My Karma ran over my...oh, you know the joke.
Thomas Eckhardt
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de
Tue Dec 4 07:59:17 CST 2001
The problem is the word "debt", as in "karmic debt", isn't it? You used that phrase on two occasions: If 9/11 was a debt paid by about 4000 people, if the Holocaust was a debt paid by about 6 million people, these events merely served to adjust the karmic balance. They were, in other words, just. And what you are doing by calling these events the payment of debts is justification. I sincerely hope that this is not what you intended to say and believe you when you say that you didn't mean to, but I am afraid this is exactly what you said.
As for your statement that what you meant was merely that everybody has got to expect bad things happening to him or her, because so many people in this world are doing bad things to other people - well, yes, certainly. But this is something else entirely.
Thomas
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