Comments on: Less Jamming, More Peace http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2006/08/05/less-jamming-more-peace/ A Fresh Look at News, Politics and History Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:33:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Bill Ectric http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2006/08/05/less-jamming-more-peace/#comment-62 Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:47:43 +0000 http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2006/08/05/less-jamming-more-peace/#comment-62 I think the best kind of religion takes place inside the individual. People must resolved their own inner conflicts, develope a capacity to be honest with themselves, and extend a humane attitude to others. This kind of "religion" spreads naturally to others, not by force. Never by force. From my limited understanding of Buddhism, it almost seems like Buddhism is the actual means by which any religion works as I described above. It also seems very similar to the concepts of Alcoholics Anonymous & Narcotics Anonymous. Those two organizations have worked wonders in people who seemed hopeless to doctors and psychiatrists. I think the best kind of religion takes place inside the individual. People must resolved their own inner conflicts, develope a capacity to be honest with themselves, and extend a humane attitude to others. This kind of “religion” spreads naturally to others, not by force. Never by force.

From my limited understanding of Buddhism, it almost seems like Buddhism is the actual means by which any religion works as I described above. It also seems very similar to the concepts of Alcoholics Anonymous & Narcotics Anonymous. Those two organizations have worked wonders in people who seemed hopeless to doctors and psychiatrists.

]]> by: jota http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2006/08/05/less-jamming-more-peace/#comment-61 Mon, 07 Aug 2006 02:25:37 +0000 http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2006/08/05/less-jamming-more-peace/#comment-61 oops The KC Royals are owned by Wal-Mart. You get your lowest cost baseball, and lowest common denominator politics and economics to ravage the planet as well. If figures. Pass the peanuts, Sam. And thanks for nothing. oops

The KC Royals are owned by Wal-Mart. You get your lowest cost baseball, and lowest common denominator politics and economics to ravage the planet as well. If figures. Pass the peanuts, Sam. And thanks for nothing.

]]> by: jota http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2006/08/05/less-jamming-more-peace/#comment-59 Sun, 06 Aug 2006 20:00:18 +0000 http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2006/08/05/less-jamming-more-peace/#comment-59 As a lasped catholic (blame teacher nuns and the college experience!), I have embraced buddhism as alternative thought and in action. I completety agree that it is dissappointing that the Dalai Lama has been mostly mute. I watched Condi today on CNN and that's about all I can take. I don't understand why the world is so relaxed about this magma of violence roiling the planet. I suppose the Corporation has succeeded where government and religion have failed. In the meantime, the alarm bells are going off inside my head. I have only one complaint about your post: I am from Kansas City. Sure, we have the worst team in the history of baseball, but we were once great. Maybe America can again be so, too. As a lasped catholic (blame teacher nuns and the college experience!), I have embraced buddhism as alternative thought and in action. I completety agree that it is dissappointing that the Dalai Lama has been mostly mute. I watched Condi today on CNN and that’s about all I can take.

I don’t understand why the world is so relaxed about this magma of violence roiling the planet. I suppose the Corporation has succeeded where government and religion have failed. In the meantime, the alarm bells are going off inside my head.

I have only one complaint about your post: I am from Kansas City. Sure, we have the worst team in the history of baseball, but we were once great. Maybe America can again be so, too.

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