Richard M wrote: > --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozg...@...> wrote: > >> TurquoiseB wrote: >> >>> To believe in evil per se is -- for me -- >>> akin to believing that there are some things >>> that a person could do that would completely >>> *prohibit* realizing their own enlightenment. >>> And most of the sages I respect have said >>> the exact opposite. The potential for Buddha- >>> nature is just as present in Dick Cheney as >>> it was in young Prince Siddhartha. Whether >>> that Buddha-nature will ever be *realized* >>> in Dick Cheney is another question. I would >>> not consider it likely in this lifetime, but >>> I admit the possibility, however remote. >>> >>> >> Evil is the ego, is it not, oh wise, "hammer-in-chief?" So it is >> Cheney's ego that will keep him from any realization in this lifetime >> and probably many future ones. Conservatives believe that man is >> inherently evil and must be controlled. >> > > Conservatives believe that? Lefties do I'd have thought (hence the > association of top-down, control-and-command economy with the Left). > The conservatives I'm familiar with tend to be libertarians with a > belief that folks left to their own devices will do better than the > cold, clammy hand of the State. That certainly means taking a punt on > the inherent goodness of most people. > > But, as has been discussed recently, perhaps our labels let us down. > Far left morphs to far right anyhoo?
Libertarians are Republicans that like to smoke dope and have sex. ;-)
