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Originally Posted by Cicero
The community of women had very strong voices and had earned the right to push people around (like me) physically.
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Is that a cultural phenomenon or was it just in the temple? I'm thinking of an experience one of my sons had (as an adult-sized teen). He was in a museum and was physically pushed aside by the leader of a Japanese group that came into the room. There was plenty of space in the room; the leader just wanted to be where he was. He didn't know what to make of it. Is it a hierarchical thing? I suspect non-Japanese would be at the bottom of that hierarchy.
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Originally Posted by Cicero
I don't think I can explain it in terms of "rationale" sorry. I think it's anything but.
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Sorry. Bad choice of words. I can't imagine a rationale either, I just wondered how it was viewed or explained.
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Originally Posted by Cicero
I was having a great time chanting and meditating when stupid me, I started to read the literature that told me I had no chance at obtaining enlightenment because of an innate evil nature that I possess as a woman. Started to sound just like christianity....but the traditions and culture had changed even less. Too severe for me.
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I'm sorry you've encountered that in Christianity. I'm aware of RC writers who have advanced those ideas, but that isn't universal.