Posted on 09/21/2004 12:22:34 PM PDT by presidio9
Thousands of listeners rose, cheered and clapped wildly as the Dalai Lama not only called for peace, but declared war obsolete.
"My interests in the future, my economic prosperity, depend very much on others, including my enemy -- and theirs depends on me," the revered head of Tibetan Buddhism told nearly 13,000 listeners Sunday in Sunrise.
"In ancient times, nations would only think `my interests,' then destroy the enemy and enrich themselves," he continued. "Today, with modern economy and ecology, everything is interdependent. Our interests are the same as others'.
"So I think the concept of war is out of date."
It was a message the listeners at the Office Depot Center clearly hungered to hear.
"It was inspirational, to see that someone is really for peace, instead of war or greed," said art dealer Lisa Wolsky, who had driven from Tavernier in the Keys to hear the Tibetan leader. "Everything he said was so basic, fundamental."
The address, "World Peace Through Inner Peace," was his second during a five-day stay in South Florida.
"The 20th century was a century of violence and bloodshed, and violence failed to solve problems," said the Dalai Lama, who lost hundreds of thousands of his countrymen to Chinese invaders. "It only created suffering. The 21st century should be a century of dialogue.
"Even your enemy is worthy of respect. Despite disagreements, you live together on the planet."
The Office Depot Center crowd was slightly older and more diverse than Saturday listeners at his Nova Southeastern University talk. It also attracted broad regional interest, with people coming from Jacksonville, Tampa, Naples, Clearwater and West Palm Beach. Others came from New York, California, even several dozen from Aruba.
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It may be obsolete, but it sure worked well for the Chicoms in Tibet.
Obsolete? I would prefer to think it's a classic.
Well, the Dolly Llama needs to pass that on the bad guys. In the meantime, I'll keep my powder dry.
Many intellectuals thought the same thing in the early 1900s. It was a kind of prevailing wisdom that mankind had evolved beyond being warlike.
Dalai Lama may be the honorary head of state, but he has not taken lessons is actually being head of state.
Does that mean the Dalai Lama thinks he shares the same interest as radical islamics?
What's even more obsolete are hackneyed, trite comments from dopey jackwits who live in a fantasy world.
Would I like to live in a world without war? Sure. Who wouldn't? The only problem is the prerequisite to such a world is the annihilation of God-given free will. Sorry, kiddies. Ain't gonna happen until Judgment Day.
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Well, duh. The War to End All Wars and the League of Nations definitively settled the question. War is passé.
Dear Mr. Dalai Lama - The Islamists want us dead. Thanks, but I still see war as having some use.
I sure wish I lived in UTOPIA like he does. Would be nice.
ROTFLMAO!
"So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice."
War is "out", Terrorism is "in".
If only the American's who had their heads sawed off over the last two days had thought to tell the terrorist,
"Hey wait a minute, I'm for peace and against war" or "It is in our mutual economic interest for you not to kill me."
Yawn. Call us again when you get your country back, Mr. Lama.
Big hitter, the Lama.
Really no point in it now. It's obsolete. Why didn't anyone tell me before now? I feel like I missed a staff meeting.
There's really just one problem remaining, and that would be the F'CKING LUNATICS WE'RE FIGHTING AREN'T LISTENING!!!
But otherwise, great plan Dali Lamer. Why don't you endorse Kerry while you're at it?
War IS obsolete...very passe'....but somebody needs to tell the terrorists that..... ;)
And the world's most politically correct anti-Communist refugee strikes again.
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