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Re-watching season one of Mayor Of Kingstown and I’ve come to the batshit conspiracy that the reason this show isn’t that popular or talked about is because the plot is so intricate and involved that it truly takes multiple rewatches to understand. In short: the general public doesn’t know what the fuck is going on!
#the bus plot still eludes me#on rewatch three currently#Orion#mayor of kingstown#mike mclusky#jeremy renner#taylor sheridan#MoK discourse#is that a tag yet#is this fandom even alive yet?#moots?#mooooots?!#I guess this is a mutual call out post now#anyone there?
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The mental gymnastics some people do to be hypocrites and to fit their narrative
#i just ask one day without z*tarians making discourse just do defend a ship#like there is more in a show#aang shouldnt marry because he is a mok#vs#the FN has no crimes because its a fake nation
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just watched ep 1 of Love in Contract and yummm excited about what's to come 👀
so happy to see ma boi Go Kyung Pyo back as the male lead, and boy is he serving the sofisticated looks 👌 I'm getting many Jeong hwan vibes from Private Lives and digging to uncover this mysterious backstory (aand relationship development — yesss they have me ship already, their chemistry is yum, even though not nearly close to Duk mi and Ryan, but let's see).
I felt it was a bit too obvious to throw the murder thing in the middle right away for the viewers, feels very much like bait to actually have it be a misunderstanding and later explained by the backstory. But it's cool to have the prospect of a romcom with some murder investigation thrown in. Curious to see how this will develop, hope it's not disappointing!
It's funny though cause I kept thinking about GKP very different and loose role in Chicago Typewriter and I felt myself wanting a sprinkle of that softness, sassiness and fun to come through at some point in the show as Jung Ji Hoo develops as a character. It was cute and funny seeing him trying to make an effort to communicate in his weird way in the phone call.
The whole "I only do words when necessary" and the hard time communicating/dealing with how others perceive his discourse is giving me many many Hwang Si Mok vibes and I'm sooo here for it and the character development alongside Sang Eun.
Ummm and queen Park Min Young is servinggggg as always. The looks, the emotion range, the feels. After the weird rollercoaster that was Forecasting Love and Weather (story-wise I mean; her acting was superb and she held that show), it's really good to see her in her nature in a romcom as Sang Eun but with a twist as she has to act within the acting due to the nature of her job.
Very very enticed about the whole backstory (and hello power drunk school head of Melancholy and Woo Young Woo omma 😅).
Can't wait for more!
#love in contract#episode 1#spoilers#and late night thoughts that nobody asked for#not looking forward at all to the love triangle arc though#it's making my eyes roll already but I know it's for comedic purposes as we clearly have a soft himbo#LET'S SEE#this show is making me miss three dramas at the same time#her private life - private lives - stranger#which I love#and also hannibal with all the gorgeous cooking and sociopath vibe lol#please don't eat sang eun#or rather#please do#give us smut#lol#park min young#go kyung pyo#mah babies
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I found your blog yesterday, I hadn’t looked up much about the Star Cruiser before going because I didn’t want to spoil the surprise for myself, but afterwards I immediately looked around Tumblr for Lt Croy content and you blog is the first one that came up 😆
Is there an actual Lt Croy fandom ?? Like for him specifically ?? Is there a Discord server ? Because if there isn’t one about him specifically yet, I want to make one, gather all his supporters, and maybe for next year we could all coordinate dates we go to the Starcruiser to have like a big group of fans supporting him at the same time 😆 There were only maybe like 5 true First Order supporters in my trip, GOD I have so much to talk about, so much happened FFFF
I absolutely plan on going back tho. This was one of the best experiences of my life. So happy to see a fellow Croy fan around Tumblr 😆
Hi @kina-axian!!! So I couldn’t reply to your post in the comments, but I wanted to add that you spoke to the right person when you were directed to Captain Keevan. She does, in fact, have a soft spot herself for Croy, so she was definitely being honest with you about the chances of him going free if properly defended 😉
I’m so glad you got the ending you wanted while following the FO story track! And you found me! Welcome! 🎉
We’re still a small fandom, but if you’re a fan of Lenka and Sammie, we also have @lenka-mok and @can-i-keep-the-suit who you can follow as well for specific character content. But checking the tags is the best way to catch posts from everyone involved in the discourse.
