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Re: Krishnas, Vedas, and all that (was: TM debunking needed)

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From: Richard A. Schumacher
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 06:12
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In <TBiqXB3w165w@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us> system@kalki33.lakes.trenton.sc.us (Kalki Dasa) writes:


>What [the Vedic commentator] said was that the astronauts never went 
>to the moon, and his
>reason was that the moon is impossible to reach by mankind's present
>technology [because the Moon is 800,000 miles more distant than the Sun],
>not that it is impossible to reach by space flight.


Now you've done it. Now you've said something so obviously and 
imponderably foolish that all but the
most desperately deluded readers of this group will reject you and
anything else you might say. I won't even bother to ask how the
Vedas explain eclipses. They're all crap. I might as well ask my
dog to explain relativity. Good bye, Kalki.
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