What is your "Social Status"?

erri2000 · Post by **erri2000** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 5:53 pm

If you had no free will, if someone choose for you, what would you be?

oneeyeddick · Post by **oneeyeddick** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 5:58 pm

That question is a double negative.

erri2000 · Post by **erri2000** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 5:59 pm

Fixed it. Thanks.

mereth · Post by **mereth** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:04 pm

Which version of this classification do you mean? The one from Bhagwat Gita? Please provide a link with definitions...

Pretty please with non-fat sucrose on top?

erri2000 · Post by **erri2000** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:07 pm

mereth · Post by **mereth** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:08 pm

Ohhkay... That doesn't give the definitions, tho...

Again, pretty please?

erri2000 · Post by **erri2000** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:11 pm

Brahmins = Teachers, Scholars and Priests
Kshatriyas = Kings and Warriors
Vaishyas = Traders
Sudras = Agriculturists, Internet Service Providers, and some Artisan groups

mereth · Post by **mereth** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:31 pm

erri2000 wrote: Sudras = Agriculturists, Internet Service Providers, and some Artisan groups

Probably Vaishyas if someone else had to pick based on nothing but my winning personality. I like the wikipedia entry on this, if anyone's interested.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varnas

oneeyeddick · Post by **oneeyeddick** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:33 pm

I don't remember any of this garbage from the bible.

motskyroonmatick · Post by **motskyroonmatick** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 7:30 pm

Where are the welders? I weld therefore I am.

I used to be an Agriculturalist but I would like to move up in the caste system. It seems to be the cool thing to do these days.

BitterDan · Post by **BitterDan** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 7:37 pm

Welder would probably fit into the Artisan category.

dana · Post by **dana** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 8:08 pm

only "twice born"???? No more than just that? or that as a minimum?

Wait a minute!! This system sucks! Who thought this up? A bunch of wackos smoking ganja in India or something??

Clearly several of my old girlfriends would tell you that I'm one of the Untouchables.
My job puts me in the Brahmin class.
But I love menial labor! I'm a decent stone mason, metal worker, and wood worker, not to mention ceramics.....

motskyroonmatick · Post by **motskyroonmatick** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:46 pm

Alright. I'll settle with staying in the same caste. After all we get to drive 250 HP tractors and weld with electricity instead of a really hot camp fire.

Off to vote in the pole now since I did not have a choice of how to vote so this is just symbolic. DÃ©jÃ vu.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:33 pm

I refuse to be bound by that ridiculous and oppressive social system. Just remember, these are the same people who brought us suttee, which means I'd be charcoal if I let these bozos define my social status.

erri2000 · Post by **erri2000** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:54 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:Just remember, these are the same people who brought us suttee

Do you think that is where the word "SautÃ©ing" came from?

Box Burner · Post by **Box Burner** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 2:22 am

In a caste system it is always better to be higher up. I wanna be god.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 2:35 am

Box Burner wrote:In a caste system it is always better to be higher up. I wanna be god.

In Hindu that's a choice of 8,000 or more. Shiva? Krishna? Durga?

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 2:36 am

Or maybe Ganesha.

(Please do not feed my god a peanut.)

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 6:42 am

i hate indian food.

it all looks and tastes like some body fluid or excretion.

sorry, you can take that sub-continent, make it disappear, and i could care less.

fucking curry eaters.

(i'm a brahmin, cant you tell?)

cowboyangel · Post by **cowboyangel** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 9:26 am

Kshatriyas 33%

Interesting that the majority, including myself, chose the warrior class....

and a reminder, Ram was a Kshatriya too. Took a great army to defeat a demon who could be killed by no man or no God. And won. Ram was both God and man....too bad for Ravana. So up with Ram energy and salutations to all the warriors who take on the Ravanas of misery, killing and constitutional destruction anywhere...

Post by **mdmf007** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 12:41 pm

Simon of the Playa wrote:i hate indian food.

it all looks and tastes like some body fluid or excretion.

sorry, you can take that sub-continent, make it disappear, and i could care less.

fucking curry eaters.

(i'm a brahmin, cant you tell?)

Who would call with your credit card offers then? or do your IT tech line help?

BitterDan · Post by **BitterDan** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 1:56 pm

and i could care less.

You could?

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 9:52 pm

Wait a minute! I can't put myself in the "Untouchable" class!??

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 11:07 pm

OH all the girls know you're untouchable, BAS/

Sorry, couldn't resist.

help · Post by **help** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:12 am

You can all bitch all you want about the cast system, but without it, we'd have an epidemic of malformed appendages, and malingering medical frature situations.

Oh, wait, You said "caste"...

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Remember: The higher the cast, the stiffer the neck.

Toolmaker · Post by **Toolmaker** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:15 am

miscreant

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:22 am

ALL HAIL SEITAN AND HIS LEGION OF SOY.

Donna Matrix · Post by **Donna Matrix** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:26 am

Sticks and stones will break my bones,
But names will never hurt me...

We are pretending that we are back in 3rd grade? right, toolmaker?

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:14 am

oneeyeddick wrote:I don't remember any of this garbage from the bible.

You got the wrong Bible you ninny!

Toolmaker · Post by **Toolmaker** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:09 pm

Donna Matrix wrote:Sticks and stones will break my bones,
But names will never hurt me...

We are pretending that we are back in 3rd grade? right, toolmaker?

I didn't realize that I was a miscreant until high school. Not all of us learned of the word miscreant in the 3rd grade like you Donna.

But as I said.. my social status is miscreant.

What is your "Social Status"?

If someone choose for you what would you be?

What is your "Social Status"?