I wouldn’t say Croy has his own fandom, but he’s a popular character. We talk about him almost daily lol. You’ll find plenty of his supporters on the discord (I mean, tbh, we all love him). I’ll DM you the discord link so you can join. We’d love to have you.
The idea of having a bunch of Croy supporters on a future cruise would be so much fun (and probably very confusing for the Resistance lol). I’ll be going on my first cruise this January, and I have no idea what the FO side of things is going to look like in terms of my fellow passengers joining in, but I think it’ll be ✨an experience✨ no matter what.
#ask box#croyalists#star wars#galactic starcruiser#halcyon#star wars galactic starcruiser#halcyon starcruiser#disney parks#disney world#star wars sequel trilogy#first order#lieutenant harman croy#lt croy#harman croy
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do you think the tyra hate train is getting out of hand?
You know what anon, yes. Tyra has done things that she deserves to be called out for, we all know that. However, there are a lot of people who are bashing her for things beyond her. For example, you really cannot expect Tyra to singlehandedly force the industry to be 100% inclusive. She doesn’t run the fashion world, and it would be unfair to expect that amount of responsibility from a single individual, and as much as she has been problematic, she was a pioneer in trying to expand the meaning of beauty on mainstream media. Furthermore, Tyra did not operate alone in Top Model. Ken Mok and producers were also there, behind-the-scenes, working on things. It’s great that people are holding her accountable for bad decisions, but dumping everything on her is unnecessary. I’ll acknowledge that her response on Twitter was lukewarm and unsatisfying, but that’s classic TyTy for you, and I’d be heavily surprised to see her admit to the specifics of her errors.
Also, it irks me that most of the people bashing her are those who have definitely not been avid viewers and have only recently begun watching the show, because they are badly misinformed. Problematic or not, Tyra would never promote eating disorders or romanticise domestic abuse, and hyperbole is so commonly misused in Twitter discourse (which I consider the current most toxic platform) that I really don’t want to keep looking at the train wreck there. It devalues the whole conversation by misplacing the chastising onto the wrong issues which leaves the real problems to continue festering underneath.
Sorry for the long answer, sweetie, thanks for asking! x
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A G I S U!!
A: Your current OTP.
Guess x)
G: What was your first fandom?
Hmm, probably Pokémon? That’s the one anime I remember being super into when I was a child.
I: Has tumblr caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why?
I don’t think so. I mean, I remember getting aggravated by the discourse in Tales fandom at times, but that’s not the reason I distanced myself from the fandom. And any other fandom I left wasn’t because of the fans, but more because of dying interest in it.
S: What's a headcanon you have?
Karla originally thought Gaius was a fool for trusting Wingul as much as he did, but she eventually realized that Wingul was truly loyal to him. Over time they became friends and Wingul often attends her tea parties to complain about Gaius’ latest antics.
U: What are your favorite male/female ships?
Jude/Milla’s a pretty strong one in Tales fandom, as well as Guy/Noelle. They’re just so perfect together ♥
I have a bunch of het ships in drama fandoms as well: Kanbee Teru (Gunshi Kanbee), Dol-mok/So-joo (Bad Thief Good Thief), Bung-do/Hee-jin (Queen In-Hyun’s Man) ...
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Happy 10 Year Anniversary Wellesley Underground by Shelly Anand ‘08 (@maanandshelly)
(photo by Leah Roth, courtesy of Shelly Anand)
10 years ago on this day, I created Wellesley Underground. I was a second year law student and was missing Wellesley a lot-- I was in North Carolina, surrounded by conservative white Southern men, who had no idea what I was talking about when I went into critical race theory in my criminal law and contracts classes or queer theory in my Family law classes-- this was of course before the SCOTUS decision on marriage equality-- something I was arguing for in my class, something that still needed convincing.
