Comment and hyperlink below. --- In [email protected], bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Patrick Gillam" <jpgillam@> > wrote: > For to exterminate a > > race for being insolent, as described below, is the action of a > > divinity that I want no part of. > > > > ********** > > Krishna really never kills or punishes anybody -- the individual's > karma does that. There is a famous story in the Shiva Purana (and "> repeated in many other Vedic stories) about Shiva's destruction of > the sacrifice of Daksha. The gods then seek Shiva's forgiveness, to > which Shiva replied: > > "...laughing, the merciful lord Shiva blessed them and spoke: > ... > The destruction of the sacrifice of Daksa was not done by me. If a > person hates another, ultimately it recoils on him alone. No action > that involves the affliction of others will be indulged in by me at > any time." Shiva Purana, Rudrasamhita, Ch 42 > > It only looks like Shiva or Krishna is punishing somebody, but the > fact is that it is merely the return of that person's karma.
On that note, did people see this article in today's Washington Post? Iowa Flooding Could Be An Act of Man, Experts Say http://tinyurl.com/695oxx As the Cedar River rose higher and higher, and as he stacked sandbags along the levee protecting downtown Cedar Falls, Kamyar Enshayan, a college professor and City Council member, kept asking himself the same question: "What is going on?" The river would eventually rise six feet higher than any flood on record. Farther downstream, in Cedar Rapids, the river would break the record by more than 11 feet. Enshayan, director of an environmental center at the University of Northern Iowa, suspects that this natural disaster wasn't really all that natural. He points out that the heavy rains fell on a landscape radically reengineered by humans. Plowed fields have replaced tallgrass prairies. Fields have been meticulously drained with underground pipes. Streams and creeks have been straightened. Most of the wetlands are gone. Flood plains have been filled and developed. "We've done numerous things to the landscape that took away these water-absorbing functions," he said. "Agriculture must respect the limits of nature." More at http://tinyurl.com/695oxx
