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Dogtown

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Thu Jun-11-09 08:43 AM
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Warning: graphic foto @ link:

Edited on Thu Jun-11-09 09:05 AM by Dogtown

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c

I try not to think of that place. Not always successfully, it seems.

EDIT: Sorry, I didn't mean to post a blind link. It's a Wiki article on the self-immolation of the Bhuddist monk. Props to Buzz Clk for pointing out my error.

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Buzz Clik

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Thu Jun-11-09 08:59 AM
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1. The link leads to a story about the monk who burned himself in Vietnam.

Those were interesting times.

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Dogtown

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Thu Jun-11-09 09:03 AM
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2. Like the Chinese proverb.

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Terry in Austin

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Thu Jun-11-09 11:11 AM
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12. Turns out not to be Chinese, apparently

Not to digress (much), but there is some discussion about the origins of "may you live in interesting times."

"An Ersatz Chinese Proverb":

I have never come across it in Chinese proverb dictionaries... found this site and this site that pretty clearly demonstrate its American and British lineage.

IMWTK.

:hi:

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Dogtown

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Thu Jun-11-09 12:33 PM
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13. I could amend

to: "that British or American proverb often attributed to the Chinese..."

but I won't!

tx for the headsup!

:hi:

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Historic NY

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Thu Jun-11-09 09:11 AM
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3. It was quite a popular thing back in the 60's.

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Dogtown

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Thu Jun-11-09 09:15 AM
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4. Wouldn't be my chosen venue for expression...

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aikoaiko

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Thu Jun-11-09 09:20 AM
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5. Thanks. I had thought the self-immolation was in protest of the US-Vietnam

but I just learned from the link that it was about the South Vietnamese's treatment of Buddhists.

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Dogtown

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Thu Jun-11-09 09:25 AM
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7. Pretty much the same thing

We were propping up the government that was mistreating the Buddhists. Catholicism was the approved religion under French colonialism. We took over from the French after Dien Bien Phu. Our puppet governments were all drawn from the colonial Catholic elite, and they persecuted Buddhists for political and religious reasons.

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leftyladyfrommo

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Thu Jun-11-09 09:25 AM
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6. I remember those during Viet Nam.

They were horrible but they sure got everyone's attention.

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Dogtown

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Thu Jun-11-09 10:07 AM
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9. I was young,

that picture and the pistol-execution of the VC prisoner are etched in my memory.

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leftyladyfrommo

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Thu Jun-11-09 11:04 AM
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11. Oh, yea. And the little naked girl running down the road crying.

Those days were awful and so was that war. Awful.

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Dogtown

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Thu Jun-11-09 12:35 PM
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14. Yes, they were

There was some good times, mostly because I was young, but they also robbed us of our youth.

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lunatica

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Thu Jun-11-09 09:26 AM
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8. This one?

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Dogtown

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Thu Jun-11-09 10:15 AM
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10. yep n/t

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david13

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Thu Jun-11-09 05:54 PM
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15. I suppose it makes for a hot protest. But it was also custom,

or still is in many parts of at least India, for the woman, if her husband dies.
Gruesome, sure, but common.
dc

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Dogtown

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Fri Jun-12-09 06:04 AM
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16. I believe I'd heard that

You think a woman thought that up?

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