#2 2012-10-10 18:02:21
I wonder if the insurance company will railroad him for excessive charges, daily rental recovery and all the evil shit they hit us plebes with when you wreck a rental.
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#3 2012-10-10 18:28:48
OK, this drives me fucking crazy. Karma, my dear High Street residents, is not "what goes around comes around." Karma is not vengeance, or even just a petty case of tit-for-tat.
Karma is the causes and conditions that give rise to the circumstances in which we find ourselves. One could argue that Mitt Romney's karma, for example, is his utter inability to understand the lives of the people he must convince to vote for him because his own circumstances have isolated him from that experience.
Karma is neither good nor bad. It is not fate. Karma can be changed. This is a particularly good explanation.
Sorry. Major pet peeve.
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#4 2012-10-10 18:42:21
Taint wrote:
One could argue that Mitt Romney's karma, for example, is his utter inability to understand the lives of the people he must convince to vote for him because his own circumstances have isolated him from that experience.
Odd.... I thought it was because he strapped his dogma to the roof of his karma. Either that or because he's a ruthless soulless bastard who would sell his own grandmother for a slight momentary edge and truly believes that whatever he can convince someone else to believe must therefor be the truth.
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#5 2012-10-10 19:17:02
Taint wrote:
OK, this drives me fucking crazy. Karma, my dear High Street residents, is not "what goes around comes around." Karma is not vengeance, or even just a petty case of tit-for-tat.
Karma is the causes and conditions that give rise to the circumstances in which we find ourselves. One could argue that Mitt Romney's karma, for example, is his utter inability to understand the lives of the people he must convince to vote for him because his own circumstances have isolated him from that experience.
Karma is neither good nor bad. It is not fate. Karma can be changed. This is a particularly good explanation.
Sorry. Major pet peeve.
Thank you, Taint. Drives me up the wall as well.
To add my two bits, mostly dredged up from 25 years ago - karma, for Buddhists, is not a cosmic form of retributive justice, it's an ethical system that was erected, at least partially, to promote good actions and to counter the pretensions of the Brahmin caste, who believed they were born wonderful and didn't need to prove it. For the Hindus, who believe in rebirth, karma was an ethical system that also served to determine status in your next life, but its causal mechanisms were not usually considered notable over the period of a single lifetime. Neither interpretation supports the casual use of the word that became popular in the West after stoned California hippies read Allan Watts.
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#6 2012-10-10 20:19:07
Taint wrote:
OK, this drives me fucking crazy. Karma, my dear High Street residents, is not "what goes around comes around." Karma is not vengeance, or even just a petty case of tit-for-tat.
Karma is the causes and conditions that give rise to the circumstances in which we find ourselves. One could argue that Mitt Romney's karma, for example, is his utter inability to understand the lives of the people he must convince to vote for him because his own circumstances have isolated him from that experience.
Karma is neither good nor bad. It is not fate. Karma can be changed. This is a particularly good explanation.
Sorry. Major pet peeve.
Thanks Taintski.
Ranks up there with "of" vs. "have" and "there" vs. "they're"
"What goes around comes around" is "What goes around comes around". And none of it had anything to do with G.B. anyway. Basically this story said nothing happened, because nothing happened.
I could of kept going but they're be no cents in it. I am going to go change my close now.
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#7 2012-10-10 21:36:50
My karma ran over your dogma.
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#8 2012-10-10 23:01:21
Taint wrote:
OK, this drives me fucking crazy. Karma, my dear High Street residents, is not "what goes around comes around." Karma is not vengeance, or even just a petty case of tit-for-tat.
Karma is the causes and conditions that give rise to the circumstances in which we find ourselves. One could argue that Mitt Romney's karma, for example, is his utter inability to understand the lives of the people he must convince to vote for him because his own circumstances have isolated him from that experience.
Karma is neither good nor bad. It is not fate. Karma can be changed. This is a particularly good explanation.
Sorry. Major pet peeve.
Damn Buddhist stirring the Karma Crap...
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