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while the olympics are going on
Topic Started: Aug 10 2008, 08:32 PM (1,113 Views)
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I fail to see how a benevolent dictatorship is bad.

After all, it isn't any different from a MONARCHY.
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Wow, I was a little shit all those years ago.
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I fail to see how a benevolent dictatorship is bad.

After all, it isn't any different from a MONARCHY.

Wrong, a monarchy did all that nasty stuff centuries ago, so it's ok.

Actually I think I may have changed my position. Which is better, good autocracy or bad democracy?
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Wow, I was a little shit all those years ago.
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I fail to see how a benevolent dictatorship is bad.

After all, it isn't any different from a MONARCHY.

Wrong, a monarchy did all that nasty stuff centuries ago, so it's ok.

Actually I think I may have changed my position. Which is better, good autocracy or bad democracy?
A good autocracy would be better than a bad democracy, definitely.
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Aug 15 2008, 08:31 AM
Well first of all any theocracy is bad. Even if a atheist one was set up it would be bad, because people should be left alone to chose there own stupid ways to waste their life.

And I don’t think the poor Hindus of Bhutan would agree with you. And of course they are powerless to effect change because the Buddhist government controls the flow of tourists and the only source of decent money in the nation.

Besides Buddhism is one of the most savage religions and very effecting in keeping people primitive.

“Oh what is that peasant? Oh your life is bad because you were bad in a past life, there is nothing you can do about it but be good here. What’s that? You want to improve your life here?
Well desire is the cause of all suffering. Yes even wanting clean water is evil, excuse me while I go back to my castles, the gold leaf is peeling again.”

Even if Buddhism was the peaceful chanting, incense burning thing it presents it self to the west to be then it would still be bad to have a theocracy based on it. Because it would be a theocracy.

The same way a benevolent, all round good dictatorship would still be bad. Because it is a dictatorship.
First of all, I said the place was amazing, not the government. Though any government that has an official with the title "Dragon King" can't be all that bad. Secondly, I was a Buddhist for most of my life and I can tell you that your assumptions about Buddhism are just plain wrong. Mainstream Buddhism, as in the kind that hasn't been corrupted by Hindus who just couldn't let go of their beliefs or those crazy Chinese doesn't believe in jack shit. Literally, they believe in no gods, no spirits, no afterlife; not even reincarnation. The ultimate goal of Buddhism is to achieve Nirvana, "nothingness." You achieve peace with yourself and your place in life so that when the time comes for you to die you can fade away into nothing happily and without fear. I mean you'll achieve Nirvana either way, because it's not like you're going to live forever, but telling people that they'll cease existing when they die so they should do whatever they want now while they have the chance isn't a very good basis for a religion. Finally, you have a very, very twisted sense of what Buddhists mean by desire is the cause of suffering. Let me explain it to you how it was explained to me:

Let's say you want a new car. You go out, pick out the nicest car you can afford, and then spend the next ten years pouring money into it because it's a car and all they ever do is break down, get scratched and dinged, and crash into other people because they're idiots and don't know how to drive and I swear it wasn't my fault. So then, ten years after getting the car you desired so badly, you've taken to calling it "shit-mobile" and hate it's guts and yours for buying it. The point isn't to not want things, telling a living creature to not want stuff is as silly as telling a rock to stop being so solid. The point is to get people to be wary of their desires and how it will inevitably go completely wrong.

Of course I wouldn't take much of my teachings to heart. My llama was a great teacher and a wonderful person, but he was also arrested for ingesting copious amounts of cough syrup and running through the streets screaming that he was Jesus. I assure you though, he was an actual llama (not the animal) and not a madman. Worked at a Buddhist temple and everything.
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I wrote that years ago! You can't respond to that like nothing has changed.
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