peter de wrote:You wrote: "was not" ... do you mean there was no mini-Destruction then? What you call "active folklore" is seemingly accepted by the institutions since you can find these ideas in BK books if I am not mistaken ...
Sorry, might have been a typo. I will have a look at it later. I meant that I do not remember it being in the Murli or teachers training manual properly but I that I do remember it being spread around the bhavans. As you know, there is a fair bit of gossip and a few make noble attempts to patch up The Knowledge to fit with reality.
So a degree, I consider that the leadership allow the followers a certain amount of intellectual freedom as long as business is good, or new students and money is coming in. I suspect the that original leadership did not have any knowledge of things like dinosaurs existing and would have accepted if Lekhraj Kirpalani had told them the moon was made of cheese. And even if it was not, then they would have just turned on their heels and said, "Baba was testing us ...".
sparkal wrote:When we seek knowledge, we don't want to hear fairy tales. It is an insult to the soul. Fairy tales are fine, they have their place in life. As do dinosaurs.
You are right. Its an insult to fairies to call the BKWSU dinosaur theories 'fairy stories'. Fairy stories have much more meaning and significance.
Its a fabulous stretch of logic to say, "carbon dating produces anomalous results, therefore the world is 5,000 years folks" and, yet, the Godhead has never said anything to refute that The Cycle is a clockwork 5,000 years to the second, each and every time.
I did meet a Christian once that argued that dinosaur bones were the invention of the devil placed to deceive humanity away from the Biblical truth and guide them instead to the Satanic Darwin. It makes as good an argument as any, surely?