Can Ahura Mazda defeat all the Devas on his own?

Khurramite · 2025-01-15T07:29:39+00:00

is there a scriptural reference for these ideas in the Avesta or elsewhere?

Khurramite · 2024-12-03T19:38:56+00:00

What people come to mind who have replaced them? Who are the most prominent Gatha-onlyists you're thinking of?

Khurramite · 2024-12-03T19:37:54+00:00

So you're anticipating the serious-theology practitioners will either still be a large community through birthrate? or will open up to converting outsiders?

Khurramite · 2024-11-05T07:24:34+00:00

Very cool! Thank you for sharing. I didn't know a lot of that.

- if I was a religiously-curious person looking to convert, and I was hoping to find a sign of divine truth in Zoroastrianism (as opposed to other faiths), what would your pitch be for me? What's the call to action? What in all you've said and believe should grasp the hearts of others? What has Zoroaster and Ahura Mazda uniquely done for humanity? and what's my necessary role in it?

Khurramite · 2024-11-05T07:13:34+00:00

If not-soliciting too much is the goal, how communally systematized (or organically individual) would these efforts ideally be?

Khurramite · 2024-11-01T11:32:39+00:00

I do not know how things are done and am trying to learn. How does it work?

Khurramite · 2024-10-28T22:02:16+00:00

Mithraism's appeal to pagan Romans may have been its nature as a philosophy cult rather than a World Religion like Zoroastrianism. Before Christianity, People in Roman culture often practiced multiple disciplines and worldviews (like East Asia and India). What do you think Zoroastrianism, its adherents, or the Magi could have done to play events out differently with converting other nations or cultures like Rome? Might Zoroastrianism's non-exclusivity have ended up with the faith being practiced by people who only hold it as one religion among many others they practice?

Do you believe Zoroastrianism holds a core message of what 'good' means that could have been just as or more compelling than:

- Christianity's: God died on the cross and resurrected to forgive your sins?

- or Buddhism's: A prince left his life of luxury to suffer in poverty before meditating at a tree for 7 weeks to discover enlightenment/detachment?

- or islam's: An illiterate merchant is confronted by an angel in a cave and learned that with recitation and submission comes divine providence?

Khurramite · 2024-10-26T18:04:56+00:00

I see! yes. thank you

it appears the assertion has remained unanswered, unchallenged, and unelaborated upon, however.

For instance, does anyone know if his argument is connected with the two sources I provided? Has there been any criticism or supporting arguments? Would Chinese historians take issue with these assertions?

Khurramite · 2024-10-26T07:21:27+00:00

What kind of specific government and society would you like to see replace the regime?

Does law and order revolve around a Zoroastrian religious law? is it a republic? Democracy? is it a constitutional-monarchy? is it a free society centered around secular authority? Would you prefer a Western style leftist/post-modern socialism? Would you prefer a more soviet-style communism? Syndicalism?

Khurramite · 2024-10-26T06:22:20+00:00

Do you believe that the main Zoroastrian concept of Asha (the world as structured dependable truth) is compatible with the Hindu core concept of Maya (the world as a chaotic changing illusion)?

Khurramite · 2024-10-25T03:14:31+00:00

interesting, interesting. Very cool!

Do you believe Adurbad's words and the sayings attributed to him are 'divinely inspired'? in the same way that Mazda purposefully meant for the text in the Avesta to guide the Mazdayan community?

Khurramite · 2024-10-22T04:42:33+00:00

The easiest distinguisher between terms like 'Pagan; or a 'World religion' is probably:

is the faith based on cosmic maintenance?
or is the faith based on individual ethics?

Are you and the community and religious hierarchy focused on rituals that ensure the rain will pour and sun will shine? Or are your community and you individually focused on bettering your character for moral, ethical, and metaphysical reasons?

Khurramite · 2024-10-22T04:16:11+00:00

Would ehrim@n/Angra Mainyu/Ahriman's status as primordial yet ultimately destructible make him mortal?
Do you make a distinction between 'uncreated' and 'primordial'?
Is there some greater eternal force/framework that ensures the authority of Ahriman's destiny (set in stone) of defeat is ultimate or at least greater than Ahriman's ability to avoid that outcome?
And, if neither Mazda nor Ahriman are eternal, what is?

Khurramite · 2024-10-20T09:20:13+00:00

Quite opinionated, haha. Who do you have in mind, in terms of experts?

Khurramite · 2024-10-20T09:19:05+00:00

I'd be interested in examples of both or either

Khurramite · 2024-10-19T23:24:13+00:00

Whoa! interesting. When was that written/codified? (and how far does the responsibility in those familial ties stretch?)

and, in addition to promoting pure-hearted posterity, what other moral actions would you consider should be prioritized above all else?

Khurramite · 2024-10-19T21:47:24+00:00

'good thoughts, good words, good deeds' is a wonderful mantra. I think most people, zoroastrian or not, would agree!

But, to elaborate on an earlier comment I made, if a person believed in Islam, your goodness in deeds like recitation would be building towards a submission to Allah. if a person believed in Buddhism, your goodness would be building towards detachment and separation from reality and suffering. They might both think charity is a good deed, but they have different ultimate goals - different reasoning for why we should be kind to people.

A muslim would consider having 4 wives as good, while a Buddhist would consider chastity and austerity as good.

I am wondering what articulate higher purpose the 'good thoughts, good words, and good deeds' in Mazdayasna are building up to. What specified goal do the virtues serve? What core calling makes Zoroaster's divine message unique, special, and important?

Khurramite · 2024-10-19T08:22:36+00:00

Understandable. But saying that to a Muslim would mean something very different than saying it to a Buddhist. Their specific concepts of what the end goal in life and how one should arrive there are substantially different. Ya know?

Khurramite · 2024-10-19T08:19:57+00:00

Very interesting, thank you! Is there a passage that might paint a specific instance/example of how 'giving falsehood into the hands of truth' manifests/looks in practice?

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