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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reshmi85" data-source="post: 4776266" data-attributes="member: 204724">Both of you are right... but partially. West invaded us because we failed as a nation... that was the time Buddha's teaching was almost lost... We can't survive as a nation if most of us become unreligious, no matter what your religion is. Today Muslims, and Christians are more religeous than Buddhists and they live better lives than Buddhists... Just look at some people you know before replying... Even among Buddhists religeous people live better lives... they are more content even if they are poor. Religion only can keep the mind healthy.. One can be inteligent, but that won't work when he is emotianal... Intelligent men harm more when they are emotional... Terrorist leaders are inteligent men with worse than animalistic minds... Political leaders also can be same but they have more control over their minds, so the harm is more subtle... A real leader is the one with wisdom... who has Love, Self Control and inteligence... If west didn't invade us we would have degressed more by now... That invasion hit us hard I suppose and made us awake... When they tried to spread their religions we got hold on to ours more, which helped us in the process... I think it happened in other areas too... We received lot of benifites when they were exploiting us... We were got tuned easily into the international growth.... We grew till they left.... and degressing started again.. We don't know now because the lower values are hyped and higher values are condemned and thrown away... It didn't happen when were under western rule. It happened after that... Our history was under the ground... Westerners brought up our heritage up and started preserving as world herritage. They preserved Sigiriya.... A Sri Lanken tried to destroy it. An italian, Luciano preserved Sigiri frescos...So I look at both sides of ours and weterners... Nothing is completely good or bad... Like Swans we have to differenciate milk and water...Making things Black and White make us dull, stupid, zombies who can't think anymore, making us senile before our time...Then we will follow any Pied Piper who knows the tune to lead us to a place where he can exploit us best.... If the whole group goes dragging us we have no choice... But we will be happy that we didn't walk in to the grave, we were only dragged by force.</blockquote>

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