/lit/ - Literature

Every time I read some modern homosexual imply someone in antiquity was a "scientist" I experience a rush of cringe similar to reading a Sonic fanfic.

>>23102952
interesting, but the text above never apllies that word.

This thread reminds me, I hate Hermann Hesse.

but i was told brahmins cared about spirituality and salvation

>>23102961
brahmins care about social and material prestige, which they get by upholding the caste system

>>23102956
Wow, I didn't notice. Turns out it only implies ancient Indians were practitioners of science, clearly another thing entirely.
>>23102968
The poster was clearly talking about the ancients, anonymous, no need to insert your modern grievances into the conversation.

>>23102975
>The poster was clearly talking about the ancients, anonymous
the ancients are not principally different from the moderns in this regard

>>23102900
Yes, modern western linguistics still uses some Sanskrit words.

>>23102952
>science didn’t exist before the scientific method was officially codified

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>>23102968
The Brahmins demonstrate to us in a unique manner how in the earliest antiquity, priests and warmen resemble two opposing, antagonist classes, if not two originally distinct ethnicities.
Or, this is the only explanation why the Hindus separated the Kschattryas from the Brahmins and prohibited marriage between the two.
It is not, however, and this is important, that the warmen class was everywhere, in every ancient state, able to establish a factice or formal supremacy over the priestly through gruelsomeness alone. If the virtue of the warrior is that of warly courage and nobility, the priestly classes were many times too haughty of their rights to take up arms. In no way can we consider their unwillingness of taking arms an expression of their cowardness.
Thus, in India, where the priestly class won the total supremacy over the country, the Brahmin engaged no less in political expansion than the Kschattryas, and they did this in one of the most unique ways.
The Brahmin would thus go into the jungle, a place full of wild beasts, predators and formidable reptiles, rarely aided by two servants, most times alone, to build a hermitage, read the Vedas and pray to the Gods. The savage could approach him, hurt him, even kill him, the Brahmin did not defend himself.
For one dead Brahmin, ten would run to the place and dispute themselves the hermitage. A new Brahmin would thus continue the work of his predecessor, live in the hermitage, read the Vedas and pray to the Gods.
"We are the most august of men. Kill us, we will have succeeded. Listen to us, serve us, and you will become like we are."
Savages listened and served the Brahmins. A colony of Kschattryas ran for the defense of the place. Aryavarta gained a new province.

>>23104243
>let us rule you and we will guide you to attain worldly and otherworldly goods
>yes boss