Life is but a dream |
 Feb 2 2006, 04:13 PM
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One of the Hindi stories of creation has the god Vishnu sleeping on an eternally long snake, dreaming the world into existence. But what happens, as the thought occurred to me, when he wakes up?
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| *mipadi* |
Feb 2 2006, 04:25 PM
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Legend has it that there is a temple in Tibet which houses 64 discs of ascending size on a spike. Beside this spike are two other spikes. A bunch of monks are busy moving the discs from the first spike to the last. They can only move one disc at a time, and a larger disc may never be higher on a spike than a smaller disc. Supposedly, when they finish their task, the world will come to an end.
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Feb 2 2006, 04:31 PM
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Those are such interesting stories.... It's a lot more settling compared to the Christian apocalyptic interpretations.
If this is someone's dream, I wouldn't mind it if he slept for a while. When he wakes up? Well... We'll figure that out when the time comes 
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Feb 2 2006, 04:33 PM
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 Word. Group: Member Posts: 3,004 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 34,673 |
haha.. these things are so wild..
i havent really hard these but these are great to know.. |
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Feb 2 2006, 04:35 PM
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 wut wut in the butt? Group: Human Posts: 2,108 Joined: Sep 2005 Member No: 227,723 |
those are interesting indeed, got anymore stories/legends?
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| *Blow_Don't_SUCK* |
Feb 2 2006, 04:39 PM
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I like this legend better than the Christian's interpretation of the end of the world.
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Feb 2 2006, 04:43 PM
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Amberific. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 12,913 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 29,772 |
QUOTE(Tribal J_Rome @ Feb 2 2006, 4:35 PM) those are interesting indeed, got anymore stories/legends?  Well there's another Hindi myth about the god Shiva who dances the world into being surrounded by a ring of fire that represents both death and creation. See the picture below: 
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| *Blow_Don't_SUCK* |
Feb 2 2006, 04:44 PM
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I love these interpretations. Hindu/Hindi (which one?) myths fascinate me.
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Feb 2 2006, 04:45 PM
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Amberific. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 12,913 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 29,772 |
The religion is Hindu, the adjective is Hindi.
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Feb 2 2006, 04:47 PM
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wow i love these kind of stories and legends...but i've never really heard of this one...its very interesting though..what does happen when he wakes up....hmm...
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Feb 2 2006, 07:40 PM
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wut wut in the butt? Group: Human Posts: 2,108 Joined: Sep 2005 Member No: 227,723 |
oh i think i heard about one where after sometime [and i think it's a Hindi myth] Shiva destroys the world and recreates it in order to make a better world. i forget where i heard that...
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Feb 2 2006, 11:10 PM
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Oh. The Mayans or Aztecs, can't remember which, thought time was a huge big cog, just rotating the wheel of time around and around. When it fell off, approximately predicted to be in April, 2014 (ah!), time would stop and the world would just freeze.
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| *kryogenix* |
Feb 3 2006, 02:53 PM
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QUOTE(mipadi @ Feb 2 2006, 4:25 PM) Legend has it that there is a temple in Tibet which houses 64 discs of ascending size on a spike. Beside this spike are two other spikes. A bunch of monks are busy moving the discs from the first spike to the last. They can only move one disc at a time, and a larger disc may never be higher on a spike than a smaller disc. Supposedly, when they finish their task, the world will come to an end. Towers of Hanoi? |
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| *mipadi* |
Feb 3 2006, 03:42 PM
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QUOTE(kryogenix @ Feb 3 2006, 2:53 PM) Towers of Hanoi? Yes. |
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Feb 3 2006, 03:42 PM
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Well, that's impossible, nobody could have 6,000,000,000 dreams at once, each overlapping each other, and, just because the snake is enterally long, doesn't mean his sleep is...
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| *mona lisa* |
Feb 3 2006, 03:58 PM
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QUOTE(Paul M. is baaack @ Feb 3 2006, 3:42 PM) Well, that's impossible, nobody could have 6,000,000,000 dreams at once, each overlapping each other, and, just because the snake is enterally long, doesn't mean his sleep is... It's a myth... They don't always have to be realistic. Besides, most myths are hardly realistic.
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Feb 3 2006, 03:59 PM
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 Don't wake ghostie. Group: Official Member Posts: 3,546 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 2,405 |
QUOTE(Paul M. is baaack @ Feb 3 2006, 3:42 PM) Well, that's impossible, nobody could have 6,000,000,000 dreams at once, each overlapping each other, and, just because the snake is enterally long, doesn't mean his sleep is...  All these questions are being raised about life. But, I guess it doesn't matter to me. Although they are interesting, to me life is only what you make it to be. |
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| *not_your_average* |
Feb 4 2006, 05:36 PM
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QUOTE(Madame C @ Feb 2 2006, 4:13 PM) One of the Hindi stories of creation has the god Vishnu sleeping on an eternally long snake, dreaming the world into existence. But what happens, as the thought occurred to me, when he wakes up? What do you guys think? Well, as someone who was raised a Hindu, there's a connection between that question and the concept of maya, which is translated as "illusion" or "dream" from Sanskrit. Hinduism believes that the material things in life are a dream, and that prayer and spirituality break this illusion. |
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