Comments on: Karmis LOVE Synthesizer Kirtans!

By: Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef)

Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:04:00 +0000

I go to the temple twice a year – Xmas and Easter – er I mean Janmastami and Gaura Purnima. I try to go when I can. If I could move on don’t you think I would, but I can’t, that’s why I keep coming back, looking for somthin. I just keep growing a thicker and thicker skin.

By: Nandini

Nandini — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:41:06 +0000

A ‘ couple of years back’? Boy-R-D, you are in your fifties and you still go to Indradyumna Swami’s lectures? Move on man, no wonder you are so disenchanted (wink wink).

By: Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef)

Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:16:07 +0000

I like the “others”. But devotees don’t go to the movies or watch T.V. (wink wink) so they might not be able to relate.

I remember when Indradyumna Swami was giving a lecture at a big temple festival a couple of years back. He told us “devotees don’t go to the movies”. I asked if that included home entertainment systems?

By: Nandini

Nandini — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:54:08 +0000

How about “mudblood”? Or “the others”, or “those we don’t speak of”, or… never mind…

Oh I got it: The UNSURREDERED!!

By: Rati

Rati — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:41:53 +0000

How about people who aren’t cult members as an alternative?

By: Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef)

Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:52:54 +0000

Got to wear my reading glasses – Janmastami

By: Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef)

Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:52:18 +0000

Jasmastami for Nandini

By: Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef)

Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:51:39 +0000

We always called em “karmis” before they joined and “blooped” after they left. Then one day low and behold – I became a karmi and blooped too.

What is really cool about being a blooped karmi is going to the temple on Janmasti. All those poor devotees fasting till midnight, and I can eat all the pizza and maha I want.

By: Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef)

Boy-R-D dasa (not the chef) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:48:35 +0000

How about Nigga?

By: Kenny

Kenny — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:51:52 +0000

Some do, you’re right. Like how “spaced out” can basically be used to get out of nearly any situation.

“I’m sorry, prabhu, I like totally spaced it out!”

And you’re off scott-free, usually no questions asked!

ISKCON devotees do have some strange ways of putting things. But the “us vs. them” thing seems to be dying away.

Unfortunately, it appears that it’s being replaced with “so, how much money will the Indian community give us and what philosophical sacrifices will we carelessly make to get it?”