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Subject: Re: Slaughter in the Name of God
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From: James Rogers <jamesr@best.com>
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Date: 17 Sep 2002 12:01:16 -0700
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On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 11:16, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
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> >>>>> "J" == Justin Mason <jm@jmason.org> writes:
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> J> What about Tibetan Buddhism BTW? They seem like an awfully
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> J> nice bunch of chaps (and chapesses).
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> Yes, them too. When wolves attack their sheep, they coral the wolf
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> into a quarry and then throw rocks from the surrounding cliffs so
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> that "no one will know who killed the wolf"
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> In Samskar, before the Chinese arrived, there had not been a killing
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> in over 2000 years, and the last recorded skirmish, over rights to
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> a water hole, had happened several generations ago.
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I'm skeptical.
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One of the many perversions of modern civilization is the fictitious
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rendering of various peoples, frequently to the point where the fiction
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is more "real" than the reality. You see it over and over again in
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history: The Primitive People pull a fast one on Whitey The Junior
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Anthropologist, playing to all the prejudices of Whitey (who only became
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Junior Anthropologists to support personal ideologies), and before you
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know it the charade takes on a life of its own which the Primitive
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People are compelled to perpetuate. Worse, even when there is
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substantial evidence to the contrary with some basic scholarship, the
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facts have a hard time competing with the ideologically pleasing fiction
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that is already firmly entrenched. And many peoples (e.g. American
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Indians) develop a profit motive for maintaining and promoting the myth
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in popular culture.
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I'm far more inclined to believe that people is people, no matter where
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you are on the planet. The only time you see any anomalies is when you
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have a self-selecting sub-population within an otherwise normal
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population, which is hardly a fair way to look at any major population.
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-James Rogers
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jamesr@best.com
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