Warning Disturbing Content: Tibets Desperate Cry for Help

cincybearcat

Byrnzie wrote:

This thread was about Tibet. So I was curious as to why it descended into a rant against the Chinese in general.

Love the irony. Why'd you start comparing America to China then? Hahaha that is priceless.

AS for the topic at hand, wait, what was the topic again? China? America? Mao?

cincybearcat

BhagavadGita wrote:

I received a letter about a nun named Ani Palden Choetsu who in a selfless act, covered herself in gasoline and set herself on fire in the street. This disturbingly brave act is not a single incident. There have been other monks and nuns go to this extreme, sacrificing themselves in the name of non violence, they have chosen to be violent against themselves to save others.

How does this save others?

whygohome

cincybearcat wrote:

BhagavadGita wrote:

I received a letter about a nun named Ani Palden Choetsu who in a selfless act, covered herself in gasoline and set herself on fire in the street. This disturbingly brave act is not a single incident. There have been other monks and nuns go to this extreme, sacrificing themselves in the name of non violence, they have chosen to be violent against themselves to save others.

How does this save others?

It doesn't. It can raise awareness, but in the long run, people simply don't care.
Instead of being violent against themselves, they should use violence against the oppressors. Violence works. Plain and simple.

Byrnzie

cincybearcat wrote:

Love the irony. Why'd you start comparing America to China then? Hahaha that is priceless.

Because I took it that the person denigrating the Chinese for anything and everything was American, so I thought I'd give a dose of perspective. But then you already know this.

catefrances

weenie wrote:

catefrances wrote:

tybird wrote:

Not a lot has changed, my dear member of the Chinese PR department....my point was that you were defending your beloved Chinese against charges that were accurate. Every country is driving some species of plant or animal towards extinction, never said that the US was without fault.....but our need for self-gratification via folk remedies to make our dicks harder is not driving mega-fauna species on multiple continents to extinction....which the Chinese are guilty of....and there is no defense of Mao's war on the environment...nor is there a good defense of the occupation of Tibet.

they need educating thats all.

i recently watched a programme on the poaching of ivory. it showed that quite often the chinese people who avail themselves of the remedies and potions made from ivory are told that the taking of ivory does not result in the death of the elephants. they believe this cause it is what the are told. they believe that just like teeth grow back, so too do tusks. it needs to be shown to them that the elephants give their lives for the ivory. i think if this is done then in time they will turn their backs on anything made from poached ivory.

So based on your line of logic, they need to be "educated" that eating penises won't make their own "dicks harder" as it was so aptly put. I hardly think that education is the problem, or the solution. Once again, the word selfish comes to mind. How do you say Viagra in Chinese?

And by the way, I never said that the US was utopia, I was simply making observations about China in conjunction with what their government has done to the tibetan people. I don't care if the CIA or the Ku Klux Klan helped the H.H. Dalai Lama. He is worth helping, in my opinion. And before someone goes off on another rant, I'm not racist or against the well-being of afro Americans, nor have I have condoned support or given support to the KKK. I was being facetious.

yes. tho i was speaking of the ivory trade the same line of logic goes for the ingestion of penises. but like all superstitions i guess it needs to be grown out of. i hardly see it as selfish.. weird yes.. but then again superstitions are just mind over matter so...

what is your solution then? just take the penises from them. slap a ban on them and impose a fine or jail sentence??? if education isnt the answer, what is?

tybird

Byrnzie wrote:

This thread was about Tibet. So I was curious as to why it descended into a rant against the Chinese in general. It was made to sound like the Chinese were an exception in terms of endangering wildlife and the environment, which they aren't.

They deserve the scorn. :twisted: