If prayer worked....
@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 Looks like I have to sort out what you just wrote 🤔 @MotherDucker
@gemswinc @AskTheDevil okay okay. I wish the FO part of FAFO was 100% effective and appropriately vengeful.
@MotherDucker @gemswinc Well, that's up to us.
@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 Thank you!
I'm not sure what resource I would point to. This is my thoughts based on lots of input from lots of sources and contemplation over a long period of time.
There's people who ascribe some supernatural force to it, like there's some ghost somewhere weighing hearts on scales and dispensing consequences.
But it's not really like that. It's the web of connections among people, and between our inner and outer worlds.
@AskTheDevil So you are the resource. Again, thank you for your input & thoughtfulness
@gemswinc Ah, but what if I'm full of doo-doo, and generating bad and misleading karma? ; )
Also, some of my resources are people I met in person, and who have probably died more than once since then.
We can see our own karmic connections from a personal view, of course. We're the person its connected to! We run into our own challenges and lessons along the path and how we respond to it changes it.
@AskTheDevil Ha! Of course! But I respect your intellect & judgment & am taking your perspective under consideration.
@AskTheDevil I know it’s not, but your avi reminds me of the logo on fire trucks. Wrong colors though.
@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)
@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.
@MotherDucker @gemswinc Karma works fine. It's just that people think karma means something other than what it does.