[OOC] The new meme that's going around

[fingeroflife]

If you have any questions about any of my characters, feel free to ask here.This includes basic canon info but is more geared toward like . . . motivations, specific camp behavior, past events, anything else you can think of, really. "Why does ____ do this?" "Why does ____ act that way around them?" "Why does ___ not want etc. etc?" etc

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[beligerence]

FOR THE LOVELY BUDDHIST GAL I. ... I want to ask a question but I have no idea what. TARA'S OPINION ON FATE. I dunno. I have the burning desire to as opinion on a certain lazy couch bastard but really I was trying to be subtle and think of something DIFFERENT AND COOL

[fingeroflife]

OKAY SO Tara's opinion on fate is that it doesn't exist. :D Mahayana Buddhism's concept of karma is that future events proceed from past actions; in other words, that every person's past actions determine their own fate in present or future lives. When she says something like "Karma's a mysterious thing", she means "The way in which past actions have caused the present circumstances is mysterious;" she's not referring to an external force like destiny. The important distinction is that everyone can better their circumstances with right action; fatalism and the belief in fate as most people understand it leads to inaction or wrong action, which is sort of anathema to Tara. XD

[two_jedi_sticks]

So I'd like to hear about why Tara on caffeine would be a disaster.

[ninefoldpath]

Disaster my foot, it would be beautiful. She'd tear through camp like a whirlwind of enlightenment, casting aside illusion and desire like mist!

[two_jedi_sticks]

By which we mean a whirlwind of plundering? XD

[fingeroflife]

...well, yes, that too. After all, material possessions lead one's gaze from the eightfold path.