Namaste,
I just wanted to briefly address the nature of this forum, as I have come to know it,
1. It is a private forum and not a Govt. run open ended entity. So, we all have to conform to the rules set forth for a peaceful atmosphere here.
2. There is no need to present oneself as a martyr and anticipate being banned and then post disparaging remarks, and when banned, say out aloud, See I told you so!
Developing a perennial victim mentality is a sign of weakness.
3. Religion is faith based and material nature is subject to scientific experiments, deductions and all kinds of hair brained ideas. So, when religion is degraded to discussions in which every other sentence starts with, 'technically', 'logically', 'actually' etc., the poster is putting oneself above all our rishis/seers/sages/acharyas and injecting his/her own hair brained interpretations into everything. Do others care about ones technical/logical/actual evaluation of everything spiritual? Are they ready for a cult in which you are the supreme authority? The answer is NO.
4. If the HDF is not being operated to a member's taste, is it necessary to blame some members by name or the moderators for your unhappiness and then disappear? Why not show some class and just move on without putting a guilt trip on anyone. There are many other similar Hindu forums, and you could even start one of your own.
5. Every group of people that co-exist peacefully can be labelled a 'mutual admiration society'. Just look at your family. That is your closest 'mutual admiration society', even with all their warts. So, getting all hyper about it in the forum is meaningless. Try to become the friend that you want to have and others will start to love you for that.
6. The forum has been divided into so many sections to give voice to every segment of SD and members do express themselves in the proper forums about their sampradaye. To claim that the forum caters to only one type of following or it is dominated by one sampradaye does not hold water. There are Shiva bhaktas and Krishna bhaktas and Ram bhaktas and Ganesh bhaktas and Hanuman bhaktas and Shakti bhaktas and Smartas, who revere all deities. The only thing that is expected/requested is to go on discussing the philosophy of your sampradaye in the proper forum without attacking other traditions.
These are all common sense observations and I hope I did not step on any of the established HDF rules.
Pranam.
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