'So far as I'm told all they really have to do is select a certain number of items that were personal to the old lama, personally I doubt this is particularly difficult if you knew anything about the old lama or have the ability to see a pattern in the items.'
A child of two or three years old (if not younger) recognising patterns or knowing something of Lama who died before they were born is kind of slim.
'Am I telling you that a bunch of religious monks who are going out specifically looking for a single thing could be wrong? Hell yes I am.'
Perhaps you are right, they are bais. However, there are non-monks who hold secular posts in the government who are involved in these searches. These people are inteligent. Very inteligent. This does not discount bais, but it does mean we should put more weight in there words. These are not just some bunch of religious nuts. That it has reocured over such a long period of time and in such quantities means that people should at least have a look into the occurance and it certianly points to something going on which is not as simple as a far to positive and bais outlook on life. The councidences, again, are too great.
'How would one show they were real? Yes, though some undoubtedly believe that kind of bilge, I'm certainly in the camp that would say some of them fake it.'
Again, who is faking it, for what purpose and why bother? Also, how do they manage the large miricle of not letting the word get out?
I would still like to see the evidence against, Kyu.
'What about coincidences? How do you explain them? There's nothing weird or mystical about coincidence. Reality is random. Imo what's weird is the human tendency to attempt to find meaning and purpose where there is none.'
Exactly, coincidences are random. The repeated occurance of the coincidence in large quantities over a prelonged period of time make chalking it up to purley random coincidence statisticaly improbable and logicaly odd.
'A quick word on Tibet; A corrupt,cruel feudal theocracy until the Dalai Lama left in 1959.. I do not now and have never supported the hysterical bleating about the independence of Tibet. I am unable to support any form of theocracy,even a consitutional one.'
And after 1959 it became a corrupt, cruel communist dictatorship. The only diffrence between the two was that Tibet was no longer independent and have now been turned into a minority in their own land. I do not thing an independent Tibet is such a good idea, but I think they should become an autonomus part of India. They are more culturaly akin.
A child of two or three years old (if not younger) recognising patterns or knowing something of Lama who died before they were born is kind of slim.
'Am I telling you that a bunch of religious monks who are going out specifically looking for a single thing could be wrong? Hell yes I am.'
Perhaps you are right, they are bais. However, there are non-monks who hold secular posts in the government who are involved in these searches. These people are inteligent. Very inteligent. This does not discount bais, but it does mean we should put more weight in there words. These are not just some bunch of religious nuts. That it has reocured over such a long period of time and in such quantities means that people should at least have a look into the occurance and it certianly points to something going on which is not as simple as a far to positive and bais outlook on life. The councidences, again, are too great.
'How would one show they were real? Yes, though some undoubtedly believe that kind of bilge, I'm certainly in the camp that would say some of them fake it.'
Again, who is faking it, for what purpose and why bother? Also, how do they manage the large miricle of not letting the word get out?
I would still like to see the evidence against, Kyu.
'What about coincidences? How do you explain them? There's nothing weird or mystical about coincidence. Reality is random. Imo what's weird is the human tendency to attempt to find meaning and purpose where there is none.'
Exactly, coincidences are random. The repeated occurance of the coincidence in large quantities over a prelonged period of time make chalking it up to purley random coincidence statisticaly improbable and logicaly odd.
'A quick word on Tibet; A corrupt,cruel feudal theocracy until the Dalai Lama left in 1959.. I do not now and have never supported the hysterical bleating about the independence of Tibet. I am unable to support any form of theocracy,even a consitutional one.'
And after 1959 it became a corrupt, cruel communist dictatorship. The only diffrence between the two was that Tibet was no longer independent and have now been turned into a minority in their own land. I do not thing an independent Tibet is such a good idea, but I think they should become an autonomus part of India. They are more culturaly akin.
