If prayer worked....
@gemswinc if karma worked too… 😑
@MotherDucker @gemswinc Karma works fine. It's just that people think karma means something other than what it does.
@AskTheDevil I would just like to see it, before I die. In fact, possibly seeing it happen strengthens my will to live longer. Other than that, good life, I'm ready @MotherDucker
@gemswinc @MotherDucker Now, the fact that you feel that way, and someone did something that causes you to feel that way - the ripples of attachment and connection that happen when someone causes changes in the world, that's karma.
When all those ripples bounce back to where they started, that is a karmic cycle.
TFG has generated a lot of "bad" karma. But bad karma doesn't go find a person and punish them. It impacts all the people it touches, including the source. That's what makes it karma.
@AskTheDevil Do you have a resource which you can link? Karma is not a personal proposition? Of course someone's evil affects us all, but is that the same as personal Karma?
@gemswinc That's the thing about karma. It isn't ever just personal. It is about attachments and interactions. Your karma is karma when it is between you and something or someone outside you. It is attachment.
It's ony personal in that you started it, and it also impacts you.
@AskTheDevil I know it’s not, but your avi reminds me of the logo on fire trucks. Wrong colors though.
@poemblaze We do have a few fires to put out!
@AskTheDevil I think I may have read one Green Lantern comic book in my entire life.
@poemblaze I recently re-read a bunch from the 60s through the 80s, and what I have determined is that the main character, Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern from Earth, is one of the stupidest creatures in the entire multiverse. Everyone around him is trying to be a professional, and he's a twit.
I think he forgot his ring doesn't work on yellow stuff like every issue for almost 15 years.
@AskTheDevil Sounds like a shimmering intellect.
@poemblaze Eh. It was comic books. They're not always the most scintillatingly intelligent medium for stories. ; )
Mostly, people in tight clothing punch each other and zap stuff with various kinds of ray.
@AskTheDevil Have never heard of the Blue Lantern.
@poemblaze They did a whole pile of stories where there were all different colors. At the beginning, it was just the green ones, then some bad guys showed up with yellow rings (representing fear), purple ones for passion/love then later there was a whole rainbow.
@Heucuva8 Finally, TY @AskTheDevil @poemblaze
Fun fact, the shape you're talking about is designed to resemble a Maltese cross or the Cross of St. John.
It's named for the Order of St. John, an order of knights during the Crusades, who were Hospitaller knights.The story goes that when the Order was in Malta (thus Maltese cross), The enemies poured boiling oil down on them as they attacked a fortification. The enemies then fled, and rather than pursue, the order stayed to tend to the wounded.
@poemblaze Ha ha! It is the symbol of the Blue Lanterns, from DC superhero comics.
The Green Lanterns use the light of courage or will, the red ones use anger, indigo is compassion, and blue lanterns represent hope.
(They do other colors, but those are the ones I've seen represented here on CoSo)