And The Buddha Laughed

[Recyclerz]

<p>Taliban asshole who was responsible for destroying ancient Buddhas carved into a mountain in Afghanistan gets his comeuppance.</p><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070126/ap_on_re_as/afghanistan">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070126/ap_on_re_as/afghanistan</a></p><p>I realize Karma is more a Hindu concept and Buddhists would probably be beyond feeling glee at this news... but I'm not.</p><p>&nbsp;Thus my official reaction:&nbsp; <font size="3" color="#0000ff">TEE HEE HEE</font></p><p><font size="3" color="#0000ff"></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[Furtherman]

<p>Great news!</p><p>There is a local legend there is another giant buddha, but it is buried, lying down.&nbsp; I've read that there is a team searching for it.</p>

[bobrobot]

<p><strong><font color="#000080">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When the Taliban&nbsp;blew up those statues I think I musta cried for a week straight!!! I couldn't bear to watch tv cuz they kept showing it over &amp; over again, what a travesty!!! Ya really hafta wonder about an organization that is frightened of statues, that degree of unenlightenment just proves that religion&nbsp;is a weapon too!!! So he's dead now, dead, dead, dead evryone's either killing or dying &amp; when we get&nbsp;a li'l&nbsp;free time, we destroy inanimate objects too!!! I am ashamed of what humanity has become in this world!!!</font></strong></p><p><img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39090000/jpg/_39090314_buddha_ap300.jpg" border="0" width="203" height="300" /></p><p><strong><font color="#000080"></font></strong></p>

[keithy_19]

I never realized how ebautiful those statues really were. How incredible of ana chievement it was to have them there. I doubt we'll ever create anything ebautiful like statues like that ever again. It's alls teel and glass now. Cookie cutter homes in cookie cutter towns.

[A.J.]

<p>Good... the filthy fucking animal.</p>

[Death Metal Moe]

<strong>bobogolem</strong> wrote:<br /><p><strong><font color="#000080">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When the Taliban&nbsp;blew up those statues I think I musta cried for a week straight!!! I couldn't bear to watch tv cuz they kept showing it over &amp; over again, what a travesty!!! <font size="4"><u>Ya really hafta wonder about an organization that is frightened of statues, that degree of unenlightenment just proves that religion&nbsp;is a weapon too!!!</u></font> So he's dead now, dead, dead, dead evryone's either killing or dying &amp; when we get&nbsp;a li'l&nbsp;free time, we destroy inanimate objects too!!! I am ashamed of what humanity has become in this world!!!</font></strong></p><p><img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39090000/jpg/_39090314_buddha_ap300.jpg" border="0" width="203" height="300" /></p><p><strong><font color="#000080"></font></strong></p><p>That is what kills me about these assfucks.&nbsp; They of course see their religion as the strongest and most right, but how strong are you really when you MUST destroy images of other religions to feel good about yours?&nbsp; Sounds like you feel people's faith is actually VERY thin when merely looking at images might sway your people.</p><p>Also, these are the same assholes who rioted after those cartoons were published around parts of Europe.&nbsp; Wow, you guys are really a great religion if you can't take some heat.&nbsp; Do you know how many &quot;Alterboy&quot; jokes Catholics have to put up with, but they're not burning effigys of people and breaking up storefronts.</p><p>Bunch of fucking savages.</p>

[Furtherman]

<p>I found something on the legend of the &quot;sleeping Buddha&quot;.</p><span><a href="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/03/bdf37eb5-26aa-4465-bf8b-edf1ef0b88b8.html" target="_blank">Afghanistan: Archeologist Hunts For Third Bamiyan Buddha</a></span>

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Furtherman on 1-26-07 @ 1:30 PM</span>

[Team_Ramrod]

<p><strong>That's that then.</strong></p><p><strong>He ended up killed, not due to his attack on these buddhist monuments but because of the life he chose to lead. This was just his pathetic claim to fame.</strong></p><p><strong>The act of destroying these beautiful structures shows the cowardice and fear that runs through the masses who follow this religion. What type of thinking would make a person choose to stage this terror on the most gentle souls on earth?</strong></p><p><strong>There is no excuse or explanation that anyone can give that would&nbsp;provide reason for the destruction/ attacks on the buddhist people and their beliefs... It's just what they do and who they are.</strong> </p><p><strong>It's a terrible thing to say on my part but it will never change until they are completely abolished....I guess that makes me no better than them.</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[jetdog]

My question is why are these people still alive?&nbsp; Why didn't we (the collective USA we) wipe them off the face of the earth years ago?&nbsp; Why did we let them go?&nbsp; The military is/was more than capable of finishing them off, the taliban and al quaeda, but we didn't.&nbsp; WHY?<br />

[Team_Ramrod]

