Buddhist Religious Leader Says Games Satiate Aggression

[Captain Pancake]

finally, a voice of reason. Why do you think I play video games? It's either that or causing a few "accidents" in the mosh pit.

 

[Kellerb]

cool. man speaks sense

 

[cleverlymadeup]

that's pretty cool, tho the Buddhists are usually pretty cool and have a neat outlook on life

 

[skintrade]

Tomorrow's Daily Mail headline just in...

"Buddhist Monks promote killer games to train Tibetan freedom fighters!"

 

[Clashero]

I've always upheld this. Games, of any kind, serve to discharge all of our negative feelings and the natural pent-up aggresiveness and desire to compete that is inherent to humans. Without games, we'd be murdering each other now.

 

[El Poncho]

I thought Tibet was China

I agree though i've always seen video games a way to let out my frustrations.

 

[Olikunmissile]

Finally, some praise from religion rather than just calling games the spawn of satan.

 

[RanD00M]

People said i was crazy when i said that Buddhism was the best religion.We'll who's crazy now.

 

[Booze Zombie]

There will always be some nutter who will ignore wise words and "crusade" against that which is new, thankfully, it isn't this fella.

 

[GamingAwesome1]

Finally, some praise from religion rather than just calling games the spawn of satan.

It makes a refreshing change of pace doesn't it? Thank you Buddishm. The peace loving people are always the one to see the light.

 

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

This article turned my frown upside-down.

 

[Generic_Dave]

Woohoo! A religion gains a point! Though Buddhism is miles ahead anyway.

Still it's nice to see some sense from a religious leader when it comes to videogames. Rather than the same tired "We must protect our children" line that's been spewed since Gutenberg got finished printing the Bible and moved on to saucier stuff.

 

[Superhyperactiveman]

This post makes me happy, because now I can say "I was a Buddhist before it was cool"

 

[G1eet]

All in favor of converting to Buddhism? XD

This man just became my hero...

AYE!

I've been thinking about it, to be honest...

 

[TsunamiWombat]

Tomorrow's Daily Mail headline just in...

"Buddhist Monks promote killer games to train Tibetan freedom fighters!"

Thats totally the way China will slant it.

 

[GonzoGamer]

I thought Tibet was China

Don't say that to any Buddhists.

I'm glad there's at least one religious leader out there who has the same outlook as me on games; down to some of the same wording I use.

After getting home from work, sometimes the best thing to do to "decompress" is to just blow stuff up. I'm happy I can do it in a game.

And this even goes for really sick games like Rapelay: the more time some pervert spends playing a rape simulation, the less time he'l have to go out raping real people. That's just common sense.

It also makes me think that most of the troubles in the Middle East could be solved with ice cream and video games.

 

[YurdleTheTurtle]

Hmm, what a refreshing change. You don't get this very often.

What many of the anti-gamers tend to forget about is that not all video games are violent. I've managed to eliminate stress and have fun playing a variety of games, whether it was Call of Duty or Plants vs Zombies.

I do agree that video games is just one of many methods to help you with a bad day. Just because you use another method, does not mean video games are bad.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Bloody finally! I have stated before that I believe video games are actually stalling psychotics from killing, because they can just do them.