i know i am just a stranger to you, but i care for you. you are not alone. i am also confused about my sexuality. i cannot tell if i am heterosexual or asexual. all of the guys i have come across have always sexually harassed me and attempted to manipulate me into going out with them. like you, i also do not think i am enough for my parents. we crave validation, but aren’t met with it even when we try to excel in school. allow me to say this, even though your parents may not appear to be proud, i am extremely proud of you. you have come so far. you are so strong. i also have the whole political situation in my house. it hurts to hear a family member agree with such horrid ideas. my mother and father are trump supporters, whereas my sister and i are not. my parents are always constantly yelling at the tv. it gets so loud. whenever my sister and i express our side, we get shot down immediately and tension grows. we can all get through this together.
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@leelah please read bhagavad Gita before making any statement about Krishna
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@vkoami I have read the gita. I love that story.
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@vkoami it is a beautiful book. I love when Krishna encouraged arjuna to kill his family, neighbors and friends because he was actually doing them a favor. But my favorite part is when arjuna asked Krishna to show his true form. It is such an amazing story.
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@leelah Gita is not story. Gita is truth, truth for life.
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@vkoami I wont question your beliefs..... unless you want me to?
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@leelah you can ask anything you wish. We are not arguing. Trying to understand something. Apologies if you are hurt with my replies. I'm not trying you are wrong
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@DAD_ Every religion deserves respect and also questioning. Are you able to question your beliefs? I love to dig into the psychology of magical beliefs.
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@vkoami no please, this is very interesting for me. I love a good debate but many people do not want someone questioning their strongly held beliefs. Like reincarnation, is there any credible evidence for it or is it just something we read in an old book? It is an amazing idea buuut is it an actual thing? I guess we don't know until we die.
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@leelah reincarnation happened in many places. À 4 year old kid identified his previous birth place and his parents of the previous birth in India, rarely it happens. I believe in reincarnation. reincarnation as mentioned in the Gita, we don't die, we just pass on from one birth to another birth. We don't die, because we were never born. This is cycle of coming to this world and taking another body. Like we change new dress after the end of the old dress. We just change the bodies. I Will repeat we don't die , we just move on or pass on to another birth
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@leelah why do you think a child prodigy happened? Because we carry a knowledge from our previous birth https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_child_prodigies.
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@vkoami The radical claim about the Indian boy should be verified with what you would consider a reliable source. Muslims and Christians also make claims about evidence for their religion. That is a very comforting belief, reincarnation, but we better get this life right or we could come back as a tree. I personally believe reincarnation and karma, like heaven and hell, are fear based ways to make people be good when no one is looking.
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@vkoami the brain is amazing. I read about a guy that has a brain injury and can never forget anything now and a man that forgets everything in 7 seconds but can still play the piano.
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@leelah there is a famous quote in India. "We have only handful of knowledge, one should understand the ocean of remaining knowledge". And I believe in it.
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@DAD_ that is a beautiful belief. I also believe the Indian culture a wonderful. Is it evidence based science though? Or a comforting belief?
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@vkoami would you explain this quote for me?
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@leelah Hinduism is science and not religious beliefs. Distance between sun and moon was identified in Hanuman chalisa https://www.google.com/amp/www.sciencebehindindianculture.in/distance-between-sun-and-earth-is-mentioned-in-hanuman-chalisa/amp/
Earth is round - our religious books told this fact in our religious books. Nuclear weapons manufacturing, flight technologies etc were written in our books.
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@vkoami I've always believed there were people that knew common knowledge facts we have now in the past. Math is so amazing. I'm sure some Indian geniuses in the past tracked the sun, moon, and planets and realized the earth was round. Math is beautiful and almost unquestionable. But what about karma? Is there evidence for this?
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@leelah we have books like Vedas, puranas, so many religious books which I may need at least few decades of years to read and understand.
Honestly speaking, I haven't read even 0.1% of these books. So I have read only few books and has handful of knowledge.
So remaining knowledge to understand is a big ocean - even a lifetime of studying, I cannot complete the books. That's the immense knowledge to understand in the Hinduism -
@leelah I love Indian culture as well
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@vkoami will you also learn more about others too? Like native american and Aztec beliefs? Most people that are indoctrinated in their beliefs can't imagine anything other.