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The Validity of my question
I had posted a question 4 days ago regarding Black Magic
My Question:- How should one know if he is under Black Magic\evil spirits?
I have asked the symptoms one will have when he is under Black magic ...
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Is posting several "trivial" questions in bulk encouraged for the site? What’s the solution for it?
Summary: a certain user is at large, spamming the site with trivial questions, the answers to which he is aware of, just for votes. Is such behaviour encouraged, if not what’s the solution?
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Should we close questions asking for "authentic" translations as opinion-based?
Authentic text of Surya Siddhanta English Translation lists several English translations and then asks which among them is "authentic"?
Now who is supposed to qualify any particular translation as "...
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Mode of asking resource questions
It is known that we allow questions locating resources of Hindu literature offline and online. What should be the tone and way of asking a question which is looking for a book?
We should remember ...
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Does anyone who got a temple, will make them god/goddesses by default and their questions would be on-topic?
We just got this question which got debated a lot for on-topicness and one of the answerers made argument that it's on-topic because “Bharat Mata" has a temple and make it on topic because Wikipedia ...
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Should we allow "How do I prove something", "How can I refute this argument" type of questions?
Examples:
How do I prove casteism is not an inherent part of Hinduism?
Feminist's claim that the Vedas, Ramayana and Mahabharata were written by male writers
(my own question from early days on ...
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Is "What scriptures/XYZ say about ...<my off topic query>?", a freeway to convert a Qn to on-topic?
There are numerous Qn-s (including few of mine), which starts with,
"What scriptures/some school/my favorite philosophy/acharyas/XYZ say about [some concept]?"
Many a times these Qns are on-...
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Is asking for a natural explanation for a supernatural event allowed on this site?
The birth of Vyāsa's son, Śuka, is narrated in the Mahābhārata as follows:
Bhishma said. 'The son of Satyavati having obtained this high boon from the great God, was one day employed in rubbing his ...
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How to answer questions about the status of divine weapons?
How do we answer questions such as:
What happened to the Vijaya bow after Karna's death?
What did the Pandavas do with the oldest sword in the world?
What happened to the Akshaya Patra after the ...
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Is the question "Hinduism ever tried to enfold Christianity" valid for the site? Please explain why
Is the following question valid for the site? Yes or No? Why?
Has Hinduism ever tried to enfold Christianity (or other semitic religions)?
There is lot of comparison of religions going on in both ...
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Can we post mythologically hypothetical questions?
Can we post here hypothetical questions regarding our mythological figures, for example if X was there in place of Y what would have he done, or what would have happened if instead of event A, event B ...
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Political and Scientific questions are off-topic for Hinduism SE
Recently, a user posted these questions:
Why Hindu saints are targeted very badly in India?
I have been living outside India for the last couple of years but I saw plenty of fake cases against Hindu ...
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