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Karma is one of those self-fulfilling prophecy things. You donate ten bucks to breast cancer research, and then tomorrow you find twenty bucks in the parking lot. You steal a carton of juice out of the food for the homeless bin, and thirty seconds later you slip on some ice and bruise your ass. It's all bunk. If no one ever told you the concept of karma, you'd never equate those events with one another. You have to get it into your head first. If somebody told you that eating apples makes people find cash on the ground, then you'd assume that your recent apple binge is what caused your good fortune. On the other hand, if somebody told you that drinking beer reduced awareness and coordination, you would attribute that as being why you fell on your ass right after drinking beers.


What we need is a scientific study of karma. Pay people to steal, kick the homeless, and shit in public and compare their immediate futures to those of people who gave to charity and helped old people find new purpose in life. The healing power of prayer already got debunked through scientific experimentation, why wait to bury karma once and for all.

EDIT: thinking about this again while sober, I'm pretty sure that karma does not fit the definition of "self-fulfilling prophesy"

"There are two possibilities for me: To win through with all my plans, or to fail. If I win, I shall be one of the greatest men in history. If I fail, I shall be condemned, despised, and damned."

I've still got 900 pages to go with "Inside the Third Reich" but I promised a hitler post so here it is. Hitler didn't have any scope to his plans. He wanted to be famous so he kept grabbing at every opportunity for history without considering how his empire would be kept running after his death. Trying to conquer czeckoslowatever, then poland, then france and russia. He should have just conquered a little and spent the rest of his time on his outlandish arcitecture projects. Then the third reich would have survived, maybe grown, and a thousand years later he could be known as its glorious founder. Being TIME's "man of the year" is like a flash in the pan compared to, say, being Charlemagne, but when you never finish your enourmous arch of triumph, that's all you get. So Hitler goes off to the pile of dorks, like Ghengis Kahn and that dickless midget Napoleon, and everybody calls Germany a bunch of Eurofags for a century to come.

I don't know how to apply any of this really to my own life, so maybe I'll just quit reading the stupid hitler book. Unless maybe 100 years from now somebody will be writing about how I never finished any history books and that's why I never got to become the world's first flying cybernetic island*. So maybe that is the lesson for me. And maybe that's where i'll pinch this off for now.

Until nexttime, goodnight, gesundheit, and heil hitler's brain,

Other words for "The Internet"
Interweb
Interwob
Underweb
Intertron
Interknob
Interblob
Humungous Waster of Time
Good Partner for Compulsive Eating
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Hi, I'm Dan Maurice, and this is my blog.