Dalai Lama misses sex, shoots guns

news.com.au ^ | 7/29/03 | Ruth Gledhill

[adam_az]

LOL no I've actually read about it before - ON A WEBSITE THAT MAINLY FEATURES STORIES ABOUT UFO'S AND CHEMTRAILS - the venerable RENSE.COM

http://www.rense.com/general22/br.htm

Did you know... Santa isn't real either?

[First Amendment]

Ah - you've read ABOUT it... yes, now we're bringing up Santa Claus. Very sophisticated scientists, aren't we now? That's okay if you don't want to read it, it does have a lot of long words.

[adam_az]

Yes, and only on websites that deal with UFO and chemtrail stories. This isn't the Pepsi challenge, I'm not reading the crazy book. I know enough about the book, it's theories, and some of it's examples to know it's utter hogwash.

I saw another whacko on TV last night who thought the Pyramids were actually 12000 years old.

I went to a UFO conference once, it was a hoot. .I'm friends with a well known UFO researcher who I think is full of crap but I like him anyway. You remind me of a weirdo I saw there who had a wire pyramid on top of his head, and showed me a BB that he said was an alien implant he had removed. Either that or the woman who claimed to be the queen of the inner earth, because all geologists were in on a conspiracy and the earth is hollow, and she is it's queen! The UN won't allow her country to send a representative, she was collecting petition signatures and selling crap. Pretty lowbrow for a queen huh?

[adam_az]

Are you going to tell me to read David Icke, next?

[adam_az]

Did you copy that right out of "Diet for a New America?"

PETA member, are you?

Damn tofu must be shrinking your brain, already. ;)

[adam_az]

I did some research, the Rinpoch you mentioned didn't exactly "have sex with women students," he practiced buddhist sexual tantric meditation with one of his students, a woman, who years later decided she didn't really want to be schtupping him, and that it was abuse. I personally don't buy her change of heart, and apparently neither would you: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/954798/posts?page=42#42

[adam_az]

http://www.rd-india.com/dalai.htm

RD: Your assistant says you are half-vegetarian. How can one be “half-vegetarian?”

Dalai Lama: [laughs] In the early 1960s I became a vegetarian, and for almost two years I remained a strict vegetarian. But then I developed hepatitis, and my body turned yellow—my eyes, my nails all turned yellow. I became, really, truly living Buddha—but from sickness, not spirituality!

So I returned to my previous diet, then for a while it would be vegetarian one day, non-vegetarian the next.

Since last year my main kitchen is totally vegetarian. But that doesn’t mean I am complete vegetarian, for when I visit different places and the hotel puts meat on the table, then I take. So, occasionally I take non-vegetarian but otherwise vegetarian food… that seems to help reduce the size of my stomach.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

"At official dinners he made me sit beside him and treated me like his son, sometimes feeding me with his chopsticks. "I was afraid that since he coughed so much I would catch something. He was no doubt a great revolutionary, but at the same time, his behaviour was often that of a peasant." He said there was a softening towards Tibet by the current Chinese regime.

Being fed by his master. How fitting a symbol for the relationship between a master and the gutless, spineless, disarmed, pacifist slave.

I have no respect for the Dalai Llama, unlike you, because he is unwilling to fight for what God gave him: his freedom.

If those damn pacifict Tibetans would be willing to fight for their freedom I'm sure we could get some wrapped and unused M14s for them.

It disgusts me when I see those idiotic free tibet bumper stickers. If they want to be free they should pick up a rifle and fight for it, not beg for it. You can't shame a dictatorship into freeing you because a commie dictator has no shame.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

I saw there who had a wire pyramid on top of his head, and showed me a BB that he said was an alien implant he had removed.

I tried that one when I was a kid. I told my friends mom that the BB under his skin was implanted by aliens but she didn't believe me and accused me of shooting him with my single pump BB gun. Some people and their simple, little, safe, belief systems, tsk tsk.

