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- From: sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com (Fred Welden)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Ahimsa - a digression
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- Date: 10 Nov 92 19:36:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.174818.27937@watson.ibm.com>, ds@tejas.watson.ibm.com (Dinkar Sitaram) writes:
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- ||> They must
- ||> either be unaware of, or try not to think of, what goes on all the time
- ||> in their own bodies--their immune systems and their colons.]
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- |This is also not quite correct. I am not completely familiar with these
- |philosophies, but I believe that they accept that complete non-violence
- |is impossible. Towards the end of one's life, one is expected to do
- |penance for all the inadvertant violence one has committed.
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- This was admittedly an exaggeration. I was trying to get Jon Campbell
- to think about what is going on in his own literary gut, as it were.
- The other inaccuracies were just plain old ignorance, folks. Thanks to
- Dinkar for setting me straight(er).
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- --Fred, or another blind 8th-century BC | sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com
- Hellenic poet of the same name. |
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