I wanted a space to continue having the conversations we had in college. I was frustrated that the only models of success were older white women, rather than young QTPOC. My friends were figuring out whether to come out at work and with their families, they were transitioning and fundraising for top surgery, they ( and I) were fighting micro and macro aggressions daily as POC-- things that weren’t featured in regular alumnae discourse in the magazine and beyond. So I created this space.
10 years later, WU has become something completely different and something more amazing than anything I could have envisioned thanks in part to people like EB Bartels ‘10, Fei Mok ‘10, Tiffany Chan ‘14, Cleo Hereford ‘09, and many many others who have helped create and expand this blog, its message, and this community. Its no longer just me but a spectrum of alumnae around the world sharing their stories, championing each other, and redefining what it means to be a successful Wellesley alum.
Its funny reading the first post I ever did for WU, on this day 10 years ago, because now I totally could have used the breast feeding article that was in the W mag back in 2009 (I have two kids). (In fact one of the pieces I’m most proud of is a crowd sourced Post-Partum Kit for new parents and caregivers.) And the magazine and the college have come a long way in publishing pieces that feature us (queer folx, brown folx, every day Wellesleys), and I’d like to think WU had something to do with that. But I can still remember where I was and why I needed to create WU.
And we still need it. We are still here, highlighting all of you, promoting self-care and love, fighting for union workers at the college, celebrating every day victories like getting enough sleep, going to therapy, finding meaningful hobbies, and being content with where we are versus where we think we should be, just to name a few of the things we try to do here at WU.
I hope in another 10 years, WU will still be here and that we keep growing and expanding. Check out this series we started in celebration of our 10th year and if you are interested in contributing to the series-- which asks what WU means to you-- you can fill out this form here.
Here’s to another 10 years,
In love and solidarity,
Shelly Anand ‘08
Founder and Editor in Chief of Wellesley Underground
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[R:MotM] - Hwa-Gun vs. Ga-Eun
As I was browsing through various corners of the internet where fans of this show gather, I found increasingly I had a few things I wanted to say about the apparent differences between Hwa-Gun and Ga-Eun and why Hwa-Gun seems to be attracting so much interest despite being a secondary leading lady. I thought I’d explore this bit more, and maybe it’ll be useful to anyone who is looking for a different viewpoint to supplement their enjoyment of the show. =)
I didn’t come into Ruler with any preconceived notions about who was playing the heroine or which actress was being featured. I began watching Ruler fairly late in the game and was just in it to see a new sageuk that looked pretty. This maybe colors my perspective a little differently than those who’ve followed the story from the beginning.
From the beginning, it wasn’t initially clear to me who the leading lady would be, at least not until the crown prince chose Ga-Eun. Once he chooses Ga-Eun (very soon into the story), Hwa-Gun’s position as secondary heroine became solidified.
However, the viewership seems to fall into two camps: one camp which is disenchanted with Ga-Eun as a heroine and wishes Hwa-Gun held that position, and another which feels Hwa-Gun is where she should be and that Ga-Eun is the proper heroine, even if the writing doesn’t always feature her.
I personally fall between the two camps. I’m not at all disenchanted with Ga-Eun--I think she’s a lovely character and a charming girl. But I do find myself wistfully wishing as I watch the show that the creators had been brave enough to try the Hwa-Gun character as a heroine rather than a secondary lead. Since I understand the appeal of both sides, I thought I’d attempt to explore the draw and the appeal of the Hwa-Gun character, while still acknowledging the virtues of the Ga-Eun character.
Capturing the Viewers’ Interest
On paper, there’s absolutely no reason why Hwa-Gun should be more interesting than Ga-Eun.
On paper, Ga-Eun is a perfect leading lady--she’s kind, sweet, loyal, and compassionate. She does everything right--her only flaw is that she perhaps jumps to conclusions too quickly and doesn’t investigate events thoroughly. But who could blame her, when these events involve the very emotional and tragic loss of her father, her only remaining family, and her entire life? She’s a brave girl who is well worthy of the leading lady position and the heart and affection of the crown prince.
