| I wasn't necessarily calling you a yuppie but regardless I'm tired of white comfortable baby-boomers 'dabbling' in religions that they only have knowledge of from B&N bestsellers. As a Keetowah (betcha didn't know I was Tsalagi, and a heathen in the truest sense of the work =P) the most irritating thing is the horde of white fuckers who are interested in a puddle-depth understanding of the culture and then run off and exclaim they're Keetowah to all their friends. To those who here are "Buddhist," I ask, who have you studied with and for how long?
. . . whenever any government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. |