(January 15, 2016 at 11:43 am)Rhythm Wrote: He's counting on that, actually. If you read back a few posts you'll find that he's pretty sure that karma is going to fuck with -someone else- for what he's done. In this regard, christianity has his buddhism beat...and it's a sad day when christianity manages to claim some high ground over an alternative.
Karma is simply the Asian/Indian/Orient version of "revenge". It is just as superstitious an idea as the concept of hell. It is a comic book reflection of an explanation as to how humans react to threats to self, family and or tribe. Humans evolved to value self, if we did not we would not look both ways when crossing the street. When we are threatened we react to those threats.
There is no such thing as Karma anymore than their is a hell to burn in. Friend and foe alike all die. 50 million humans per year worldwide die from everything. The real reason humans don't like harm to self, is not magic. We evolved with empathy and that is why we value not being threatened, and why we seek to stop threats to ourselves.
Karma and hell are simply bullshit childish schoolyard concepts of getting even with the bully. They have nothing to do with the evolutionary survival that leads us to defend ourselves.
