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that's awful!

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18. ENTERTAINMENT LAWYER 06/02 **#1**
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This former 80’s/90’s A list mostly movie actor who still has a big name has been kicked out of his church after undergoing surgery to save his life. He waited so long though, he still might not pull through. Val Kilmer (Christian Scientist)

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Jim Henson was also a Christian Scientist if I'm not mistaken. He apparently did not want to go to the hospital because he didn't want to be a bother to anybody. And by the time he did agree, it was too late. He got a strep infection that turned into Toxic Shock Syndrome. In a nutshell, had gone to a doctor sooner (probably due to his Christian Science beliefs, he held off going to one) he in all likelihood would not have died. Perhaps, he was simply someone who didn't like needlessly going to the ER, and was in denial about the seriousness about the matter until it became too late.

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I would be lying if I said the thought hadn't crossed my mind. It's nonsense however

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Assuming the whole concept of karma isn't just a wishful fantasy, that's not how karma works.
And even if it did, being rude makes you deserve a cancer? If only you knew how many mass murderers and war criminals get away with unimaginable crimes and live happily ever after...

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Because karma is a Vedic concept and our concept of life and the Vedic concept are very different.

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Spot on KD637!

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No, it is hard to automatically believe such utter BS, as well as sick and twisted.

Cancer is indiscriminate, as I'm sure you know. I suspect many cancer patients and survivors will be, rightly, offended at the suggestion that it is some type of 'karma', not to mention that the whole concept is BS.

The truth is, good things happen to bad people, and bad things happen to good people. There is no rhythm or reason to it.

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I've seen Karma in action, though I'm not sure if it had anything to do with his cancer.

I once knew a webmaster who was a huge liar and a two-faced bitch, who loved to manipulate people into doing what she wanted, lied, and slandered others to protect her reputation in the online community she commanded. Two years after she and her minions made fun of one of her banning victims' brain tumor, she herself died of a ischemic stroke. It sure sounds like karma to me.

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"she and her minions made fun of one of her banning victims' brain tumor"

That is just sad and horrible. I too am a believer in karma and have seen it in action many times as well.

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It's not just the webmaster. My dad is a power plant engineer, and has been laid off or fired a few times, and each company that did it went under in less than a year. I also heard about some obscure family members on his side of the family that inherited money they really didn't deserve. Instead of investing it, they splurged it on a big fancy house in Oklahoma and filled it with all sorts of expensive junk they didn't need. Less than a year later, a tornado got it.

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But the fundamental question is how do you make the connection between such events?

It's one thing to say you believe a person died of a disease because they were nasty and horrible etc...but where is the proof that is the reason?

I personally don't believe in karma anyway. And I refuse to believe in anything without proof.

And frankly suggesting a person deserves to die a horrible death, because they were nasty to people is pretty sick anyway.

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"And frankly suggesting a person deserves to die a horrible death, because they were nasty to people is pretty sick anyway."

Agreed!

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Where did I ever write that anyone deserved to die a horrible death?

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I don't think the poster was directing that at you personally :)

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Karma doesn't exist... the proof is people like Hillary are still around.

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