Disasters are not the hand of God striking down the sinful -
neither is it Karma, Sharon Stone. People who think so are stupid, just plain stupid. So, Miss Stone, when Hollywood receives that 7.9 or 8.0 jolt that the scientists have been promising you for the last 20 years will that be God or karma?
Note : please watch embedded video is you do not understand why I am addressing Ms. Stone directly !
God, the Father, who is pure love and kindness, is not a punishing God, He is merciful and kind. If you want to see God's tender love look to all the tragic pictures of parents carrying their child from the wreckage of their homes, dead. Look at the USA government just about begging Burma to allow us to help them, also... That is God's hand - weeping at the harm and death in Asia and here in America - world wide, in fact is God's way.
People who blame God or Mother Earth are Stupid, simply stupid. People like Stone deserve to go to the 8 th. level of hell saved for the chronically self-righteous, arrogant, smug fools that constantly see the sliver in their neighbor's eye but don't see the plank in their own. If God or karma strikes down anyone in this planet for sin it should be Hollywood types like Ms. Stone and others of her kind who are smug buffoons of the most ridiculous kind. So why is your sinful town still prospering and rich - could it be that God is merciful and loving - a Father who does not punish? Could it be that the earth just lives by the natural laws of geology and has no will except for them, Ms. Stone?
Of all the things that drive me nuts, arrogant Hollywood types drive me the most over the edge. I just want to grab them by the lapels and tell them that they are merely brainless actors and that they should shut up and do their craft and leave serious things to serious people!
Earthquake, storms, volcanic disasters always strike at the humblest of people, first, and hardest - the humble can not get out of the way, the humble are just working, raising families, doing their duties. I despise the Chinese communist government more than most. I despise communism as an aberration of real philosophy, but neither God nor karma (which is a natural law of the universe and not even God can really change!) misses the mark or strikes at the humble while leaving the great ones to say how-very-sorry- they are- that the earth quake struck... Both God's will and karma are not punishment as such, etc.
It does not surprise me that the Buddhists want to help. They know that hatred of your enemies is BAD KARMA - and, that their brothers and sisters, killed by the Chinese government are yet, living, yet, not here on Earth - that kind of goodness is something I can only dream about having in my soul - and, Hollywood types, Ms. Stone, included, actually can't even conceive of existing... that is why she was so confused.
Neither the Chinese earthquakes nor the Mt. St. Helens eruption, or Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD, nor the Katrina hurricane, or the recent storms in the Mid-West nor the awful typhoon in Burma, etc, etc, etc are karma. NOW, what happens afterwards - our inability to really react properly to the hurricane might have been considered karmic because our reactions were directly tied to sowing and harvesting what we did in the past... but, even that, can be debated for a few centuries. Karma is infinitely complex and difficult to understand.
We human beings matter not to mother Earth. We are just her children - as much as the trees and the flowers - and, as such, she will dispose of us as she sees fit - she knows no cruelty - only necessity. The laws of nature are such that we must sometimes die in natural disasters - if we live in an earthquake zone, as I do, I know that we could have mild ones (below 5.0) for my entire lifetime - or a really big one could hit and I could die, struck down, lets say, by that bookcase to my right side, right this moment. No Chinese family, as humble as my own in many ways, (and, please note, they don't even get to have a say in the governing as we do, so they can't be blamed for what their government does!) are being punished with an earthquake. They are humble people - the salt of the earth, as Christ would say. They did not kill the monks of Tibet - the government of China, did.
People who say that natural disaster are punishment for sin are living in the dark ages of superstition whether they are Christian Popes, Muslim clerics - or, profoundly stupid actors and actresses living lives of sublime luxury in the richest city of North America. They should all be ashamed of themselves - it's a shame hell does not exist, people for you truly would be massively improved by going there for a few centuries !!!!!!
