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By following the link you gave to the tprf site there is an ostensible excerpt of his speech given to this distinguished gathering. Really the whole thing is worth reading just because it is so unbelievable that he actually could have said that before an attendance of "diplomats, and government and civic leaders." But let's just take it at face value for now. One could take it apart piece for piece, but I just want to take it apart peace for peace. He says: "Peace is a feeling—a feeling of non-duality, away from doubt, a feeling of me." and on and on and on, then later: "What will the outcome be? Will there be no wars? I don’t know. But I’m talking about the peace that can be even experienced in the middle of war." What I find so particularly funny about all of this is that Rawat is playing his typical word game with peace and saying that the peace he is talking about is not the absence of war but "a feeling" and in the process somehow devaluating the first meaning of peace. But in the various quotes by other speakers, they actually ARE talking explicitly about peace as the absence of war, for example when they quote Truman as saying, "if we don not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace". Of course this shouldn't actually be surprising that they would want to talk about that, since that is why the UN was established in the first place. And then you have Rawat saying, "will there be no wars? I don't know". It's like Gilda Radner talking about Russian Jewelry instead of Russian Jewry. I sort of imagine the moderator whispering in the background to their assistant, "where did you get this guy from?" Related link: excerpt of Rawat's speech on tprf Modified by dant at Wed, Jun 29, 2005, 11:57:39 |
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