Tower Inferno, anyone? The disastrous fire at Universal Studios was not enough to halt the MTV Movie Awards but, then again, what is serious enough to crimp the circle-jerk that is self-important people's ego banquets?
Wonder what Sharon Stone made of this calamity in the wake of her own. Surely Hollywood and Los Angeles do not epitomize peace, love, and (un-medicated) happiness on earth.
As for the brouhaha over Miss Stone's karma comment about China, if China with its nil human rights record, thriving communism, gross air pollution, and habitual opening of whump-ass on Tibetan monks, doesn't entice bad karma, then the whole concept of this oceanic give-and-take is bunk. And, sorry Miss Stone, but that goes for your friend the Dali Lama as well.
Seriously, what does the man do anyway??
Yes, there are scientific explanations for the floods and hurricanes and earthquakes but if we truly appreciated science outside of the kitchen and daily weather report then we'd all have active memoriter of the Periodic Table, global warming, conventional medicine, cold water fusion over, say, baseball stats, religious doctrine, celebrity gossip, ancient oriental remedies, chance (state lotteries). But folks don't place their faith in science or facts and can barely help their child with his fourth-grade math homework. Instead the lot of us simply conclude God's will be done or 'what comes around goes around' ad hoc genus.
I find it hypocritical of the Chinese population to burn someone in effigy for suggesting, however dimwittedly, the efficacy of their own irrational belief called karma.
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