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Asked Oct 23, 2007, 05:41 AM — 43 Answers
The Dalai Lama's "Vision of a Compassionate Future"
What do you think? Visionary and inspiring? Naive and unrealistic? Delusional and dangerous? What?

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Many people today agree that we need to reduce violence in our society. If we are truly serious about this, we must deal with the roots of violence, particularly those that exist within each of us. We need to embrace "inner disarmament," reducing our own emotions of suspicion, hatred and hostility toward our brothers and sisters.
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Many of the problems we confront today are our own creation. I believe that one of the root causes of these manmade problems is the inability of humans to control their agitated minds and hearts -- an area in which the teachings of the world's great religions have much to offer.
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I do not mean to suggest that religion is indispensable to a sound ethical way of life, or for that matter to genuine happiness. In the end, whether one is a believer or a nonbeliever, what matters is that one be a good, kind and warmhearted person. A deep sense of caring for others, based on a profound sense of interconnection, is the essence of the teachings of all great religions of the world. In my travels, I always consider my foremost mission to be the promotion of basic human qualities of goodness -- the need for and appreciation of the value of love, our natural capacity for compassion and the need for genuine fellow feeling. No matter how new the face or how different the dress and behavior, there is no significant division between us and other people.
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This blue planet of ours is the most delightful habitat we know. Its life is our life, its future our future. Now Mother Nature is telling us to cooperate. In the face of such global problems as the greenhouse effect and the deterioration of the ozone layer, individual organizations and single nations are helpless. Our mother is teaching us a lesson in universal responsibility.
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Large human movements spring from individual human initiatives. If you feel that you cannot have much of an effect, the next person may also become discouraged, and a great opportunity will have been lost. On the other hand, each of us can inspire others simply by working to develop our own altruistic motivations -- and engaging the world with a compassion-tempered heart and mind.

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Oct 24, 2007, 03:24 PM
Visionary and inspiring
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#32

Oct 25, 2007, 01:50 PM
Kinji, The question was about the ideas The Dalai Lama wrote about in his article on PEACE.

All you and your fascist friends were able to comment on were PERSONAL ATTACKS AND INSINUATIONS against The Dalai Lama and NOW AGAINST ME!

I challange you: write about the article about peace just as the question asked. No ad hominem attacks against ANYBODY!
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Oct 25, 2007, 02:23 PM
Visionary and inspiring
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#34

Oct 26, 2007, 02:07 AM
Choux I speak of facts . The Dalhi Lama to this day has not distanced himself from his Nazi associations !
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Oct 26, 2007, 08:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Choux
No ad hominem attacks against ANYBODY!

I think the difference is that I know that facts do NOT equal "attacks." Let's look at REAL attacks, shall we?

"Just anothe grandiose hypocrite." (Choux, 8/4)

"We already had a President who was *NOT A MAN*....He's sitting in the White House right now with his head up his butt." (Choux, 9/20)

"I"m not a fascist like *you*I don't need a fascist like yourself telling meFascists like you and your Board friends Tom and Tex." (Choux, 9/24)

"war started by a moron(Bush) his civilian airhead neo-Cons" (Choux, 10/16)

"He [Bush] had a glow about him; a glow like a guy high on something....alcohol, pills....he was GLOWING. I saw that look many, many times on my father when he was drunk. We know the drunken glow, don't we folks.Republican-Fascist lies and hypocrisy." (Choux, 10/18)

"the Republican-Fascist candidate" (Choux, 10/24)

"you and your fascist neo-Con friends" (Choux, 10/24)

"you and your fascist friends" (Choux, 10/25)

"Glad to see you put on your tinfoil hat. Helps block the Satanic Rays controlling your thoughts, does it?" (Choux, 10/23)

There can obviously be no meaningful exchange of opposing ideas with you. You continually use GENUINE attacks and name-calling against those with whom you disagree.

So what would be the point?
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#36

Oct 26, 2007, 09:18 AM
Kindj,
Those are also facts.
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Oct 26, 2007, 09:30 AM
What Is Political Correctness?
Political Correctness (PC) is the communal tyranny that erupted in the 1980s. It was a spontaneous declaration that particular ideas, expressions and behaviour, which were then legal, should be forbidden by law, and people who transgressed should be punished. (see Newspeak) It started with a few voices but grew in popularity until it became unwritten and written law within the community. With those who were publicly declared as being not politically correct becoming the object of persecution by the mob, if not prosecution by the state.

The Odious Nature Of Political Correctness
To attempt to point out the odious nature of Political Correctness is to restate the crucial importance of plain speaking, freedom of choice and freedom of speech; these are the community's safe-guards against the imposition of tyranny, indeed their absence is tyranny (see "On Liberty", Chapter II, by J.S. Mill). Which is why any such restrictions on expression such as those invoked by the laws of libel, slander and public decency, are grave matters to be decided by common law methodology; not by the dictates of the mob.

Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion. Wikipedia

What do neoconservatives believe?
"Neocons" believe that the United States should not be ashamed to use its unrivaled power – forcefully if necessary – to promote its values around the world. Some even speak of the need to cultivate a US empire. Neoconservatives believe modern threats facing the US can no longer be reliably contained and therefore must be prevented, sometimes through preemptive military action.

Most neocons believe that the US has allowed dangers to gather by not spending enough on defense and not confronting threats aggressively enough. One such threat, they contend, was Saddam Hussein and his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. Since the 1991 Gulf War, neocons relentlessly advocated Mr. Hussein's ouster.

Most neocons share unwavering support for Israel, which they see as crucial to US military sufficiency in a volatile region. They also see Israel as a key outpost of democracy in a region ruled by despots. Believing that authoritarianism and theocracy have allowed anti-Americanism to flourish in the Middle East, neocons advocate the democratic transformation of the region, starting with Iraq. They also believe the US is unnecessarily hampered by multilateral institutions, which they do not trust to effectively neutralize threats to global security.
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#38

Oct 26, 2007, 09:38 AM
To Whom it may concern:
If I think Bush is a Moron I will tell you so. That is my right. If I think our government is Facist, I will tell you that too. I think they are. They are in bed with the corporations. They are the corporations! DUH! That makes them facist. If you don't like politically "uncorrect" people, then find a circle jerk more to your liking. Most of all, stop bashing people that tell it like it is-politically uncorrect folks.
kindj (Oct 26, 2007 10:03 AM): I absolutely LOVE politically incorrect people! What I DON'T like is unintelligent people who can't decently oppose an opinion and resort to attacks and name-calling instead.   Source:
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Oct 26, 2007, 10:00 AM
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Originally Posted by NeedKarma
kindj,
Those are also facts.
Prove them.
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#40

Oct 26, 2007, 10:08 AM
Nah. I don't have the free time that you do.

But here's the definition of fascism:
Definition of fascism - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

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1: often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition

2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
Many believe that fits perfectly with the actions of the current administration.
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