How long are people going to refer to Myanmar as "Myanmar-previously-Burma" instead of just "Myanmar"?
The name of this country, which is home to 50 million people, is a flash point among laymen and politicians both within and without the borders of this country comprised of 261,227 square miles—roughly the size of Texas. Some groups continue to use "Burma" because they do not recognize the legitimacy of the current ruling party who changed the name of the country back in 1989. The United Nations, however, recognizes the name "Myanmar" because that's the "official" name of the country as designated by the current government. Consequently, the media is caught in-between the two sides. They don't want to be seen as unjustly siding with either the citizens of the country or the controversial ruling party.
Oh. That makes sense. Did you see the military came out at beat some monks yesterday with riot sticks?
Yeah. Too bad.
How could you beat a monk?
I don't know, man. I'd be scared no matter what religion they were. In my opinion, a person of God is a person of God, regardless if I don't think or know that their God exists. If I was told to beat a monk and even if it turns that monks' God didn't exist I'd be scared some other God could step in to cover for the monk's God and smite the abuser's soul down to hell.
So you're saying the God's have each others' backs?
Totally.
So if the God in question doesn't exist some other God that does exist will stand in and do the punishing?
Yeah.
You should work that into an editorial and submit it to the paper.
Really? Which paper?
To be honest, I don't think it matters.
