Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site digi-g.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!digi-g!brian From: brian@digi-g.UUCP (Merlyn Leroy) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: A Paradise. (?) Message-ID: <533@digi-g.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 15:48:19 EST Article-I.D.: digi-g.533 Posted: Mon Apr 1 15:48:19 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Apr-85 02:21:28 EST References: <5006@ukc.UUCP> Reply-To: brian@digi-g.UUCP (brian) Organization: Digigraphic Systems Corp., Mpls, MN Lines: 26 Summary: In article <5006@ukc.UUCP> ncg@ukc.UUCP (Nigel Gale) writes: > >There is a green Vale in Nepal... > >...The people are divided into two groups: the workers (mostly farmers), >and the priesthood of the monastary... > >...The first son of every family is sent to the monastary to become a priest... > >Is this idyllic, or what? > >-Nigel Gale Short Answer: "or what" Long Answer: The first son of every family HAS to join a celebate religious order!? This is idyllic? What happened to freedom of religion in this place? Sounds like one of the more opressive places on Earth. If you want other people to make up your own mind for you, fine. Just don't make up mine. Merlyn Leroy "...a dimension between shallow and substance, between science and superficial, a place we call...The Usenet Zone"