Thu 20 Sep 2007
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Buddha!
Posted by anaglyph under Atheism, In The News, Politics, Religion
[16] Comments
The Chinese Government has just passed into law a 14 part regulation banning Tibet’s ‘Living Buddhas’ from reincarnating.
Aside from the obvious idiocy of the notion of an atheist government attempting to impose laws on a system of belief that they deny has any basis in reality, the natural question must arise: if someone should disobey the law and reincarnate, what is the government going to decide is a suitable deterrent?
The Death Penalty?
They could apply retro-carnation. You get sent back through your lives. It’s very messy. Specialy the tricky crawling-back-into-wombs part.
A retro-carnation:
Reverend, that’s really awful. Really. And I like puns.
*snickers* I’ve heard some dumb bureaucratic ideas before, but this one’s definitely up there.
Life in prison, with no chance of parole. And no “double jeopardy” acquittals. And they’re not allowed on the Chinese “Thriller” team. *shudder*
Am too shocked by the retro-carnation to comment.
Ah my dear Reverend, I bow to your superior wit. Now, where’s that butt of Malmsey, I had it here somewhere …
A butt of malmsey:
Wow . . . Hey Alanis Morrisette, now that is ironic, unlike you stupid ass song
I like a nicely smacked bottom (my own or someone else’s).
On closer inspection, I am disappointed to detect – anal floss. I didn’t think the Cow would stoop so low. Moo.
I’m almost afraid to say anything.
Obviously, however, the penalty the Chinese government will impose on those caught reincarnating is that you will not be allowed to die again.
And if you do die, they will kill you.
I love the Buddhist response: ‘I’m going to reincarnate overseas, then. In a well-off, politically and religiously well-connected family. Maybe even in America. Ha!’
Do you actually get a choice?
Whose handprints are those on the butt?
Cissy Strutt: The crawling-back-into-wombs part could be particularly tricky for full-grown adults. On both sides of the equation.
Purple Dragon: Pun? Awful? What do you mean?
Jam: Life in prison wouldn’t work with Buddhists. They spend lots of time just sitting in little cells anyway. And who’d want to be on a Chinese ‘Thriller’ Team? Really.
Pil: Awww. The retro-carnation is cute.
Malach: All the things she mentions in that song are not so much ironic as just bad luck. So it’s ironic that she would have a hit with it. Especially if the people who bought it did so because they thought the things she was singing about were ironic.
Cissy Strutt: The bottom isn’t smacked so much as featuring hand-print tan lines. For some reason. And as far as the anal floss is concerned, well, needs must when the Devil drives.
Colonel: It’s tricky isn’t it? Methinks the whole reincarnation conundrum deserves a post of its own…
JR: Hmm. Yes, like I say. More pondering required. I have strong logical objections to the concept of reincarnation, but applying logic to it might just be a little too much like trying to impose laws upon it.
Meggie: Buddha’s?
I told my mum this story, and with her usual ability to detect the dark side in governments, she went “you know what this means, don’t you? Any innocent person they don’t like they now have a legal excuse to execute.”
O_O
Except they can never keep the
bastardsBuddhists down!