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2006-04-01 Terror Networks
Killing bin Laden will inspire 10 more: Dalai Lama
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Posted by Fred 2006-04-01 00:37|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Doesn't he also say we have to hear the message of 9/11?
Posted by Slolush Elminerong1269 2006-04-01 00:53||   2006-04-01 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Tibet was one of the AXIS mini-powers.
Dump em!
Ask yourself why the USSR found a Tibeten SS unit in Berlin when they captured it.
Posted by 3dc 2006-04-01 00:59||   2006-04-01 00:59|| Front Page Top

#3 True, 3dc, but that does not mean he is a nazi sympathizer. OTOH, lama and camel are related. ;-)

Of course, he's sooooo relevant! He's been out of Tibet for almost half a century. He found his base of adherents within moonbat community, and thus he is sort of catering to them.

As for 10 Osamas springing from one dead... they would soon fatwa each other, so I'd say it may have some positive aspect, not mentioning that being visible, they may offer nice targets. I am more worried about the damage the 'closet jihadis' may do, incrementally, taking minute steps that are hardly noticed.
Posted by twobyfour 2006-04-01 01:19||   2006-04-01 01:19|| Front Page Top

#4 The Dalai Lama is out of touch with reality. He loves publicity and plays PC politics. In the past he has called(asserted foolishly)that death cult as a RoP(lost that URL unfortunately). For that I've long junked him as any sort of Sipiritual guide completely despite being a nominal(but very adequately well-read) Buddhist.

There is a provision in Buddhism teachings that allows one not to speak if the words though true are not helpful or pleasant in any given context. He spoke invertedly and falsely to please the bad guys. He should simply have STFU and no stigma would have been attached.
Posted by Duh! 2006-04-01 06:03||   2006-04-01 06:03|| Front Page Top

#5 No, I think DL is on to something there...If 10 proto Bin Ladens spring up and we kill them then 100 will spring up in their passing, then 1000, 10000, etc. Soon we will have cleaned out the whole nest of Jihadi nuts. Brilliant!
Posted by WTF! 2006-04-01 06:51||   2006-04-01 06:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Image hosting by Photobucket
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-04-01 09:18||   2006-04-01 09:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Hah! Love the "separated at birth" photos. Notably HST looks the less brain-addled.
Posted by regular joe 2006-04-01 09:23||   2006-04-01 09:23|| Front Page Top

#8 He got this part right. Wonder if he made it up himself?

"It is fascinating. In the West, you have bigger homes, yet smaller families; you have endless conveniences - yet you never seem to have any time. You can travel anywhere in the world, yet you don't bother to cross the road to meet your neighbours," he said.

"I don't think people have become more selfish, but their lives have become easier and that has spoilt them. They have less resilience, they expect more, they constantly compare themselves to others and they have too much choice - which brings no real freedom."
Posted by 2b 2006-04-01 09:51||   2006-04-01 09:51|| Front Page Top

#9 2b, I agree he did get that part correct. And I think he probably did make that up himself.Just like Einstien said, great minds will always be attacked by lesser minds, and when it comes to it, not many are more intellegent and thoughtful than the DL. perhaps not any, certainly not the moroons who supposedly run the show worldwide these days.
Posted by bk 2006-04-01 09:58||   2006-04-01 09:58|| Front Page Top

#10 Hello Dolly, too late since Generals Pelosi and Reid have declared war (yesterday).
Posted by Captain America 2006-04-01 10:01||   2006-04-01 10:01|| Front Page Top

#11 on second thought - it's all just a cute little word play. I'd write one running it backwards that takes our many choices, which most in the world don't have, and keep us busy doing things we want to do, rather than being stuck inside some societal caste of rich or poor, and allows the ordinary hard working working stiffs to rise up from the fields and share in some of that wealth usually hoarded by a very small few, such as the Dali Lama himself, and become successful in life, able to travel and afford conveniences. Further more, we have bigger homes because we have more conveniences and smaller families

...etc. but I don't want to spend the time. Actually I have time to do that, if I so choose, but I choose not to because there are other things that I'd rather be doing right now.

