You really are a thorougly unpleasant little individual.
Shall I mention that you are a recovering alcoholic with little to do with his day to day life - no family, no wife, no friends - a simple little librarian with grand ideas and far greater failures and no memories worth to speak of?
Just a quick question - what is the difference between the Queen and the Dalai Lama?
(admittedly, that sounds like the start of a bad joke...)
You really are a thorougly unpleasant little individual.
Shall I mention that you are a [details removed]?
Just so you know, Diamond, I've reported this post, not particularly because PM needs defending, but because I'm sick of your behaviour, derailing thread after thread with your pointless attention seeking.
You bring absolutely nothing to the table, except a sense of your own importance, and you make it increasingly tedious and difficult for anyone to have a half decent conversation on any thread you post on. There are very few posters who I would truely like to see the back of, but you are without a doubt, top of the list.
Stretching the concept of heridity with the tulku institution in Tibet.Hereditary person of power A - awful
Hereditary person of power B - great
And if you suggest that this might be hypocritical, then that makes you a cunt.
nobody gives a shit about the dalai lama bruv. Well. Tibetan buddhists might. And he annoys the chinese govmnt. Other than that? you'll need to demonstrate some dalai lovin' to call hypocrisy. I couldn't give a shit about him. (didn't even know he was hereditary, thought the monks chose him in some re-incarnation type deal. Every day a schoolday)Hereditary person of power A - awful
Hereditary person of power B - great
And if you suggest that this might be hypocritical, then that makes you a cunt.
Stretching the concept of heridity with the tulku institution in Tibet.
Hereditary person of power A - awful
Hereditary person of power B - great
And if you suggest that this might be hypocritical, then that makes you a cunt.
Clearly if you think about it - it places far greater power in the clerical hierarchy and while you get disputed successions like the karmapa, no rival houses or claimants as common in European monarchies at a similar historical stageSo the line of succession in Tibetan Buddhism is materially different to the line of succession in the British monarchy?
The doctrine of Divine Right would seem to be common to both, no?
by no means. your 'cunt' status is what insurers would call a pre-existing condition.Hereditary person of power A - awful
Hereditary person of power B - great
And if you suggest that this might be hypocritical, then that makes you a cunt.
apples and oranges. why is it you always compare apples and oranges?So one person gets to instruct a whole society because they are divinely appointed and that's just fine and another person gets to regally swan over a whole society because they have the right blood and that is very, very wrong?
I need a day or 2 off work so lets hope she karks it pronto
No one has said it's fine, just pointed out there isn't the close parallel you presume. Tibet had a central monarchy in earlier times and various petty kings up until recently. They saw the shift to clerical rule as a significant change and in various institutional aspects it was. They also retained a hereditary nobility where you might look for an analogue more profitably. Or try Bhutan.So one person gets to instruct a whole society because they are divinely appointed and that's just fine and another person gets to regally swan over a whole society because they have the right blood and that is very, very wrong?
So one person gets to instruct a whole society because they are divinely appointed and that's just fine and another person gets to regally swan over a whole society because they have the right blood and that is very, very wrong?

So one person gets to instruct a whole society because they are divinely appointed and that's just fine and another person gets to regally swan over a whole society because they have the right blood and that is very, very wrong?
i think within 4 hours we'd get sick of the solemn musick and the enforced wearing of mourning. i am investing in some particularly bright hawaii shirts for the duration of the horror.This.
But if she really cared about her subjects she would die late October/early November and bridge that gap between August BH & Christmas
he pulled it out his arse.Where on earth have you got the idea that the Dalai Llama is a widely admired figure on here?![]()
i thought my trolling subtleThis is just obvious trolling not sure why anyone tolerates it

This.
But if she really cared about her subjects she would die late October/early November and bridge that gap between August BH & Christmas
Where on earth have you got the idea that the Dalai Lama is a widely admired figure on here?![]()
if only that were true.Queen wrong, Dalai Lama fine.
Got it.
This is just obvious trolling not sure why anyone tolerates it
Can I suggest that people (as many people as possible) report it and make clear to the moderators how sick we are of Diamond's shit.
He won't stop, and individuals ignoring him doesn't help, so moderator intervention appears to be the only solution.