. I'd just give her a...
  20. Jainarayan

    Kumbhabhishekan # 3 here

    Not to sound full of myself, but I've been told that too. A few people at temple were amazed and impressed, and even said "You know more about this than we do, and we were raised with it". I said and there's the answer ... when you're raised in a tradition or culture, there are things that are...
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