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- From: system@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Krishnas, Vedas, and all that (was: TM debunking needed)
- Message-ID: <TBiqXB3w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 11:00:40 EST
- References: <1993Jan20.041222.28142@netcom.com>
- Organization: Kalki's Infoline BBS, Aiken, SC, USA
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- sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer) writes:
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- > And the Hare Krishnas are even sillier than THAT. Their publication "Back
- > to Godhead" published sometime during 1977 an article titled "Man on the
- > Moon, A case of mass brainwashing." The author, Satsvarupa dasa Goswami,
- > argues in essence that since the Vedas proclaim space flight to be
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > impossible, therefore the moon landing could not possibly have happened.
- ^^^^^^^^^^
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- Now this is interesting. I'd like to know where you get the idea that
- "the Vedas proclaim space flight to be impossible." This statement was
- neither made nor implied by any of the quotes you presented.
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- In truth, the Vedas contain numerous accounts of "space flight" (i.e.
- interplanetary travel by means of mechanical vehicles). Satsvarupa was
- well aware of this fact when he wrote the article, and he never said
- otherwise.
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- What he said was that the astronauts never went to the moon, and his
- reason was that the moon is impossible to reach by mankind's present
- technology, not that it is impossible to reach by space flight.
-
- Sincerely,
- Kalki Dasa
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