(07-28-2024, 06:54 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: This thread created a flashback. Reminded me of the Moonies.
I used to live not far from their church in Washington, D.C. way back when.
Them was the days.
You know, now that you mention it, I think I'm conflating the two - Moonies and Hare Krishnas - and I think the flower thing at the airports was the Moonies instead of the Hare Krishnas, but both of those groups harassed folks at airports... which is one of the reasons, no doubt, that I've conflated them.
Another reason is that, to my mind, they were both just avatars of the same evil walking the world then... and still walking it now.
But the running down the sidewalks, screaming chants, dancing, and playing strange instruments to "scare the demons away" was definitely the Hare Krishnas.
ETA: and that business about "purpose of human life is to become freed from Birth after birth, Old Age, Disease, and Death" is pure baloney. It's illogical. Why would the purpose of life simply be to get out of life? Why would anyone get into it to begin with if the goal was just to find a way out of it? Better to just stay out of it in the first place so you don't have to hunt around to find the exit! I would imagine that the real purpose of life is all that stuff that happens between getting into it and getting out of it.
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