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Meditations
By Warren Ockrassa, Kingman, AZ
Thoughts and commentary from a practicing Buddhist.

What is the Real Issue?

Looking at our nearest animal relatives might be instructive in some ways. It would be a grave error, I think, to impute reason to our own decisions as a species based on how other primates behave, and it would be just as mad to suggest that we ought to behave more like them.
Saturday, May 01, 2010

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