On Apr 11, 2008, at 12:53 PM, ispiritkin wrote:
--- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine wrote:
You claimed things are going along just perfectly,
that everyone gets what they "deserve," and
that that's karma, baby. Angela asked,
quite reasonably, if you then believed that
children that suffered
horrible fates were getting what they deserve.
I have not noticed in nature a pattern of what humans usually
call "justice". Stuff happens, there are actions and reactions, but
no "justice" in the human sense of poetic justice or moral justice.
Karma, for me, encompasses the action/reaction part of nature, and
sometimes this matches up with what we think is poetic or moral, but I
don't think nature holds itself to our standards of just deserts.
Of course it doesn't. Any attempt to make it conform is usually
the person's own narrow sense of self-preservation or fear
that the universe really is an unpredictable maelstrom. In Jim's
case, its the fear that his idiotic windbag rants won't get taken
seriously. Or maybe being subjected to his nonsense is the
penalty for some horrible karmic debt we accrued somewhere along the
line. Must have been a doozy.
Sal
