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To: Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
I know this is an "old" thread - I haven't been able to spend as much time as usual on FR and am now reading this one. I find this part interesting, in light of my Vedic studies:

He clearly perceived that this moral perversion is first of all a perversion in thinking, a confusion of terms, a categorical incoherence, a disorder of the mind with disastrous consequences. The homosexual plague is the rotten fruit of the whole of modern philosophy: first nominalist with Ockham, subjectivist with Descartes, idealist with Kant, dialectic with Hegel and finally existentialist with Sartre. Based on this perverse philosophical tradition, this epidemic of the homosexual lifestyle, is the consequence, on the one hand of the separation, at the heart of modern culture, between Science and Metaphysics and, on the other, of the chasm between modern philosophy - a war with Metaphysics and Theology - and every thought of the Creator.

In the Vedic understanding, the concept of "Dharma" is very significant. In creation, everything has its "dharma" or its intrinsic nature, which nature is inseparable from duty. One could say that the dharma of water is wetness (even ice is wet when it melts, fog or steam is wet when it touches you), the dharma of the sun is its heat and light. To perform sex acts which are forbidden (and the same ones are forbidden in the Vedas, since such moral absolutes are coming from God wherever they are found) is to act against one's dharma as a human man or human woman. It is against nature, and against one's moral duty, one's duty to God to behave as He wants one to.

The highest dharma is called "Sanatan Dharma" - sanatan meaning "eternal". This is the duty and eternal nature of the soul to be united with God in love, as a husband and wife, or child and parent are united - maintaining individuality but oneness in love and will. When a person strives for this eternal dharma, the other dharmas of the world are considered less important, but only in the sense that one needn't spend one's whole life doing them, one is forbidden to act against even the "creation" dharmas unless absolutely necessary. Example: If a person becomes a hermit, seeking a life of meditation and prayer in solitude or a monastery, they are absolved from the duties of family. Doesn't mean they can go off and create a new sexual relationship or be a fake in order to escape responsibility.

Today, many (HINO - Hindus in name only) Hindus teach that you can do "anything" and reach God - even BE God. These kinds of bogus philosophies are entirely against the essence and particulars of the Vedas.

14 posted on 09/10/2003 7:03:42 PM PDT by First Amendment
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To: pram

In the Vedic understanding, the concept of "Dharma" is very significant. In creation, everything has its "dharma" or its intrinsic nature, which nature is inseparable from duty….To perform sex acts which are forbidden (and the same ones are forbidden in the Vedas, since such moral absolutes are coming from God wherever they are found) is to act against one's dharma as a human man or human woman. It is against nature, and against one's moral duty, one's duty to God to behave as He wants one to.

Romans 2:14-15 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

15 posted on 09/12/2003 10:23:45 AM PDT by Vindiciae Contra TyrannoSCOTUS
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