[Buddha-l] Re: New trans. of poetry of the Sixth DL

[jkirk]

Richard, this is one of your most hilarious. But I suspect you won't hear a 
Mormon say "my temple" unless he's in Salt Lake City. Otherwise, it's "my 
stake."

Speaking of which, this morning while taking time to wake up to the sounds 
of radio (I can't hear birds singing in the morning here, they are all dead 
due to the explosion of cats--city Animal Control recently busted one 
woman's house that had 123 cats in it in varying degrees of illness and near 
death, plus fragrance of ammonia so heavy the workers had to wear gas 
masks--but I digress)..anyway, I hit a Christian station devoted solely to 
figuring out how to tell Mormons, gently, they are not really Christians and 
why. True love hath no bounds.
Joanna
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> On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 19:51 -0700, Hal Cooper wrote:
>
>> This issue is very real though.  I have run into many people who just 
>> don't
>> feel comfortable in the Asian Buddhist surroundings.
>
> Have you run across Westerners who feel quite comfortable in Asian
> Buddhist settings but feel queasy around Westerners who try to act like
> Asians by dressing in Asian clothes, eating with East Asian utensils,
> going by Sanskrit or Japanese names they can't pronounce correctly und
> so weiter? If not, let me introduce myself. I think we could become
> friends.
>
>> Have you ever noticed that Westerners don't say "my temple" very often.
>
> I can see you don't spend much time around Mormons.
>
> By the way, Hal, according to Mort Saul, the people into whose lawns you
> are supposed to burn questions marks are Unitarians. I don't know who
> can afford the gasoline to burn anything into the manicured lawns of
> Republicans these days.
>
> Did any of you folks see the PBS program on the high school gal from
> Lubbock, TX who was working to promote sex education, thereby causing a
> great deal of hand-wringing from her Republican parents and her local
> minister. One of the great lines in the program was the minister's:
> "Liberalism and Christianity mix like oil and water. Christianity is the
> most intolerant religion in the world. When I hear you talk, I'm afraid
> I hear a lot of tolerance." It was obvious from his facial expression
> (which featured bleached teeth and peroxided hair) that the minister was
> pretty alarmed at this young girl's dangerous tendencies toward
> toleration. He had another great line to the effect that teaching
> teenagers how to use condoms is the moral equivalent of handing them a
> gun and letting them go through the school killing people. Jesus, Sam,
> if any of these folks leak out of Texas into America, we could have a
> mess to clean up. (Bumper sticker recently spotted on a Texan van that
> somehow got past the border patrol into New Mexico: "The best method of
> safe sex is in your hands.")
>
> I'd say more, but I have to go iron my dhoti, eat my tofu and wash my
> chopsticks before sitting on the floor to do my Buddhist meditation.
>
> -- 
> Dharmachari Dayamati (pronounce THAT if you can!)
> Albuquerque, New Mexico
>
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