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China Says Tibetans Need Permission To Reincarnate
michaelcole writes "China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. This article is both hilarious and sad, looking at the lengths to which a government will go to regulate thought through censorship. It also goes into some of the more subtle politics of the current 72-year-old Dalai Lama as he thinks about his political and spiritual successor. The Dalai Lama 'refuses to be reborn in Tibet so long as it's under Chinese control.'"
I do not remember any concerns, when Turkey bans women in headscarfs from the government buildings or France bans children in headscarfs from school, or Tunisia bans any woman with headscarf from STREETs.
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
The USA and the EU Union announced that all terrorists are no longer permitted to reincarnate unless a court ruling otherwise is issued. Bush was heard saying that they should have done it sooner and now because of the delay we are in danger of 9/11 terrorist that could now be playing in our parks. It was also heard that this is also for the sake of the good children that also had reincarnated. An extremists who do not wish to be made known commented that no terrorist on his right mind would want to be reincarnated now considering that the world is experiencing a shortage of virgins...
Dear slashdot
Sorry to say when i was looking at your top article in front of it came a google banner.
PLease stop this overlapping banners, it took me quite a while to finaly be able to read this story.
keep your marketing adds in place and don't hoover it over your page.
Otherwise people loose interest in your site, and also beginning to hate your advertizers.
That's not why these advertizers started their internet campaign.
(hmm by itself alone this comment could be net story topic about online marketing these days).
Any way i hope you will act on it.
I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change.
Where is this place? I've certainly never heard of it.
"Are you English or retarded?" SCNR, no offence intended.
So the idea is there. China just needs to build the machine, capture his soul and then condemn its sucsesive bodies to an infinity of hard labour. Add that to new DRM tecnology and the channel could be secured against monk cyber-terrorists.
Yes, we got over it HERE, but we're repeating that THERE. Think about the ultimate purpose of Iraq war. So Chinese are just doing that HERE of their own.
...quit stalin, the time is mao and i'm hot to trotsky.
Got it. Oil. Where are you going with this?
If you think we're actually over there to spread "Western values," you're buying the same line that's been sold to America's right wing.
Tags != Comments, and -1 (Troll) != -1 (I Would Respond Angrily To This Poster So They Must Be Trolling)
Any man made institution, be it governmental or religious attempts to be an authority, and is a consolidation of power. These institutions may not seek power themselves at first, but will eventually attract those seeing power. Then these institutions are infiltrated by these individuals and the corruption begins...
;-) ) choose which gospels it would have in its bible because you had to pay people to copy these texts by hand. Eventually, a common set emerged and they not make up the Bible. Was it wight for the many churches to exclude any gospel? These are supposed to be holier books.. I guess some are holier than others...
It is important to always question authority and anything else that is presented as authority. It doesn't matter if it is the Constitution of the US, or a Bible. Find out what authority is really possessed and how relevant the words are. For those who think the Bible is the original word of God, you have to look at how the words got to your brain. They were laid on the page by the publisher, who probably took some liberty when they copied from another text, and that text took some liberties from the scroll it came from... It all goes back to these gospels that were written 40-400 years after Jesus. If they were really eye witness accounts, then they would agree, but the Gospels of Mark and Matthew don't agree, even though they tell the same story. On top of that, there were many other gospels that never got included in the Bible. The reason is the church (an authority
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Really... +5 for that sack of lies huh? You know you remind me of stories from my dad's Aunt and Uncle who were missionaries in Cuba and Russia, and the lies that were spread about them. I can't believe you would insult so many of your past presidents, and call them all psychotics like that. I suppose, however, by slaming Christianity it's OK. Saying the same thing about any other religion would probably have this marked as Flamebait. Not that I would condone that, I actually BELIEVE in Freedom of Religion. And God. wow. What a concept huh?
Using your same logic, all teachers are bad, as I know of one that had "relations" with his underage students. Yes, let's stereotype more! This is what will bring the might US of A back on track. Why, just look at how wonderful things are in the US now that there is such anti-religious elements. Hell, using your logic, I know a NUMBER of Athiests that do meth... do they all do meth then? They MUST!
Can you please show me where in the Bible it says to do Crystal Meth, and to be bad people? I missed that bit.
After all, a majority should be punished for the minorities actions, right? As long as we believe in what you tell me to, the world will be just fine, right?