Reading this I cannot help but think about the difference emotions make. With effort, one can absolutely become adept at cutting off random people who one doesn't respect, dealing swiftly with unpleasant strangers, ignoring judgemental nonsense, maintaining indifference, it's an essential life skill. What is harder, perhaps impossible, is being able to do so with people with whom there is an emotional connection, however irrational that may be. Which is why we have such words as hamstrung, crippled, frozen, helpless, incapacitated. Its ghastly and idiotic, but for neurotypicals it's real and powerful and yeah, it sucks. We can only keep trying our best.
I guess your definition of Karma stands for action and consequence. I am very drawn to the idea of "karma", as this world sometimes is unbeliavably shady regarding its TIT for TAT... it would be beautiful to think there's some balance. A lie I would love to believe, but no. I'm past that stage.
TAT stands as either a person effectuating TAT, or either, that your brain and mental characteristics are so detrimental that eventually they convert into your own TAT.
And they didn't change earlier because someone didn't have anyone TAT on them before.
Reading this I cannot help but think about the difference emotions make. With effort, one can absolutely become adept at cutting off random people who one doesn't respect, dealing swiftly with unpleasant strangers, ignoring judgemental nonsense, maintaining indifference, it's an essential life skill. What is harder, perhaps impossible, is being able to do so with people with whom there is an emotional connection, however irrational that may be. Which is why we have such words as hamstrung, crippled, frozen, helpless, incapacitated. Its ghastly and idiotic, but for neurotypicals it's real and powerful and yeah, it sucks. We can only keep trying our best.
I could use some work on my TAT, I tend to be a bit too forgiving.
There is a lot of wisdom in these posts.
I guess your definition of Karma stands for action and consequence. I am very drawn to the idea of "karma", as this world sometimes is unbeliavably shady regarding its TIT for TAT... it would be beautiful to think there's some balance. A lie I would love to believe, but no. I'm past that stage.
TAT stands as either a person effectuating TAT, or either, that your brain and mental characteristics are so detrimental that eventually they convert into your own TAT.
And they didn't change earlier because someone didn't have anyone TAT on them before.
Tit for tat is a pretty obvious strategy when there are no emotions involved