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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (118911)	11/9/2003 4:55:36 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 281500

OT -- Buddhism, like all other religions, needs to be fallowed to be effective. That said, it has been my (limited) experience that people who chose Buddhism (as opposed to being born into it) have tended to be much more tolerant and often more intellectual than converts to other religions. BTW, the Buddhist "atrocities" you mentioned were anything but Buddhist. The most applicable example I can come up with is the 16th century Japanese Samurais. A common samurai saying at the time was that the punishment for the samurai was to be born again as a samurai. In other words, this is a group that because of their Buddhist culture acknowledged the wrong of their deeds. They also embodied the "warrior poet" persona, which imo points to the link between Buddhism and intellectual thought. As to Baha'is and environmentalism...Baha'is have a very good modern day structure. In many ways they are more advanced than other religions. But IMO they lack the mysticism that is needed to provide mass appeal for a religion. On the other hand, Zoroastrianism may well address all the needs, if efforts to free it from the ancient superstitions succeed.