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Richard Gere Praises Self-Immolating Monks
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| 12 Jan 2012
| lindastcyr
Posted on 01/12/2012 4:59:28 PM PST by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog
I just thought of something Richard Gere could do to earn my praise.
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posted on
01/12/2012 5:02:05 PM PST
by
Rocky
(REPEAL IT!)
To: smokingfrog
I wonder if Gere sees self-immolation as an option for himself?
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posted on
01/12/2012 5:02:05 PM PST
by
yetidog
To: smokingfrog
Richard Gere Praises Self-Immolating Monks
Wonder how he feels about self-immolating gerbils?
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posted on
01/12/2012 5:06:10 PM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS! This means liberals AND libertarians (same thing) NO LIBS!)
To: smokingfrog
Hey, the Dalia Lama has come out and said he was a Marxist. I thought everything was kosher now?
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posted on
01/12/2012 5:08:17 PM PST
by
Duke Nukum
(I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards.)
To: smokingfrog
Richard-
Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.
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posted on
01/12/2012 5:09:11 PM PST
by
Baynative
(The penalty for not participating in politics is you will be governed by your inferiors.)
To: smokingfrog
a pure act.
Perverted lie. For a monk to self-immolate is commit violence against oneself, and thereby violence against the entire world (since in Buddhism they are one and the same.) It's warfare. It's a physical manifestation of violence of the mind.
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posted on
01/12/2012 5:10:46 PM PST
by
Renderofveils
(My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
To: smokingfrog
The hollywood star goes on to discuss how difficult it is for free thinkers and artists to live in China due to the push for communism. He says, I think they (Chinese officials) have so wrongly gauged the Tibetan people, thinking they could subvert the deep, deep, deep religious beliefs and make them true Communists. Its never going to happen. Not to mention the lack of fine American gerbils which is why he thinks he's a Patriot. Or at least that's what I read in the article about him in, Habitrail News.
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posted on
01/12/2012 5:11:01 PM PST
by
Lx
(Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
To: smokingfrog; Responsibility2nd
From Wikipedia: "Nitrogen, the main constituent of air, is the primary gas released during flatulence, along with carbon dioxide. The lesser component gases methane and hydrogen are flammable, and so flatus containing adequate amounts of these can be ignited."
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posted on
01/12/2012 5:13:18 PM PST
by
presidio9
(www.catholicscomehome.org)
To: presidio9
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posted on
01/12/2012 5:21:18 PM PST
by
Norm Lenhart
(Curse you, Norm Lenhart! Im slain, crumpled in a ditch by your obvious superiority - Humblegunner)
To: Renderofveils
Is self-immolation supposed to be a shortcut to Nirvana or something?
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posted on
01/12/2012 5:23:06 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> - - -)
To: presidio9
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posted on
01/12/2012 5:25:49 PM PST
by
Lx
(Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
To: smokingfrog
It is a stupid senseless act and accomplishes nothing. Every Monk in Tibet could fry themselves and the Tibetans would be no better off than they are now. If they really want to die for the people they should take out a few dozen Chinese soldiers(or politicians might be better)while they are taking out their selves.
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posted on
01/12/2012 5:30:08 PM PST
by
calex59
To: smokingfrog
Don’t know what’s so noble about it. Why isn’t Gere concerned about those monks exacerbating the globull warming “problem”?
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posted on
01/12/2012 5:38:15 PM PST
by
Tucker39
To: smokingfrog
Some Mahayana Buddhists think imitating one of the Buddhas (Bhaisajyaguru; who ritually self-immolated spreading the light of the Dharma for a thousand years) will bring healing and cleansing to those left behind. The problem being that Bhaisajyaguru had entered the state of ‘Eliminating All the Suffering and Afflictions of Sentient Beings’ before doing so.
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posted on
01/12/2012 5:38:44 PM PST
by
Renderofveils
(My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
To: smokingfrog
The last thing a Gerbil does with Richard Gere:
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posted on
01/12/2012 5:55:01 PM PST
by
CodeToad
(Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
To: smokingfrog
You know, SF, any Richard Gere thread could be a drinking game, like the Bob Newhart show.
For those of you still with green shoots, every time someone said, “Bob” you had to take a drink.
“Gerbil”!
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posted on
01/12/2012 6:40:59 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(Rew Scromney)
To: smokingfrog
Then he should emulate the immolation.
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posted on
01/12/2012 6:46:11 PM PST
by
AndrewB
(FUBO)
To: Responsibility2nd
That is exactly what I was going to post! LOL Great minds...
To: smokingfrog
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery.
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