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Arya
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This article is about religious interpretations of the term. For other uses, see Arya (disambiguation).

Ārya is a Sanskrit (आर्य) and Avestan word used by Zoroastrians, Hindus, Buddhists and Jains, and has a variety of positive meanings, usually in religious contexts. It is not to be confused with the derived English adjective "Aryan", which in its socio-linguistic meaning refers to Indo-Iranians regardless of religion or spirituality ... CONT'D ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arya

OVATE ARYA

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[igotthisguitar]

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[Rteacher]

When I was a full-time Hare Krishna devotee regularly attending classes I learned that "Aryan culture" meant a spiritually progressive society that followed the four varnas (social divisions) and four ashramas (spiritual divisions) The swastika originally symbolized those divisions (and its use by Hitler was perverse...)

[contrarian]

I have been reading igotthisguitar in his various postings for a while. This is my first response.

The git part is correct. That is the offspring of a cockroach.

I have wondered if their was any conspiracy that he didn't believe in/

I understand that Korean tinfoil is more pervious that good old N/A stiff. We should get him a better quality.

[igotthisguitar]

[Ya-ta Boy]

IGTG,

You've been wearing your tin foil hat outside in a lightning storm again, haven't you?

[igotthisguitar]

[kimchi story]

As a simple-minded Canadian, I have a particular image that comes to mind when a person says 'Aryanism': it's of the great R.G. Haliburton addressing the Royal Geographical Society in 1871, a speech in which he declared that the new Canada would be populated by both French and English - both races being decendants of the "Aryan tribes" - to create in the "true north" a prefect species of people. A pleasant way of saying, to quote Conrad, "exterminate the savages".

I include Haliburtons actual words in quotes as a reminder to Canadians that the "true north strong and free" has a quiet history that is married to quite a vicious ideology. Haliburton was part of a short lived right wing Liberal movement called Canada First that lasted only two years but has resonated in Canadian ideology ever since.

I quite strongly agree with the bias of op on this one, if not the tone - the Aryan myth is a 19th/20th century evil in the hands of western hegemonies (oddly enough, the Canada Firsters and the inner circle of the Third Reich each chose to refer to themselves as the 'Twelve Apostles").

While I can't stand seeing wiki used as a reliable source, the points raised piqued my interest. So I went looking and found this:

[igotthisguitar]

Thanks Kimchi ...

You offer some valuable insight.

The real problem here is that there are in fact ( at least ) TWO types of "Aryan" ISM.

1) RACIAL

2) PHILO-SOPH-I-CAL

As you correctly stated, the racial doctrine emerged over the last 100 or so odd years, while the philosophical has been around for THOUSANDS

Hitler & Co. knew this quite well, hence the straw man ANTI-thesis, Swastikas and all.

[kimchi story]

Yeah, #1 I'm pretty familiar with.

#2 is an area I have wondered about but never studied.

Thanks for giving some fuel to that train of thought.

[igotthisguitar]

No problemo. Think you can handle the truth? Chew on this ...

Greco-Buddhism
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco_Buddhism

Arya
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about religious interpretations of the term. For other uses, see Arya (disambiguation).

Ārya is a Sanskrit (आर्य) and Avestan word used by Zoroastrians, Hindus, Buddhists and Jains, and has
a variety of positive meanings, usually in religious contexts.

It is "not to be confused" with the derived English adjective "Aryan", which in its socio-linguistic meaning
refers to Indo-Iranians regardless of religion or spirituality ... CONT'D ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arya

OVATE ARYA

[kimchi story]

Yeah, I found some good stuff today on khyber.org - which is where I found the quote in my last post. But it was kind of a sideline to the day as I was actually trying to figure out Grimalkin's aphorism. Winter camp is over so I'm benchwarming and I think tomorrow will be Arya day.

Thanks again.

[igotthisguitar]