China is going to perform "Religiouscide" against Buddism in Tibet

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Chibibar

http://www.zeenews.com/news609991.html

Wow. I guess there is no law against people "re-educate" you. I know that Genocide is bad, what about religiouscide? (I made up that word). In the past, most "religiouscide" involve killing people (crusade comes to mind)

I can see why China is doing this (I don't agree with it) cause it is Communism. Buddist allow free thinking and freedom from your own restriction of the mind and spirit. China can't have that. They are all about control and suppression.
 
Rob King

Rob King

Well, as Communists they're also necessarily Atheistic. I'm not sure why that is basically a mandated part of Communism, but there it is.
 
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Iaculus

Rob King said:
Well, as Communists they're also necessarily Atheistic. I'm not sure why that is basically a mandated part of Communism, but there it is.
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Then again, so's Buddhism. There are atheist Buddhists, Christian Buddhists...
 
Rob King

Rob King

That was a fascinating video, I have to admit. But that said, I'm not sure it's grounds for weeding out a religion, even IF it does justify the Chinese animosity toward the Dali Lama.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Rob King said:
That was a fascinating video, I have to admit. But that said, I'm not sure it's grounds for weeding out a religion, even IF it does justify the Chinese animosity toward the Dali Lama.
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It's not so much about wanting to weed out the religion, as much as it's about wanting to re-align the political and philosophic make up of the Tibet area. What they really want is to get the people of Tibet to be more China friendly, so China doesn't lose one of the most important cultural locations in it's borders. I'm not saying it's right, because it's not, but it's still better than killing them all like it's been proposed before.
 
Rob King

Rob King

I was under the impression that they've already been doing that for decades? Forcing migration of Tibetans into Chinese areas, and moving other ethnic Chinese into Tibet, to sort of dilute the more extremist philosophies.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Rob King said:
I was under the impression that they've already been doing that for decades? Forcing migration of Tibetans into Chinese areas, and moving other ethnic Chinese into Tibet, to sort of dilute the more extremist philosophies.
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Exactly. This is just another step in their long term plan to get what they want. They are simply putting more pressure on them. Unfortunately, China hasn't learned the lesson we've been learning in the Middle East: That putting extreme pressure on a deeply religious society really doesn't get you anything you'd want.
 
Rob King

Rob King

Well, that's largely true of any group. An identity set up in opposition to another group seems to be the strongest identity.

I once read an article about how in High Schools, if a small group of students take a pledge of sexual abstinence (not something I particularly care for, but it was the subject of the study) their 'success' rate is very high. The more people pledge, the less success the pledgers have. They form a group that they can set up in opposition to the 'debauchery' that happens around them, and that is where they find their identity.

That said, the article was hardly scientific, and I'm sure there are half a dozen other explanations that might explain those results. But it was what I thought of first.

At any rate, it gives me hope. I'd rather not see Tibet die off.
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

True... so answer it so i don't have to continue...

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Yeah, I posted that vid in the last Tibet thread. Great info in that BS episode.
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Of course in that time frame that's pretty much how everyone did business... including all those freedom loving revolutionaries in the western world...

The lesser of 2 evils thing came about because good is a very limited resource.
 
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Kitty Sinatra

Yeah. A Heart of Darkness reference. Or Apocalypse Now for the illiterate.
 
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