Just met my first Buddhist RW Republican.

[mac56]

Have to sit down until my head stops spinning.

[HEyHEY]

1. I imagine you also just met your last Buddhist RW republican too

[mac56]

2. word

nm

[RevolutionaryActs]

3. That's, like, harder to understand then quantum physics!

:wtf:

[theorist]

7. MUCH Harder! n/t

[LostInAnomie]

4. Buddhism is about as irreconcilable with Republicanism as...

... true Christianity is. It just doesn't matter to those people.

[Swamp Rat]

5. I know one.

They call him "Southern Buddha.":crazy:

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. And you can tell him by his belt buckle

It says "BUDDA"

[Swamp Rat]

8. His belly is so big, he doesn't wear a belt.

It's as round as a basketball but bigger.

Weirdest person in the hood. Hates commies, liberals, the Clenis, ragheads, but then goes to Buddha prayer groups, has good taste in food and music... an enigma.

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. But remember - there are a lot of rightwing Buddhists around the world

In Vietnam, Japan, Korea...

Lots of wars started by Buddhists on other Buddhists. The President of Japan now, and the Emperor, both ostensibly Buddhist (though Shinto), both rightwing fuckin' morans.

[Swamp Rat]

11. Southern Buddha was stationed in Japan during the Korean War. n/t

[Hand]

12. What kind of buddhist?

There are a lot of different schools of Buddhism, some of which ctually have a certain appeal to freepers--e.g., certain of the Zen schools are closely identified with the samurai tradition.

Not to mention Aum Shinrikyu, which tried to bring on the apocalypse by dumping nerve gas in the Tokyo subway, although no other Buddhist school thinks they were anything other than a gang of violent nutbags.

BTW, I'm a buddhist (vajrayana)--and I don't see how any committed Repuke would be able to lay claim to also being a practicing buddhist, eiher...

:hi:

[Swamp Rat]

13. "Southern Buddhist"

Whatever that means. It's as much a mystery to me as it is to you, and I've know him for years. We just ignore his rants and reward him with attention when he says something lucid.

:hi:

[Hand]

14. Well...

Typically, "Southern Buddhist" means a follower of the Theravada schools, which predominate in southeast Asia (Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Laos, etc.--although Vietnam's buddhists are mostly a somewhat unique form of Mahayana). Theravadin buddhism traces its roots directly to the historical Shayamuni Buddha and mostly a monastic tradition; lay people gain merit by providing support for the monks, who do various pastoral care activities within the community. It's one of the social binders within these countries; the Theravadin monks that I've met have always been very kind people.

Of course, your friend's "Southern Buddhism" may be something else entirely; I wouldn't know what it would be, however.

:shrug:

[Swamp Rat]

16. "Redneck Buddhist" might clarify it... n/t

[Hand]

21. I think so...

Yet another newly invented religion...

[EC]

17. Probabley just miss-spelled Babba

[antigone382]

23. Ooh, I love that peace sign on your sig line.

But to get back on topic, I know a girl who claims to be a sort of Buddhist, but is a Republican...


because of gun control...:shrug:

[EC]

24. That makes no sense...

Did you ask her about the Buddhist tenet of living as one with the world (nature)and non-violence? How that works into freedom to have all the guns you want without registration, I don't know...I really don't get the argument of gun control anyway...no one wants to take the guns away, just have them registered and having buyers trained about use and storage...what's the problem?

Anyway all that is Buddhism is completely at odds with the Republican mind set, I think sees confused....

[JanMichael]

9. You should have cast a net over it and given it to the circus.

They could set it next to the three headed sheep.

[liberalpragmatist]

15. Is s/he a convert or Buddhist-born

I can understand more if s/he was born Buddhist. But if s/he's a convert to Buddhism... man, that would be something.

[mac56]

22. convert

Small-town Midwestern lad.

[IronLionZion]

18. There are militaristic Buddhists out there in the world

who kill people in places like Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia, Burma, and other places. The Sri Lankan Buddhist government tried to withhold tsunami aid from the Tamils on the island, and the rest of the time they are killing each other in a long and bloody civil war.

A "Buddhist Republican" is about as hard to understand as a "Christian Republican". It's mind-boggling that a religion of peace and love can have such retarded followers. Islam is also a religion of peace and love and we all know how that's working out. :eyes:

*sigh*

no offense to any members of these religions

[ZenLefty]

19. Weird.

:o

[UdoKier]

20. Soka Gakkai "Buddhist" perchance?

They certainly have a fascistic side to them, and their emphasis on acquiring things and the notion that "anybody can fulfill their dreams if they chant" fits well with GOP thinking. They also profess to be working for world peace, even though their leader never bothered to organize his members to protest the war, or even really criticized it. He also loves hobnobbing with various left and right-wing dictators.

My guess it it was a Gakkai member. Am I right?