Unfortunately for Ga-Eun, her very worthiness renders her...a tad too safe, a tad too boring. And this would be fine if she were paired with a secondary lady of the usual secondary quality--a catty, ambitious, scheming girl who possessively latches onto the crown prince the way the false crown prince latches onto Ga-Eun. With a secondary lady of dubious quality, it’d be easy to root for Ga-Eun.
But Hwa-Gun is not such a simple character, nor is she lacking in her own charms. What Ga-Eun has in compassion, Hwa-Gun makes up for with wit, intelligence, and cunning. She’s a woman raised within the realm of power and politics, the granddaughter of the most powerful man pulling the strings in the land. She is a selfish, spoiled girl, but she’s by no means an unloving or unkind girl. While she is not as compassionate for the poor or the needy or the downtrodden as Ga-Eun is, she does have a deep and single minded love for the people who are closest to her, and to their people. This includes more than just the prince--her father, Gon, even her grandfather--and it’s within these conflicted loyalties that Hwa-Gun makes for a compelling and interesting character, in spite of her flaws.
Flaws Make the Woman
I think the reason we now commonly see the call for Hwa-Gun to be the heroine (and I myself sympathize with this perspective) is for two reasons:
Real, genuine flaws in a heroine are unusual (especially in asian drama) and they make the viewer sympathetic because they touch on the viewer’s own humanity.
Hwa-Gun seems to be “earning” her happy ending where as Ga-Eun seems to be “receiving” hers. Viewers naturally gravitate toward characters who are active about solving their problems, even when inaction is more than justified (human nature to prefer action).
Significant character flaws are rare for heroines in general, which is a strike against Ga-Eun from the gate. Hwa-Gun, as a secondary lead, is allowed the freedom to not be a perfect compassionate infantilized angel. She’s a woman, with dark sides, who is not always compassionate. But who in real life is always compassionate? Who in real life always does the right thing? Very few people, and even if you think you’re one of the exceptions, the chances are you aren’t truly in touch with yourself as well as you should be.
Everyone has dark impulses, and to see a secondary leading lady being allowed not only to have those impulses, but to not be vilified for them and to be treated with narrative dignity and respect is refreshing and probably is one of the things drawing the sympathy of some viewers.
Development with the Crown Prince
One of the other problems with Ga-Eun is that she receives the Crown Prince’s love very early in the story, and thus has not much to “do” narratively other than feel betrayed by him temporarily when she finds out he might have been the one who killed her father. Perfect couples who are meant to be are boring for a viewer, especially over a long series like Ruler.
On the other hand, Hwa-Gun’s efforts to act by the Crown Prince’s side and to keep him safe and alive begin to come off as more sympathetic when compared to Ga-Eun being gifted the prince’s love so early on in the story. Viewers like change and the unexpected, and so having the Crown Prince shift his affection to Hwa-Gun would make for an exciting twist after the predictability of his stable relationship with Ga-Eun.
Of course, that’s not going to happen because the writers are very clear that the Crown Prince has no romantic feelings for Hwa-Gun. There isn’t even a shred of interest from his side, which also contributes to making Hwa-Gun appear more sympathetic. While, yes, it’s unhealthy for her to work so hard for a man who doesn’t love her, we can’t help who we love and everyone has felt the pain of an unrequited or unfulfilled love that lasted many years after it began.
Relationship Balance
Another factor viewers root for in a pairing which I think might be overlooked in the overall discourse is relationship balance. If a character has too much of X, viewers prefer a partner who has Y to balance X, rather than another character who also has too much of X.
