What about what I said above was confusing? I know I'm retarded... so help me out here.
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Karma:
I kill a man in a heated moment. I feel bad about it. I do XYZ to make myself feel better about it. I do XYZ to "repay" family/society/etc. The legal order maintenance function fulfills the emotional order maintenance function.
No Karma:
I kill a man in the heated moment. I don't feel bad about it. I continue on in life no differently than when I started after the legal order maintenance function is done with me. Society's demand for "justice" goes unanswered in the karma sense.
(Both scenarios: In twenty years... almost nobody remembers anyway.)
How can both realities exist? They can't... because "nobody" (Jesus/Allah/Jeff) is keeping track. We only keep tabs on ourselves, bro.
The idea of karma/luck/fate/justice/Baby Jeebus is that somebody is keeping track. Nobody is keeping track.
Technology killed god. TeeVee killed culture. Ego killed karma.
You have to have faith in these systems for them to work.
And I don't believe in them.
Last edited by Plan9; 04-25-2011 at 04:30 AM..
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