--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], Peter <drpetersutphen@> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- shempmcgurk <shempmcgurk@> wrote: > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer > > > > <fairfieldlife@> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.amritapuri.org/teachings/message/cartoon.php > > > > > > > > > > > > > My opinion: > > > > > > > > Amma should have kept her mouth shut. Her words > > > > border on justifying > > > > the actions of murderers and terrorists. > > > > > > How so? She's just pointing out that people get upset > > > when something they hold very dear is made fun of. > > > > Well, yeah, Charles Manson was very upset with Terry Melcher for > > treating his songwriting, which Manson held very dear, so > > frivolously and Mark David Chapman was very upset with John Lennon > > for making fun of Christianity which Chapman, a born-again, held > > very dear. > > > > In times of turmoil and murder, responsible people don't go out of > > their way to justify why murderers are doing what they are doing. > > Instead they concentrate on bringing peace to the situation. > > But you can't bring peace to a situation if you don't > understand why it's violent. > > <duh> > Then study the violence.
Not by participating in it, rather by looking at it clearly, seeing it for what it is, and then systematically transforming each component of the violence to non-violence, simply by virtue of having our collective attention on it. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
