The Three Gods Branha, Shivba, Vishnu

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The first video was confusing and rough to sam the least! The speaker at the beginning I felt was going around in circles and would not stay on topic of Hinduism to give a clear arugment about the culture of Hinduidm. The arugment that really stood out that finally started making sense to me was when the speaker started talking about the Gods mainly the three Gods Branha ,Shivba,Vishnu. The speaker explained that these three Gods work together in a cycle , for example Branha is the creater God ,brings the universe to being, Vishnu is the maintence God ,keeps the universe going, and finally Vishnu the destroy ,destroies the unvierse and then once the universe has been destoried the cycle repaets its self. Once he went it to detail about these three Gods I began to understand his arugment. …show more content…
Smith ,the speaker, was going around in circle as well and going off topic and not being able to come back to the main topic. The argument that did stand out to me and did give his whole arugment strength was when Smith started to talk about ritual ,and being able to celebrate ritual in our places in our lives besides religion and not viewing ritual has something "scary". Smith gave a great example to this argument by using a piano student reference by explaining that someone can tell the difference between a piano student who practices because their mom wants them too and a piano student who practices because they want to. Being able to commit yourself to "ritual practices" like the piano student starts to make you turn it to something you desire to

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