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  •  As a buddhist (1+ / 0-)

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    Mr Bula

    let me agree with you that honey is indeed sweeter than vinegar and also attracts more flies...but we don't need any more flies and the two together make a great sweet and sour sauce!

    There are times to go for the throat and make an example of someone.  Joe pimps for a president and a war that has shredded the lives of countless innocents.

    There is compassion, and then there is idiot compassion.

    Metaphorically, Joes head needs to be mounted on a pike at the gates of the city.

    by YetiMonk on Wed Aug 09, 2006 at 06:20:45 AM PDT

    •  As a Buddhist? (1+ / 0-)

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      Croaky

      Sorry, I am unfamiliar with the "mount heads on spike" school of Buddhism, and I thought I knew them all...

      Time to go back to Compassion 101 my friend and catch up on those parts you may have dozed through.  We don't need ANYONE'S head on a spike.  We need, I would suggest, a more peaceful world, based on international diplomacy that has brains instead of just brawn and bluster.  We need to send Condi Rice back to work on the Exxon board.  We need to send Dick Cheney just about anywhere besides where he is now.  John Bolton? Whew.  Charm School?  Anger Management Classes?  But no spikes, okay?  Literally, figuratively or metaphorically.  

      If you start channeling Ann Coulter, you run the risk of turning into her.

      by arthura on Wed Aug 09, 2006 at 06:39:06 AM PDT

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      •  What kind of Buddhism? (1+ / 0-)

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        zenbot

        Well said, arthura.  I haven't read much by the Dalai Lama, but I don't recall him ever using terms like:

        "go for the throat"
        "pimps a president"
        "idiot compassion"
        "head needs to be mounted on a pike"
        "don't be an asshole"

        I'm with the author of this Diary.  Be kind, let Lieberman either continue to destroy himself or come around by listening, talking to, and understanding his constituents in the general election.

        National Gazette

        by Croaky on Wed Aug 09, 2006 at 06:44:31 AM PDT

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      •  Yeah...I'm starting a new lineage (0+ / 0-)

        Compassion does not mean what most people think it means.  It is not passive and it is not always soft.  It is keeping a persons best interest in mind and acting on it.  

        Exactly who's interest is it in to enable Joe or people like him?  Or to show him a soft landing?  

        Joe knows what he is doing.  He has been prodded to step aside.  If he doesn't then what happens to him should be held up as a warning to others that may be tempted to aggrandize themselves at the expense of others.

        Don't forget, this guy feeds off of war.  He has also been a primary enabler of GW to continue and even escalate the carnage.

        It is in everyones best interest, even Joes, to stop Joe in no uncertain terms.

        Maybe you've never seen the wrathful diety paintings in Tibetan Buddhism?  They're half of the entire school of thought.

        I'm not just spouting off.

        by YetiMonk on Wed Aug 09, 2006 at 06:54:18 AM PDT

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