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- From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
- Subject: Re: Krishnas, Vedas, and all that (was: TM debunking needed)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.013945.2455@s1.gov>
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- References: <1993Jan23.000154.13375@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <H6gVXB4w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:39:45 GMT
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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.
-
- If there is this planet Chandraloka, then it sure isn't the
- Moon that one can see in the sky, for _that_ object has a barren,
- mountainous surface with no bodies of water or clouds or changing
- vegetation, let along the night lights of this civilization.
-
- And why Chandraloka == Moon, anyway?
- --
- /Loren Petrich, the Master Blaster
- /lip@s1.gov
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