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2006-02-15 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Dalai Lama urges Hamas to renounce violence

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Posted by mhw 2006-02-15 14:04|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Was there something that made the Dalai Lama think that Hamas was more rational than, say, the Chinese? Do they even get CNN in DalaiWood?

Posted by BH 2006-02-15 14:24|| 2006-02-15 14:24|| Front Page Top

#2 So aside from associating with Hollywood stars and making a big feel-good campaign, what has the Dalai Lama ever done significant? The Chicoms have been systematically taking apart the Tibetan culture. Tibet will not be free until China becomes free. Hamas will not change its stripes. Maybe the Dalai Lama should revise his memoirs instead, better use of time.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-02-15 16:02|| 2006-02-15 16:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Since when do mooselimbs listen to infidel atheists?

Posted by Spot">Spot 2006-02-15 16:02|| 2006-02-15 16:02|| Front Page Top

#4 File under: "Tiptoe softly and carry a tiny little ol' twig"

Posted by Zenster 2006-02-15 16:08|| 2006-02-15 16:08|| Front Page Top

#5 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.

Posted by Carl Spackler 2006-02-15 16:13|| 2006-02-15 16:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Ain't nothing wrong with the Dalai Lama's message, atleast someone's trying.

Posted by Ebbinemble Cholunter8010 2006-02-15 17:21|| 2006-02-15 17:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Scrappleface?

Posted by Xbalanke 2006-02-15 17:28|| 2006-02-15 17:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Let's not be too harsh with the Good Dalai Lama.

He's doing the best with what he has to work with.

Word on the street: he convinced Richard Gere to forsake anymore gerbils. If true, anything is possible.

Posted by Mark Z 2006-02-15 18:56|| 2006-02-15 18:56|| Front Page Top

#9 atleast someone's trying.

I stood outside and shouted the same things into the wind. I am trying too!

Posted by Fordesque 2006-02-15 19:11|| 2006-02-15 19:11|| Front Page Top

#10 Oh, yeah - like that'll work.

Makes ya' wonder why we didn't think of it sooner.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-02-15 19:11|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-02-15 19:11|| Front Page Top

#11

At night, he's a man about town.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-02-15 19:15|| 2006-02-15 19:15|| Front Page Top

#12 (Hunter S. Thompson, if you don't recognize him.)

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-02-15 19:16|| 2006-02-15 19:16|| Front Page Top

#13 I've got a great deal of respect for the Dalai Lama. If everyone in the world was like him, we'd live in a utopia. They're not and we don't. The Dalai Lama tries to make an appeal to the good in people. Unfortunately some people don't have any good in them (i.e the Mad Mullahs of Iran, Krazy Kim, etc.)

Posted by DMFD 2006-02-15 20:10|| 2006-02-15 20:10|| Front Page Top

#14 Ghandi wrote a letter to Hitler, urging him to practice non-violence. He also urged the Jews to submit to being slaughtered, in the name of "peace".

I see no difference between that and this.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-02-15 20:45|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-02-15 20:45|| Front Page Top

#15 All the messages of goodness and love by the great religious figures are wonderful things. In a perfect world we will have a Utopia.

The fly in the ointment is that the messages of love and understanding will work with people that are capable of empathy, but will not work with psychopaths, who are incapable of empathy. They just are not literally wired for it.

If enough people that are normally wired get the message, then there can be a tipping point and tyrants can be brought down by "people power." Unfortunately, in this day and age, tyrants have tremendous leverage with technical and financial resources at their control. To tip them, we have to go to the heart of the beast. With people like the MMs, the message of love and understanding will not work. They, however, do value their a$$es, so they have to be dealt with in a threat of or actual use of overwhelming force and power projection to have their evil neutralized or eliminated.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-02-15 21:07|| 2006-02-15 21:07|| Front Page Top

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