--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Stu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "claudiouk" <claudiouk@> wrote: > > > whether it's at all possible as an idea; Another point might be to > > check out whether, like fractal generation, there are any interesting > > surprises that unfold, whether "reap as you sow" actually works, at > > least for these computer creatures. > > > > Is it a completely mad and useless idea? > > > > It is neither mad or useless, its been done. Karma translates directly > as action. The concept is entirely empirical. Action can be observed. > Newton codified causality when he said for every action there is an > equal and opposite reaction. This is the law of Karma. > > The law of karma becomes murkier when applied to human behavior. Common > sense tells us there is some truth to the law of karma applied to human > behavior. For the most part a healthy person who commits murder, even > if he gets away with it, will feel the consequences of the act for years > to come. The prevailing philosophy that best illustrates this moral > natural law is utilitarianism. > > However the law of karma breaks down when psychopaths murder. Here > human behavior becomes subject to errant physical characteristics in the > brain. Karma played out in a neuro-biological sense. > > As for karma on the higher order, that is hogwash. Ben Franklin ran > into problems selling lightening rods for houses because in the day the > ignorant hicks felt that a hit house burned down to pay for sins of the > occupants, the lightening rod was an affront to god. Lightening rods > and firemen where heavily resisted by the simpletons of the time. > > It is unfortunate that there are still morons who entertain these myths > and base their life decisions and activities on cartoon fantasies from > earlier ages. > > I find it fascinating that people who take the time to meditate twice a > day would choose to subscribe to any of this mumbo jumbo. It seems to > me that simple observation, in a relaxed quiet internally focused way > would lead most people to better conclusions as to what is. All the > chatter on this NG about herbs, astrology, ethereal influences of > populations, levitation, unicorns and phantoms to me is contrary to the > results of the mind disciplined by meditation. > > Sure, there is clearly a non-material phenomenon (numonenon in Kant's > phrasing) but its expression is hardly fantastic. > > s. >
Seems to me that karma explains all issues, but perhaps "bad karma" in many cases can merely be translated as "too stupid to take steps to protect yourself..." Lawson
