[Buddha-l] Are we unplugged or something?

[andy]

>Yes, well, Martin Adam did the actual article, but his invitation to add
>a commentary is the closest I will ever come to an academic credit.   It
>seems that there has been very little that I have seen of a Buddhist
>oriented response to terrorism and Andy's threat to start a thread
>seemed interesting.  Of course the basic response would be "we're ag'in
>it" when Buddhists are questioned about violence and terrorism.  But
>even our meagre effort showed a more nuanced stance and I thought others
>might have something to say.

Close? In academics, it is never about the credit, it is about the truth!  As 
for terror, I don't think we have gone over that, since you're right, 
Buddhists are "ag'in it."  But we have had some lively debates on the question 
of whether Buddhism can condone any sort of violence, most recently this past 
summer, when poor buddha-l was suffering a similar slump, and I started  a 
thread on the book "Buddhist Warfare".   Many innocent orientalist fantasies 
became casualties, and some here took no prisoners, since of course they had 
to svabhava to  imprison.  And we have gone round about this before.   You 
might search the archives, if interested. 


-- 
James Andy Stroble, PhD
Lecturer in Philosophy
Department of Arts & Humanities
Leeward Community College
University of Hawaii

Adjunct Faculty 
Diplomatic and Military Studies
Hawaii Pacific University 

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"The amount of violence at the disposal of any given country may soon not be a 
reliable indication of the country's strength or a reliable guarantee against 
destruction by a substantially smaller and weaker power."  --Hannah Arendt