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Of course mainstream media and opinion jump on the "pervert" angle. I doubt this was sexual at all. Strange, disconcerting, yes.
But why not the obvious explanation? He was taken away as a young child (people believed he was a reincarnation of the Buddha. The other way to write this is he was emotionally profoundly abused) because of superstitious nonsense and forced to live an unnatural life starved of physical affection, sex and family life.
No wonder he wanted a fucking cuddle.
The assumptions being made speak volumes about the societies and individuals making them.
Wyot wrote: Of course mainstream media and opinion jump on the "pervert" angle. I doubt this was sexual at all. Strange, disconcerting, yes.
But why not the obvious explanation? He was taken away as a young child (people believed he was a reincarnation of the Buddha. The other way to write this is he was emotionally profoundly abused) because of superstitious nonsense and forced to live an unnatural life starved of physical affection, sex and family life.
No wonder he wanted a fucking cuddle.
The assumptions being made speak volumes about the societies and individuals making them.
That is all.
I don't give a stuff about his childhood. You don't ask children to suck your tongue, even in an unfunny joke, which I expect is all it was.
My point is that immediately the sensationalist, the zero sum, closed minds in media (for a good story) and the public (because their minds are closed through ignorance) just have to make it a "sex story". So boring in it's predictability.
Am I alone in being bored of predicting successfully what most people will say they think in response to events with 99% accuracy?
Honey wrote: Wyot wrote: Of course mainstream media and opinion jump on the "pervert" angle. I doubt this was sexual at all. Strange, disconcerting, yes.
But why not the obvious explanation? He was taken away as a young child (people believed he was a reincarnation of the Buddha. The other way to write this is he was emotionally profoundly abused) because of superstitious nonsense and forced to live an unnatural life starved of physical affection, sex and family life.
No wonder he wanted a fucking cuddle.
The assumptions being made speak volumes about the societies and individuals making them.
That is all.
I don't give a stuff about his childhood. You don't ask children to suck your tongue, even in an unfunny joke, which I expect is all it was.
Like many father's I never kiss my daughters on the mouth, they get a little kiss on the forehead.
Green Man wrote: Honey wrote: Wyot wrote: Of course mainstream media and opinion jump on the "pervert" angle. I doubt this was sexual at all. Strange, disconcerting, yes.
But why not the obvious explanation? He was taken away as a young child (people believed he was a reincarnation of the Buddha. The other way to write this is he was emotionally profoundly abused) because of superstitious nonsense and forced to live an unnatural life starved of physical affection, sex and family life.
No wonder he wanted a fucking cuddle.
The assumptions being made speak volumes about the societies and individuals making them.
That is all.
I don't give a stuff about his childhood. You don't ask children to suck your tongue, even in an unfunny joke, which I expect is all it was.
Like many father's I never kiss my daughters on the mouth, they get a little kiss on the forehead.
We are very much a cheek/forehead kissing family too, but mouth kissing is a common greeting in Tibet, along with showing the tongue.
All was going well until the tongue sucking suggestion.
Perhaps he meant "eat the tongue", like to take everything? Whatever it was, the boy was uncomfortable and the Dalai Lama didn't care, but that's deities for you!
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