I have no idea what happened, but it's amusing to read his latest statements and compare them with past dialogues.
If they are watching and your belief holds true then karma will make sure you join them in your next lifetime. P.S. Meowgi studies fellatiotomy
I hear ya. I agree. I'd probably take it a step further and say sometimes there's a moral imperative to get involved even if it doesn't explicitly serve our interests.
This leads to scary places. Never worry about the sufferings of others...they're only suffering because they deserve it. I'm sorry, but my humble opinion is that world view blows.
Of course, I worry about the sufferings of others but realistically what can one person do? Should I write a check for $50 to some relief agency, how about writing my congressman, how about I attend a rock concert to Free Darfur? All these are just superficial attempts people use to make themselves feel better. The world is a place of equals. For every happy person, there is equally a person who is unhappy. As a vegetarian, I feel bad for the animals that are slaughtered, but what can I do to make people stop eating meat? There is very little to make people change their own way of life. If you believe in karmic rebirth, you will understand my point of view regarding those suffering in Africa and elsewhere. Obviously I care for those poor people, but it doesn't mean to say that the reason why for their suffering is something out of their control. I believe that every action you take today or have taken, has a consequence sometime in this life or the next. You always control your destiny through the actions you take today.
Karma and rebirth doesn't really work that way. Are you sure you don't mean reincarnation? Here is a decent response to what you are proposing: http://www.bpf.org/tsangha/skb911karma.html Karma: Did They Deserve It? Santikaro Bhikkh I just don't want people here getting the wrong idea about karma. And don't even get me started about rebirth.
How do they identify one tribe member from another? Kenya is smaller than Texas. The map below is population by enthnicity, so tribal violence could be intra-enthicity conflict right?
It's not allways a superficial attempt. 1000's of people may attend the concert for Dafur but maybe one will be affected enough to start an awareness campaign, to lobby politicians etc.. Great things happen when one person sees a need and decides to stand up and really make a difference -- and history has shown us that one person can. Martin Luther King, Mahtma Ghandi, Lech Welsa, Mother Teresa. And on a much smaller scale many people see needs and rise up to meet them in there own area. Recovering alcholics who decide to start a support group, the local factory worker who shows up every week at the shelter to serve dinner, the high school kid who gives up a week of his summer each year to help kids with disabilities go to camp. These are real people that I am proud to know -- they see a need and do something to meet it. There efforts are not superficial attempts at anything -- but efforts that are really making a difference. Or on a global sense -- someone deciding to make it their mission to educate others about Kenya or Dafur. Raising awarerness, raises money and can cause change. Cold indifference "it wouldn't do any good anyway" never really changes anything. Holding onto the "I couldn't make a differnce" stance is actually the easy stance to pacify your guilt and make yourself feel better about doing nothing.
