Parsis (Zoroastrians) split over marriage rule

BBC ^ | 4/21/03 | BBC

[wideminded]

Mathematical problem: If all full-blooded Parsis marry and have an average of b children, what is the maximum fraction of the population that can intermarry if the full-blooded population is to be maintained.

Answer: (1 - 2/b)

This doesn't take into account problems due to the current demographic distribution.

[BlackVeil]

What you saw in India might have been a "sky burial" by the Tibetan strand of Buddhism - they also dispose of their dead by this organic method. They put the bodies on high towers, and (unlike the Parsis) dismember them. For them, this is a holy rite. It has become controversial in recent times, and tourist who come to gape are not appreciated. There was an article on Tibetan sky burial in the (now, alas, defunk) journal Udolopho. Ingrid Hicks, "Tibetan Sky Burial" Udolopho, Summer 1996, p 31.

[TopQuark]

That's how it is done folks:

The only good thing about this resolution is that the high priests can no longer be accused of being sexist!

I found this wording to be worthy of Communist Soviet propaganda. I could not believe, in fact, how blatant this value judgement was --- even sarcastic.

So, I went to the original, and indeed, that sentence has been removed.

NO, the wroter will not be sacked: (s)he will be told to be more caerful.

And this is Britain, the country that has preserved for us the idea of tre representative government. The country that wrestled from the monarch The Magna Carta has sold out to socialism to the point that it is not even recongnized when BBC promulgates it.

[TopQuark]

they don't accept converts to the religion

Is it not true of the Hindus also?

[Lloyd227]

interesting, no?