[Buddha-l] Re: on eating pets for meat

[Richard P. Hayes]

On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 23:01 -0400, Chan Fu wrote:

> If and when Richard becomes serious (ie: takes himself seriously),
> I shall do likewise and then, well, we all know what would happen...

We're talking black holes, into which all wisdom would be sucked, never
again to emerge. 

> Buddhists treat karma like religionists treat god, but both sides
> forget to add the clown nose to that beautiful portrait of some
> long-haired hippy martyr that they wish they'd been...

Hey, I fled the country during the Vietnam war and lived with a bunch of
Quakers (refugees from the McCarthy era) in a remote part of the
mountains of western Canada. And I marched in a demonstration once and
chanted some anti-American slogans in French in front of the US embassy
in Ottawa. Don't I get a few hippie points for THAT---even though I did
have my clown nose in the pocket of my coveralls, right next to my
copies of the Communist Manifesto, the Sayings of Chairman Mao and the I
Ching, and the tattered picture of Che?

-- 
Seriously yours,
Richard 
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