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From: dirk.bruere@gmail.com
Tom wrote:
> "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?
There is nobody else to know it.
Or perhaps you can point me towards where 'meaning' resides outside of self?
FFF
Dirk
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