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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
The Riders do have a very strict rule about avoiding any sort of direct physical confrontation with protesters. They only escort and then stand there. They do not engage the protesters in any fashion.
Hope that clears some things up.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
"Bhikkhus, there are these five ways of removing annoyance, by which annoyance can be entirely removed by a bhikkhu when it arises in him. What are the five?
"Loving-kindness can be maintained in being toward a person with whom you are annoyed: this is how annoyance with him can be removed. "Compassion can be maintained in being toward a person with whom you are annoyed; this too is how annoyance with him can be removed. "Onlooking equanimity can be maintained in being toward a person with whom you are annoyed; this too is how annoyance with him can be removed. "The forgetting and ignoring of a person with whom you are annoyed can be practiced; this too is how annoyance with him can be removed. "Ownership of deeds in a person with whom you are annoyed can be concentrated upon thus: 'This good person is owner of his deeds, heir to his deeds, his deeds are the womb from which he is born, his deeds are his kin for whom he is responsible, his deeds are his refuge, he is heir to his deeds, be they good or bad.' This too is how annoyance with him can be removed. "These are the five ways of removing annoyance, by which annoyance can be entirely removed in a bhikkhu when it arises in him." -The Buddha, from Aghatavinaya Sutta: Removing Annoyance
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
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On 2010-10-22 01:35, balducci wrote: A new documentary on the family aired in the last week or two. "Following up on his 2007 documentary, The Most Hated Family in America, Louis Theroux returns to Topeka, Kansas, for a week-long visit with the Westboro Baptist Church." "Louis Theroux - America's Most Hated Family in Crisis." http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01......_Crisis/ Or see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ticxD0GfewA
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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Destiny Inner circle 1429 Posts |
I see I am not as sinful as I had assumed - I have never, I repeat, never, played the harpsichord in mixed company - or even been tempted to indulge in such wanton depravity.
The saddest thing about these people is that they make sex and sexuality - adult issues - such a big part of their children's lives. I grew up in blissful ignorance of such issues until natural adolescent awakenings and small incremental realisations of the meanings of things I'd heard and read. It's never seemed to have held me back as an adult and my childhood was not confused or shattered by issues irrelevant at that age. Surely there is some middle ground between the draping of piano legs in Victorian times and the extreme sexualisation of children we see now. I must be getting so old - sitting here pining for the good old days. |
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
I love the harpsichord. You haven't lived until you've heard a solo from Lurch.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
~Will Rogers |
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