Karmic Adjustment & Weber

[Mark Kohut]

Parsons, long-winded, sez in writing of another of Weber's key concepts 'rationalization'
"which is the master conception through which cultures define their religious situation".................... 
which is resolved, basically, in one of two ways....."in the two fully consistent philosophies of moral meaning,
or theodicies, which have appeared in religous history."        
1) One is the Calvinistic conception that resolution depends on the relationship between an absolute, all-powerful, unknowable, God 
upon which his Creation--all of us--is dependent on his Will and

2) the doctrine of karma, which postulates a complete closure of the moral system over time spans altogether
commensurable with the human life span, though not, strictly speaking, eternal. 

Justifying God's ways to man involves accepting unproveable postulates, of course, but similar considerations apply
in the case of karma, Parsons says of Weber's notion. 

Kai, all, jump in, the water's lukewarm here.
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