Silentio

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Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis
"Yam!"
Merry getting the orc draught shoved down his throat in the two towers film
Peter Magyar
"By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's." Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman 1998
The question wasn't just what had happened to Buddhism in these places, but what Buddhism had been before the transformation. One principle, above all, has come to define Buddhism in the eyes of the world: the foundational precept of ahimsa, or non-harming. The Sri Lankan monk Walpola Rahula, who taught at Northwestern University, defined the Buddha's ahimsa as an injunction not only to avoid harming another person but to prevent violence committed by others. Mahatma Gandhi embodied nonviolence in modern times. He responded to British colonial exploitation and violence with nonviolent non-cooperation. Gandhi's methods included a 240-mile walk against unjust taxation and a 21-day hunger strike. In the 1950s, Martin Luther King Jr embraced Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolent resistance for the US civil rights movement. "Christ showed us the way, and Gandhi in India showed us it could work," King declared in 1956 during the Montgomery bus boycott.
Moche sculptural vessel
Modern version of the “Saffron Gatherer” fresco
Kathleen Byron in Black Narcissus
Watch Harvey Beaks
Charles Guiteau
Naperville boundaries
Edward M. "Colonel" House
Indira Gandhi