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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gao seng who wrote (18215)	7/14/2001 11:03:43 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

My apologies: it was an Indian folk song... It certainly expresses the tolerance that most of us admire though, doesn't it? I think that most individuals, from most religions (if courageous enough to think for themselves)--would allow others to board their own train...to their own place. It is only that the priesthood (in Hinduism as in the others)--had a particular interest in remaining above the warrior caste... Anyway, most scriptures are a boastful and fanciful history of tribal/community warfare, victory, and superiority. This includes all the peoples for whom we have records. The dogma was traded, forced, and commanded around the known world--just as it is today: adapt, internalize--or die. It is still being written with human blood...everywhere. Different tribes of homo wise ones still consider themselves as superior to the rest--and it has nothing to do with how many drops of blood a believer must put on his nose and little toe before he scratches his ass, buries the gold by the ravine, and steals a real horse.