jayatam

The popular King Kong movie, now being remade, owes it's origin to ancient Indian history and religion. Consider that $200,000,000 is being spent on the new movie expected out in December of 2005; and that the original 1933 movie is considered one of the top 100 movies ever made. KONG was much more than just an over-grown ape to the isolated descendants of an advanced culture that had slowly slipped into heathen worship and pagan rituals surrounding an ancient demi-god. Kong was the last of a half-human, half-simian dinosaur-size species left-over from a different age entirely, long before the earliest records of civilization, such as the Dead Sea scrolls, refer to middle east. A whole cycle of ages began and ended long before the Talmud, Koran or even Holy Bible declared "in the beginning"... I only point out on various sites dedicated to King Kong (such as KongisKing.net) that India has many volumes of scripture known as the Vedas, that speak of ages that ended and vanished long before the current age of iron, or Kali Yuga began some 5,000 years ago, and that 3 ages prior even to the beginning of our own Judeo-Christian-Islam (Middle East centered) old world began... the 1st, supposedly longest, and greatest, "golden age" of these seasonal cycles, or ages, was a time when The Lord God Supreme Creator lived on the planet, in this world, and everything was as nice as could be though a shade less than perfect as the material plane still has to wilt and degrade eventually, however golden the finest era was.. this is a stage where life and death, drama and fluctuation occur rather than heavenly perfection - this gave the Lord a place to play, to interact with the faithful, a sort of play acting. The "golden age" classic of the silver screen will be new and improved in the version being remade by the Oscar-winning director (Lord of the Rings) Peter Jackson. The original version included a ceremony on Skull Island (not far from Ceylon), perhaps an abomination of the golden age still playing itself out... Remember the chant Noble Johnson (the actor playing the chief) leads: "Rama Rama KONG! Rama Rama Kong!" In the Vedas, Ram or Rama was the name of God in the Golden Age, when He appeared to live as a divine King ruling most of the earth. His most faithful servant was Hanuman, a monkey with mystic powers, who could change sizes from a small ape or chimp all the way to a creature sevral stories tall. Many are the legends of Ram and Hanuman, and there is Rama's paramour or Queen, the golden-haired Sita. Skull Islanders called Fay Wray or rather, Ann Darrow... SITA... which is translated by the captain as golden-haired one. In the darkening days of the Kali yuga, perhaps there is value in the mass media disemination, however abominated, of the legend insofar as Kong / Hanuman have enough in common to stimulate interest in the mystic wonders of the golden age.

Hare Krishna, I just found this text book on the sidewalk, called The Well-Crafted Argument. In one chapter, there are examples used as excercises, please allow me to offer portions from this to give brief samples if it might help, "To say that Christianity is scientifically unsupportable is not to say that scientists must be atheists or hostile to religion, nor that theology is logically incombatible with every cosmology." and then... "At present the religious right does not see science as its true nemesis but rather as a tiny band of secular humanists, satanically inspired of course." and... "Since all the religions of the world are validated in at least part by the experiences of their devotees, what is the evidentiary nature of these experiences relative to the truth of a religion in general or to any of its seperate doctrines?" and more... "...the church has always represented Christianity as the religion of and from Jesus, but it is not the religion of Jesus. That religion was Judiasm, the religion he shared with the original Jurusalem church (Acts 21:17-31). Nor is orthodox Christianity the religion from Jesus." And there is more. I don't accept this stuff myself, but from a debate point of view, it puts anyone calling the kettle black right back in their own frying pan. A dangerous book, but handy for arguments I presume. Would you care to have more of this for your situation, lmk! Remember Srila Prabhupada answered the Jesus question in the 1968 KGO radio interview: Prabhupada: We don’t disagree with the teachings of Lord Jesus Christ because he’s speaking also the same thing which we are also speaking, about the science of God. Interviewer: But she, I think she’s saying, couldn’t you just have taken the teachings of Jesus Christ as your religion? Prabhupada: But there is already adjustment... Caller: (breaking in) No, I’m not saying that. I’m saying that I believe that the Swami and many others who practice meditation and study the Gita are really dealing with the same premise, the first cause, that Jesus spoke of. Prabhupada: Certainly. Caller: Right? Prabhupada: Yes, certainly. Caller: Yes, that’s what I wanted to know. I think there is a comparison, not between organized religion as such, but just getting down to the bare facts of what Jesus spoke about. I think there’s a similarity. Prabhupada: There is similarity, but one thing is, just like mathematics taught in the lower class. Two plus two equal to four is equally applicable in higher mathematics, two plus two equal to four. In higher mathematics it does not become two plus two equal to five. Similarly, the teachings of Bible or teachings of Bhagavad-gita are the same, the same “two plus two.” Caller: Right, right... Prabhupada: But in the Bhagavad-gita, it may be taken as higher mathematics. That’s all.