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kyra
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 Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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welcome to the forum Kikas!  |
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| Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, welcome!
btw, I would say thanks to the administrator of this forum in the first place ... I don't know why people always have to drag god into the picture. |
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Kikas
Joined: 17 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you guys.
| Quote: | | btw, I would say thanks to the administrator of this forum in the first place ... I don't know why people always have to drag god into the picture |
Sorry Kevin it may have sounded that i was thanking God in the place of the very indiduals that were responsible for the site, that was not my intention though. In fact I was trying to say that as much as Bks say their work is the only God inspired and orientated I was saying that i think this work and effort can as well be it, in spite of not fitting the standards of BKs and exactly for that. I personaly don't believe in Shiv Baba but I can say that what I think and experience to be God still has a print on my life. By saying what said , for better or worse, i mean that this work in the website i feel as being so divine, or cool, or whatever you want to call it, as the BKs think to be their own work.
It was meant to be a (non-bk)complement. Withouth taking any credits to the people on this website.
By the way is it a movie your cartoon avatar, I quite like it. If you know could you tell me the name of it please!  |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 5:23 am Post subject: |
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it's okay, Kikas 
I'd just say that I wouldn't discard the possibility of the existance of "god" or gods, I just don't see the relevance of it in our lives here on earth. I think feelings of divinity etc. have nothing to do with a god ... it's just that there are a lot of things which are unknown to us, yet we can somehow feel or perceive them.
That movie is called "Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind", but I didn't see that one (yet!). It's a manga from the master himself Miyazaki! Check out his masterworks Spirited away and Castle in the sky. |
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Kikas
Joined: 17 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:11 am Post subject: |
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| Thank you Kevin. I loved Spirited away and Princess Mononoke and I'll try to chek the others you suggested. |
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uddhava
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Joined: 20 Jan 2005
Posts: 142
Location: Paramdham
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 4:14 pm Post subject: Re: What has XBKchat done for you? |
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| Atma wrote: | | Since becoming an XBKchat member, have you seen your own views, and that of others, evolve and change over time? If so, what caused the change, and is it for the better? Any other observations and comments? |
I haven't been here long but yes, my views have changed already. Prior to this forum it seems there has been remarkably little about BKWSU available on the net. There were the official BKWSU sites, the Advance Party sites, but that was pretty much it. There is plenty on the net by ex-members of other eastern religious groups such as ISKCON, Adidam, Elan Vital, Sahaja Yoga - I used to wonder why there wasn't any forum for XBKs. Was this evidence of BKs divinity? Was BKWSU different to all these other groups? Did BKWSU have no problems? So this forum has really opened my eyes - it seems that ex-BKs have very similar issues to ex-members of these other groups after all. 
I think this forum, rightly or wrongly, will not do any favours for BKWSU recruitment. It is that control of information thing - obviously this wouldn't be possible without the internet, but BKWSU are powerless to stop this off-message stuff being available to the general public. In fact this is perhaps a small watershed in the history of the BKWSU movement - BKWSU arrives in the west...first westerners join BKWSU...after many years, some BKs drop out...some XBKs become aware of the pattern re dropping out...XBK stories become freely available on the net. I mean by definition there was no XBK forum when westerners first encountered BKWSU in the 70's, there was no XBK forum before there was a critical (!) mass of XBKs. Isn't it really a different situation now for people who encounter BKWSU for the first time? Of course BKWSU will continue to win new recruits, but surely fewer than before. As for myself, all this causes me to further question the divinity of BKWSU. |
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