by chantL
I was watching the movie, "The Black Death" recently.
It is around the time of the beubonic plague, crusaders, witch trials etc.
The people of those times, being superstitious, thought that the 'witches' had cursed them and so had many innocents killed. Others believed that God was punishing them. We now know that the plague was carried in by the rats and thereby spread amongst the people.
If I think about it, as a believer in Kharma (what you give is what you get - Cause and Effect)... we were punishing ourselves, by ourselves, for the deeds of humanity.
The witch trials were already underway before the beubonic plague arrived.
Heathens, pagans, call them what you will, were persecuted for not accepting the Christian God (which would mean that I, as child of my own magnificent, universal, all encompassing notion of God, may have been amongst them).
This mass cruelty would have to have its consequences if the Laws of the Universe are to be believed and abided by.
Note the bible's angle on this: "Do unto others as you would have done unto yourselves."
The Rats were merely the carriers of the consequences of our own actions. Call it punishment. Call it justice. Call it what you will.
Today, with the fast and furious lives that we live and the havoc that we wreak on ourselves and the Earth, there is still sickness and dis-ease. Has Man stopped to consider that Life could be different? That there does exist also such a thing as good Kharma?
At what point do we stand up and say, "ENOUGH!" ??
Like in the movie, 'The Day the Earth stood Still,' is it really only on the brink of destruction that man is capable of realizing the err of his ways and making a change?
My fiance was told by our doctor that he must stop smoking or face emphazima.. we are now on our third day of not smoking, where before we really struggled with the willpower to give up. Is this the nature of mankind?
Can we change? For the Better?
Before destroying ourselves?
It is around the time of the beubonic plague, crusaders, witch trials etc.
The people of those times, being superstitious, thought that the 'witches' had cursed them and so had many innocents killed. Others believed that God was punishing them. We now know that the plague was carried in by the rats and thereby spread amongst the people.
If I think about it, as a believer in Kharma (what you give is what you get - Cause and Effect)... we were punishing ourselves, by ourselves, for the deeds of humanity.
The witch trials were already underway before the beubonic plague arrived.
Heathens, pagans, call them what you will, were persecuted for not accepting the Christian God (which would mean that I, as child of my own magnificent, universal, all encompassing notion of God, may have been amongst them).
This mass cruelty would have to have its consequences if the Laws of the Universe are to be believed and abided by.
Note the bible's angle on this: "Do unto others as you would have done unto yourselves."
The Rats were merely the carriers of the consequences of our own actions. Call it punishment. Call it justice. Call it what you will.
Today, with the fast and furious lives that we live and the havoc that we wreak on ourselves and the Earth, there is still sickness and dis-ease. Has Man stopped to consider that Life could be different? That there does exist also such a thing as good Kharma?
At what point do we stand up and say, "ENOUGH!" ??
Like in the movie, 'The Day the Earth stood Still,' is it really only on the brink of destruction that man is capable of realizing the err of his ways and making a change?
My fiance was told by our doctor that he must stop smoking or face emphazima.. we are now on our third day of not smoking, where before we really struggled with the willpower to give up. Is this the nature of mankind?
Can we change? For the Better?
Before destroying ourselves?
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Life and Humanity
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- April 18, 2012 7:53 am
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