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   "Meltdarok"  wrote in message   
   news:HQ8Lg.22545$mY1.15320@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...   
   > 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?   
      
   How would one demonstrate that it wasn't?  We're talking metaphysics here,   
   not physics.  We cannot test our hypotheses.   
      
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