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   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On 5 Oct 2005 13:02:21 GMT, Siwel Naph  wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
   Well this would be getting pretty far away from your imaginary world through   
   the wardrobe, by try reading the history of Japan before the Meiji era, and   
   most notably in the periods of Buddhist dominance, where Japan was xenophobic,   
   ethnocentric and religiously intolerant, and intolerant of Shinto,   
   Confucianism and Christianity.   
      
   >>>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.   
      
   Maybe you should try a Goodle search on Hintdutva or Sangh Parivar some time.   
   Not to mention Tamil Tigers.   
      
      
      
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