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Old 08-15-2009, 06:41 PM
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Default For those who don't know about how old jainism is and those who answered my previous

According to Jain scriptures, Jainism is as old as anything in this world. It does not support the theory of evolution. Lord Mahaveer was 24Th Tirthankara who preached Jainism and before him, we had 23 Tirthankaras. The life time was of our first Tirthankara was of 3 Palyopam. One Paloma is equal to:
"The time required to empty a well which is 1 mile by 1 mile by 1 mile in dimensions and is filled with hair of a new born baby and each hair is removed once 100 years are completed"
Their height was equal to 500 Dhanush or Bows, which is nearly 500 times our present height. All this has been written in our holy book called "KalpaSutra", whose copies are present at most of the Museums in India.
Dude... do you know that according to Jainism, 'God' did not create the world but He just explained the world to the creatures of this world... 'God' became 'God' only once he attained salvation, before that, He was also a normal human being
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Old 08-19-2009, 06:41 PM
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And what was the question? I missed it somewhere...
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Old 08-22-2009, 06:41 PM
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according to all religious scriptures 'god(s)' created everything. this just isn't so. how could one preach the word of 'god(s)' before the advent of language.
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Old 08-27-2009, 06:41 PM
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By that standard any religion could make the claim of being the oldest, since virtually all claim to be older than creation itself. That is, each claims that it's god created the universe, and therefore its "truth" predates creation.
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