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_refugee_ · 4210 days ago · link · · parent · post: If a monk lights himself on fire and nobody watches, has he made a protest?
Side note, because @humanadon@ we've talked about poetry before, I actually had read about the self-immolation going on in Tibet about Chinese rule and written a poem about it a few months ago. I kind of wanted to respond to the author of this and let him know some people are aware of what's going...but I also would have felt hipster and pretentious doing it. I think self-immolation is an extremely violent way to go. Although, according to my reading, you stop feeling pain within a matter of minutes as your nerve endings die, and you generally die from suffocation as opposed to burns.