Strange Doctrine

2005-9-9 18:10:00

Johan, You are a piece of work. Let me see if I understand your last post correctly.

This sentence seems to sum up how you are against the freedom to own guns as well as any item of protection.

"All desire for protection is a strong desire from the self, which negates God's Will and the spiritual Hierarchy."

Your basic philosophy seems to be this. We should not, in any, protect ourselves but should never kill (or perhaps even harm) any living thing including human, animal and insect. I'm not sure if killing vegetables by eating them is included here.

It sounds to me that if you came home and found a man raping your wife in your own bed you would just sit in a corner and meditate until the man was satisfied and then killed you both.

I don't want to conjure up a picture that is not true so let me ask you a couple questions that will allow for some clarification.

Suppose you did come home and found a man raping your wife (or loved one) as described above? You notice he left a loaded gun on the floor and you can reach it before he does.

Here are some possible choices:

  1. You could grab the gun and order him to retreat until the police arrive. Since you now have power over his life he would comply. Thus would the situation end without you having to take violent action. You were not only harmless here, but also prevented additional harm.

If you would not pick this option please tell us why.

  1. You could attack the man with your bare hands as a weapons and force the rapist off the loved one. This would require courage because there is a 50/50 chance he would overpower you and you and the loved one could wind up dead, especially since the man has a gun. Yet it seems much better than doing nothing because you have a good chance of saving your wife and yourself.
  2. Jump up and down and shout, hoping the man will just go away.
  3. Do nothing.
  4. Proclaim that this could not be happening to you because this type of thing does not happened to one who is enlightened.
  5. Other, describe.

Why do I think that "other" will be your answer? I will be interested in seeing what it is.

One more question. Since hands kill more people than guns in the civilized world should we ban the use of hands?

To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.  Confucius