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Yeah, Buddhism has managed to gain some notoriety this year. Few months ago there were reports of Buddhist terrorism in Burma. And now these reports of a link to the Navy Yard shooter.

So much for enlightenment.
 
subdued_passion said:
Yeah, Buddhism has managed to gain some notoriety this year. Few months ago there were reports of Buddhist terrorism in Burma. And now these reports of a link to the Navy Yard shooter.

So much for enlightenment.
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YOU MADE THIS UP
 
subdued_passion said:
Yeah, Buddhism has managed to gain some notoriety this year. Few months ago there were reports of Buddhist terrorism in Burma. And now these reports of a link to the Navy Yard shooter.
So much for enlightenment.
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what link?

NON

there is a DIFFERENCE between MOOSESHITS killing in the name of a RELIGION

and this crazy KNEE GROW who killed and oh btw, dabbled in a religion
 
In the aftermath of the Washington Navy Yard shootings, gunman Aaron Alexis’s interest in Buddhism seemed at odds with conventional Western stereotypes of serene, nonviolent meditators.

Buddhism scholars and bloggers were quick to note that Alexis’ spiritual profile — he was involved with a temple in Fort Worth, although his attendance there dropped off after about a year — didn’t fit with the image of someone unloading a gun and killing 12 innocents in a crowded military office building.

Navy Yard shooting’s aftermath: The day after a gunman kills 12 at the compound, some workers return while others spend the day in remembrance.

Some saw the tragedy as an opportunity to publicly air some difficult topics that Buddhists most often discuss only among themselves. Is the peaceful Buddhist an illusion? Do Buddhists and Buddhist temples deal directly enough with the topic of mental illness? And, in fact, might Buddhism hold a special attraction for people who are mentally ill?

“As Buddhism has spread in the West, it has put forth and maintained an image of being a peaceful religion,” Buddhist ethicist Justin Whitaker, author of the American Buddhist Perspective blog, wrote Tuesday. “This is a myth.”

Buddhism can seem particularly appealing to “mentally unbalanced people seeking to right the ship of their lives, to self-medicate, to curb their impulses, or to give them a firmer grip on reality,” Clark Strand, a contributing editor to the Buddhist publication Tricycle magazine and a former Zen monk, said in an interview.

Unanswered questions

The relationship, if any, between Alexis’s spiritual beliefs and his rampage remains a mystery. Even the basic details about why, when and how Alexis came to dabble in Buddhism — at a tiny Fort Worth temple filled primarily with Thai immigrants — were elusive to his roommates and friends.

Did Alexis’ regular practice of meditation at the temple in 2010, along with the incense and gold Buddha he kept in his room, ease what he described as post-traumatic stress disorder and hallucinations? Or did he feel ultimately disconnected in his adopted spiritual community, where worship and post-meditation evening chats were in Thai, a language he spoke, but not fluently?

How was he affected, if at all, when his close friend and roommate, a Thai Buddhist, converted to Christianity?

Alexis told his Buddhist landlord he wanted to be a monk, but his attendance at temple services slipped from several times a week in 2010 to about once a month in 2011, before largely fading altogether. He knew of the temple’s ban on drinking and violence, but he considered Heineken beer his drink of choice and carried a gun “at all times,” said Oui Suthamtewakul, a friend and roommate from the temple.

Suthamtewakul and his wife, Kristi, run a Thai restaurant called Happy Bowl, where Alexis helped out regularly for several years. Despite living and working closely with Alexis, the couple said they had few answers about how he came to Buddhism and what it meant to him. Kristi Suthamtewakul, a Christian, said she used to speak often with him about religion, but she was unspecific on what.

“I was trying to understand Buddhism a lot more,” she said Tuesday. “I was trying to reach out to him.” Her husband became a Christian a couple years ago.
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Yep. The dude was a real believer for sure.

He "dabbled" in Buddhism. Can you imagine someone who "dabbled" in Christianity getting press over their religion after a shooting?

Just one more seriously fucked up dude with a gun. That's all.
 
Aphroditiac said:
Yep. The dude was a real believer for sure.

He "dabbled" in Buddhism. Can you imagine someone who "dabbled" in Christianity getting press over their religion after a shooting?

Just one more seriously fucked up dude with a gun. That's all.
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happens all the TIME

what doesn't happen is the same story written about MUSLIMS
 
It doesn't matter if he dabbled or was in line to be the next Dalai Lama, people are bringing up the Buddhism thing and talking about it in context to the shooter.

I am not saying there is a link. I am saying that this is another thing giving Buddhism a bad rep, in a year that Time Magazine chose to do a cover story like this.
http://digitaljournal.com/article/354198
 
subdued_passion said:
It doesn't matter if he dabbled or was in line to be the next Dalai Lama, people are bringing up the Buddhism thing and talking about it in context to the shooter.

I am not saying there is a link. I am saying that this is another thing giving Buddhism a bad rep, in a year that Time Magazine chose to do a cover story like this.
http://digitaljournal.com/article/354198
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he is a FREEDOM FIGHTER

good for him
 
Aphroditiac said:
Yep. The dude was a real believer for sure.

He "dabbled" in Buddhism. Can you imagine someone who "dabbled" in Christianity getting press over their religion after a shooting?

Just one more seriously fucked up dude with a gun. That's all.
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Youre looking in the right direction, what do you see beyond what you posted? There's something important out there.
 
Pablo Plunder said:
:rolleyes:
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You are fixating over one aspect of the religion. Not every little muslim boy burns with the ambition of turning into a jihadist.


The old testament (something we have in common) isn't exactly filled with stories of love and compassion. It's wrath and destruction and smiting down.
 
The city cops warned the base cops that the guy was on his way off his rocker....and nobody did anything about it.

Please pay attention to the warning signs
 
subdued_passion said:
You are fixating over one aspect of the religion. Not every little muslim boy burns with the ambition of turning into a jihadist.


The old testament (something we have in common) isn't exactly filled with stories of love and compassion. It's wrath and destruction and smiting down.
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not everyone, true

tough shit

KILL EM ALL

THEY ALL DESERVE IT
 
Okay grasshoppers here's the lesson:

There's nothing wonderful and marvelous that cant be stained and corrupted by how we treat it, and how we use it.
 
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