[kahljorn]

actually, if you'd realize what I was doing i was making fun of your logic.. not using it to defend myself.. using it to make fun of you..

also.. the liver cooking,, was done by you.. since you were the one experiencing it... i was the one.. who read.. the book.. where do.. doctors.. learn.. about.. the liver... from.. books...not.. from.. cooking.. or.. experiencing the liver. i also just so happened to have experienced the liver as well.

No hindu practices vedic hinduism anywhere, so your point is nil. Modern Hinduism is what it is. and actually buddhism didn't corrupt hinduism, hinduism adopted the buddhist idea of letting anybody practice the religion, whereas before it was segmented and caste based and the only one who could worship god was priests born to be priests. Ishta-devata, personal devotion, came from that.
Siddhartas teachings are so similar to hinduism because he was a hindu.
Hinduism itself is an amalgamation of different religious ideas, especially when you consider the complexity of the indu socio-political climate around the time the RgVeda was compiled. Indu as it is known now (and even in ancient times) is a combinition of the Dravidian culture, Harrapan and Aryans who all inhabited the same area.
guess what the rgveda is about. anyway probably too much information for you.

Hindus were the first to incorporate god being logically both good and evil? lol. ok
the vedas aren't as well put together or as great as you're pretending.
the biggest contributions hindu philosophy has made is the idea that the world is a ILLUSION or fake, that everything wordly is illusory and no true satisfaction can be derived from it, and the concept of reincarnation.

Also, you obviously haven't read the Upishinads, one of the most important texts for indian philosophy, because part of the point of that is that being comes from non-being - and that existence is absurd.