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How to judge the state of a nation. US and Burma.
If you want to judge the state of a union, democratic nation, look to the effort put into the military recruitment. How intensely do they pump up the call to warriors, even in the guise of increased education benefits and career advancement, and sound the battle cry, be it level yellow or red, or pervade the media with more fear and distress? We know what it looks like in a military dictatorship with clear examples so I place this consideration only in a supposedly democratic and free nation. Be all that you can be or more.
. . . . . . . . . . . . national guard not meeting recruitment goals, civil rights eroding, discussion about draft imminent and war no answer to the terrorists (in fact it plays to their advantage). i think if we look to the dhammapada we find that through love alone does hatred end. works that way. shared by adhi on 09.27.2004 . . . . . . . . . . . .Freedom isn’t free, or is it? Perhaps freedom really is free! Perhaps it is possible to experience freedom without killing a bunch of people, burning up the trees and creating a ready supply of slave labor. What is the real cost of freedom? What is the rate of return on freedom? If we kill 1 million people for freedom, will killing 2 million people yield twice as much freedom? Eventually everyone would be dead. Who is free now? Perhaps just killing the bad people will yield freedom. What is the difference between a good person and a bad person? All viewpoints are empty. shared by Hal Cooper on 07.18.2005 . . . . . . . . . . . .My name is sokhun. im 23 years old. i have become a monk for 8 years. now i graduate buddhism high school and Associate Degree of English. i would like to ask scholaship for learning at the MAHACHOLAlukon university. now im lack of everything. i am not be able to study there. thank you in advance
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