Pink Panther wrote:Offtopic: Philosophical aside: It could be argued that the West is reaping what it sowed in the Middle East over centuries ... punishment by association justifies the terrorism, the killers are merely agents of karmic wrath. So if they helped the victims ”clear bad karma” have they ...
What interests me is our 'stunned' reaction to their ideas. And I think stunned, intellectually stunned, is the right word for it.
They would sit on their guddhi thrones and pronounce all such sort of irrational and illogical backward nonsense with no means as to support or explain it, and we would sit in silence, or actually silenced if we raised questions about it to them, stunned by the "mysterious" stupidity of it. And then this stuntedness is re-interpretated as deep or "depth" or thinking, "experiencing" - your subjective element it.
I have a regular dispute with one BK over the BK use of the world "understanding". I argue that you cannot understand BKism because there is nothing to understand. It is not understandable because it has no logic, rational or evidence to support it. You can only accept it, or not. BKs confuse accepting and memorising the nonsense, the potted responses, with understanding it.
Where there are no explanations and evidence, there is no understanding.
It started up as a vanity 'End of the World' cult for one man playing god to a social circle of privileged but uneducated women or, in other words, plainly somewhere between gullible and naive, and stupid. And if you did not start that way, following it will turn you into it. (
note; this is not a sexist criticism of those girls and women, but it is certainly a classist criticism of the Bhaibund caste, one dedicated to making money but not valuing education). At best, it only uses followers' intelligence to manufacture superior marketing facades.
Let's take the
Paris Victims one by one and explain what mysterious power connected them to the collective Karma of the Western Imperialists in the Middle East, what mysterious power moved them all - from teenagers to adults in their 60s - to be where they were on the night, and through what medium - what element - that mysterious power moved?
Has the BKWSU any answers to these question? Does it have any explanation as to how karma works? No, it really does not have a clue. All that it is interested in is how useful or expedient it is to achieve some result or influence. To upkeep some kind of facade of "being religious".
The facade which gives them power and brings then in money.
Anything -
even the mass murder of unconnected innocents - that is useful to plugging the minds and encouraging their adherent or financial sponsors to sit down, do nothing and self-hypnotise - re-confirming the importance of the Kirpalani Klan to themselves - is useful to the Kirpalani Klan.
What is the explanation of the cause behind the Paris atrocity? No need to study and question the history, politics and policy strategies ... just say "Karma" and get back to "Om-ing" in the corner feeling you are doing something good about it, while doing nothing.