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   From: meltdarok@aol.com   
      
   Tom wrote:   
   > "Dirk Bruere at NeoPax"  wrote in message   
   > news:4m41esF4dn4rU1@individual.net...   
   >> hilltopper6509@yahoo.com wrote:   
   >>   
   >> It's someone who steals something they think is Karma but is really   
   >> something entirely different (if it exists at all).   
   >>   
   >> Karma is simply the law of cause and effect.   
   >   
   > Maybe that's something that someone thinks is karma but it's really   
   > something entirely different.   
   >   
   > How about this version?  Karma is the action you believe you are obliged to   
   > perform.   
   >   
   > If you have done something you believe to be bad, you may feel obliged to do   
   > something that atones for it.  If you do something good, you may feel that   
   > you are entitled to act in some rewarding way.  If some unfortunate thing   
   > happens to you, you may want to consider it atonement for something you did   
   > that you believe to have been bad.  If some fortunate thing happens to you,   
   > you may want to consider it a reward for behavior you believe to be good.   
   >   
   > It really has nothing to do with any force or sentience outside yourself.   
   > Karma is a product of self-consciousness.  Beyond the self, it has no   
   > meaning at all.   
   >   
   >   
      
   You mean it may be the carrot and stick similar to Christian Hell?   
      
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