Re: DAizy - I need a definition!

That is a very thorough overview of new age and religious practice daizy. Good stuff! {I have a question at the bottom for you, in case you don't want to read all this first!]

For me, I would take just the first part of the defintion of Karma: "Karma: The good and bad deeds that we do adds and subtracts from our accumulated record"

The whole definition is this [from daizy post]:
"Karma: The good and bad deeds that we do adds and subtracts from our accumulated record, our karma. At the end of our life, we are rewarded or punished according to our karma by being reincarnated into either a painful or good new life. This belief is linked to that of reincarnation and is also derived from Hinduism" .

Karma could be a way to keep track for myself how my morality is working. There might be absolutely no consequence for being very bad or having a perfect record with lots of good deeds.

The only effect of my moral decisions would be the actual affect on the people around me, the people that my life touched or affected in any way.

If I stole things, someone would endure that loss and that would lead to their suffering which might impact a third party, and on it goes. Or, there could be positive changes when I help someone, creating a butterfly effect of goodness rolling out from my every action! [wow that sounds good eh?]

These things then lead to having an impact on the world around me, with the world either getting more ugly, or growing nicer and better and healthier each day.

That Karma will not come back to me, not always.
It will not create a heaven, or send me there.
Its just that I 'done good' or I didn't.

And that will be the way I personally measure my life, and for me it is the only measure worth doing. It must not get entagled with religions, Hinduism, Buddism,or doctrine of any kind, or that will weaken and confuse its meaningfulness.

It just exists as my own measure, even though it really does change the world.

That is good enough for me, and it s good enough for anyone.

And that is my "New Ageism" , but it does not fit with the definition. I do not like to be called an athiest for it, or an agnostic, as they both refer to something to do with "god", or "not something with god". I would rather not involve that tired old dangerous troublemaking idea at all in defining ME.

Daizy , can you think of a word that defines this way of moral practice I have embraced?

Karlin