Steve Kurtz wrote: > > A few years ago in New Zealand the Dalai Lama was speaking about > sustainability. He was asked about overpopulation and responded with his usual > twinkling smile, that yes, it was a problem. He then added that the world > would benefit if a greater percentage of humans were priests, nuns, gays and > lesbians. :-)
I would delete the "smiley". This isn't funny -- it's wise. I don't think I ever heard this before, but it increases my respect for the Dalai Lama. Once, in a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, the Chief monk tried to seduce me. I was greatly impressed at the superiority of his sexual behavior in comparison with the Roman Catholic ideology of celibacy(and the last castrato, Dr. Allesandro Moreschi, died ca. 1927 -- there is a Pearl label CD of his recordings). But, back to the real world, as Sigmund Freud observed, all known civilizations (there may have been an exception in ancient Cambodia, see A. Lingis' _Excesses_) -- all known civilizations are fueled by repression of sexual energy and rechanneling it into dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, making a killing in the market, etc. As Lawrence Stone wrote in _Marriage, Sex and the Family in England: 1500 to 1800_, the British Empire was not acquired in a fit of absentmindedness but in a fit of absence of women. \brad mccormick > > Obviously a shrinking pie (earth's resources are NOT increasing; entropy > is)divided into 250000 additional slices daily = fewer per capita gold > watches, as well as less health care, water, good nutrition, etc > > Cheers, > Steve > > Brad: > "one of the Dalai Lama's most > prized possessions is a gold Patek-Philippe watch > FDR gave to him -- if the Dalai Lama can have something > better than a Timex, why not *Everyman*?)" > > -- > http://magma.ca/~gpco/ > http://www.scientists4pr.org/ > Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a > finite world is either a madman or an economist.—Kenneth Boulding -- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/
