Javier says, “I danced one night in a place, there was a club. And they asked for a guy to kind of make a striptease and I did it… It was for ten minutes. I needed money. My mother was there in the audience. She was so proud.”
Posted on 08/12/2010 1:19:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Her parents were Baptist and Catholic and she was born in Georgia, part of the US Bible Belt. But Hollywood superstar Julia Roberts says she is now a practising Hindu. Speaking to the September issue of Elle magazine, Roberts said she goes to the temple to "chant, pray and celebrate."
The 42-year-old actress, who won a million hearts with Pretty Woman and an Oscar with Erin Brockowich, took to Hinduism during the shooting of her upcoming film, `Eat, Pray and Love' last year. In the movie, she plays a divorced woman who travels to Italy for food, India for spirituality and Bali, where she finds love. In the interview, Robert also spoke of reincarnation. "I've been so spoiled with my friends and family in this life. Next time I want to be just something quiet and supporting," she said.
Swami Dharamdev of Hari Mandir, Pataudi, where `Eat, Pray and Love' was shot for three weeks in September-October last year, said it is good news if someone accepts Hinduism from the heart. During the film's shooting, he said, a makeshift temple had been constructed nearby where unit members would light lamps and burn incense sticks. "Julia too would pray there, run her hands over the lamp and her hair as we all do," he recalled. "She also got her three kids here. I tied the sacred red thread on their wrists and applied the tilak on their foreheads," he said.
Swami Dharamdev recalled the actress also requested him, through her private assistant, to pray for her mother who was ill. "Before she left I told her, `you may choose not to eat or love. But don't forget to pray. Make that a part of your life, not just acting in this film'. She smiled and nodded affirmatively," he said.
In a statement, Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Society of Hinduism in the US, also said he and his fellow practitioners welcome Roberts into the fold.
Julia's move to Hinduism has sparked off a torrent of online response. Some are highly critical of her; others the opposite. "Another confused celebrity trying on the religion "flavour" of the month. Hindu? Does she even know what that means? How can you convert to another religion after making a film? Next thing you know she'll be wearing a Kabbalah bracelet after going to a Madonna concert!," was a comment posted on The Daily Mail's website. However, Anne, Leicester, wrote, "I like Julie Roberts, admire her work on screen and her commitment to her beliefs. If she's living her life to the ideals of Hinduism, that's all to the good. I look forward to seeing her latest film.
Javier says, “I danced one night in a place, there was a club. And they asked for a guy to kind of make a striptease and I did it… It was for ten minutes. I needed money. My mother was there in the audience. She was so proud.”
yeah...don’t know what to make of that...
the English bird that replaced mrs. david silver is hot!
Now that would've been enough to make me run away screaming from the restaurant.
And to what purpose? Those are complex questions that require lengthy answers. If you were serious about exploring the answers to your questions you would be reading about the problem of evil in philosophy and soteriology in a variety of religious traditions. Tossing around complex questions at a site like this is just game playing.
To my purpose. I asked a question, you sort of answered mentioning a lot of stuff about people’s core. So I asked for more detail about this core...from you, not from anyone else. It appears you can’t answer questions about what you were talking about.
It’s not game playing, just because you say so and don’t want to answer.
Sorry. I should have said he answered, and I was asking him. The rest stands.
I ask questions here, of the people I am talking with on the forum.
It appears to be a game, a disingenuous skepticism. If it weren’t you would describe your own beliefs somewhere on the thread. Since you don’t you have nothing to defend and instead spend your time trying to get someone to jump at your questions.
There’s an amusing description of some skeptic games here:
http://www.discord.org/~lippard/stupid-skeptic-tricks.txt
What might prove interesting or not is your opinion on the matter...pray tell you might have one?
“Playing the threads” is not a new game Stuartcr....just depends on how long people want to be entertained...when they are done ‘playing the player’ they simply leave the thread. If they want to play the player again they simply can find him on other threads playing the same game.
I did not call Them wretched, though some would. I was commenting on their ‘condition’.
We do indded all have souls. This being the case, the next question would be, what happens afetr death? Is it just extinguishment? Or does it go on, in another ‘realm’?
God did not ‘create’ Hindus, or Muslims or such. Those are man-made things to believe.
We have the free-will to believe in God (and His Son!), follow His ways, turn away from things that are sins.
We have that choice. One should choose wisely and Hinduism, Taoism, Naturism, Islam, et al are not the answer.
Glad to hear it is not you in that boat too.
Since I assumed that you are one, I was leaving you to figure it out.
No one has asked me my beliefs.
If someone asks me, I will answer. Why is it though, that I should answer others questions first, before mine are answered. Wouldn’t that be fair?
That happens to be one of the reasons we have threads, for entertainment and to pass the time.
Do you believe that God knows what our free-will choices are going to be?
That I am one of what? I asked if this core was something one is born with
“No one has asked me my beliefs.”
Now’s your chance. So tell us.
these folks are so stupid to be so rich
I believe in one God, creator of all, all-powerful, all-knowing. Same one for everyone, but with different names.
Do you think anyone will answer my questions now?
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