[Buddha-l] Yes Alice--there is group karma

[Lidewij Niezink]

Oh, forgot the mandatory Buddhist content there:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/18/science/ancient-bones-that-tell-a-story-of-compassion.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

(hint: compassion)

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On 19 December 2012 22:45, Lidewij Niezink <lidewij at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Jo! Best read of the day for me today. We live in such confusing
> times... I need a break. Any recomendations for out of Europe, into
> anything else emigrations (preferably with sun, seasons, sea and a mountain
> where I can grow my veggies; I don't ask much ;-))
>
> Cheers,
> Lidewij
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> On 19 December 2012 22:08, Jo <ugg-5 at spro.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> I posted this because it agrees with my views, mentioned now and then on
>> this list, that our country is the top in manufacturing and distributing
>> weapons of war and mass destruction.  We have been experiencing the
>> consequences for some time, and will continue to, until and unless we quit
>> our roles in the planetary slaughter.
>> Joanna
>>
>> http://www.newclearvision.com/2012/12/17/standing-strong/#more-2076
>>
>> December 17, 2012
>> Uniting Around the Finest Values of Human Life by Jennifer Browdy de
>> Hernandez
>>
>> Just as people in places like the Maldives, Bangladesh and Pakistan may
>> have
>> shook their heads at the cluelessness of Americans who suddenly woke up to
>> climate change when Sandy came to town, people living in hot spots of
>> violence around the world now have every right to be shaking their heads
>> at
>> the collective American refusal to see and understand how, in the wake of
>> the Newtown massacre, we are much to blame for our own misery.
>> The U.S. is the largest arms manufacturer and exporter in the world. We
>> have
>> by far the largest military. We are also by far the most heavily armed
>> civilian population in the world, with some 300 million guns circulating
>> among our population of about 300 million people. Americans, we need to
>> acknowledge that collectively, as a nation, we have been responsible for
>> hundreds, and probably thousands of deaths of children worldwide through
>> the
>> weapons we sell abroad.
>> There is not a conflict in the world today that has not been fueled by
>> American weaponry. It is hypocritical to weep crocodile tears for the
>> slaughter of innocent children in a kindergarten in Connecticut but to
>> callously ignore the slaughter of innocent children by American drone fire
>> in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan' [add Yemen to the list. JK]
>>
>> We need to start connecting the dots and realizing that the violence we
>> mete
>> out to the world will come back to haunt us a
>> thousand-fold.............[more in article]
>>
>>
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