Tyrannical on 07 April 2009
antfromtashkent said:
WessleWoggle said:
The idea of god is not needed for that. Ever heard of karma? Also some people don't need the idea of god to not cause harm, but if god is the only thing keeping you from killing people, then by all means feel free to keep believing.
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Karma (Sanskrit: कर्म  kárma (help·info), kárman- "act, action, performance"[1]; Pali: kamma) is the concept of "action" or "deed" in Indian religions understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect (i.e., the cycle called saṃsāra) originating in ancient India and treated in Hindu, Jain, Sikh and Buddhist philosophies.
That is a religeous term......
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Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
