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While struggling to understand my Hindu Traditions prof. through his accent, i was able to pick up a few tidbits on the religion of Hinduism. He said with the element of Karma, everything that happens, happens justly. While I'm not sure I believe in continous life cycles and appearing in different forms, I think that the idea has a lot of truth to it. Karma is described much like the law of physics, where every action has a reaction. Our actions in one lifetime have an affect on our future lives. Our actions and words of today ultimately have some part in where we end up in the future.
Though I wont begin to validate the actions of 9/11 or the Iraqi war, or say the genocide in Rwanda, these attrocities occured because of what at least one person did. That perhaps, in some strange way, everything that happens in our life IS validated by everyone else's actions. Not that anyone "deserves" to die, because we're all going to, it's just a matter of when and where. But do we want to be part of causing another's death by agreeing with capital punishment or abortion, for instance. What's more important is that we always have that choice. No one is ever forced to do something. The seeds of Karma are going to be planted either way, it's the direction that they decide to grow that makes the difference.
I've probably gone and screwed up the whole meaning that my professor intended but well...that happens.
I think we have to make our own decisions but not be so staunch in keeping them. We have to be willing to conceed and admit others are right (or at least partially) and perhaps we will find ourselves in a world where the seeds will grow in only one way. Together.
Though I wont begin to validate the actions of 9/11 or the Iraqi war, or say the genocide in Rwanda, these attrocities occured because of what at least one person did. That perhaps, in some strange way, everything that happens in our life IS validated by everyone else's actions. Not that anyone "deserves" to die, because we're all going to, it's just a matter of when and where. But do we want to be part of causing another's death by agreeing with capital punishment or abortion, for instance. What's more important is that we always have that choice. No one is ever forced to do something. The seeds of Karma are going to be planted either way, it's the direction that they decide to grow that makes the difference.
I've probably gone and screwed up the whole meaning that my professor intended but well...that happens.
I think we have to make our own decisions but not be so staunch in keeping them. We have to be willing to conceed and admit others are right (or at least partially) and perhaps we will find ourselves in a world where the seeds will grow in only one way. Together.