[Buddha-l] Is this guy an, er, budding bodhisattva of IT?

[Jim Peavler]

I guess I am more romantic. I read about ancients who plundered,  
raped, killed, and covered all the fields with salt.

On Apr 28, 2007, at 9:04 AM, jkirk wrote:

> Thanks for the account------I love these ancients but never find  
> the time to get down to reading them.  Best thing about this period  
> was they had no WMD......even if war broke out it was mostly  
> soldiers (who made fighting into an art and enjoyed it, one senses)  
> who got slaughtered. Civilians got out of the way and then moved  
> back when things were quiet again. Wasn't scorched earth and carpet- 
> destruction unknown in those days?
>