I'd choose my lifestyle, he describes above, over life in Tibet any day. I'm sure 99.9999% of people in Tibet would make that same choice, if they had it.
Posted by 2b 2006-04-01 10:16||   2006-04-01 10:16|| Front Page Top

#12 sorry bk - I changed my mind. What he says is right and thoughtful, but life is about balance, not absolutes. So he makes the same mistake on evaluating our lives, as he does about being humane to terrorists - he is dealing in fantasy absolutes ideals and ignores the reality of the need in the real world to work towards achieving balance.
Posted by 2b 2006-04-01 10:22||   2006-04-01 10:22|| Front Page Top

#13 FWIW: Tibet was a backwards hellhole when the Lamas ruled it (visions of Lost Horizon notwithstanding) - >50% of the population were serfs, little better than slaves. It's easy being a ruler-in-exile; you don't have to do anything.

Not justifying the ChiCom's invasion, just sayin'.
Posted by xbalanke 2006-04-01 10:37||   2006-04-01 10:37|| Front Page Top

#14 Yes, #13, There's this story of a Christian Sikh by the name of Sadhur Sandar Singh(I believe) who was severely tortured by the Tibetan authorities then when he went a preaching there. They(the Tibetans) weren't so pristine that they carried no bad Karma to frutify.

Perhaps the Chicom invasion was an expression.
Posted by Duh! 2006-04-01 11:29||   2006-04-01 11:29|| Front Page Top

#15 Carl Spackler: 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 Frank G">Frank G  2006-04-01 13:05||   2006-04-01 13:05|| Front Page Top

#16 I've never understood the D Lamas thing about Garnet and Gold - BC or FSU fan?
Posted by 6 2006-04-01 13:17||   2006-04-01 13:17|| Front Page Top

#17 Frank, way good Gonzo! LOL!
Posted by RD 2006-04-01 14:15||   2006-04-01 14:15|| Front Page Top

#18 name that movie! LOL
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-04-01 18:47||   2006-04-01 18:47|| Front Page Top

#19 Filmed in Davie FL before they killed all the cows.
Posted by 6 2006-04-01 19:44||   2006-04-01 19:44|| Front Page Top

#20 I seem to remember reading that Afghanistan was like totally Buddhist once, big Buddhist statues and all. Then along came the religion of peace. The Buddhists tried appeasement. Didn't work very well. Now there are no Buddhists or Buddhist statues left in Afghanistan
Posted by tipper 2006-04-01 20:11||   2006-04-01 20:11|| Front Page Top

#21 The Dali Lama neglects to note how not killing bin Laden could easily result in the death of millions. Inaction frequently incurs far more deleterious consequences than does action. If you need an example, just look at Europe's Muslim problems.
Posted by Zenster 2006-04-01 21:01||   2006-04-01 21:01|| Front Page Top

#22 "You can travel anywhere in the world, yet you don't bother to cross the road to meet your neighbours,"
I wonder how many times he crossed the road to meet his neighbors when he was growing up in the 1,000-room Potala Palace.

"they have too much choice - which brings no real freedom"
A robe and a begging bowl brings real freedom, I suppose, but I'm not ready to become one of his monks.
Posted by Darrell 2006-04-01 21:15||   2006-04-01 21:15|| Front Page Top

#23 People with robes and begging bowls are parasites off the productive members of society. Reminds me of the German/Austrian artist/architect Hundertwasser, who permitted his friends to share their food with him, let him bed on their furniture, use their facilities, and take him out for little treats. A thoroughly unpleasant and essentially abusive person, although very talented in his chosen fields. At least he made lovely paintings and produced wonderful buildings. What do begging monks provide?
Posted by trailing wife 2006-04-01 22:18||   2006-04-01 22:18|| Front Page Top

#24 Meditation is just a big sine wave, net sum of zero.
So nothingness is absolutly true.
Posted by 3dc 2006-04-01 23:10||   2006-04-01 23:10|| Front Page Top

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