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Bhaktivedanta Manor celebrates start of spring
5:47pm Tuesday 17th March 2009
Hundreds of Hindu worshippers came together at their local Letchmore Heath temple to celebrate the full moon and colours of spring.
The Holi and Gaura Purnima festivals at Bhaktivedanta Manor on Sunday included a bonfire, spring welcoming rituals and the throwing of coloured powders on revellers.
The bonfire was lit to remember a saint named Prahlad who is alleged to have been taken into a huge fire without being burned. Prahlad is the Hindu symbol of faith and purity and the fire also represents the burning away of all the impurities, such as egoism, vanity and lust.
This events also marked a celebration of the birth of Lord Chaitanya, who was considered an incarnation of Lord Krishna.
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Roy Stockdill, says...
10:05pm Tue 17 Mar 09
WHO?
Can anyone take seriously people who believe such rubbish and fantasy?
Paradise Watford, says...
8:06am Wed 18 Mar 09
As Mr T says, this event did you no harm so why not just leave things alone... you know you come across as someone who knows they themselves are on shaky ground and therefore feel the need to attack everone else to deflect attention away from your own belief
Roy Stockdill, says...
1:00pm Wed 18 Mar 09
Paradise Watford wrote:My beliefs are based at least partly on the theories of Charles Darwin and I am not aware he ever wrote a science fiction novel. Is there not currently a positive flood of TV programmes and articles commemorating his 200th birthday and marking him out as one of the greatest thinkers and scientists of the 19th century? Science fiction? I think not.
Roy we all know your stance on religions and we all know your own beliefs could be taken from a science fiction novel so making statements like the one you did is like the pot calling the kettle black. As Mr T says, this event did you no harm so why not just leave things alone... you know you come across as someone who knows they themselves are on shaky ground and therefore feel the need to attack everone else to deflect attention away from your own belief
I would also draw your attention to the very simple statement on the website of the British Humanist Association which says that humanists are "people who seek to live good lives without religious or superstitious beliefs". What on earth is there of the science fiction about that?
We are quite simply independent thinkers who have no time for the mumbo jumbo and backward, medieval superstition of religion. And I am not so sure that the Hindu worshippers are not doing damage, since so long as there are gullible people who go on believing in such fantasy figures as Lord Chaitanya and Lord Krishna, the desirable goal of ridding the world of some of the inherent evils of religion becomes farther and farther away.
Chris40, Mill End says...
3:39pm Wed 18 Mar 09
Roy Stockdill, says...
4:16pm Wed 18 Mar 09
Chris40 wrote:Charles Darwin is by no means the only great humanist thinker. I suggest you enter "humanism" into Google to find some of them.
You could almost say humanism is a wannabe religion. You all follow the same beliefs essentially, like a religion. You base your beliefs on the teachings of one man, so you're a kind of follower? You have your own celebrants? This all sounds very familiar. You're probably almost a cult!
Yes, I suppose humanism is a kind of belief, but the difference is that humanists are free and logical thinkers who believe only in the existence of the physical world they see and feel around them and who do not accept the existence of any kind of supernatural element, including a god or gods.
Chris40, Mill End says...
9:06pm Wed 18 Mar 09
Roy Stockdill, says...
9:29pm Wed 18 Mar 09
I seem to recall he used a particularly insulting word beginning with "w" about myself.
I always feel that people who resort to personal and vulgar abuse have lost not only the argument but the plot. I enjoy a good debate with anyone, but those whose ambitions are no higher than to fall to abusive language must expect the moderator to step in. This is not censorship, simply an attempt to maintain some dignity and probity in a debate, a concept which Mr T does not appear to understand.
Paradise Watford, says...
8:07am Thu 19 Mar 09
Chris40, Mill End says...
8:33am Thu 19 Mar 09
Worshippers at Hindu temple Bhaktivedanta Manor threw coloured powders to mark the coming of Spring
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Saintly John, Vatican City says...
6:26pm Tue 17 Mar 09
The Future's Orange.....and blue and purple and yellow....