--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > <big snip> > > > > > Recruit > > > them from kids who grew up on the myths created by people > > > like Gandhi or Buddha or Martin Luther King, and who can > > > thus think of more than two solutions to the problems of > > > the world. > > > > Why the Buddha? Buddha wasn't shot, he just died of poisoned meat. > > > Do you mean "meat gone bad", that is rancid, spoiled, and thus > food-poisoning? Or do you mean someone put poison in his meat?
The story I've read is that Buddha died of food poisoning after eating cooked pork that had spoiled. > One story is that SBS died of food poisoning. If Buddha did too, > its an odd and interesting trend among saints, and in Buddha's > case an avatar (per some). OTOH, I've never come across any ridiculous nutter conspiracy theories that Buddha's personal secretary intentionally poisoned him.