User:Fasten/YHVH/Dictionary/Karma
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Karma [1] is a badly defined word. Most words in YHVH's language suffer from vagueness and an excessive number of synonyms.
Karma can mean
- the environmental karma of your people which is the complex but measurable quality of environmental damage.
- variant: include future environmental damage that comes as a karmic reaction of trends started in the past (e.g. established resource usage patterns)
- the social behaviour of your people, including trends and behavioural patterns started by your ancestors.
- passive variant: trends in social behaviour propagate without intervention.
- active variant: trends in social behaviour are actively promoted by YHVH. Please note that this shares the ethical problems of Sippenhaftung (undeclared collective liability of extended families, see also Nazi). It could also be seen as animal breeding applied to humanity, as animals are often bred for character traits or for fitness for a certain task.
- a set of karmic reactions you (and to a lesser degree your people) have caused and which return to you as karmic results. (this requires an intelligent being that is keeping track and seeing to it that everybody gets what he or she deserves) [2] [3]
- a metaphor for the Categorical Imperative.
- scientific sampling for what "Appropriate to the Species" means.
- digital music / music sampling -> "Don't you want to sample some music?"
My personal opinion is that you don't want to optimize good karma or minimize bad karma but minimize being manipulated at all, which is close to good karma but not necessarily the same. The difference can be very subtle, however. (see also: soul)
- [1] Car + Ma, e.g. a "Mummy's Taxi" sticker on a car
- [2] Incidentally the radio moderator said "... which wouldn't work because [somebody] wouldn't be allowed to decide ..." when I wrote this, which coincides with my conviction that YHVH has no ethical right to decree ethical rules for humanity. That would make his permission to consume the meat of mammals (given to Noah) invalid.
- [3] And this judge [4], if also acting according to precedents, follows the quality of (y)our judgement of others, this should make you very cautious in your judgement of others.
- [4] Acting according to somebody's precedents requires judgement (e.g. if an action can be considered equal or an adequate result of another action) but this is not judgement in the sense of jurisdiction. Judgement in the sense of jurisdiction may be present anyway, as humanity creates a precedent for this, too.
[edit] Karma in Buddhism and Hinduism
Most teachings say that for common mortals, having an involvement with Karma is an unavoidable part of day-to-day living. However, in light of the Hindu philosophical school of Vedanta, as well as Gautama Buddha's teachings, one is advised to either avoid, control or become mindful of the effects of desires and aversions as a way to moderate or change one's karma (or, more accurately, one's karmic results).
