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To: bikepacker67; fishtank

Here's another cool one: http://www.erowid.org/spirit/spirit.shtml

Buddhism is the most benign of the world's great religions. It is also the only one the objective of which is enlightenment, as opposed to subservience, conquest and conversion. When was the last time Buddhists went to war? Hell, they don't even fight each other (except in Korea, but that's a different story.


9 posted on 12/09/2004 3:22:10 PM PST by Conservative Canuck (The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness)
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To: Conservative Canuck

"When was the last time Buddhists went to war?"

Pearl Harbor?


13 posted on 12/09/2004 3:23:00 PM PST by fishtank
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To: Conservative Canuck

You are dead wrong. Look at all the fierce battles between Thais and Burmese.


41 posted on 12/09/2004 3:37:47 PM PST by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: Conservative Canuck
When was the last time Buddhists went to war?

Um, WWII?

45 posted on 12/09/2004 3:42:40 PM PST by Cogadh na Sith (--Scots Gaelic: 'War or Peace'--)
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To: Conservative Canuck

Erowid? LOL... I have met Earth & Fire Erowid, and they're not exactly the people you'd want to refer to as experts on spirituality.


61 posted on 12/09/2004 3:58:41 PM PST by Nataku X (For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?)
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To: Conservative Canuck
When was the last time Buddhists went to war?

Buddhist nations have long been know for their peaceful serenity and passive approach to martial matters. Just consider the gentle Japanese.

Or take the Vietnamese who would never dream of resorting to violence to resolve an issue. Nor would the Cambodians.

And war and oppresive police action is unknown in Sri Lanka and Myanmar.

102 posted on 12/09/2004 6:00:02 PM PST by Tribune7
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