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Dalai Lama misses sex, shoots guns
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| 7/29/03
| Ruth Gledhill
Posted on 07/29/2003 11:13:53 AM PDT by adam_az
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To: big ern
Fine, but this is their religion. It's like saying to Catholics that the only way to stop the tide of abortion is to start taking up arms against abortion clinics and their doctors. Doing so is asking us to go against our basic beliefs. Telling Buddhists to do the same goes against their beliefs.
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07/31/2003 1:12:03 PM PDT
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Conservative til I die
(They say anti-Catholicism is the thinking man's anti-Semitism; that's an insult to thinking men)
To: Conservative til I die
It's not the same thing because in a Democracy/rep. Republic you can influence society and govt. via changing public opinion.
Try that in China or any other Tyranical state.
It may be their religion, but they choose to believe in it. It's not like they were born with no legs and China refuses to build them wheelchair ramps.
Tyrants respect only power.
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07/31/2003 2:59:07 PM PDT
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TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
(Soccer Mom's flee the Rats for Bush in his flight suit: I call this the Moisture Factor. MF high!)
To: pram
The whole mission of Buddha was to stop animal killing (and eating) in the name of religion . . . Wrong. The whole mission of Buddha was to teach people how to overcome their suffering in this lifetime and to elevate their life condition in this lifetime.
It is not logical to think a religion could endure for roughly 5,000 years on the premise that it is about preventing animal killing. If this was true then PETA should be a flourishing religion in another 5,000 years. No matter how hard they try, I don't think they appeal to much more than about 12 people.
On the issue of it being a Buddhist "rule" that a buddhist cannot eat meat. This is not true either. The common practice for Buddhists is that some are vegatarians and some are omnivores, but most strive to avoid gluttony or excessive eating or waste of food. This is not a scripture, but more typically the culture or lifestyle of Buddhism.
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