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practical_romantic  1yr ago (youtube.com)   1868 thread views

Kali Yuga: The Dark Age Prophesied in Many Religions

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This is a fascinating video. At 7:00, Tom Rowsell (SurviveTheJive) reads out some excerpts of the Srimad Bhagvatam(an important hindu scripture) where many if not every single prophecy comes true. The higher values are replaced by lower ones. Ones only worth in society is based upon their level of affluence and sex, people have no loyalty to their own family, culture or values. The only thing people will satisfy will be their genitals and bellies.

Everything will decay but there is a glimmer of hope. Just taking the name of Krishna would help one escape life and attain moksha.

Tom makes references from other indo european religions as well, this is not a culture war or culture war adjacent thing, mostly just something I found super fascinating given that they all were faiths that were very similar for the most part and got many things about the future right. The issue with kaliyuga is that of values, we have seen astounding technological and economical growth, the truth in many places is that many have lost values that were considered important by those who appreciate antiquity (I do at least). Many will not agree but even then, would appreciate any thots on this.

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Just nitpicking a little bit, but Matthew 5:21-22 says:

"21 You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones: 'You shall not murder, he who murders will be subject to judgment'. 22 But I say unto you, Everyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment, and he who says to his brother 'raca!' will be subject to the Sanhedrin and he who says 'fool!' will be subject to the fire of Gehenna".

In context it seems clear that this text is meant to generalize the commandment against murder to acting angry and contemptuous, which if unchecked and allowed to fully come to fruition, will end in murder. It's pretty obviously not intended to be a literal rule about a specific word. In fact, Jesus himself in the end of the same speech in Matthew 7 describes those who hear his words but do not heed them as being like 'a foolish man, who built his house on the sand'.

I'm pretty sure the OP was being angry and contemptuous.

OP was quoting Psalms 14:1

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