My aunt was reading a book that told her if you gave yourself a coffee enema you could cure yourself of cancer and the tumors would come out your ass. They even described the "lumps" that were tumors being evacuated via the ass. I still laugh about that one.

She is currently into the "blood type diet" which sets your diet according to you blood type. Oh, and let's not forget that microwave ovens "change the molecular structure of the food" so they aren't safe. Funny, but I never put a pork chop in the microwave and when it beeped a volkswagen came out.

[adam_az]

There was actually a CIA sponsored Tibetian revolt of about 14,000 Tibetian contras, but the Tibetians lost to the larger numbers of Chinese troops.

Now, Tibetian refugees are among the fiercest (not counting the Gurkhas) fighers in the Indian army, and have had rousing success against Islamic terrorists.

The Dalai Lama has also said many times that people have the fundamental right to self defense. Mahatma Gandhi, often portrayed as strictly a pacifist, agreed.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest." - Mahatma Gandhi

"If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun." - The Dalai Lama, (May 15, 2001, The Seattle Times) speaking at the "Educating Heart Summit" in Portland, Oregon, when asked by a girl how to react when a shooter takes aim at a classmate.

[adam_az]

Very funny! I didn't know Dave Barry was a freeper! ;)

[autoresponder]

TMI

[Cogadh na Sith]

To actually be a Buddhist means a life of strict sense control and renunciation.

Such fashionable Buddhism! All about strict senses of control and prideful renunciation inflating the Self. Oh, I'll bet it feels so good being a good person, with a good Self!

Ghengis Khan's shock troops, The Mangodai were Buddhists... So were many of the Samurai...

With nothing to renounce and nobody to renounce anything, what then is to be renounced?

Renunciation? I renounce it!

Kill and eat your animals--just remember to wash your bowl.

[First Amendment]

What are you so uptight about? I'm not a Buddhist - looked into it when I was a teenager (a long time ago) and decided against it, for various reasons. And can you provide verification for your statements?
It sounds as though a little silent meditation might help your anger problem.

[Conservative til I die]

Because plants are meant to be food. The point is silly because it's perfectly easy to live and be a vegetarian but no one would live if they ate nothing. Senseless.

But at the same time couldn't the opposite be true as well? That it's perfectly easy to live and be a carnivore only?

[Conservative til I die]

You're welcome to fast to death if you want to.

So you're saying it's OK to eat sentient beings for survival purposes? I'm still not understanding why vegetables and plants were "meant to be food." Seems the answer you're giving is "because they aren't meat." The fact is, despite any posts made about herbivore teeth and digestive tracts, humans are able to eat, process, digest, use the energy from, and expel both plants and animals. To me, it seems you're tailoring your evidence to back up a pre-conceived view on animal eating.

[Conservative til I die]

Relax, Beavis. Everyone serves a different purpose. Some to fight, some to passively resist.

[Flying Circus]

He sounds like a decent everyday fellow struggling with the same things that any good man strugles with and enjoying what the normal guy enjoys. A good guy, but not exactly a spiritual leader.

As world religious leaders go I think I will stick with John Paul II. He also is celibate and likes to shoot, but he also fought both the Nazis and the communists, with Reagan and Thatcher led the victory over the Soviets in the cold war, writes powerful theological treatments on the Gospel and serves Christ, God the Son.

[adam_az]

All that, and he wears a spiffy hat, too! :)

I'm not in the business of rating religious leaders. I'm not going to "stick with" either one.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

You cannot resist a tyrant passively. You must fight a tyrant because a true tyrant doesn't give a rats ass if some protestors get driven over by a tank.

Passive resistance or "non-violent action" requires the entity that is being protested to have the ability to be shamed into changing their ways.

If the Tibetans haven't figured out by now that getting steamrolled by the Chinese tanks isn't having an effect on the Commie chinese leadership's hearts than they are more than just slow learners.