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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (30709)10/3/2001 8:42:29 AM
From: gao seng  Respond to of 82486
 
Ah, but what is violence? Would being able to say that the world is round, when everyone thinks it is flat, be considered an act of violence?



To: 2MAR$ who wrote (30709)10/3/2001 9:28:33 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 82486
 
Ahimsa is a Buddhist term meaning "reverence for life", in the sense that we are all a part of the karmic order. Albert Schweitzer, who moonlighted from medicine as a liberal Christian theologian, was quite taken with the term, and emphasized it as a sort of solidarity with and compassion for all living things........