what type of visa would I need to move to India?

camelgirl

I'm not moved by the spirituality of India, Pakistan, Iran, Ethiopia, the United States (a very religous country BTW) or anywhere, actually. I've been going to India for 35 years but not because of it's spirituality! I like the gestalt of India,: a structure, configuration, or pattern of physical, biological, or psychological phenomena so integrated as to constitute a functional unit with properties not derivable by summation of its parts In other words, The Whole Package.

I'm driven by an endless curiosity of a country that is fundamentally different from anywhere else I've been. It's not very complicated. I'm fascinated by India.

I am an athiest, a non-believer, I don't believe in a god or gods, (though I do have a special place for Ganish in my heart) a soul, heaven, hell, reincarnation, etc.. I just don't and I never have & probably never will. Millions of people around the world have their own religious & spiritual beliefs--good for them!! What can I say--I just don't. I keep my belief system to myself, I'm not selling it to anyone or expecting anyone to sell me theirs. Too many people have been killed over the centuries into modern times who think their religion is worth killing others over. I've rejected that concept. That's my perspective. That's where I'm coming from.

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curtdfw

I think the thrust is that the discussion has moved away from the 'visa and passport questions' realm, and might be better suited elsewhere on the site.

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fsg

@ camel girl

India not complicated............... Wow , its the most caste ridden complicated society I have ever integated into. Thats 9 years of living there , visa permitting, and sundry visits for much longer

I Respect your views, respect others please.

This is most certainly not OFF TOPIC.

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camelgirl

I agree! Feel free to remove my last post & the one before it which I was responding to!!

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curtdfw



Totally agree

camelgirl

Sorry, that's not what I meant to say, I meant my reasons are not complicated. India is certainly the most complicated place I know.

fsg

@ camelgirl

Thanks for your generosity

Nick-H

Well, I'm with a lot of the things that camelgirl says; somewhere, in a long lost thread, I wrote something to the effect that India has a vast amount of religion and an enormous amount of superstition --- but I don't find it to be particularly spiritual.

That is not to say that I am not, sometimes, moved by its religion; it is not to say that I am not, sometimes, intrigued by its superstition, and it is not to say that India does not have a huge soul...

edwardseco

I'll echo Nick (and Camelgirl). But, we did run out of material on the OP..

Paleface

Is just a tad contradictory, i mean there is a belief system, like in a full set, or none at all. It's an old Buddhist thing, You say there is a point to life, i say there isn't. You say there isn't a point to life and i say there is.

Surprisingly that is also where the young sunspirit is coming from - Buddha, Ahimsa, non violence. As did Buddha she too has rejected that concept, is there any difference between the two positions? Perceive it as we will but there is no difference at all.

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edwardseco

Paleface has a good point in that its the non-religious types that have taken the lead in numbers and ferocity of savagery. Lest we ever forget the many millions of victims of Stalin, Mao, & Hitler. Again, gup chup off the main trail but interesting..

dzibead

I just posted something that reflected a complete misinterpretation of what somebody else posted - so I deleted it. My bad. Mea culpa.

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curtdfw

Any visa or passport questions?

Paleface

Sometimes in the life things, even topics move tangentially, you may have noticed it, meaning we are not able to have it all so neatly compartmentalized. If we were to edit and sort and compart things constantly and completely then we will lose spontaneity, lose interest.

edwardseco

Hey, I agree with that. It must be the medicine..