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   "Dirk Bruere at NeoPax"  wrote in message   
   news:4m537kF4hk3dU1@individual.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.   
   >   
   > Nothing has any meaning beyond the self.   
      
   How do you know this?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)