Brahma Kumarism is a hot-potch religion, made up on the hoof by its uneducated founder and leaders from bits and pieces of other religious in response to whoever turned up at the time or whatever needs it had, possibly just to hook individuals in but more than often for financial benefit or facilitate its social climbing.
From asset stripping Hinduism for its more marketable concepts and iconography, since expanding into the West the BK have diversified into pillaging other tradition not known by its founder ... and it must be point out that when their god first exposed himself on earth he did not even know about Judaism and still has no place in his tree of life for other great religions as Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Taoism and others ... to nicking from the New Age, and co-opting corporate coaching snake oil.
There's an old saying "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery", however, in the case of the Brahma Kumaris it is hard to believe that it fits and that anything their leaders do is sincere. What appears to matter most to them is whether an idea is expedient or not (i.e. useful for those financial and status climbing purposes), there is little integrity to their purloining. Their god might say that all other religions are "impure", of little to no benefit, even "stumbling in darkness" and "paths of ignorance" ... but that doesn't stop his adherents from contradictorily borrowing their language and ideas, liberally and without acknowledgement.
Where BKism fails, is weak or does not sell to foreign markets, it can be patched up with bits and pieces stuck on from elsewhere. For example, Taoism or Zen is "cool" whereas Krishna and Ganesh are not? No problem, just steal their style and language. Have no theories to explain the anomalies of 5,000 Year Cycle? No problem, just borrow arguments from whacko Born Again Christians ... it's where they took monotheism and millenarianism (End of the World-ism) from anyway. And there is no shame to absolute u-turns either, e.g. Gandhi the "unpatriotic traitor", "the dictator of the crow race" in yesteryears now becomes an icon and a figurehead of "peace" and wisdom to quote ... after he won.
BKism is not what is says it is, it is how it acts ... surfing along on a pattern of dubious deeds and ill gotten gains, later hidden and even literally buried from newcomers; outsiders widely misled.
The BKs have redefined "pure" to mean something without pure intentions, and "truth" as a constantly changing falsehood or illusion, malleable credos the emphasis of which is on submitting to unquestioningly ... because the leaders don't have any answers to rational questions, and their status as money earners cannot be questioned.
And so the spirit of the BKWS extends right down to us ...
Despite being universally condemned, criticised, constantly slandered and conspired against in most unspiritual ways, Brahma Kumaris Info remains an inspiration to the BKs that they just cannot ignore. Whether is it in it is their 'faux academia' PR borrowing from our historical research, or the BK IT team copying our website, it's Brahma Kumaris Info not their god spirit which appears to be the subject of their Yoga and inspiration.
It's not strange and paradoxical ... It is somewhat sad or pathetic. And I suspect typical of how they have always acted from the very beginning, e.g. Lekhraj Kirpalani copying the oft criticised Sadhu Vaswani's sincere girls' school with his Om Mandli school.
When the Brahma Kumaris leaders' legal attempt to suppress us failed, the BK Nerds consciously plotted and advised on how to try and drown Brahma Kumaris Info out of search engine rankings, in order to hide the primary source of objective truth about and reform of their religion. The BK global hive mind was set a buzzing and into action.
They even want to be seen as the source of their meagre reforms when, in fact, theirs leaders lead the cover ups.
The insincere and unflattering imitation of the BK robo-nerds went as far to copy our discussion forum using the same the format, software, descriptions, and even meta tags. Theirs, they claimed was the independent forum too. (I complained, they changed it).
We have a Library section, they proposed a Library section. They even discuss copying our original drop box download area.
We have a Wiki-like Encyclopedia, they have a wiki-like encyclopedia using, again, exactly the same software ... laughably emphasising its "objectivity" too. Wait for the world "objective" to be re-defined by the BKs again to something like, "what ever Dadi Janki says".
We have a dictionary, they have a dictionary (coming soon folks).
And so it goes on in tandem with coordinated efforts to whitewash public sources of information such as the BKWSU Wikipedia topic, filling them with "facts" even they now know are false or misleading our input, our source, our inspiration, our causal factor hidden and unacknowledged by them.
What a joke. How desperate can you get? What I don't understand is how mature adults can honestly believe such actions and mentality are in some way "divine", "Godly" and in service of humanity. How much Yoga are they having with us!
There's a famous George Carlin quote ... and, trust me, George Carlin is unlikely to be on the BK rip off list ...
So the same might be true of trying to reform a group of individuals with no integrity ...
It's even worse when attempting to reason with demented cult members who genuinely believe all their wasted time and efforts are going to be rewarded with servants, jewel encrusted golden palaces and mind control flying machines in some 'ever soon to be' heaven on earth for eternity.
Or it is just motivated by personal egos now?
FYI, I've recently been officially upgraded from "disgruntled ex-" to not just angry but "ferocious" ... I think for openly questioning the ethics of a chosen few BK being allowed to marry in marriages of convenience, marriages with one has to assume are not romantic or sexual ... nor even the service of humanity ... but rather just to circumvent immigration laws ... as legal eagle Hansa Raval did ... and as part of the greater Brahma Kumari co-prosperity world.
Is the question of equal opportunity, whether all Brahma Kumari slave girls are given the option of emigration to the West via marrying some eligible Westerner, or American resident too "ferocious" to ask? The BKs have plenty of spare bachelors going round ... and a few willings too Sister it seems.
