This week the heartland of America had seen the worst storms in several years. No one is switching on summer from slot machines. But the hundreds of millions of dollars in damage bespeaks the wrath of God in any case.

I am not a particularly religious person. In fact I would consider myself more or less agnostic, pulling pieces of everything together. This event, an amazing catastrophe with four states declared disaster areas, really makes me understand Karma. How many flags are lying in the rubble? How many soldiers are coming home to devastated homes?

God does not allow collateral damage to go unrewarded. No one need hijack any plane. In the days to come as disaster relief and FIMA is slow to arrive and people are without power and water for days, America, will sadly still be blind.

It won't be until some evangelical who happens to be anti war catches on, the principle of an eye for an eye.

In the bible gods commands us not to kill. During the battle of Jerico, he shows us that it is god and only gods power to defeat enemies. Often, the willfullness of man to go to war, for Bathsheba lets say in King Davids case, often brings it's own wrath of god. A war that is not commanded or sanctioned by god, is asking for it.

Today 48 people have died in the heart land, a small price in lives. But millions may be displaced or living in fear of the next tornado, just as the Iraqi's fear the bombs.

God, it seems, doesn't take sides. When god said an eye for an eye, he meant he would take an eye for every eye a man took. Any man, right or wrong, is subject to this marked and undeniable law of Karma. And so, the circle of violence revolves.

The Hindus call it Kali ma the destroyer godess, from destruction she brings new life.

Today they said the next storm was headed for D.C..

I just can't wait till Bush accuses god of being the terrorist for this one.

interesting post.

yeah I really wish Christian's would get a fucking clue and figure things out. but they're so much a part of the problem that it's like hoping all the CEOs in America would one day wake up and realize their salaries are ridiculously high and start sharing the money equally with their workers.

Not that I'm Christian, but in Christian/Biblical lingo, isn't it fucking obvious by now to Christians that capitalism is part of a bigger system of deception by their idea of "Satan"? Look around. If I were Christian, and I believed in God and Satan and all that, and I looked at how things have developed over the last 2000 years, it would be hard not to come to the conclusion that "Satan" took over the Church early on, twisted around the message, and used it to spread a lot of really messed up ideas all over the world, including capitalism, colonialism, "progress", etc. Like a disease. And it seems to have spread exactly like that, like a virus of ideas. The Devil's whole gig is to confuse people. What is this society but completely, hopelessly confused?

but it's not just Christians. Jews and Muslims are from the same tradition of flawed logic. & it seems like all three seem hell-bent on wrecking everyting together. it's a serious flaw in their logic that they separate themselves from God (God is one being, you are another separate being), and everything around them, and to see what happens when you do that, just look around and see where we are now.

I love a recent billboard I saw that says something like, "God and Allah need to talk." No shit. Throw Yahweh in there too. Picture the three of them holding a press conference--Yahweh, God, Allah, and Jesus, Moses and Muhammed all lined up around a podium. "Folks, you got it wrong..." Yahweh says, and suddenly Jesus jumps in, "Yeah, you totally fucked it up, man! That's not what I said!!" and Allah puts a hand on his shoulder to calm down.

man, there's so much beauty in your religions and instead you use it for war.

and about karma: I don't know if that's really how karma works. it's not so much action/reaction, it's like a whole system of positive and negative energy interacting and being shaped by the decisions we make. or something like that, I don't know. I guess it's like: if you want to be scientific about it instead of so mystical and biblical sounding, you point out how this war is to feed our addiction to oil, and it's our addiction and consumption of oil that has fucked up the environment, leading to global warming and strange, harmful weather. so, it's all interconnected in patterns that we push and pull here and there with the decisions we make, not so much like we did something bad and some god out there is wreaking vengeance on us with bad weather. the most harmful decision we make is to believe the illusion that we're separate from each other and from everything around us. this more than anything, I think, will result in really fucked up karma because all the decisions that flow from this logic will just lead you further and further down spirals of destructions. tornado-like.

"The Devil's whole gig is to confuse people"

He's done a good job on you my friend. You'd prefer socialism? Or something like Saddam had goin' on in Iraq?

Some people don't deserve to be free.

solar power, organic farms, children with bare feet playing in the mud on the organic farm, clean water, clean air, fair trade, no more slave labor, no more children shot, no more religious war, because we can all agree God has nothing to do with mans stupidity or weapons. There are so many things I prefer to war I just don't have the time to tell you. Sadam is a U.S. engineered villian. War is a game the rich play on the poor. Get a clue. If we were really united, we wouldn't all be looking for jobs, 2.1 million lost under Bush, not since the collapse of Russia have those many jobs been lost anywhere. Calling me a socialist isn't going to make you look smart, remember, you are a simpleminded subject of the whirlwind of Karma yourself and I know it. "one come a day the water will run no man will stand for the things that he had done...Hoorah, and the water will run." Jane's Addiction

they do have a clue; they know exactly what they're doing. I just read a really interesting essay on Melbourne Indymedia. I'm including the link with this posting. In it, the author explores how human extinction flows rationally from their logic, and they are pursuing this rationality to its end point with full awareness and, as anyone with any amount of consciousness can easily see, with full fervor at this point.

maybe we'll get lucky and all be reincarnated as ants or something. then a few hundred million (billion?) years will pass, we'll evolve upward into "intelligence" again, and repeat the same cycle. this will continue over and over again till we all achieve a critical mass of enlightenment and, as a species, break the cycle. until then, have fun with your karma. contributing to resistance, pushing things in a positive direction, fighting for freedom--maybe these all manipulate the karma toward that distant time when we break our cycle. who knows, maybe we are close to breaking it in this go-round. I doubt it. kali yuga anyone? but anyway, choosing to hope (and do something about it) and choosing not to hope is maybe the difference between being human and not being human.

we all hope for resolution to the nightmare of this presidency. I do choose hope, and Opal my dog is hoping in her own little animal way. She's a rescue, 29 days in the pound, freed on the day she was supposed to die. I hope America gets that chance too.