I wasn't sure where to put this. I decided on the Hinduism folder, cause they came up with the concept first.
So I will get things which randomly pop up on the FB feed. Lots of "spiritual" stuff. So someone posted this meme, and wrote some annoying post how, we could be interrupting someone's karma, if you go in and try to help or "save" them.
Now I wonder at times, if FB is doing these posts, to get folks to jump in and fight.
Sure they do! And I saw this, and if you took me back 20 years or so, I may have posted and debated. But nowadays, I have no desire to get into petty arguments online. If I wanted that, I would join Twitter/X, and waste valuable time and energy, fighting with strangers online. Being a keyboard warrior. But I have zero desire to. I am happy simply checking in on group, doing my readings, chatting with a few friends, and then go read a book, watch a movie, or make cat videos for the kids. I lead a simple life.
But this meme is ridiculous, and it is why I have a sticker on my laptop which says "Protect Me From The Idiots," with purple crystals on it. Yes, I do have this sticker on here, to remind me, that many online are that. So at times some folks try to come across "spiritual," but are simply petty tyrants in disguise. I was re-reading a post of Della's tonight, which motivated me to write this. She was like, paraphrasing "You see someone struggling, and throw a rock in their path, what does that say about you?" And I have to admit, often I have wanted to argue a bit with don Juan on the whole scolding he gave Carlos for moving the snail. Now I get it. The snail was making progress. But Carlos was trying to do the right thing, the intent was good, to save it.
But we have nincompoops who think they are spiritual, and say shit like this. Karma, oh don't interrupt their karma. Isn't this the motto, when in India, folks would be nasty to the Untouchables? Where is humanity? So I snagged this meme, went into my group. I left out the author I didn't think fair to call out a poster, if not there. But basically said to this "What if Jesus said the same thing?" Now whether folks believe in him or not. Or think he existed, but was a crazy man who thought he could save the world, and should have ran from his fate. He did genuinely want to save. And helping others is what we should do. Now, I could argue, one might not be "tossing a rock in the path" by letting someone get theirs. But helping others when they are struggling, is what we should do. Like say I didn't do readings, or I refused someone and I said "I am sorry. I feel you are due some karma. Cant read you." That would be shitty. Or whatnot. But we live in this sad society, where say we spot the homeless, and others don't help them cause, they feel they are there on the street cause of karma? I mean, how shitty is this a meme and concept, which, oh, one can simply wash their hands of helping another, to not "interrupt" what? Karma? That's why I also said in my post "flower karma." I mean, I could also argue, "Ok, what about you getting shit karma, cause you turned your back on someone who needed help." Did the person who made this meme, ever think of that? Or what about their karma, as they made this insensitive meme, and now its spread around the internet, seen by perhaps thousands, and maybe a hundred people have this seed planted, and now wont help someone who needs it. How about his or her karma? Oh I could go on, see how it all spins?
We live, at least some, in this, capitalistic, "pull up from bootstraps" mindset, that helping others in need is "welfare" and people are bums if they need assistance. It's so flowering weird and crazy. But yes, now I know Buddha said no one can save us. But he was talking about like, your soul. But you can "save" people in other ways. Many other ways, all the time. It could be as simple as a kind word said, when their day was so shitty, they were thinking about going home, offing themselves, but you were nice and, they were like "Oh there is still good people in the world" and changed their mind. So flower karma. flower the person who wrote this meme. And flower anyone who uses this as an excuse to not help another person.