Perhaps it is just not "royal", in BK terms, to cry "hypocrites!".
From asset stripping Hinduism for its more marketable concepts and iconography, since expanding into the West the BK have diversified into pillaging other tradition not known by its founder ... and it must be point out that when their god first exposed himself on earth he did not even know about Judaism and still has no place in his tree of life for other great religions as Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Taoism and others ... to nicking from the New Age, and co-opting corporate coaching snake oil.
There's an old saying "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery", however, in the case of the Brahma Kumaris it is hard to believe that it fits and that anything their leaders do is sincere. What appears to matter most to them is whether an idea is expedient or not (i.e. useful for those financial and status climbing purposes), there is little integrity to their purloining. Their god might say that all other religions are "impure", of little to no benefit, even "stumbling in darkness" and "paths of ignorance" ... but that doesn't stop his adherents from contradictorily borrowing their language and ideas, liberally and without acknowledgement.
Where BKism fails, is weak or does not sell to foreign markets, it can be patched up with bits and pieces stuck on from elsewhere. For example, Taoism or Zen is "cool" whereas Krishna and Ganesh are not? No problem, just steal their style and language. Have no theories to explain the anomalies of 5,000 Year Cycle? No problem, just borrow arguments from whacko Born Again Christians ... it's where they took monotheism and millenarianism (End of the World-ism) from anyway. And there is no shame to absolute u-turns either, e.g. Gandhi the "unpatriotic traitor", "the dictator of the crow race" in yesteryears now becomes an icon and a figurehead of "peace" and wisdom to quote ... after he won.
BKism is not what is says it is, it is how it acts ... surfing along on a pattern of dubious deeds and ill gotten gains, later hidden and even literally buried from newcomers; outsiders widely misled.
The BKs have redefined "pure" to mean something without pure intentions, and "truth" as a constantly changing falsehood or illusion, malleable credos the emphasis of which is on submitting to unquestioningly ... because the leaders don't have any answers to rational questions, and their status as money earners cannot be questioned.
And so the spirit of the BKWS extends right down to us ...
Despite being universally condemned, criticised, constantly slandered and conspired against in most unspiritual ways, Brahma Kumaris Info remains an inspiration to the BKs that they just cannot ignore. Whether is it in it is their 'faux academia' PR borrowing from our historical research, or the BK IT team copying our website, it's Brahma Kumaris Info not their god spirit which appears to be the subject of their Yoga and inspiration.
It's not strange and paradoxical ... It is somewhat sad or pathetic. And I suspect typical of how they have always acted from the very beginning, e.g. Lekhraj Kirpalani copying the oft criticised Sadhu Vaswani's sincere girls' school with his Om Mandli school.
When the Brahma Kumaris leaders' legal attempt to suppress us failed, the BK Nerds consciously plotted and advised on how to try and drown Brahma Kumaris Info out of search engine rankings, in order to hide the primary source of objective truth about and reform of their religion. The BK global hive mind was set a buzzing and into action.
They even want to be seen as the source of their meagre reforms when, in fact, theirs leaders lead the cover ups.
The insincere and unflattering imitation of the BK robo-nerds went as far to copy our discussion forum using the same the format, software, descriptions, and even meta tags. Theirs, they claimed was the independent forum too. (I complained, they changed it).
We have a Library section, they proposed a Library section. They even discuss copying our original drop box download area.
We have a Wiki-like Encyclopedia, they have a wiki-like encyclopedia using, again, exactly the same software ... laughably emphasising its "objectivity" too. Wait for the world "objective" to be re-defined by the BKs again to something like, "what ever Dadi Janki says".
We have a dictionary, they have a dictionary (coming soon folks).
And so it goes on in tandem with coordinated efforts to whitewash public sources of information such as the BKWSU Wikipedia topic, filling them with "facts" even they now know are false or misleading our input, our source, our inspiration, our causal factor hidden and unacknowledged by them.
What a joke. How desperate can you get? What I don't understand is how mature adults can honestly believe such actions and mentality are in some way "divine", "Godly" and in service of humanity. How much Yoga are they having with us!
There's a famous George Carlin quote ... and, trust me, George Carlin is unlikely to be on the BK rip off list ...
George Carlin wrote:Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
So the same might be true of trying to reform a group of individuals with no integrity ...
Never try and reform a group of individuals with no integrity. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with decades worth of experience.
It's even worse when attempting to reason with demented cult members who genuinely believe all their wasted time and efforts are going to be rewarded with servants, jewel encrusted golden palaces and mind control flying machines in some 'ever soon to be' heaven on earth for eternity.
Or it is just motivated by personal egos now?
FYI, I've recently been officially upgraded from "disgruntled ex-" to not just angry but "ferocious" ... I think for openly questioning the ethics of a chosen few BK being allowed to marry in marriages of convenience, marriages with one has to assume are not romantic or sexual ... nor even the service of humanity ... but rather just to circumvent immigration laws ... as legal eagle Hansa Raval did ... and as part of the greater Brahma Kumari co-prosperity world.
Is the question of equal opportunity, whether all Brahma Kumari slave girls are given the option of emigration to the West via marrying some eligible Westerner, or American resident too "ferocious" to ask? The BKs have plenty of spare bachelors going round ... and a few willings too Sister it seems.
Perhaps it is just not "royal", in BK terms, to cry "hypocrites!".