Now we can see how Atlantis sunk.......
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" <whynotnow7@...> wrote:
>
> Yeah, I agree that karma can't be proven, or even seen as necessary for
> understanding life. If it were, everyone would know about it. Of the things
> we need as humans, food, clothing, shelter, water and space (off the top of
> my head), karma isn't on the list.
>
> So it gets relegated to the much larger list of "nice to haves", even though
> we don't really know of a practical use for it. Unless it incorporates
> Newtonian physics, in which case, mundane examples of karma are all around us
> as simple cause and effect.:-)
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "whynotnow7" <whynotnow7@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Yeah, agreed. Karma is a feeling or an intuitive thing that
> > > seems to work well as a personal teaching mechanism for me,
> > > but I find it impossible to apply to the actions of someone
> > > else, except as a kind of slang - for example, if someone
> > > is really speeding on the freeway, and later I see him get
> > > pulled over by a cop, I might think, "bad karma dude". :-)
> >
> > Or it could have been *good* karma, in that he got stopped
> > by the cop before he had a terrible accident.
> >
> > That's why applying the karmic equation to myself or
> > anyone else seems absurd to me. You can always dream up a
> > scenario in which what appears to be bad karma is actually
> > good karma and vice-versa.
> >
> > Even with the worst possible suffering, there's the
> > possibility that it was *chosen* between lives as a way of
> > expiating many lifetimes of accumulated bad karma--not
> > necessarily any worse or more than anyone else's--very
> > quickly, rather than taking it a bit at a time from one
> > life to another.
> >
> > And since we have no way of knowing the Big Picture,
> > there's zero basis for making *any* assumptions, much less
> > for allowing any of them to affect how we respond to any
> > given instance of suffering (individual or mass). Karma
> > cannot be any more than abstract theory, like the free will/determinism
> > issue.
> >
>