For example, Ga-Eun shares the Crown Prince’s ideals. This ordinarily would make for a lovely match in a pairing, because sharing values is very important for long term happiness in a couple. However, the Crown Prince is so idealistic and so moral that he doesn’t know how to break rules and sometimes puts himself stupidly in danger over foolish ethical quandaries. Ga-Eun, as yet another overly idealistic person, isn’t going to be able to pull him back from his foolishness because she supports all his causes. This is all well and good if these two would go off and be farmers or merchants together, but they’re going to be King and Queen. A little bit of self-preservation would be good in at least one of these characters for them to be hypothetically successful.
This is where Hwa-Gun surfaces as a “better” choice for the Crown Prince on a practical level. Hwa-Gun’s focus is different from the Crown Prince. She places a higher value on his life than on his ideals. However, she does not dismiss his ideals, nor do her own ideals conflict with his. She is perfectly happy to work in service to his goal, so long as she can keep him safe. This makes her arguably more suited to the task of standing at his side as Queen--she will fight his enemies and destroy everything in the path to his ideal, but she also won’t support any foolishness on his part and will help come up with counter plans that will preserve his life.
The difference is very clear in episodes 29-30. Hwa-Gun first tries to persuade the Crown Prince just to take over the Pyunsoo Group. When that fails, she comes up with a second plan using her father’s antidote. Ga-Eun, on the other hand, simply tries to convince the Crown Prince to sacrifice her and “do the right thing,” which of course he would never do. The argument against Hwa-Gun’s method is that, of course, the Crown Prince would die before submitting to Dae Mok, as the Crown Prince himself points out with the analogy of the wolf and the bloody knife. However, as we see, the Crown Prince does what Hwa-Gun wanted him to anyway because he’d never sacrifice Ga-Eun or Chun-Woo. Ultimately, Hwa-Gun’s method was the method he took, not Ga-Eun’s. This demonstrates, yet again, that Hwa-Gun understands the Crown Prince’s situation better than he does, and that she’s a better planner to be at his side than Ga-Eun.
When a viewer sees this, although she may be moved by Ga-Eun’s selflessness, ultimately it’s just noble stupidity. If the Crown Prince hadn’t been immune to the poison thanks to his childhood experience, he’d be dead thanks to his refusal to play the game Hwa-Gun’s way. What does that mean for his court with Ga-Eun at his side? Results do matter as much as the process--having a kind process which ends in failure is no better than a cruel process which ends in results. The point is to strike the right balance so that the kind process leads to good results.
Again, this isn’t to say the writers are in any danger of choosing the Hwa-Gun route; this is only to explain why some viewers may choose to prefer Hwa-Gun as a candidate for the Crown Prince. Hwa-Gun, for all her flaws as a person and her myopic focus on the few people she holds dear, is far better positioned to maneuver the political field than a nobleman’s daughter who grew up outside the palace. Viewers notice this (I had a similar situation when I began to support Yeonhwa for So during Moon Lovers’ run), and their allegiances may shift accordingly.
Ultimately, while I think Ga-Eun is a fine heroine and certainly fills her role adequately, Hwa-Gun’s just a more interesting character in general thanks to her conflicted loyalties and her narrative position and her action-oriented plotlines. A standard sweet girl doesn’t stand much of a chance against an unusual smart girl. Ga-Eun had an uphill battle from the get-go.
This is not to say that Ga-Eun’s actress is inferior in any way. I think the fact that Ga-Eun is still able to endear herself to so many viewers in spite of her character’s narrative weaknesses is a testament to the strength of her actress. Hwa-Gun’s actress certainly isn’t as good, and her character’s being carried more by the strength of the character than the strength of the acting.
Long story short, sometimes perfect heroines don’t have enough edge to them to carry the viewers’ interest. Sometimes viewers just want a little more from their characters, and if a secondary lady offers that, they’ll gravitate in her direction. I myself appreciate what Hwa-Gun brings to the show, and I hope her popularity leads to a new horizon for leading ladies in k-drama land. =) It’d be nice for creators to realize that sometimes it’s okay to let the ladies have some dark sides. In the meantime, fans of Ga-Eun should rest assured--her place as leading lady will never falter. Ruler belongs to her.
