> On Jun 13, 4:03 am, C3 aol.com> wrote:
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>> On Jun 12, 10:55�pm, turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:

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>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dali_Lama#Future_of_the_position

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>>> "In the mid-1970s His Holiness, Tenzin Gyatso, The Fourteenth Dalai
>>> Lama, told a Polish newspaper that he thought he would be the last
>>> Dalai Lama. In a later interview published in the English language
>>> press he stated "The Dalai Lama office was an institution created to
>>> benefit others. It is possible that it will soon have outlived its
>>> usefulness."[31] These statements caused a furor amongst Tibetans in
>>> India. Many could not believe that such an option could even be
>>> considered. It was further felt that it was not the Dalai Lama's
>>> decision to reincarnate. Rather, they felt that since the Dalai Lama
>>> is a national institution it was up to the people of Tibet to decide
>>> whether or not the Dalai Lama should reincarnate"

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>>> You're gotta laugh.

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>>> Oh what stories we weave.

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>> I'm not sure the Dali Lama has reincarnated.  Is there any evidence
>> other than beleif that he has?

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>> C3

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> Much like any religion there is no physical evidence.
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> "There seems to be something profoundly deceptive and misleading about
> lumping together as acts of faith such things as belief in the Virgin
> birth and belief in the existence of an external world or in the
> principle of contradiction. Such a view trivializes religious faith by
> putting all non-empirical claims in the same category as religious
> faith. In fact, religious faith should be put in the same category as
> belief in superstitions, fairy tales, and delusions of all varieties."- Hide quoted text -
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