On May 23, 2008, at 2:13 PM, Stefano Mori wrote: > > On 2008-May-23, at 16:15, David Henderson wrote: > >> The Imperial Japanese army had 5 million members at it's height. It >> committed acts of terror including suicide bombings. It did have an >> official religion, Bushido, which is a form of Buddhism. Therefore >> Buddhism *is* the most terrorist inspiring religion in history. >> >> Bushido is *not* a religion. It is a combinatory word form of Bushi >> and Do or warrior and way in english. > > > Something that changed my perspective on a lot of things religious and > spiritual, was a talk by an American Zen master, Genpo Roshi, who was > a long time student of a Japanese master. > > Genpo said that it took him many years to eventually realise that half > of what he was learning was Zen, and the other half was "militaristic > Japanese bullshit", and it took him many years to learn to tell the > difference. > > I think the key thing about what's misleading about calling terrorists > "Islamic", is that while it's true that these terrorists are quoting > Islamic verse, *any* text is interpreted when it's read, and it's > interpreted by the reader through the filter of whatever stage or > worldview they are inhabiting. > > I vaguely heard somewhere that Timothy McV. had been reading Vedanta, > and interpreted it in a nihilistic way that justified in his own view, > why killing was fine. I'd like to find a reference, but I don't find > it hard to believe. > > > Stefano >
Have you seen fitna? <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitna_(film)> <http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3369102968312745410> if you have the time. (very graphic..) Part of the problem with Islam is that it's all "old testament" no "new testament" + the hadith, which is human writings taken as 'gospel' If you really have no life :-) then Hirsi Ali: Is Islam Compatible with Liberal Democracy is really good too, <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aItcLm_0nc&feature=related > It is hard to watch Fitna and not question if this religion is capable of peaceful coexistence with anything else. I agree that all text is interpreted, but when you socialize your young to a particular interpretation then "they" no longer interpret or even question the basic teaching that *you* gave them. They create monsters. <http://pmw.org.il/> in their own words.. These cartoon <http://pmw.org.il/car/index.html> run in their main stream media. I don't if know you can fix that problem (in one lifetime) without a direct confrontation. =c= _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
