<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post6974867728762145451..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6974867728762145451/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/03/barrett-watten-reading-tibet-mp3-stand.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>11</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7371161136546721502</id><published>2008-03-31T01:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-03-31T01:26:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The key factor in the current unrest in Tibet, in ...</title><summary type='text'>The key factor in the current unrest in Tibet, in some of the other parts of China, and in the emigre communities is precisely the growing rejection of the Dalai&#39;s Middle Way by the Tibetan Youth Council and its creation, the Tibetan Peolpe&#39;s Uprising Movement. These groups proclaim loyalty to the Dalai as spiritual leader, but their real loyalty is to the reactionary guerilla bands that operated</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6974867728762145451/comments/default/7371161136546721502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6974867728762145451/comments/default/7371161136546721502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/03/barrett-watten-reading-tibet-mp3-stand.html?showComment=1206941160000#c7371161136546721502' title=''/><author><name>Mike</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01878524757860159914</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/03/barrett-watten-reading-tibet-mp3-stand.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6974867728762145451' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6974867728762145451' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1114248296"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 31, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7462855239460380026</id><published>2008-03-25T12:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-03-25T12:08:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Stephen Baraban sent me a link to a 1997 Mother Jo...</title><summary type='text'>Stephen Baraban sent me a link to a 1997 Mother Jones article in which the DL is talking about what would happen if he got his country back in terms of the Democratic politics he envisioned:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Dalai Lama: I firmly believe democratic institutions&lt;BR/&gt;are necessary and very important, and if I remained at&lt;BR/&gt;the head of government, it could be an obstacle to&lt;BR/&gt;democratic practice. Also, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6974867728762145451/comments/default/7462855239460380026'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6974867728762145451/comments/default/7462855239460380026'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/03/barrett-watten-reading-tibet-mp3-stand.html?showComment=1206461280000#c7462855239460380026' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/03/barrett-watten-reading-tibet-mp3-stand.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6974867728762145451' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6974867728762145451' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 25, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6643502371073763503</id><published>2008-03-24T13:10:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-03-24T13:10:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>If we understand argument to mean that one should ...</title><summary type='text'>If we understand argument to mean that one should do something differently, or think about something differently, could someone tell me if Barrett Watten&#39;s poem has an argument in it, and if so, exactly what the argument is? &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Btw,, most scholars do see a continuity between Augustine and Luther (Luther had been an Augustinian monk when he nailed up the 95 Theses), but Luther brings out </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6974867728762145451/comments/default/6643502371073763503'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6974867728762145451/comments/default/6643502371073763503'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/03/barrett-watten-reading-tibet-mp3-stand.html?showComment=1206378600000#c6643502371073763503' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/03/barrett-watten-reading-tibet-mp3-stand.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6974867728762145451' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6974867728762145451' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6795306820063132360</id><published>2008-03-24T00:40:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-03-24T00:40:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>the social rhetoric of luthergoes back at least as...</title><summary type='text'>the social rhetoric of luther&lt;BR/&gt;goes back at least as far as augustine&lt;BR/&gt;in most ways&lt;BR/&gt;all Luther does is restate&lt;BR/&gt;the two cities paradigm&lt;BR/&gt;for the 16th century&lt;BR/&gt;maybe moreso as a political necessity&lt;BR/&gt;whereas augustine saw the split as inherent in the christian option&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;maybe we need to give those tibetan&lt;BR/&gt;monks more american mountains&lt;BR/&gt;that sort of depth can be </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6974867728762145451/comments/default/6795306820063132360'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6974867728762145451/comments/default/6795306820063132360'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/03/barrett-watten-reading-tibet-mp3-stand.html?showComment=1206333600000#c6795306820063132360' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10043530995274885830</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/03/barrett-watten-reading-tibet-mp3-stand.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6974867728762145451' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6974867728762145451' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1850634495"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 24, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6999902780067098012</id><published>2008-03-23T18:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-03-23T18:07:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Also, would you please give me a citation where th...</title><summary type='text'>Also, would you please give me a citation where the DL surrenders to the western separation of Church and State.  I&#39;d like to quote it on my blog!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think it&#39;s what&#39;s wrong with Marxism (they fail to separate Church (the party) from the state, and combine it as well with the economy. What a totalizing mess.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s what&#39;s wrong with Islam, too (Bernard Lewis ends his book What&#39;s </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6974867728762145451/comments/default/6999902780067098012'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6974867728762145451/comments/default/6999902780067098012'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/03/barrett-watten-reading-tibet-mp3-stand.html?showComment=1206310020000#c6999902780067098012' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/03/barrett-watten-reading-tibet-mp3-stand.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6974867728762145451' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6974867728762145451' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 23, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4578829789020096169</id><published>2008-03-23T15:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-03-23T15:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>And it was of course Luther who separated church a...