Sarbajit -
Dear Steve
3 quick interjections.
(are these anything like jabs with the left before a roundhouse with the
right?)
1) You will never find an ":Adi Dharmist" (??) knocking at your door,
bugging you at an airport or selling / dumping you literature. Adi
Dharm does not proselytise .. period. My own occasional statements on
this mailing list are only to test whether "your" models work with
"our" data / beliefs. Just FYI, Adi Dharm does not have priests (or
popes) or their analogues, no "churches", no holy books, no prophets
(or prophesies), etc. etc.
I was of course (ab)using Adi Dharmistimism for figurative purposes...
nobody actually ever knocks at my door trying to sell me anything...
they see the 1mX2m mounds of fresh earth in my back yard and turn their
bicycles around with my junkyard dog biting at their wheels. What
little I know of Adi Dharmism suits me just fine. On the other hand,
anyone hellbent on proselytising can claim membership in the Adi Dharma
club and with modern technology it isn't hard to get a laminated card or
certificate to that effect printed up and proceed to make all kinds of
claims in your religion's name they want to.
2) In Adi Dharm you are allowed to consume anything. In turn we
believe that all life exists to be consumed. Nothing which has/had
"life" is inedible, but nobody is forcing you to consume anything
either.
PS: Coconut 'feni' is an amazing liquid if you can get the genuine
(triple distilled) article.
I know of use of fermented coconut in the Polynesian islands, but I'm
sure anywhere there is coconuts (or any starch or sugar containing item)
and anywhere there is yeast, there will be alcohol and people (as well
as many other animals) will consume it for it's mood-altering nature.
Humans may be the only one's who have mastered distillation of such
things... Do we need to come to India to enjoy triple distilled
'feni'? I have assumed that you are in fact, living in India, but
might be very wrong.
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