Comments on: China Says Tibetan “Protest” Was Celebration

By: w1

w1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:57:51 +0000

I’ve seen lots of guys set themselves on fire when they were celebrating…

…but never on purpose.

These guys were generally completely drunk and playing with cans of hairspray and lighters.

By: sr

sr — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:45:34 +0000

More “information” coming from the PRC’s officials that equates to nothing more than completely inapropriate jokes!

By: Ming

Ming — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:39:42 +0000

I don’t think people are not that stupid to believe in some childish communist propagenda. If you want to convience us communist propagenda machine can come up wiht better than this. What a pin head

By: MAC

MAC — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:24:45 +0000

On the face of it, this sounds absurd… but then I think back to something I saw in Qinghai years ago, where monks were clambering to see some important figure in such an uncontrollable figure that they were being viciously whipped back. It was a strange scene that could easily be misunderstood. Of course, I don’t think a lie like this is beyond the authorities, but thinking back to what I saw, the seemingly ridiculous explanation doesn’t seem so impossible.

By: tibetan

tibetan — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:40:44 +0000

This reminds me of George Orwell’s “1984″ novel, and the concept of “DOUBLETHINK”:

“The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them….To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies — all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.”