Theos-Talk Archives (September 1997 Message tl00316)

In message <199709171321.JAA26173@leo.vsla.edu>, "K. Paul Johnson"
<pjohnson@leo.vsla.edu> writes
>One of the big revelations to me after spending a month and a
>half in India is that the Theosophical claim by HPB and other
>writers-- that if people believed in reincarnation and karma
>they would behave better-- is flapdoodle bullshit.  I saw more total
>indifference to human suffering there in a few weeks than in my
>entire life until then.  And all those indifferent people were
>sure that suffering was what the sufferers had coming to them.

An old friend of mine noticed exactly the same attitude among Buddhists
in Bangkok ......

Alan