@lain

@nautilus i was attracted to spirituality as a child but i had an atheist phase quite young merely because abrahamic religion didn't appeal. then i was agnostic for years until i was around 24 and became familiar with monist hinduism.

selected quotations from the upanishads:

brihadaranyaka https://netzsphaere.xyz/notice/B74ZwvQ1d6juOdLR5M (also check my comment)

chandogya https://netzsphaere.xyz/notice/B74tbjRuw2FQH9OxE0

taittiriya https://netzsphaere.xyz/notice/B76BpsgHOwpxIIyYLY

kausitaki https://netzsphaere.xyz/notice/B76j8IQBjblCpJq0Ho

kena https://netzsphaere.xyz/notice/B76jgBehOekFgjml60

katha https://netzsphaere.xyz/notice/B76oiBzRchCp4mGT3I

isha https://netzsphaere.xyz/notice/B77wtJNnTFhjytQbpo

shvetashvatara https://netzsphaere.xyz/notice/B782SiG7TOyv2VXMW0

mundaka https://netzsphaere.xyz/notice/B78575V2gTESbvtg8m

prashna https://netzsphaere.xyz/notice/B789bJsuAJy5jFjJEe

mandukya https://netzsphaere.xyz/notice/B78lJ5gM1lvej6atfM

@ellenor2000 most "revelations" are imperfect, but God is perfect. if you believe in the cosmic manifestation (this universe), its foolish to think that so much beauty can come of itself.

atheism should be reserved for precocious yet ignorant children and rebellious teens, not adults who should know better

@genmaicha @estpls

@lain @newt to be more accurate my post was about the male reproductive role, not fatherhood. i used fatherhood euphemistically specifically to contrast reproductive sex with casual sex. fatherhood occurs mostly after birth, reproduction before it. the content of my post (addressing outdated theories of reproduction where the sperm is basically a homonculus and the female germinates it) is not "a father is useless" (although many fathers are, including mine). anyway i don't think its controversial that the male reproductive role is essentially sex.

@lain @newt i love women. if he loves men and hates women he should be having sex with men.

@newt "who said anything" my post is about fatherhood vs motherhood, not casual sex

don't criticise a pregnant woman for being a bit tipsy, she's drinking for two..

@newt if youre starting families with every random woman, again with the "doing it wrong". I stand by what I said.

@scathach omg

@Suiseiseki ah yes, there is no ultimate Truth, no creator, and when the universe ceases to be, nothing exists. the only truth is what we can observe. very smart boy

@newt if sex and fatherhood isnt joyful for you I'm fairly certain youre doing it wrong

honestly even the upanishads don't talk about Brahman and yoga enough.

i don't like samkhya, with its tattvas and its dualism, even though its an aid to yoga classically. i agree with the tantrics that the shakti is not insentient, indeed, no part of existence is devoid of Consciousness. i have this complaint with vedanta too. i love vedanta, i love the prasthanatrayi, but i love tantra especially kashmir shaivism even more.

Hinduism isn't the best source for information about Gods character or conduct (certain streams of christianity probably are, though in the vast corpus of Hinduism there are definitely stories about God that rival Christs virtues). also ironically Hinduism is a poor source for information about divine law/dharma (esp compared to the other indian religions which shun casteism, the dharma sutras/shastras were written by brahmins for brahmins and are very casteist. hinduism has a sexism problem too) with the notable exception of its (shared with other indian religions) frequent emphasis on nonviolence, especially uniquely (in world religions) towards animals. furthermore the religion of most of the vedas is not ideal, being so focused on performing often violent sacrifices for and hymning the virtues of the devas instead of extolling/expounding upon Brahman or providing insight into yoga or tantra. the system of sacrifice of the vedas is also quite transactional, it is not nishkama karma. and while one seldom finds a purva-mimamsakan today, the puranas which arguably dominate modern hinduism are also flawed. the "greatest purana", the srimad bhagavatam, has literally thousands of examples of sati.

with all that being said, Hinduism has a monopoly on a supreme truth which is the panentheist monist nature of God, non-dual absolute existence/truth/goodness, consciousness/knowledge, and bliss. hinduism also innovated another truth which is karma and the transmigration of the soul, both key vindications of Gods justice. but probably most importantly, Hinduism has the most developed science of liberation (God realization) of any religion, originating karma yoga in the bhagavad gita, having the most developed brahma-vidya (jnana yoga) of any religion, having the advanced meditative techniques of raja, hatha, and laya yoga, and also having greatly developed (prema)-Bhakti to the high point of any great saint-producing religion.

he also clearly means no offense by calling some sects schools and others cults.

i mischaracterized this author clearly. what beautiful tolerance! he is correct.