Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On 12/28/24 3:15 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 10:58:47 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

I cant see how Hinduism  could have a pantheon. At its core its mostly
philosophy.

 Right. When they're rubbing a lingam with butter it is purely philosophy.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingam
 Then there is Ganesha
 https://www.hinduamerican.org/blog/5-things-to-know-about-ganesha
 or Lakshmi
 https://www.hinduamerican.org/blog/lakshmi
 Never take the dry European accounts of Hinduism, Buddhism, and other
eastern religions as relevant to what happens on the ground. I've heard
Hinduism referred to as serial monotheism. People can switch to a new
favorite god or goddess and there is no requirement that everyone in a
family picks the same one.

   Well, as I kinda implied, the Hindu pantheon is kinda odd.
   In programmers terms you get the parent process - Bhahma/
   Vishnu/Shiva - and then a lot of 'child processes' spawned
   which can themselves spawn child processes.
   Sometimes those gods are just kinda 'ideas', sometimes
   they are said to adopt physical, distinct, forms as
   needed. Lots of big temples to the more popular avatars.
   Five or six thousand years ... it's all become complicated.