on tue NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER at NUMBER NUMBER gary lawrence murphy wrote j justin mason jm jmason org writes j what about tibetan buddhism btw they seem like an awfully j nice bunch of chaps and chapesses yes them too when wolves attack their sheep they coral the wolf into a quarry and then throw rocks from the surrounding cliffs so that no one will know who killed the wolf in samskar before the chinese arrived there had not been a killing in over NUMBER years and the last recorded skirmish over rights to a water hole had happened several generations ago i m skeptical one of the many perversions of modern civilization is the fictitious rendering of various peoples frequently to the point where the fiction is more real than the reality you see it over and over again in history the primitive people pull a fast one on whitey the junior anthropologist playing to all the prejudices of whitey who only became junior anthropologists to support personal ideologies and before you know it the charade takes on a life of its own which the primitive people are compelled to perpetuate worse even when there is substantial evidence to the contrary with some basic scholarship the facts have a hard time competing with the ideologically pleasing fiction that is already firmly entrenched and many peoples e g american indians develop a profit motive for maintaining and promoting the myth in popular culture i m far more inclined to believe that people is people no matter where you are on the planet the only time you see any anomalies is when you have a self selecting sub population within an otherwise normal population which is hardly a fair way to look at any major population james rogers jamesr URL 