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Josh

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why IS the dalai lama here, anyway?
« on: April 18, 2008, 11:59:03 AM »
to participate in a fitness challenge with the pope for steve jobs?
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Re: why IS the dalai lama here, anyway?
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2008, 12:18:30 PM »
I think it has something to do with Richard Gere... y'know, celebrity media circus stuff.
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Re: why IS the dalai lama here, anyway?
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2008, 01:19:31 PM »
Kickball Championship. He's a mean shortstop.
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Re: why IS the dalai lama here, anyway?
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2008, 10:14:54 PM »
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Re: why IS the dalai lama here, anyway?
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2008, 01:38:05 AM »
Cavorting with the liberal Hollywood elite, I bet.  Wait, is he really here?  Can I see him somehow?  I'd love to kiss his ring.
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Laurie

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Re: why IS the dalai lama here, anyway?
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2008, 08:09:18 AM »
It's his birthday!
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dania

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Re: why IS the dalai lama here, anyway?
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2008, 03:23:10 PM »
It's perplexing that the spiritual head of Buddhism, a religion that has been around far, far longer than Catholicism, would get such a low amount of attention from the media compared to the Pope.  Why am I not surprised. 
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Sarah

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Re: why IS the dalai lama here, anyway?
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2008, 06:42:43 PM »
Well, it is a Christian nation, after all.  Though real Americans are Protestant, of course.

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Re: why IS the dalai lama here, anyway?
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2008, 08:10:12 PM »
Quote from: dania on April 19, 2008, 03:23:10 PM
It's perplexing that the spiritual head of Buddhism, a religion that has been around far, far longer than Catholicism, would get such a low amount of attention from the media compared to the Pope.  Why am I not surprised. 

He's only the head of Tibetan Buddhism.
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