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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: Richard Gere: Give The Terrorists a Hug | ||||
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| IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 7:10 PM |    | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00  | Thanks to Ron and Fez for alerting me Gere Preaches Buddhist Love By David Blaustein ABCNEWS.com Richard Gere, a vocal supporter of the Dalai Lama, says the best way for Americans to deal with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is with "the medicine of love and compassion." Richard Gere, deeply devoted to the teaching of the Dalai Lama, says the best way for Americans to deal with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is with "the medicine of love and compassion." "In a situation like this, of course you identify with everyone who's suffering," the actor told ABCNEWS Radio in an exclusive interview. But, he said, we must also think about "the terrorists who are creating such horrible future lives for themselves because of the negativity of this karma. If you see it from a much wider point of view, we're all in this together. We're all intimately interconnected in all of these actions." Gere was in New York on Tuesday to help celebrate the release of Good Life, Good Death , a book by Rinpoche Nawang Gehlek, a Buddhist lama, or teacher. The event was planned before the Sept. 11 terror attacks, and included performances from Paul Simon, wife Edie Brickell, composer Philip Glass and Patti Smith. Love as Medicine One of Hollywood's most vocal advocates of Buddhism, Gere stressed the importance of compassion for everyone — even terrorists. "It's all of our jobs too keep our minds as expansive as possible," said Gere, star of such movies as The Runaway Bride , Pretty Woman and Primal Fear . "If you can see them [the terrorists] as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better." Gere said he was on his way to a Buddhist retreat in Massachusetts on the day of the attacks, and arrived just after the attack on the World Trade Center began. "I got there about 10 o'clock, and when I arrived there everyone was in a state because the first tower had been hit," he said. "Within a few minutes, the second tower had been hit and it was, um, extraordinary chaos. An enormous amount of tears and a lot of compassion and suffering was being generated there in this retreat." This isn't the first time Gere has publicly advocated using love to deal with international incidents. At the 1993 Oscars, he asked the audience and the millions watching the awards ceremony on television to send "love and truth" to then-Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping to persuade him to pull Chinese troops from Tibet.  "I didn't realize how tragic it [the WTC attack] was until the celebrities told me"- Ron Bennington | ||||
| adolescentmasturbator | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 7:13 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | You can't hug with nuclear arms.  Resident Board Socialist Email me here or IM me at stickysituation2 or pinkorag Webmaster of the Undergound Unofficial I Hate WhackBagKid Message Board I currently have brought no one into the International | ||||
| Enigma Sig Pics of HOT CHICKS and an SU Feed... will wonders never cease? | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 7:19 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Nov. 00 | Oh good. For a second there I thought he was going to suggest putting gerbils in our assholes. | ||||
| QuickStop I won the last OA.com Sig contest & all I got was this cheesey status... Who is driving? Oh my God! Bear is Driving! How can that be?!? G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Kickflip b/s Tailslide Strike Team | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 7:48 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Aug. 01 | [bruce mittman] Homo faggot queer [/bruce mittman] I am Chuck's wasted time. My grandmother always said, "Why buy the cow, when you can get the sex for free." This message was edited by QuickStop on 10-11-01 @ 7:53 PM | ||||
| Tony Metropolis | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 8:08 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Feb. 01 | "Padron my French, but you're an asshole." Jackasses like that make me sick to my stomach. These douche bag terrorists are going to change their minds if we smile and have our arms wide open? What naive tool. "THE CAR HAD A SIGN THAT SAID CRITTERS OF HOLLYWOOD, YOU DUMB FUCK!!!" | ||||
| Tony Metropolis | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 8:08 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Feb. 01 | "Padron my French, but you're an asshole." Jackasses like that make me sick to my stomach. These douche bag terrorists are going to change their minds if we smile and have our arms wide open? What naive tool. "THE CAR HAD A SIGN THAT SAID CRITTERS OF HOLLYWOOD, YOU DUMB FUCK!!!" | ||||
| slackjaw The Cunt-Twat is my WORLD! The Great Pumpkin | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 8:19 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Sure, we can give them an old fashioned VC hug. You know, the kind that involves dropping a grenade sans pin into their pockets :) Currently newbieless...unbelieveable! | ||||
| danked Dankarella! | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 8:21 PM | | |||
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| prototype | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 8:28 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Aug. 01 | Ok I'm sick of these Hollywood Assholes giving there two cents about love and peace can we send his ass over there with a gerbal and see how long he lasts preaching his love bullshit. USA Bin Laden is a dead man Free Northern Ireland | ||||
| IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death | posted on 10-11-2001 @ 9:33 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00 | from gere's email to afghanistan "I didn't realize how tragic it [the WTC attack] was until the celebrities told me"- Ron Bennington | ||||
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