Do you like the Hare Krishna?

tricky D · 16-11-2013 06:23PM

MonstaMash wrote: »

Apparently there is a split in the Hare Krishna movement in Dublin at the moment with two rival factions worshipping in seperate temples.

Happened over 10 years ago.

Angelique Famous Cockpit wrote: »

Thats complete rubbish.. I've two friends who are Krishna's and they're like anyone else when it comes to their sex life, dating etc.. And one of these is pretty devout too.

In practice it certainly is total rubbish, but the dogma is almost the exact same as the catholic one and is likewise pretty much ignored by everyone. Here's the 2 dogmas from wiki: No illicit sex: only between married couples and only for the procreation of children; only at a prescribed time of month, with permission of the couple's spiritual superior; sexual pleasure is morally disordered when sought for itself, isolated from its procreative and unitive [between spouses] purposes.

Their other rules are:

No eating of meat (including fish) or eggs.
No gambling.
No intoxication (including alcohol, caffeine, tobacco and other recreational drugs.).

All generally ignored bar the veggie bit. They also don't eat onions, garlic and mushrooms; something to do with karma iirc. They use Asafoetida instead of garlic which stinks before cooking.

I'm off to eat some of their paneer I bought just a few hours ago. Hmmmmm, paneer, nyom.

PhlegmyMoses · 16-11-2013 06:32PM

They gave a talk in our school years ago. One of them was fairly young, we were in 6th year and he couldn't have been more than 5 years older than us. He told us that he had gotten 600 points in his leaving cert and had gone to college to study medicine but left to join the Hare Krishnas. The insinuation was that he didn't like the pressure of the life that had been mapped out for him and he was a fairly socially awkward bloke. I remember feeling bad for him, even though I understood that he was now seemingly happier, and that he had ran away from the real world rather than found his true calling. Maybe a bit harsh, but there it is.

Lock Knife · 16-11-2013 06:43PM

ablelocks wrote: »

they kept me and possibly thousands* alive at Feile 1990 and/or 1991. for some reason i have it in my head that on the last night a gang of bikers burnt down the marquee.

*slight exaggeration, possibly

Can't remember what festival it was, either feile 94 or witness I think, but the same they spent the weekend handing out free food only for the tent to be burnt down at the end.

bullpost · 16-11-2013 06:44PM

Poly Styrene (RIP) - another great punk also became a Hare Krishna.

MonstaMash wrote: »

Interesting piece of useless info...Maurice Foley, the guitarist/vocalist of the legendary Dublin punk band The Threat,
became a Hare Krishna in 1982 after the band split up.

Washington Irving · 16-11-2013 06:53PM

GOURANGA

Grayditch · 16-11-2013 06:56PM

Their tunes are so catchy. They are always smiling and dancing, even when some scum of the earth junkie is taking the piss out of them.

bnt · 16-11-2013 07:48PM

Don't mind the Hare Krishna. Of all the various things a human can do after his or her brain has stripped a gear, this has to be one of the least harmful. Personally, it would take a brainfart of elephantine proportions to turn me in to one.

Do you like the Hare Krishna?

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