If you do not accept Jesus, he flatly proclaimed to his class, "you belong in hell."

[Aeson]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
The student breached the teacher's civil rights by recording his statements without the teacher's permission. If the teacher is fired the student should be prosecuted. Oh heck, the student should be prosecuted anyway.

The right to privacy does not give a person the blanket right to not be recorded without their permission. When a conversation is made in a place that can be presumed to be private, that conversation is protected.

A lecture in a public classroom is obviously not one of those places.

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by monolith94
Aneesh - the Vyâdha-Gitâ - is that different from the bhagavad gita?

Vyâdha translates to "butcher". The foo-Gita translates to "The Song of Foo".

The Bhagwat Gita is the song sung by Krishna to Arjuna. The Vyâdha-Gita is the song sung by the God-realised butcher to the Sannyasi. They are completely different.

[monolith94]

So where in the mahabharata is the vyadha-gita found? Because I read an abridged version of the mahabharate and don't remember that story of a butcher.

The copy that I read:

http://www.amazon.com/Mahabharata-Columbia-College-University/dp/0231110553/sr=8-3/qid=1164485910/ref=pd_bbs_3/102-0329887-7628952?ie=UTF8&s=books

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Pekka
Dinos in the NOah's ark.. this man should be fired if he is a teacher in public school, just for claiming this.

If there weren't, there'd be no reason today for DinoDoc.

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by monolith94
So where in the mahabharata is the vyadha-gita found? Because I read an abridged version of the mahabharate and don't remember that story of a butcher.

How big was your abridged version? The full version comes to something around 7000 pages of Devanagari text ( http://www.gitapress.org, book code 728), which is around 10,000 pages of English text. If your version was less than a thousand pages, it is most likely a very detalied plot summary (because anyone who tries to abridge it realises that it's far too big, and the abridged version is usually always too big, so it is whittled down until it becomes a detailed plot summary).

If it is less than 1000 pages, then it most likely will have skipped the Vyadha Gita, and many other philosophical stories, concentrating more on the progession of the story as a whole.

[Dinner]

That link about the problems with biblical literalism is great.

[Dr Strangelove]

A funny thing about those who demand that the bible be taken literally, so very few of them bother with the Beatitudes or the quote about rich men, camels and needles. While they will verbally beat up on gays and liberals they don't want to P.O. any rich people.

[Dinner]

Yep.

[Barnabas]

Blessed are the poor because the kingdom of heaven belongs to them, the saying about the cammel and the needle, etc etc

I dont know how that belief of God blessing those who follow him with prosperity came to be