<strong>jetdog</strong> wrote:<br />My question is why are these people still alive?&nbsp; Why didn't we (the collective USA we) wipe them off the face of the earth years ago?&nbsp; Why did we let them go?&nbsp; The military is/was more than capable of finishing them off, the taliban and al quaeda, but we didn't.&nbsp; WHY?<br /><p>Farenheit 9/11......</p>

[KC2OSO]

<strong>bobogolem</strong> wrote:<br /><p><strong><font color="#000080">&nbsp;I am ashamed of what humanity has become in this world!!!</font></strong></p><p><strong><font color="#000080"></font></strong></p><p>Me too brother.&nbsp; I'm oftern overwhelmed with a deep deep sense of pity for some fellow men.&nbsp; Next life I'm coming back as a tree or something.&nbsp;</p>

[Recyclerz]

<strong>jetdog</strong> wrote:<br />My question is why are these people still alive?&nbsp; Why didn't we (the collective USA we) wipe them off the face of the earth years ago?&nbsp; Why did we let them go?&nbsp; The military is/was more than capable of finishing them off, the taliban and al quaeda, but we didn't.&nbsp; WHY?<br /><p>A little distraction that looks like this</p><p><img src="http://www.ndi.org/worldwide/mena/images/iraq.jpg" border="0" width="250" height="273" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[Team_Ramrod]

<strong>Recyclerz</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>jetdog</strong> wrote:<br />My question is why are these people still alive?&nbsp; Why didn't we (the collective USA we) wipe them off the face of the earth years ago?&nbsp; Why did we let them go?&nbsp; The military is/was more than capable of finishing them off, the taliban and al quaeda, but we didn't.&nbsp; WHY?<br /><p>A little distraction that looks like this</p><p><img src="http://www.ndi.org/worldwide/mena/images/iraq.jpg" border="0" width="250" height="273" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So if those distractions could be overlooked some way it could look like this...</p><p><a onclick="return fitsInWindow();"><img src="http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/2451/iraqmap1zj7.jpg" border="0" alt="img154/2451/iraqmap1zj7.jpg" title="Click to visit ImageShack for Image Hosting!" width="365" height="315" /></a></p><p>It could be a vacation hot spot.</p>

[Recyclerz]

<p>You can't sink the Kurds, they're the only ones there that still kinda like us.</p><p>And I doubt W would want to raise the property values of Iran and Syria with all that primo lake front property.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[SatCam]

In the Afghan capital of Kabul, police said a gunman Friday shot and killed a former Taliban official who supervised the destruction of two towering 1,500-year-old Buddha statues, carved in the side of a cliff, during the rule of the fundamentalist militia.

"I undertake the precept to refrain from taking the life (killing) of living beings."

[Chigworthy]

<p>BoBo, did you see this documentary?</p><p><img src="http://www.madman.com.au/images/slicks/bigones/mma2312wp.jpg" border="0" width="154" height="218" /></p><p>If not, I think you'd like it.&nbsp; The buddha statues are a backdrop to a story of life in Bamiyan.</p>

[Furtherman]

<p>Great news!</p><p>There is a local legend there is another giant buddha, but it is buried, lying down.&nbsp; I've read that there is a team searching for it.</p>

Found one!

Archaeologists have discovered a 19-metre (62-foot) Buddha statue along with scores of other historical relics in central Afghanistan near the ruins of giant statues destroyed by the Islamist Taliban seven years ago. (http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idINISL34253320080908)

The team was searching for a giant sleeping Buddha believed to have been seen by a Chinese pilgrim centuries ago when it came upon the relics in the central province of Bamiyan, an official said on Monday.

"In total, 89 relics such as coins, ceramics and a 19 meters statue have been unearthed," Mohammad Zia Afshar, adviser in the information and culture ministry, told Reuters.

The latest discovery has raised hopes of finding a 300-metre-long Buddha statue that according to an ancient Chinese pilgrim is lying in Bamiyan, Afshar said.

[A.J.]

Found one!

Archaeologists have discovered a 19-metre (62-foot) Buddha statue along with scores of other historical relics in central Afghanistan near the ruins of giant statues destroyed by the Islamist Taliban seven years ago. (http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idINISL34253320080908)

That is great news! I watched a special not too long ago on the Bamiyan Buddahs and they talked to an archeologist who claimed he was confident of finding the sleeping Buddah soon. I hope UNESCO gets this declared as a World Heritage Site ASAP to ensure its protection and preservation.

[Zorro]

That is great news! I watched a special not too long ago on the Bamiyan Buddahs and they talked to an archeologist who claimed he was confident of finding the sleeping Buddah soon. I hope UNESCO gets this declared as a World Heritage Site ASAP to ensure its protection and preservation.

Fuck UNESCO. Let's dig that sucker up and put it in Ripley's New York