Oh the pain! Well karma is a Budist thing and it has more to do with how you are reborn in your next life, but there might but I might be missing something importent as well. Have you ever seen a show called My Name is Eral? He belives that if he does some thing bad karma will punish him for it, not in his next life but when karma feels like punishing him.
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anonymous
February 13 2006, 02:07:59 UTC
I agree that his priorities are skewed, but I believe I understand his approach.
You'll recall that I had a slight inner conflict several decades back when congresspersons were getting caught, selling state secrets to Iron Curtain countries.
Typically, they'd exchange their country's trust for ten or twenty thousand dollars (quite a lot of money in those days, but still small change on a national scale). What was remarkable was that they had access to information that was worth millions - and had settled for keeping their treason at the nickle-and-dime level.
I didn't know which upset me more: that they were traitors, or had such an abysmal lack of business sense.
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Well karma is a Budist thing and it has more to do with how you are reborn in your next life, but there might but I might be missing something importent as well.
Have you ever seen a show called My Name is Eral? He belives that if he does some thing bad karma will punish him for it, not in his next life but when karma feels like punishing him.
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Karma affects reincarnation and the present life. (Ever hear of 'instant karma'?) At least how I understand it.
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Bad men come back as cockroaches.
Bad cockroaches come back as lawyers.
Unfair, I know.
Nanoc
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You'll recall that I had a slight inner conflict several decades back when congresspersons were getting caught, selling state secrets to Iron Curtain countries.
Typically, they'd exchange their country's trust for ten or twenty thousand dollars (quite a lot of money in those days, but still small change on a national scale). What was remarkable was that they had access to information that was worth millions - and had settled for keeping their treason at the nickle-and-dime level.
I didn't know which upset me more: that they were traitors, or had such an abysmal lack of business sense.
Nanoc
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