The Dalai Lama, a sordid history of Nazi Mentors and forgiving Fascists

[HiPointDem]

185. 99% of religious leaders live off their followers. That's fundamental. And just because someone

sets up a charitable foundation doesn't mean they're doing a lot of charity. Foundations & non-profits are used to scam people as often as not.

They're also a good way to keep a lot of money and not get taxed on it, while using it to pay oneself a salary, keep offices, keep buildings for the foundation's purposes that can also be used as living quarters, etc.

You're quoting pop songs in your effort to prove the importance of the dalai lama's message? that's a big fail right there. i could buy a CD instead of the DL's book, apparently.

and accusing the poster of not understanding 'the philosophy'? and implying *you* 'understand where the dalai lama is coming from'? do you know him personally, on an intimate level? i barely know where my own mother is coming from, but you presume you understand the heart of the DL?

oh the humanity.

here's the deal. i make no claim to know anything about 'where the dalai lama is coming from.' but i do know that his tutor was first a nazi, then a cia guy and that the DL took money from the CIA for about 20 years. and that that money was used to fund guerilla operations -- military operations which involved killing people.

by that, i know the DL is not averse to war or violence. end of story.

i can find pictures of the DL with people like Bush and the Pope; i can find the DL talking about forgiving people like Pinochet.

I can't find pictures of the DL embracing Hugo Chavez or Castro, or asking folks to forgive Stalin or Mao.