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Re: Why
Reply #43 - Nov 13th, 2010 at 11:11pm
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I've been doing a good deal of reading and thinking and such since the last time I posted in this thread. I have delved into some rather out of the way places (still delving in fact) and I'm beginning to formulate some conclusions. Earlier in this thread, Darklord Kodiak posted that his mother, a staunch Catholic, considered him damned because of, basically, his disinclination to follow her religious faith. The good that he has done, the lives he's saved, mean nothing in the eyes of her God because he does not follow the teachings of the Catholic Church. By the same token, Skywise's mother is convinced that, at death, he will cease to exist in any form and she has disowned him for that reason. His crime? Marrying me and thereby violating the rules of the church in which he was raised. Yet, both of these men are, by any rational standard in western culture, good and worthy men. As I doubt that such situations are unique, I have to conclude that religious practice or lack of it is a poor way to judge whether someone is "good" or "evil." Actions, how honorably one lives one's life, are a much more accurate gauge of whether one is good or evil, saved or damned.
I've also given some thought to karma. What is it? Why is it and why it seems to work so damned haphazardly or not at all? One interesting theory that I've run across is that karma -- as we are accustomed to discussing it in the West -- is a thoughtform, which we create ourselves as we go about our daily business. Have you ever wondered why it takes so DAMNED long for some people's karmic chickens to come home to roost? As an example and certainly not the only one: People who molest generations of children and avoid the karmic consequences of their actions for years, sometimes decades. Some of them go to their graves untouched by any penalty for their actions. Where is "karma" then? Shouldn't the harm done to those children have brought the karmic ceiling down on their molesters in relatively short order? Why is it that it is only after their crimes have been brought to light that the roof caves in? Why the delay? If karma is a thoughtform, it makes sense. A thoughtform, created unconsciously, takes time -- sometimes a lot of time -- to grow. An abuser who feels no guilt for what he is doing likely won't even create a "punishing" thoughtform at all. The thoughtform, if it is to exist at all, would have to be created by the unconscious thoughts of the young victims and it would only be when enough psychic energy had been invested in the thoughtform that retribution would come. And if the thoughtform never got strong enough to overcome the defenses (natural or otherwise) of the abuser, he would never suffer any real world consequences for his actions and someone who knew and understood the science of thoughtforms would have little or nothing to fear, given that they could -- if they were skilled enough -- either destroy or keep at bay any thoughtform that attacked them. Viewed like that, the workings of karma make sense.
So to answer the Darklord's original question: Why (practice dark magic)?
Because we can. Because sometimes we have to. Because for some of us, the Warrior Spirit within demands it where justice or the greater good would be served no other way.
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