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Hybridity
Hybridity, in the most primitive sense of the word, describes the mixing of two separate parties or identities. This definition supports basic hybridity in terms of cultural hybrids, but to little purpose. In reference to Homi Bhabha, cultural hybridity is described as being a ‘third space,’ meaning that rather than seeing the combination of two cultures as an identity, the output of this cross forms a completely new and self-sufficient culture that can stand alone without the need for any reference to the separate streams that lead into it. “For me the importance of hybridity is not to be able to trace two original moments from which the third emerges” (Bhaha, 211).
This definition doesn’t link explicitly to a cultural identity, but is a very important part of creating one. Bhabha says that this notion of hybridity is the combination of “the genealogy of difference and the idea of translation” (Bhabha, 211). This idea of translation is especially important in forming an identity through hybridity, as in its basic form, translation makes the need for the origin of its output obsolete. This shows that the true value in hybridity comes in the way that it creates something new, rather than just a translation of a different identity. Hybridity is the partnership between various identities, so although the premise of this ‘third space’ is inherently individual, the importance of it, in terms of forming an identity, is that “it bears the traces of those feelings and practises which inform it”(Bhaha, 211) and “puts together the traces of certain other meanings or discourses”(Bhaha, 211).
Works Cited;
Rutherford, Jonathan. “The Third Space. Interview with Homi Bhabha.” London: Lawrence and Wishart, 207-221, 1990.
Mok, Tze Ming. “Race You There.” Dunedin: Otago University Press, 18-26, 2004.
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Nirguna Compared to Saguna
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39. Ian Lynam
Ian Lynam is a designer, writer, teacher, and publisher currently based in Tokyo. He runs his own design studio, teaches at Temple University Japan and Meme Design school, is chair of VCFA's MFA graphic design program, writes for magazines like Idea and Slanted, and runs the boutique type foundry and online shop Wordshape. In this conversation, Ian and I talk about his early interest in writing and designing zines, the state of design discourse and the problems with the sort of design writing you find on sites like Medium today as well as the role of writing in his own practice and how he teaches design theory to his students.
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Ian Lynam
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Nirguna Compared to Saguna
Hinduism is the military mans third close to well-to-do religion. Spreading across the world like wild-fire, reaching umpteen passel, it has many aspects and characteristics. The most braggy feature in Hinduism is the throngs belief in Brahman as the supreme-being. However, 2 types of Brahman exist; gift people the ability to chance on enlightenment based on his/her perspective of Brahman. Saguna and Nirguna Brahman be the two travel guidebooks that lead to enlightenment, hardly both argon contrastive in their own ways.\nHinduism is unusual amongst the worlds slide by five largest religions in that it has not one, but many perfections. on that point are obvious connotations to this, and the most obvious is the nature of worship. In a religion that is inform to have one god for e very three people in India (a number exceeding 300 million in number), how does one choose a god to worship, and how do they peradventure worship them? In Songs of the Saints of India b y Hawley and Juergensmeyer, the verses of the disciples of Krishna, the mischievous blue god of the Braj, and his devaloka, or paradise, show the fancy that God can be worshipped by brisk in ecstasy. However, in speech production of Siva, translated by A.K. Ramanujan, it talks of Siva, the condition/destroyer god, and his mok?a, or miss from reality as a whole, by adhering to a path of ascetism, or escape from blase desires. These dichotomies, and the various implications for salvation and universe of discourse they imply, are essential to apprehension the nature of the Hindu religion.\nIn connection with their respective god, disciples in Hinduism often follow very divergent paths. This is reflected often in their views of God him/her-self. In Hinduism, on that point are two scathe to describe the nature of a god or goddess. First, there is saguna, which literally translates to with attributes. Gods who are saguna are considered to understandable by their human qualities and that existence is guided by what we make of it. (Hawley and Juergens... If you want to ask a full essay, pitch it on our website: Custom essay writing service. Free essay/order revisions. Essays of any complexity! Courseworks, term papers, research papers. 100% confidential!Homework live help. Custom Essay Order is available 24/7!
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