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A professional big-game hunter was crushed to death by an elephant that had been shot

Karma or what ?

Karma would fit. What do you think the hunter would be reincarnated as?

What do elephants eat?

Wandrin;1509521 wrote: Karma would fit. What do you think the hunter would be reincarnated as?


A rat ?

Ahso!;1509523 wrote: What do elephants eat?


Mostly Grass and tree vegetation.

Can one be reincarnated as a twig?

Karma?

The new god?

tude dog;1509536 wrote: Karma?

The new god?


I think you'll find Karma's a very old god. The ancient Greeks discussed karma a lot.

I would not have wished harm to Theunis Botha. His being crushed to death has left him no time to realize the disgusting nature of his self-chosen occupation, or the disgusting nature of his clients. How's a chap to come to a mature conclusion if he's suddenly dead.

Karma requires reincarnation in order to function. Reincarnation is claptrap. Theunis Botha is dead and he never reformed from his amoral Christian sense of ownership of nature. I'd rather he were still alive and capable of change.

LarsMac;1509534 wrote: Mostly Grass and tree vegetation.

Can one be reincarnated as a twig?I was thinking more in terms of what they eat, they s**t. Twig is fine with me.

Karma indeed, it's all around us and within us. This particular dose of karma is simply.. delicious.

Perhaps people are confusing the concept of karma with that of irony.

spot;1509547 wrote: Perhaps people are confusing the concept of karma with that of irony.


Delicious irony maybe. But karma is your state of reincarnation. So if he isnt Hindu it doesnt matter. If he's christian then the animal without a soul doesnt count and he's happily sitting in heaven....if he's an athiest who the heck cares? His family will miss him.

Karma has evolved in common parlance........ in the circles in which I move anyway.......to mean comeuppance or reward for past deeds good or bad, loosely based on religious belief.



I like the idea Spot poses that people can reform, see the light or amend their ways to the way he believes is correct........in a single lifetime.

Bruv;1509559 wrote: Karma has evolved in common parlance........ in the circles in which I move anyway.......to mean comeuppance or reward for past deeds good or bad, loosely based on religious belief.



I like the idea Spot poses that people can reform, see the light or amend their ways to the way he believes is correct........in a single lifetime.


I believe John Lennon called it "Instant Karma" in his song. And yes, that is the current usage outside the Hindu community.

If it is true that all time is eternally Present then there's no reason we should be reincarnated forward rather than backward in time. So a bad life now might mean being reincarnated during the religious wars of the C16th/17th with a dose of plague thrown in for good measure. And bad dentistry.

Clodhopper;1509584 wrote: If it is true that all time is eternally Present


I wouldn't worry about that.

Bruv;1509525 wrote: A rat ?


My favorite would be a worm that lives in elephant dung and requires it to survive. Thus, if elephants are threatened, so is the dung eating worm.

Wandrin;1509593 wrote: My favorite would be a worm that lives in elephant dung and requires it to survive. Thus, if elephants are threatened, so is the dung eating worm.


Now.....that......is karma...............the way I understand it.

When you think about it (not deeply of course) when we die we turn to dust..... correct? So wherever weare put or scattered we become part of our surrounds or enviroment. So we end up in, on, over different things. So between worm food or the nostrils of some poor unfortunet walking by people scattering grandmas ashes in the park, we end up parr of different entities.

In this case both, no?

No, hindus have a religion they believe in and would like others to respect. You cant go around changing peoples core beliefs because its sounds cute in a non religious respect.

Its like changing the christian/jdeo belief in eye for an eye.

Im especially against dangerous misunderstandings and misconceptions.

magentaflame;1509624 wrote: No, hindus have a religion they believe in and would like others to respect. You cant go around changing peoples core beliefs because its sounds cute in a non religious respect.

Its like changing the christian/jdeo belief in eye for an eye.

Im especially against dangerous misunderstandings and misconceptions.


Are you talking about my definition of Karma ?

I am not disrespecting Hindu belief, I am giving the common everyday usage of the word......as used most everywhere.

Gay really means happy, it has changed to mean homosexual.

Bad means the opposite of good, but somewhere along the line, kids have reversed it, bad now means......good.

Cor baby that's really free.

Except, thinking about it, Otway meant what he said.

Wicked.

spot;1509632 wrote: Cor baby that's really free.

Except, thinking about it, Otway meant what he said.

Wicked.


*cough* mmmm Right.

I do think spot sounds like that spoof 007 (what was his name?) with a melange of slang from the '60s to somewhere around now. Wicked!

Mike Myers is one of my childhood heroes, though I confess I've deliberately never seen Austin Powers. I assume you refer to one or other of them.

Yep: both

spot;1509642 wrote: Mike Myers is one of my childhood heroes, though I confess I've deliberately never seen Austin Powers..


Is that your second childhood ?

I feel there's a need for someone to follow spot around FG and indeed the internet in general, to help steer him away from popular culture. It's just not his bag, what with Gnarles throwing three pointers.

For all we know, Michael Myers could be spot's childhood hero.

Snowfire;1509649 wrote: For all we know, Michael Myers could be spot's childhood hero.Having checked, it seems there may be two Mike Myers, I was unaware of the second who appears to be Canadian. The one I was thinking of, born Frederic William Henry but known to his associates as Mike, founded the Society for Psychical Research, wrote poetry but did not, I now find, appear in comedy films. I shall have to reconsider his poems. From a comedic point of view they had definite talent - I was much impressed by his "party on, dudes!" in a Fin de Siècle milieu - but perhaps I was reeding too much into them.

Snowfire;1509649 wrote: I feel there's a need for someone to follow spot around FG and indeed the internet in general, to help steer him away from popular culture. It's just not his bag, what with Gnarles throwing three pointers.

For all we know, Michael Myers could be spot's childhood hero.


It is a worry isn't it ?

Having checked, it seems there may be two Mike Myers, I was unaware of the second


Me too. I meant the Austin Powers one.

I could quite see you playing the part in the sequel set 50 years later. Would that be karmic, and if so, good or bad? (I know I'd pay to watch! )

Bruv;1509626 wrote: Are you talking about my definition of Karma ?

I am not disrespecting Hindu belief, I am giving the common everyday usage of the word......as used most everywhere.

Gay really means happy, it has changed to mean homosexual.

Bad means the opposite of good, but somewhere along the line, kids have reversed it, bad now means......good.


It's a play on words.

You have to be bad, to be good! :wah:

I think he was a little to close to the elephant and thus it crushed him as it died.. It was an accident.

Ted;1509680 wrote: I think he was a little to close to the elephant and thus it crushed him as it died.. It was an accident.


From the article..... an elephant cow stormed a group headed by Theunis Botha in Zimbabwe on Friday.

The elephant was reportedly shot as she picked him up with her trunk, before she fell and died, crushing Mr Botha.


Possibly protecting her offspring, when somebody shot the animal she fell dead but crushed Mr Botha.

Maybe she remembered him from another attack.

Now that is humorous.

**** happens.

Ted;1509736 wrote: **** happens.


Probably more apt.

spot;1509651 wrote: Having checked, it seems there may be two Mike Myers, I was unaware of the second who appears to be Canadian. There are undoubtedly many more than two, one of them was a school buddy of mine in Peoria, Illinois.

This whole thread reminds me of the old riddle:

What do you get when you cross an elephant with peanut butter?

A. You either get peanut butter that never forgets or an elephant that sticks to the roof of your mouth.