No more reincarnation for Buddhist lamas

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:57 pm

That seems to have been a common feeling.

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:06 pm

Things could have gone very bad for all involved - and many not.

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:25 pm

Depending who ask, they did.

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 5:29 pm

True, lots of people didn't get what they wanted that month.

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 6:36 pm

For still others they got it for years and years.

Natasha · Post by **Natasha** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:42 pm

We cannot underestimate the positive change that has taken place thus far.

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:07 am

You folks seem to be backsliding lately.

duamerthrax · Post by **duamerthrax** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:16 am

what are you, ron, an impartial observer?

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:21 am

Hardly impartial.

duamerthrax · Post by **duamerthrax** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:37 am

so what are you backsliding into?

Natasha · Post by **Natasha** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:40 am

Every country backslides time from time.

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:44 am

She's correct. The differences and improvements are amazing.

So is all the shit that hasn't changed.

Natasha · Post by **Natasha** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:07 am

Well, it's not going to happen over night, or even over decade.

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:08 am

Calm down koshka.

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:36 am

duamerthrax wrote:so what are you backsliding into?

Looks like authoritarianism, isolationism and conflict with the west.

Their bombers have apparently begun patrolling their old haunts off American territory again.

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:07 pm

Another matter of perception.

DarKnyht · Post by **DarKnyht** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:26 pm

I don't know, Russia is being very aggressive in general right now. The entire mess with them claiming the North Pole is a fine example. I am sure if Canada worked long and hard at it, they could find a chunk of rock or ice that connected their country to it too.

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:45 pm

"It would be far fetched to claim at this point that the evidence we have gathered is conclusive,” said Georgy Cherkashev, the institute’s deputy director.

“There is progress in that direction but I would be cautious until the data has been properly processed and analysed.”

Not aggressive.

Not a backslide either.

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 7:17 pm

More millitant than they've been in a decade anyway.

Natasha · Post by **Natasha** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 7:44 pm

I don't know what that means.

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 7:53 pm

Russia has been trying to flex her millitary muscles recently - especially the ones that have strategic nuclear weapons attached.

Natasha · Post by **Natasha** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:07 pm

Good.

DarKnyht · Post by **DarKnyht** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:22 pm

No, the talk is not the problem. Like Ron said, it is the nuclear subs that are sitting at the North Pole, the bomber exercises over it, and the fact one of you planted a flag on the North Pole.

There is an old saying that goes, "It's not what you say so much as what you do that counts."

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 1:06 am

Really blowing this way out of proportion.

You planted a flag on the Moon. Doesn't mean anything, let's be honest. It's just a publicity stunt, and it's working. Everyone's just miffed we beat them to it.

The world is quite familiar with that saying, by the way.

Sophoroto · Post by **Sophoroto** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:22 am

So who owns the summet of Mount Everest?

I believe that there are flags from several different countries there.

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:25 am

The summit itself I believe is in Tibet/China, but the mountain is also in Nepal.

SE from there you can find the frog-eating yeti. Unless they have gone extinct.

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:33 am

The flag is one thing

The bombers poking around the edges of US territory is another . . . I thought we were allies in the War on Terror

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:33 am

I don't see what's wrong with resisting American's trying to take over the world.

Moscow and Washington have cooperated for decades. Still do.

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:52 am

We aren't trying to take over the world.

Our political, social and economic systems just happen to have caught on.

Probably because they are so superior

Sophoroto · Post by **Sophoroto** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:18 am

Ron Caliburn wrote:We aren't trying to take over the world.

Our political, social and economic systems just happen to have caught on.

Probably because they are so superior

Our political system was based on the Greeks and Romans.

I am not sure I would brag about the social system we have. Where criminals have more rights than law biding people.

That is why we get everything from Japan, China, Taiwan, and the middle east. :wink: