Generational Dynamics World View

[Cynic Hero '86]

(09-21-2017, 06:50 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: I'm not your servant, and just because you demand that I respond to
your moronic repetitive rants doesn't mean that I have any obligation
to do so.  Whether I respond to something depends on whether I'm in
the mood, whether I have time, and whether the subject is interesting
to me.

Since you mentioned Burma, I'll post a response that I gave to a
question by another web site reader on my article on Burma's Buddhists
committing genocide and ethnic cleansing on the Rohingyas about
whether Islam is a "religion of peace."

From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, Islam is NOT a
religion of peace.  In fact, there's no such thing as a religion of
peace.  In fact, no religion would exist for long as a "religion of
peace," since its population would soon be exterminated by people of
other religions who do NOT follow "religion of peace" policies.

Let's take Buddhism as an example.  Many commenters seem to believe
that Buddhism is a "religion of peace."  And yet, the Buddhist society
of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, led by Pol Pot, perpetrated one of the
three or four top mass genocides of the 20th century, comparable to
the huge Christian genocides in Russia and Germany in the two world
wars, or the huge Muslim genocides in the Mideast coming out of the
collapse of the Ottoman empire, or the huge African genocides in the
60s and 70s, or the huge Chinese genocides in the 40s and 50s.
Genocide and sex are driven by DNA, not by religion, and all religions
have the same DNA.

The Buddhist Cambodian killing fields genocide, 1975-79, killed
something like 1.7 to well over 2 million people, out of a population
of 8 million.  These millions of people were the subject of almost
unimaginable atrocities, including torture and rape.

In fact, as I now look more closely at the Buddhist Cambodian killing
fields genocide, it seems more and more apparent to me that the
Buddhists in Burma may well be purposely imitating some of the
techniques of their Buddhist cousins in the Khmer Rouge.  This would
be an example of one group of genocidal Buddhists learning genocide
from another group of genocidal Buddhists.

From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, Buddhism is a
"religion of war," just like Islam and every other religion.  No
"religion of peace" would survive more than a few decades, if it
weren't willing to become a "religion of war."

JohnX, I'm not referring to the genocide in Burma itself and the dynamics that led to that. I'm referring to the international response to the genocide by various countries and the dynamics of those responses. The Boomers in the west have adopted a political line that is biased in favor toward the Rohingyas and Muslim separatists and biased against the Myanmar government. Both India and now China have adopted more sensible policies and well rounded policies regarding the conflict in Burma. Neither India or China are blaming everything on the Burmese government, both countries have policies that are willing to acknowledge that both sides actions have lead to the current bloodshed. I am criticizing the reaction of the boomber-dominated western governments which is basically to blame everything on the Burmese government and tatmadaw and claims that the guilt of the conflict rests entirely with those entities; in short the boomer political line basically says that the Rohingya separatists have done nothing wrong.