אהבתי את ההסבר של TK בקשר לקרמה
ולעוד דבר אחד קשור - אני אצטט: "Q: Aren't you afraid of the Karma from using and teaching these evil magics? A: There are two elements in this question that I disgree with. The first is Karma itself, but I'd like to address the second one first. Evil, as a concept, is not something I believe exists. The reason that I do not believe in Evil is that I do not believe in Good either. Both of these concepts require some kind of higher moral authority to define which is which. Absolute good and absolute evil require an absolute authority which is above either to define their existence in any given situation (meaning some kind of absolute God figure, as I see it). To claim that either Good or Evil exists directly implies the presence of an omnipotent God which defines the two. To speak now of Karma, I can not believe in it either because of its implications as well. Karma is not to be confused with Cause and Effect, I should note from the outset. I do believe firmly in cause and effect which can be seen in every day life. Holding a bottle over the floor (situation), when it is let go (cause), will fall to the ground and shatter (effect). This is not an example of Karma. That is simple, scientific, Cause and Effect -- nothing more. Karma is the belief that actions on this earth will affect you in the afterlife and in the next life. That requires, much like the concept of Good and Evil, a higher intelligence which can coordinate these forces to be revisted upon the caster. Just for the sake of argument though, let's humour the "karma in this life" idea. For one, I can not simply accept the idea prima facie that retribution or reward will naturally, without any kind of guidance whatsoever, blindly find its way back to the magician who has acted as they saw fit. I see no evidence of governing intelligence in this universe and, as such, do not believe in its ability to revisit "good" and "evil" on the caster. Supporters of karma ignore this rather important point. Karma is not causation because that would make it a very easy system to cheat and thus the term becomes meaningless. Karma can not be understood properly without believing also in intelligent revisitation too or else we start trusting moralistic folk myths before reason. If karma is not one or the other, the only conclusion left is that karma simply is not. In essence, karma is a scare tactic. It is an infantile appeal to some wishful intellectual embodiment of justice which does not exist to provide emotional security for people who can not accept that there is no cosmic policing system out there to deliver X degree of good to Person A because they opened a door for someone (which already says something about their idea of what's "good" or not) and Y degree of vindication to Person B who slammed a door in someone's face. Karma follows the same error as "Universal Post Office", which is labelled and defined on the Spell Troubleshooting page." המשך (UNIVERSAL POST OFFICE): "5. Magic Post Office Another of the troubles that many spellcreators have is differentiating between intelligent or dumb-fire mechanics. In the arts of Celestial Magic and Summoning, there is an external intelligence available to coordinate spells, spell effects, and to change things as the situation may dictate. These are "intelligent" spells because they have enough cognitive ability to conform to a situation. Outside of these two arts, however, there seems to be a trend in sending spells "into the universe". This, needless to say, is a very bad idea when considering spells that have no intelligent guidance. Borrowing from spirit-based traditions, many are in the habit of spewing perfectly good spells into the great beyond hoping that the Universe will act like a mystic post office and, for some reason, deliver Spell A to Target A even though the target is halfway across the globe, sending the spell across distances that are not mystically neutral, in a city the caster has never seen, to hit a target the caster has never known, and then, above all that, still perform in the manner that the spell was originally constructed. Be sure that the energies of almost any art do not care either way where they are sent and will not snap to attention to hit a target if sent into the Universe Express (overnight delivery). "