Dear Individual,

You are entitled to your views even if they are anti-democratic.

According to what you write, you believe that there exists some entity called "community" whose interests are superior to, and trump, the wishes of individual living people.

What I just wonder is, why you go here under the name "Individual"?

What I just wonder is, why you go here under the name "Individual"?
Yuyutsu,
I don't consider myself a member of the Sheeple , that's why I chose that name.
A well working community is made up of considerate Individuals not indifferent, selfish sheeple !
Or, can't you see that ?

Dear Individual,

I accept that you do not consider yourself as a member of the Sheeple, yet by accepting this myth of "community" you behave like one.

I am aware of both selfish and considerate people and all that is in between, but I am unable to tell you what a "well working community" consists of, just as I cannot tell you what a well-fed tooth-fairy had for breakfast.

Yuyutsu,
So, your religious circle is not a cohesive community then ? Hinduism & all that jazz ?

Yuyutsu, Indy is correct, if you are a member of an organised religion then you are most likely a member of a well oiled community. Rules to follow, practices to be obeyed, procedures and protocols to be adhered to. All these rules etc which you had no say in their formulation, and no power to change them without other community members agreement. The religion is most likely controlled by a power elite who call all the shots anyway.

What religion are you a member of?

Dear Individual and Paul,

Individual mentioned my "religious circle".

But is there really a circle?

Consider someone who on seeing three people in the street calls out: "Hey, here is a triangle!", or if there are six people, evenly spaced, some would say, "Look here is a hexagon" while others with a different worldview seeing the same might exclaim, "Look, a star of David!"...

Similarly, people look up at the night sky, group some bright stars and say: "Look, a lion", "Look, a bear", "Look, a cart", "Look, a bucket", "Look, a scorpion", etc. The referred stars could even be billions of light-years away from each other, they just happen to be at close 3-dimensional angles when viewed from planet earth, yet it does not stop people from imagining that they are related.

Such lazy conceptualisations are neither a reality nor a complete lie: they do exist in a way, if only in the viewer's mind.

It does happen ocassionaly that people create deliberate formations, especially on parades, perhaps when filming a movie, but not in everyday life. Similarly, there are those who deliberately form a commune where they share everything from food to partners and dirty underwear. They are quite few nowadays.

Back to my religious "circle", it is anything but "well-oiled" or cohesive: people with varying degrees of Hindu faith constantly come and go and follow quite different sets of rules, if any. Some are closer friends to others, some I may see once a week, others once a month or once a year, and most Hindus (over a billion) I never met and do not know at all! There are many sects, many temples, many centres and many teachers - of these people select what best suits them. Last month I discovered that a Hindu person who came to do some repairs in my house belonged to a sect which I thought had disappeared many centuries ago. The vast majority of Hindus put their families first and busily look after their interests, both worldly and spiritual.

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