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   Steve Hayes wrote:   
      
   >>> Of course "pure" Buddhism only exists in your imaginary land beyond   
   >>> the wardrobe, and can be found neither in Japan nor in Sri Lanka.   
   >>> The point is that in Japan, when Buddhiasts were in power, they   
   >>> tried to force Buddhism on the entire population through persecution   
   >>> etc.   
   >>   
   >>"Convert or it's your head in a basket"-type persecution?   
   >   
   > Yes.   
      
   Could you say more? I can find examples on the net of Buddhists   
   misbehaving, but nothing as drastic as that.   
      
   >>No, my imaginary worlds contain humans, not angels, and humans have a   
   >>subconscious which influences their actions more than they often   
   >>realize. That raises the question of whether it's possible for humans   
   >>to be sincere about certain things...   
   >   
   > Well then, perhaps you'd better explain your fictional analogies in a   
   > bit more detail, and what you understand by "sincere".   
      
   "Sincere" means consciously honest in profession of X. Which doesn't   
   exclude the possibility of unconscious motives etc, of course. So my   
   imaginary lands contain people who profess various Mere-isms without   
   conscious ulterior motive.   
      
   >>> There may be something to his thesis, because most of the conflicts   
   >>> in the world since the end of the Cold War have been where those   
   >>> civilisations meet -- Israel-Palestine, Bosnia, Chechnya,   
   >>> India-Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan and so on.   
   >>   
   >>Almost all of those involve the three monotheisms.   
   >   
   > So what?   
      
   So monotheism seems to be more aggressive. There's trouble in Thailand   
   too, but it's being caused by Muslims, not Buddhists.   
      
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