The so-called Sports (including soccer) are GAMBLING

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At 05:49 PM 12/20/99 -0800, COM: Madhusudani Radha (dd) JPS (Mill Valley -

USA) wrote:

 

>At 20:15 -0500 12/20/1999, COM: Guru-Krsna (das) HDG (Alachua, FL - USA)

wrote:

>>"I'm rather surprised that senior devotees are so

>>adamant to defend a game like soccer [instead of] discussing the many other

>>ways that our children could be practically and happily engaged in the

>>direct devotional service of helping to establish varnasrama-dharma."

>

>Oh now I get it: It's an *either - or* situation.

 

No, Mataji. I'm sorry, but once again you *don't* quite get it. "It's" not

an either-or situation. "It's" a humble opinion of *one* insignificant

so-called member of ISKCON--and nothing more.

 

>That means the *real* reason we have not yet established VAD in ISKCON is

>because everyone has been too preoccupied wiht playing soccer.

 

And what follows "That means" is your statement, not mine. Please consider

this one practical point explained by Srila Prabhupada: "Interpretation is

necessary when the meaning is not clear. Otherwise no interpretation required."

 

As far as I'm concerned, the meaning of my statement above is quite clear

and doesn't at all need to be interpreted.

 

>No wonder you're upset!

 

Thanks for another free cyber-telepsychoanalysis, Mataji, but may I suggest

that you first practice on shorter distances first--because so far it

appears that the Berkely-to-Alachua stretch jams your readings, thus

yielding highly inaccurate results.