--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Kirk" <kirk_bernhardt@> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Your own words:
> > >
> > > "I spent many years in bars, and only a year and a half behind
one. I
> > > found that being a bartender does in fact lend itself to drinking
> > > alcohol. I would get my tip money and go next door to the bar and
> > > party. It's like I couldn't get enough. ***But now I know it was
> > > karma*** ."
> >
> > -----Yeah, which includes death and horrible destruction and
suffering.
>
>
> As you sow, so shall you reap. Either one takes responsibility for
> one's *own* karma, or one doesn't take responsibility and tries to
> blame someone besides himself for the pain.
>
> The idea is to do good stuff so you don't suffer the consequences of
> doing 'bad stuff'.
>
> And how do you know what 'good stuff' is? ...Do you have to be told?
>
Why the value judgements good and bad? You know what you like -- and
presumably are doing like stuff so that you get what you want. You
(A) may like money so you may be do a lot of money creating things.
Someone else(B) may like studying philosophy so they set up time and
conditions to do more of that.
(A) may hate philosophy and (B) may have little desire for money.
Which is good and which is bad? Philosophy returning to A is bad in
his eyes ("no, no not more kant!") and its good in B's eyes ("Ah, I
have all weekend to read Sarte").
Karma has nothing to do with good and bad, or value judgements. It has
everything to do with cause and effect. Do A get a. Do B get b. Your
choice.
And some would say A and B both equally suck. And does nothing so as
to create nothing in return.
