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- From: johnsd2@jec323.its.rpi.edu.its1 (Daniel Norman Johnson)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Krishnas, Vedas, and all that (was: TM
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- Date: 24 Jan 93 19:43:53 GMT
- References: <H6gVXB4w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us>
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- In article H6gVXB4w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us, system@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa) writes:
- >arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes:
- >
- >> In article <TBiqXB3w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us> system@kalki33.lakes.tr
- >> >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,
- >>
- >> Well, was he right?
- >
- >The astronauts certainly never went to the planet Chandraloka as it is
- >described in the Vedas. This planet, whose name is commonly translated
- >as "the Moon," is populated by intelligent living beings in an advanced
- >state of civilization, and is not reachable by ordinary mechanical
- >means.
- >
-
- That's nice.
-
- So where did the astronauts go? We like to call it the "moon", but
- this does not seem to coincide with your concept of what the moon is,
- and where it is. So what IS that big chunk of rock orbiting the earth,
- which astronauts visited and discovered no life upon? THIS satalite
- is clearly reachable my mechanical means.
-
- Basically I dont think we're talking about the same celestial body here.
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- And why would anyone be silly enough to translate "Chandraloka"
- as "the Moon", if Chandraloka is a planet?
-
- ---
- - Dan Johnson
- And God said "Jeeze, this is dull"... and it *WAS* dull. Genesis 0:0
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