Comments on: Bush dark and the hippie king. http://girlontheright.com/2008/12/24/bush-dark-and-the-hippie-king/ For girls with pearls... Since 2004 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:54:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Steynianism 301 « Free Canuckistan! http://girlontheright.com/2008/12/24/bush-dark-and-the-hippie-king/comment-page-1/#comment-4011 Steynianism 301 « Free Canuckistan! Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:14:00 +0000 http://girlontheright.com/?p=2535#comment-4011 [...] BUSH DARK and the hippie king …. [...] [...] BUSH DARK and the hippie king …. [...]

]]> By: PatrickH http://girlontheright.com/2008/12/24/bush-dark-and-the-hippie-king/comment-page-1/#comment-3978 PatrickH Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:02:26 +0000 http://girlontheright.com/?p=2535#comment-3978 The Dalai Lama radiates compassion and is, in my opinion, a genuinely good man, perhaps even an enlightened one. The hippie-projectors simply cannot square this with the DL's clearly stated opposition to masturbation, oral sex, sodomy, homosexuality, gay marriage, and his support of clerical celibacy. So they ignore all of that. Even more dangerous to their world-view: what if there's a connection between the DL's views on these issues and the spiritual qualities the hippie-projectors sense in him? That is just too shattering a possibility even to contemplate. Funny how nobody thinks that celibacy in Buddhist monks causes them to become pedophiles. Wonder why they get off the hook, and Catholic priests get impaled on it? Could it be that the DL and Buddhism are really just another stick with which to beat to death our own traditions? I say this as an open admirer of His Holiness, a title I grant to him with complete sincerity, and as a practitioner of Buddhist meditation techniques. It annoys me enormously to see a man of such goodness have his philosophy and ethics amputated procrustes-style to fit the soiled bed of Western progressivism. Thank you for the insightful post. The Dalai Lama radiates compassion and is, in my opinion, a genuinely good man, perhaps even an enlightened one. The hippie-projectors simply cannot square this with the DL’s clearly stated opposition to masturbation, oral sex, sodomy, homosexuality, gay marriage, and his support of clerical celibacy. So they ignore all of that. Even more dangerous to their world-view: what if there’s a connection between the DL’s views on these issues and the spiritual qualities the hippie-projectors sense in him? That is just too shattering a possibility even to contemplate.

Funny how nobody thinks that celibacy in Buddhist monks causes them to become pedophiles. Wonder why they get off the hook, and Catholic priests get impaled on it? Could it be that the DL and Buddhism are really just another stick with which to beat to death our own traditions? I say this as an open admirer of His Holiness, a title I grant to him with complete sincerity, and as a practitioner of Buddhist meditation techniques. It annoys me enormously to see a man of such goodness have his philosophy and ethics amputated procrustes-style to fit the soiled bed of Western progressivism.

Thank you for the insightful post.

]]> By: James Cohen http://girlontheright.com/2008/12/24/bush-dark-and-the-hippie-king/comment-page-1/#comment-3969 James Cohen Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:09:20 +0000 http://girlontheright.com/?p=2535#comment-3969 Big al beautifully said and thank you. Big al beautifully said and thank you.

]]> By: Big Al http://girlontheright.com/2008/12/24/bush-dark-and-the-hippie-king/comment-page-1/#comment-3968 Big Al Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:40:47 +0000 http://girlontheright.com/?p=2535#comment-3968 So much of politics is now just a game, and there are far too many followers and so few leaders. IMO one of the best things that Bush did wasn't any policy or such, it was a practice. A practice that so very few politicians follow nowadays. He went with is convictions instead of what was expedient. He followed no poll. He did what he thought right. He wasn't always right. But even so, those that knew him knew that his motives were pure. Self image and political popularity didn't figure much into the equasion. Funny thing though, he was so often accused of having those very motivations for what he did. Another funny thing, what people seem to decry the loudest we can find he more often than not was right about. He was failed by people around him more than he ever failed us. He stood by America. I wish America would have stood by him. Things would have been so very different. So much of politics is now just a game, and there are far too many followers and so few leaders. IMO one of the best things that Bush did wasn’t any policy or such, it was a practice. A practice that so very few politicians follow nowadays. He went with is convictions instead of what was expedient. He followed no poll. He did what he thought right. He wasn’t always right. But even so, those that knew him knew that his motives were pure. Self image and political popularity didn’t figure much into the equasion. Funny thing though, he was so often accused of having those very motivations for what he did. Another funny thing, what people seem to decry the loudest we can find he more often than not was right about. He was failed by people around him more than he ever failed us. He stood by America. I wish America would have stood by him. Things would have been so very different.

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