</title><summary type='text'>And it was of course Luther who separated church and state.  Ahem.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;So we just need to nudge China (as we nudge all back to October 1517, in order to  help them to forget about October 1917!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6974867728762145451/comments/default/4578829789020096169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6974867728762145451/comments/default/4578829789020096169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/03/barrett-watten-reading-tibet-mp3-stand.html?showComment=1206298920000#c4578829789020096169' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/03/barrett-watten-reading-tibet-mp3-stand.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6974867728762145451' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6974867728762145451' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 23, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7225449594476200934</id><published>2008-03-23T13:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-03-23T13:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Actually, Kirbo, the Dalai Lama has been clear tha...</title><summary type='text'>Actually, Kirbo, the Dalai Lama has been clear that western history demonstrates the superiority of the separation of church and state. But there is no history of an oppositional civil society in Tibet.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6974867728762145451/comments/default/7225449594476200934'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6974867728762145451/comments/default/7225449594476200934'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/03/barrett-watten-reading-tibet-mp3-stand.html?showComment=1206293100000#c7225449594476200934' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/03/barrett-watten-reading-tibet-mp3-stand.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6974867728762145451' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6974867728762145451' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 23, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1390486585200602587</id><published>2008-03-23T10:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-03-23T10:53:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for this, Ron. I&#39;m accessing your blog--as ...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks for this, Ron. I&#39;m accessing your blog--as I do all blogspot blogs--via VPN to circumvent the Great Firewall. After a couple of years in China (almost entirely in Shanghai, which is to China roughly as NYC is to the US, so I ain&#39;t seen shit of China, really) I&#39;m more confused than ever about this place and its place in the world. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But I do know enough to tell Kirby Olson that he </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6974867728762145451/comments/default/1390486585200602587'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6974867728762145451/comments/default/1390486585200602587'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/03/barrett-watten-reading-tibet-mp3-stand.html?showComment=1206283980000#c1390486585200602587' title=''/><author><name>David</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04027513974930433783</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/03/barrett-watten-reading-tibet-mp3-stand.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6974867728762145451' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6974867728762145451' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-233063042"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 23, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2478289507686711588</id><published>2008-03-22T18:54:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-03-22T18:54:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I thought the first was from Pound&#39;s &#39;Cathay&#39;. Whi...</title><summary type='text'>I thought the first was from Pound&#39;s &#39;Cathay&#39;. Which is a compliment. It&#39;s beautiful.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6974867728762145451/comments/default/2478289507686711588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6974867728762145451/comments/default/2478289507686711588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/03/barrett-watten-reading-tibet-mp3-stand.html?showComment=1206226440000#c2478289507686711588' title=''/><author><name>Nicholas Manning</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12750291349639539140</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://static.flickr.com/100/297698415_31f5f13234.jpg?v=0'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/03/barrett-watten-reading-tibet-mp3-stand.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6974867728762145451' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6974867728762145451' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591050484"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 22, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2239275574260205339</id><published>2008-03-22T17:49:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-03-22T17:49:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>besides  the Chinese treat Tibet better than they ...</title><summary type='text'>besides  the Chinese treat Tibet better than they treat their own....imagine all them children sold into industries around the world  and all them &quot;Workers&quot; painting Hana Montana plastic toys with lead paint to go in thos Ronald McDonald&#39;s children&#39;s meals!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;didn&#39;t they just make Lhasa&lt;BR/&gt;a  ride-by-new-train tourist destination?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;why not just boycott the Olympics  which shld </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6974867728762145451/comments/default/2239275574260205339'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6974867728762145451/comments/default/2239275574260205339'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/03/barrett-watten-reading-tibet-mp3-stand.html?showComment=1206222540000#c2239275574260205339' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/03/barrett-watten-reading-tibet-mp3-stand.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6974867728762145451' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6974867728762145451' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 22, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8881710283513622768</id><published>2008-03-22T11:42:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-03-22T11:42:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>If the DL got Tibet back, would it remain a theocr...</title><summary type='text'>If the DL got Tibet back, would it remain a theocracy?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t care to replace one one-party system with another, even if obviously the DL is a lot nicer than the Maoists (I&#39;ve read all his books, but I don&#39;t think he plans to make Tibet into a Democratic state), and although the style of the Tibetan robes beats the Maoist garments hands down, and I rather like the sand paintings, I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6974867728762145451/comments/default/8881710283513622768'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/6974867728762145451/comments/default/8881710283513622768'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/03/barrett-watten-reading-tibet-mp3-stand.html?showComment=1206200520000#c8881710283513622768' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/03/barrett-watten-reading-tibet-mp3-stand.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6974867728762145451' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/6974867728762145451' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 22, 2008"/></entry></feed>