[freedom44]

Iranian Zoroastrians who fled the Barbaric Islamic invasions from Arabia in 6th century a.d. fled to west India and were named 'Parsis' by the Indians.

A major err of the Zoroastrians is that they don't accept converts to the religion and never persued expanding their religion even by peaceful means.

[freedom44]

on or off iran ping

[Psycho_Bunny]

I've always been fasinated by the high regard in which the Jews held Cyrus...Being that he was a Zarathustrian.

It's a very interesting Religion. The book of Shet the Prophet Zirtusht (attributed as Zarathustra) from the Desatir, is a powerful fable.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Their dead are put on scaffolds and crows remove every-
thing except the bones.

[McGavin999]

That's exactly what I was thinking as I read this, freedom. They could double their numbers if they allowed inter-marriage as long as the children were brought up within the religion.

[wideminded]

Rock band Queen's famous lead singer, the late Freddie Mercury, was also a Parsi.

My opinion of Parsis just went way down. A particular Queen song is sometimes used to torture me.

[ohmage]

Some of the country's top business families - like the Tatas, Godrejs and the Wadias ...

The Tatas being the most bodacious of the bunch.

[TaMoDee]

Any pictures of the ladies?

[Lloyd227]

"Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying... "

"magi from the east" were followers of the teachings of Zorastrianism

I've always found this interesting. This group were among the first monotheistic religions and had much more in common with Judaism than is generally recognized. And somehow, their prophets knew enough about the story written in the stars to know that the messiah had been born.

"Zoroastrian is monotheistic in its higher ideology having AHURA MAZDA as its Supreme Deity and AHRIMAN as a lesser power of evil, which continually retards the smooth progress of good-universe is conceived as a battlefield between Ahura Mazda and Ahriman. In this confrontation, Ahura Mazda will ultimately defeat Ahriman. In the Zoroastrian religion, the theory of Re-incarnation does not exist..." http://www.bawarchi.com/festivals/parsinewyear.html

[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.

[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?