hinduism ideas

but if you did a state consensus in china the numbers and poles would be more accurate then the ones used to make the pie chart. 😱

Shiva is not the Devil. He is the Destroyer. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu perserver and Shiva destroyer.
This is all the ''same God'' but with different avatars, of which, each has a different function. Like a 'Hindu Trinity'. It is 3, but they're all really single deity.

Some areas of Hinduism believe in many Gods, but others, as I said believe in single God with many many many avatars.

Originally posted by Wild Shadow
but if you did a state consensus in china the numbers and poles would be more accurate then the ones used to make the pie chart. 😱

Originally posted by King Kandy
Not really since the Chinese government is well known to change data on that sort of thing at will...

Anyhow, back to topic... Christianity is the most popular religion (but that is certainly NOT the same thing as saying most people on earth practice it), and using that to claim it's true would be one of the more retarded arguments i've heard over the years.

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Shiva is not the Devil. He is the Destroyer. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu perserver and Shiva destroyer.
This is all the ''same God'' but with different avatars, of which, each has a different function. Like a 'Hindu Trinity'. It is 3, but they're all really single deity.

Some areas of Hinduism believe in many Gods, but others, as I said believe in single God with many many many avatars.

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Shiva is not the Devil. He is the Destroyer. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu perserver and Shiva destroyer.
This is all the ''same God'' but with different avatars, of which, each has a different function. Like a 'Hindu Trinity'. It is 3, but they're all really single deity.

Some areas of Hinduism believe in many Gods, but others, as I said believe in single God with many many many avatars.

Originally posted by overlord
then that's what I believe 🙂

Originally posted by Mindship
IIRC, an avatar is a human incarnation of a god on Earth, not an alternate god form. Jesus and Buddha, eg, are considered avatars.
You could be an avatar and not realize it (or maybe you do, overlord).

I thought an avatar was a well crafted, stupid retelling of an old story, movie that made over 2 billion $.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
I thought an avatar was a well crafted, stupid retelling of an old story, movie that made over 2 billion $.

Originally posted by Mindship
That's Avatar. Subtitled: How To Bag a Feral 10-foot Smurphette in a Black Light Forest.

😆 ...and I loved the movie...

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Shiva is not the Devil. He is the Destroyer. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu perserver and Shiva destroyer.
This is all the ''same God'' but with different avatars, of which, each has a different function. Like a 'Hindu Trinity'. It is 3, but they're all really single deity.

Some areas of Hinduism believe in many Gods, but others, as I said believe in single God with many many many avatars.

agreed

many people worship the different gods but do not realise that they are essentially the same,

i'll use this analogy
just as a man is a son, a father, a husband, a doctor/engineer etc, all these different names all belong to this one person much like how there is many gods in hindusim

Originally posted by overlord
alright according to hinduism there are millions of gods

of course you can interpret this in another way as well

According to most modern Hindus, there's only One God and all those paintings of colorful four-armed creatures are actually incarnations or "attributes" of God. Its similar to the 99 names of God in Islam; each names evokes a different characteristic, without implying multiple gods.

It's pretty much the same thing as the "trinity" concept in christianity.

Being hindu myself there are several things that even many hindus themselves dont understand.

1. There is only one or supreme bring or whatever
2. Jesus and Buddha are considered as other incarnations of god ( with Buddha actually being the most recent one)
3. This whole avatar thing is somewhat right. In hinduism it is said that the gods do not possess the emotions of humans, so in order to feel and experience everything from love to hate they take human form. In human form they are also subjected to the weaknesses and strengths of humans. So while not perfect, they experience as perfect as an existence as a human is capable as. Mind you I am a Sanatanist so my beliefs will be different from other sects.

But really what are we discussing in this thread?

According to me !! I mean one of them must be right and The rest are probably wrong. Since, So, many people buy into Christianity, I would assume that's the right religion.. Who knows, though. I think Hinduism is as Best as any other religion but at least. It's a good deal more interesting to me. I would think countries like ! India and japan and china and every other Asian country would watch out number of the christian religion..
Shinto
Buddhism
Hinduism etc etc ..