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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...ckers drowned. Manic dances - sometimes in the form of ecstatic but structured rituals - often resulted in death. The dancers - many of them ha... ... A few tribes in Amazonian Ecuador used to shrink heads as part of their post war rituals. Visit the links below for additional ethnological and a... ...e. She boasted that she had only two baths in her life - at birth and prior to her wedding. But not all royals were so unhygienic. The flushing toi... ...d to become independent. India annexed by force of arms two of these and Kashmir's Hindu prince joined India as well. As a result, a war broke betw... ...y Polygamy refers to both polyandry - marrying more than one man - and polygyny, wedding more than one woman. Hard to believe, but the United Sta...

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Fuzzy and Neutrosophic Analysis of Periyar's Views on Untouchability

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...N A FUZZY AND NEUTROSOPHIC ANALYSIS 2.1 Analysis of untouchability due to Hindu religion using FCMs and NCMs 43 2.2 Analysis of discrimination... ... rights. The Dalits were considered untouchable for thousands of years by the Hindu society until the Constitution of India officially abolished the... ... 7 The rigid rules of the caste system were codified in the Manusmriti, a Hindu religious text which decreed that Sudras and Dalits were to be d... ... Social identity R 12 - Social fear R 13 - Social binding R 14 - Social rituals R 15 - Solace As described by the expert, these attributes... ...n no way related to Manu Smriti. Likewise there were several differences in rituals, gods, sacrifices, modes of worship etc. This expert points... ... and to avoid further torture they accept the social bond. R 14 – Social Rituals They are involuntarily forced to practice social rituals in ... ...es the cause of violence on Dalits. This includes playing a music band in the wedding ceremony. Tucking ones shirt in, wearing sunglasses, riding a ...

...damental rights, and the non-implementation of laws that safeguard Dalit rights. The Dalits were considered untouchable for thousands of years by the Hindu society until the Constitution of India officially abolished the practice of untouchability in 1950....

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...Testament. If it is a Muslim society we believe in the Qur‘an. If it is a Hindu society we believe in the Upanishads and the Gita. If it is a truly ... ...r beliefs by thinking deeply about them. ―Few Jews, Christians, Hindus or Muslims change their religions. Few democrats want a totalitaria... ...in the world believe in a religion that they sincerely think is true. The Hindus believe that God is the totality of the universe. This is called pan... ... witches worshipped Satan and did a number of anti-social things in their rituals. It probably was most effectively conjured in the Malleus Malefica... ...ir beliefs. The Satan of Faust is foreign to their beliefs. Their 108 rituals, if they have them, generally have nothing to do with theistic ritu... ...ual. Since most don‘t worship anything supernatural, including Satan, any rituals would be meaningless. Rather they tend to honor the principles ass... ...iage the state, and often the religion, get involved in the contract. The wedding vows to ‘love, honor and cherish until death do us part‘ is a verb... ... many people live in very stable relationships without having undergone a wedding ceremony and without paying the state a license fee. Recently the ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...the herd or pack. This dynamic of strength vs. weakness exists only in mating rituals. And even there, it is only a fitness test: not a fight to th... ...e does that tradition come from? Hyena society is based upon constant daily rituals of recognition. Let a member go away for a week? It becomes ... ...lication, and repetition… all narrowly controlled and defined. All Human rituals are merely an outgrowth of tool-use. These rituals are pas... ...orm. This was the transition from Nature Worship: to Pyramidal Worship. The Hindu tradition resulted in a collage of ancient animal Gods that had ... ...is old? Because it has stayed unchanged? How many books even older than the Hindu Upanishads, or the Jewish-Christian-Mohammedan Bible have been du... ...gion, a football team, a supermodel, a national identity, or a 5,000 year-old Hindu god or a movie star; the attempt to glorify and worship anything... ... vigor of a young adolescent boy would be strong enough to produce a baby, by wedding him to a foreign queen. It failed. The Egyptians of Cleopatra... ...er as ritual customs dictated: not because they liked each other. Attending weddings and funerals and visiting each other on ‘holidays’ and state ...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... The death of the soldier is meaningful from the point of view of the state and the rituals of the church are meaningful from the point of view of G... ...zism - possessed all the hallmarks of an institutional religion: priesthood, rites, rituals, temples, worship, catechism, mythology. Hitler was this... ... the same ideas, adhere to the same transcendental rules, observe the same mystical rituals, and claim to go through the same experiences. This shar... ...e system, and a vade mecum. In this it resembles Confucianism and, to some extent, Hinduism. Judaism and its offspring, Christianity - though heav... ...nderstood to rule out religious commitments... (religion) was something useful for weddings and funerals but otherwise dispensable." Without the be... ... into their thirties and consume the family's savings in college tuition, sumptuous weddings, expensive divorces, and parasitic habits. Alternative... ...m - led to the resurgence of the classical religions (Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism), a phenomenon now dubbed "fundamentalism". These anci... ...panzees). It was also quite common until recently in certain human societies - the Hindus, for instance, or many Native American tribes, and royal ...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... The death of the soldier is meaningful from the point of view of the state and the rituals of the church are meaningful from the point of view of G... ...zism - possessed all the hallmarks of an institutional religion: priesthood, rites, rituals, temples, worship, catechism, mythology. Hitler was this... ... the same ideas, adhere to the same transcendental rules, observe the same mystical rituals, and claim to go through the same experiences. This shar... ...e system, and a vade mecum. In this it resembles Confucianism and, to some extent, Hinduism. Judaism and its offspring, Christianity - though heav... ...nderstood to rule out religious commitments... (religion) was something useful for weddings and funerals but otherwise dispensable." Without the be... ... into their thirties and consume the family's savings in college tuition, sumptuous weddings, expensive divorces, and parasitic habits. Alternative... ...m - led to the resurgence of the classical religions (Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism), a phenomenon now dubbed "fundamentalism". These anci... ...panzees). It was also quite common until recently in certain human societies - the Hindus, for instance, or many Native American tribes, and royal ...

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Under the Deodars

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ir Regiments and their Bat- teries, as though they were hastening to their weddings, fled the subalterns. Bobby received his orders on returning from ... ...d, being popular with the men, every arrangement had been made to give the wedding what Private Ortheris called “eeklar.” It fell in the heart of the ... ...s called “eeklar.” It fell in the heart of the hot weather, and, after the wedding, Slane was going up to the Hills with the Bride. None the less, Sla... ...p- tion of the Sikh, whom he hates as cordially as the Sikh hates him. The Hindu loathes Sikh and Afghan, and the Rajput—that’s a little lower down ac... ...nd his co-religionists, who are many, and the landed proprietors, also, of Hindu race, are frightened and put out by this electiop business and by the... ...e is over, their minds are occu- pied by a series of interests, pleasures, rituals, superstitions, and the like, based on centuries of tradition and u... ...sts of the Mahommedans, the landed and wealthy classes, the Conserva- tive Hindus, the Eurasians, Parsees, Sikhs, Rajputs, native Christians, domicile... ...y have been taught.” “But criminals, Ordel” “Yes, criminals with codes and rituals of crime, gods and godlings of crime, and a hundred songs and sayin...

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