Posted on 05/20/2017 9:29:05 AM PDT by LouieFisk
Consuming black pepper is another Hindu practice.
Do some research written by Indian Hindu teachers about yoga and pray about it. I personally know a Hindu girl from India and their religion is bazaar. Her god came to her house but she and her mother-in-law couldn’t stay there while he was there. Only the men. The god was a man.
“You just proved my point.”
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How so?
“One can yoga non-religiously, it can be JUST exercise.”
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Sorry, but that’s just horse-hockey. Exercise is just exercise - unless it’s based on a religious practice.
It goes back to what’s been discussed here about the yogi who compared it to getting baptized every time a person needed a bath. The person could try to kid himself that baptism is not a religious practice, but he would only be fooling himself.
Yoga is just stretching and strength poses. Anybody saying otherwise is a moron. Including that yogi, that probably doesn’t even exist.
“Nobody is worshiping demons in yoga class.”
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Serious question - how would they know the consequences of their actions on the spiritual level?
That’s not a serious question. That’s a stupid question.
“Consuming black pepper is another Hindu practice.”
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Since pepper is black, I expect they really don’t have much say about it.
What does that mean?
Every man’s logic either comes from a starting point of faith, or it ends there.
As far as the cosmos, there are only two logical possibilities:
1. Nobody created something from nothing
or
2. Somebody created something from nothing
We are left to ask ourselves, which possibility is more logical?
As Sir Francis Bacon warned his fellow logicians, “Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.”
“That’s not a serious question. That’s a stupid question.”
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How so? How would one know if s/he were inadvertently worshiping demons - or whatever entity? Especially when they are uniformed? i.e. what is your criterion for making such a claim?
Yoga was created to escape the wheel of reincarnation.....to merge atman with brahman. Every position, every sound is a point of reverence to one of the 33 million gods in hinduism. It is pagan in every sense and should not be practiced by any Christian. It is not an exercise. They will tell you that this is the reason tp make it more palatable to westerners.
“What does that mean?”
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It’s not as if there’s a rainbow of pepper colors. Everybody’s stuck with eating black pepper. Even white pepper comes from black pepper:
http://www.almanac.com/fact/where-does-white-pepper-come-fromr-white
Same here, except for the yoga thing. Can’t bend like that anymore.
I fail to understand how a series of exercises sets me up for eternal doom. They played mixed tapes of top 40 light rock.
As to the ballet comment, one of the best female martial arts people I have met took ballet as a kid.
It’s a stupid question because yoga is not worshiping. Really when you touch your toes which Hindu god are you worshiping? When you stretch the kinks out of your back which Hindu god are you worshiping? What about when you sleep? ALL of those are yoga poses, so you tell me: how to YOU know you’re not inadvertently worshiping demons?
And that’s why it’s a stupid question. That’s why these claims that all yoga is worship are stupid. That’s why closed minded Christians who clearly have no idea what they’re talking about should just shut up. You clearly know nothing about yoga, so leave it alone. Every single statement you make shows your ignorance and is filled with falsehoods.
All pepper corns, regardless of color, from the Piper nigrum plant are major components of Hindu practice.
No one is stuck eating anything. Whatever you eat is a choice.
“I’m not catholic hon”
That’s a shame for you.
+1. Thank you for saving me some keyboarding.
I saw a kook who was standing on his head.
He flipped his lid like he should have been in bed.
I said, "what gives, man?"
He looked at me and said,
"I'm a Yogi, I'm a Yogi, baby,
I'm a Yogi, I'm a Yogi, baby."
Hey, Boo-boo!
And then the cat started strutting on hot coals.
He was wearing sneaks, but they were so full of holes.
He sang right out from the bottom of his soles,
"I'm a Yogi, I'm a Yogi, baby, I'm a Yogi, I'm a Yogi, baby."
Hey, Boo-boo!
"Listen here, baby," the Yogi man said,
"It's all a matter of the mind.
Just commune with your innermost being,
And baby, you'll be just fine."
He was hip, all right, wasn't he?
So I tried my best to dig my inner me.
I walked on coals, my head below my knee.
Until at last I heard me say perfectly,
"I'm a Yogi, I'm a Yogi, baby
I'm a Yogi, I'm a Yogi, baby."
Hey, Boo-Boo!
Are there people anywhere worshipping demons?
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