(urth) What's So Great About Ushas?

[Paul B]

Only a condensed version in a Mahabharata translation - what's its purpose
here?

Supernovae have nothing to do with it, this is foreknowledge of death
resulting from premeditated action, what many would call "murder".  The
Hierogrammates might be able to bargain it down to manslaughter.

I'm one of those (apparently few) simple, naive souls that believes that
murder is evil.  Even if it's necessary, it's still evil.

Paul

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:29 PM, <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:

> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:46 AM, <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
>
> >> Some people maybe take this stuff a little too seriously....
>
> > Seeing such a spirited defense put up for murder on a planetary scale
> > certainly gets one's hackles up.
>
> What is it, one supernova a year, somewhere in the Universe? And common or
> garden variety novas are much more common, I don't have any idea how
> common.
>
> I don't see anything to get worked up about, particularly. Everyone dies.
> Sure, not everyone is ready to go and most people suffer some and flail
> about some more, but in the end the result is the same and you might as
> well be calm and cheerful about it. If a bad thing happens, and then you
> have negative emotions about it, two bad things have happened.
>
> Have you read the Gita?
>
>
> .
>
>
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