Is the Iranian condemnation of the movie "300" a positive sign?

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by LordShiva


Why?

Because it's a good thing?

[Ecthy]

Racist.

[Last Conformist]

Czechs > Aryans. FACT!

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Ecthy
Racist.

Ass.

[aneeshm]

For in the Veda the Aryan peoples are those who had accepted a particular type of self-culture, of inward and outward practice, of ideality, of aspiration. The Aryan gods were the supraphysical powers who assisted the mortal in his struggle towards the nature of the godhead. All the highest aspirations of the early human race, its noblest religious temper, its most idealistic velleities of thought are summed up in this single vocable.

In later times, the word Arya expressed a particular ethical and social ideal, an ideal of well-governed life, candour, courtesy, nobility, straight dealing, courage, gentleness, purity, humanity, compassion, protection of the weak, liberality, observance of social duty, eagerness of knowledge, respect for the wise and learned, the social accomplishments.

[LordShiva]

1. aryá- or aryà- is an adjective meaning "kind", "favorable", or "devoted".
2. aryáḥ or áryaḥ is a noun meaning "master" or "lord".
3. ā´rya- is an adjective derived from the second of the above meaning "respectable", "honorable", or "noble"; also "belonging to the brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, or vaiśya varṇas."
4. ā´ryaḥ is a noun corresponding to the adjective above, meaning "an honorable or respectable man", "a master", "an owner", "a member of the three highest varṇas" (named above), or particularly "a Vaiśya."

ārya is in general either a term of approbation or refers to one's standing in the varṇa system: an arya is a free man and not a member of a lower caste or a slave. Roughly, 'arya' is a follower of vedic traditions and take vedas as the nodal point of their religious and social identity.

[Last Conformist]

What's the accents mean?

[Ecthy]

This is as if I said to Heresson "I hope you consider yourself German not Polish coz it's a good thing"

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by LordShiva

Racist.

[aneeshm]

It seems you don't want the following to apply to you:

In later times, the word Arya expressed a particular ethical and social ideal, an ideal of well-governed life, candour, courtesy, nobility, straight dealing, courage, gentleness, purity, humanity, compassion, protection of the weak, liberality, observance of social duty, eagerness of knowledge, respect for the wise and learned, the social accomplishments.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by aneeshm
It seems you don't want the following to apply to you:

I'm not particularly gentle nor observant of social duty.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by aneeshm
It seems you don't want the following to apply to you:

Moreover, I reject such a definition of the word (by giving it attributes purpotedly belonging exclusively to a particular race of people).

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by LordShiva


I'm not particularly gentle nor observant of social duty.

candour, courtesy, straight dealing, courage, humanity, compassion, liberality, eagerness of knowledge

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by LordShiva


Moreover, I reject such a definition of the word (by giving it attributes purpotedly belonging exclusively to a particular race of people).

Aurobindo never applied it only to a race. Nor do I. Nor do the general Hindu population.

[aneeshm]

And BTW, WTF is this:

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