QUOTE(Beckys_Mom @ Mar 30 2006, 12:32 AM) [snapback]1126207[/snapback]
Yel doesn't make stuff up....he knows more than he lets on at times...and he wouldn't get into a debate without knowing what he was talking about in the 1st place.
Just because you find what he has stated ridiculous, does NOT mean he is wrong...why can't you just be a gent and say ok I see what you are saying but I disagree...point set and match to you...but you wont do that, will you...not a mission

It doesn't mean he's right either, the fact that he makes these comments without any way to support them, well I have no choice but to be skeptical, I don't know him and maybe he believes what he's saying, but belief is not something that can be take as evidence of fact.
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Well consider that you compared karma to the law: equal and opposite reaction. You do not have any evidence for that. I welcome your skepticism. In fact I encourage it. I am after all, pretty skeptical myself. Until my past lives began to become intrusive on me. I've been able to speak languages that I've never learned before due to triggers. I've had dreams and visions of things I've never seen before, and then I'd see it years later and it all comes together perfectly. I've experienced well over 50 coincidences a day that tie into my past life, a bit hard to explain unless you were standing next to me. I've also met a lot of people I've shared lives with and I can see why our karma is the way it is. We have shared the same dreams and just piece things together. Things of that nature. Again, I don't joke about these matters. When I talk about my spirituality and the odd experiences I've had, I am being serious. And when I say karma ties into intentions, again, I am being serious. Now if you and I have shared a past life together, it would be a lot easier to prove, but honestly, I don't know you. But I welcome you to pm me about what I know, and past life regression etc (not by a regressionist btw).
You might be serious in your belief, but without any way to prove that you have any recollections of your past lives, your comments come off as ridiculous to me, and I am forced to remain skeptical. You can state that you remember your past lives, but without evidence to the validity of those memories they could be falisfications, delusions or imagined memories.
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How is it flawed if I never disputed that specifically? Furthermore, I said experinces in a *body*. Reread what I wrote.
You made the comment that more incarnations means more experience, that's not necessarily true, that's what I'm pointing to as flawed.
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Again, reread what I wrote. You are taking my quote out of context. I said "old soul" is an expression, which does not have to be literal.
By old you mean more experienced right? That's what I'm pointing out as wrong, more incarnations do not necessarily equal more experience, therefore the "old soul" comment is not necessarily true.
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I never said that. I said karma ties into intentions. Let me use this example a third time, because you are not ingesting it: you kill someone in defense, or you kill someone for the thrill of it. What is the difference between that? The intentions. Therefore the karma will be different in either case. I did not say that intentions were a shield or a way to escape things. I said it tied into it and your situation. If you have been victimized, things are not *resolved* between you and say, a rapist.
You also seem to be misunderstanding wht I'm saying, You assume that the difference in karmic debt will be huge, that's waht I mean by using intent as a sheild, you don't know that for a fact, it could be a small difference. A belief in the purity of your intent does not justify the actions taken, which is why I brought up the example of history, many people have believed that their intent was pure enough to justify the atrocities they commited, it does not.
In the example you used, the rapist would have incurred Karmic Debt for themselves, which would result in suffering for themselves down the line.
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Nothing wrong with me rolling my eyes at you then since you said it was an equal and opposite reaction. Of course, I'm not usually one to stoop to that level.
Actually you referred to it as silly without being able to prove that its not true, not much different than me rolling my eyes.
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I think you want to believe karma is simple. And on top of that you are not really understanding what I am saying or reading what I wrote carefully. Intentions is not a shield. Look at my example again.
Actually I see no proof that karma does not work in similar ways to other physical forces, so until I see proof to the contrary I'm sticking to the viewpoint I have.
I have read your comments a few times now, each time they come across the same, you seem to be saying that intentions play a very large role in Karmic debt, my point is that stating/believing your intentions to be pure does not sheild you from the cost of your action, that's why I don't believe intent to play a large role in assigning Karmic debt.