[PluggyRug]

BluesBud BluesBud:

The Dalai Lama is a man of great peace and honor and deserves respect. He is beyond politics. Yes even when he and his people are oppressed by the Chinese government.

Then he should be in Afghanistan preaching his beliefs to the students (Taliban).

[Scape]

I think what he was implying is that the means of violence is not an ends in itself. Dr. Mengele, the Inquisitors of the Catholic Church and the East German KGB all tried violence to impose their version of regime change that ultimately failed because their excess was so egregious.

[sasquatch2]

Bluesbud

$1:

First you are off topic as usual. second you insist on making every thread you go on a political battle....again as usual.

Give your head a shake and explain what possible motive, other than a political one, inspired the very posting of this thread.

[ShepherdsDog]

PluggyRug PluggyRug:

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

That way you can levitate all the way down.

What if it's full of rum.

would you really give a shit once you hit bottom?

[Chumley]

Scape Scape:

I think what he was implying is that the means of violence is not an ends in itself. Dr. Mengele, the Inquisitors of the Catholic Church and the East German KGB all tried violence to impose their version of regime change that ultimately failed because their excess was so egregious.

I thought they were trying to maintain their regimes, not change them.