Can The World Survive Without Religion (Yes or No) A Hindu P (General)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Friday, December 03, 2010, 12:11 (5102 days ago) @ satyansh

Its never too late my friend. Infact this forum has been a refreshing change from the normal bashing that happens almost on all the other forums. I find people here genuinely interested in solving the mysteries that life has presented.
> -I have to agree with you here. The attitude of this group has been immensely refreshing when compared with some of the other discussion forums I have tried.-
> "There was something in your post here that struck a chord with me. First the quote "Atman is Brahman" is very resonate with the much later catch phrase of popular science fiction writer Robert Heinlein, "Thou art God", and represents I think one of the key pieces missing from the Abrahamic religions, namely the oneness of everything."
> -I am actually just starting work on my B.A. in History/Philosophy/Religion(it is so cool that you can specialize degrees like that now). So I am really looking forward to studying Hinduism and other Eastern philosophies. Regardless of what Hinduism may have started out as, however, it is indeed a religion. And it is set up as a religion from the time of the Vedas. For example the Bhagavad-Gita starts off as a conversation between God and Man. You can't exactly get more 'religious' than that. That is not to discredit or belittle Hinduism in anyway, just trying to keep things in their proper perspective. For that matter, any idea that has enough followers and contains a structure of beliefs is a religion, and in that respect DHW is correct in saying that even Atheism is a religion. -
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> "The other thing that caught my attention, is the word Maya. The obvious connection would be to the Mayan population of the central/south Americas. Normally I would dismiss such a thing as coincidence of language. However, based on my admittedly limited study of the Vedas, there was some mention of odd flying contraptions in their text. What is strange about that is that there were necklaces found in Mayan/Aztec ruins that seem to depict such flying contraptions, right down to having the symbols for rise and descend engraved on them. One thing might be coincidence, but two? Makes me wonder if there is any link between ancient Mayans and the Ancient Indians."
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> well Maya in sanskrit and hindi means something that could be broadly included in the things that come under dream or illusion. i dont know the mayan connection. i have to research that.
> -I was actually just idly musing about the possibility that the Mayans, and possibly even Aztecs were in fact of Indian/Hindu decent. The name would actually be very fitting for them, particularly if they named their culture after a dream of some previous cultural peak that was so changed in the way that it was passed down from generation to generation that it took on the form myth and legend versus the very real history it contained. It would explain some of the cultural diffusion, particularly on the religious front. There are a large number of similarities between early american religious beliefs and the ancient polytheistic beliefs of the Hindu. Just a thought..