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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Karma test in two parts

Karma Test Part 1

Select the best answer

Whose Karma Is It?
1). A lady who lives in Flint Michigan goes into the Lotto store, buys a quick pick ticket and wins $168,000,000.00
a. Lancelot Link's (the star chimp)
b. The lady's next door neighbor
c. President Bush's
d. Everyone's in Flint Michigan because the Lady is sure to share her winnings with everyone there.
e. The lady's who bought the ticket?

Whose Karma Is It?
2). Capone the street thug has been mugging little old ladies for five years and was just convicted of five counts of manslaughter. He gets forty-five to sixty years in prison without the possibility of parole.
a. President Bush's
b. The Icelandic peoples' who haven't had a case of manslaughter in thirty years
c. Vito Corleone's because, Capone, Corleone, Napolitan, what's the difference
d Capone's
e. None of the above, karma doesn't exist

Whose Karma Is It?
3). 37 countries made an olympic bid to become the next host of the olympics. China won and it is jubilant.
a. Charley Chaplin's 
b. Dolly Parton's
c. The Ivory Coast's
d. Tibet's
e. China's

Whose Karma Is It?
4). Six Million Jews are killed in the Holocost.
a. The Irish people's
b. The Bolivian's
c. The Mennonite's
d. The Jew's
e. Hitler's

Whose Karma Is It?
5). A child of six has never picked up an instrument before. His mother buys him a little piano. He hears Bach's Fugue 13 For the Harpsichord one time on the radio and he perfectly mimics it note for note while his mother almost feints in amazement.
a. Sharon Stone's because she too plays the piano
b. The Jews'
c. The child's
d. The piano's because it is a magic piano
e. Bach's. He wrote the Fugue

Whose Karma is it
6). Indonesia suffers the worst natural disaster of the century. An Earthquake magnitude 9.0 causes a tidal wave, the likes of which no one has seen for millenia. 400,000 people die and 2 million people are made homeless.
a. Betty Midler's
b. The Indonesian people's
c. The Blarney Stone's
d. President Bush's because he is the cause of all things wrong in the world
e. Russia's because they gave $2,000,000.00 in relief while having a GDP of $1,200,000,000,000.00 and spending two hundred billion a year on new weapon systems.

Whose Karma Is It?
7). Tania Flores, born into a poor family in East Harlem, loves to study everything she can get her hands on. Everyday for twelve years she comes home from school and does four hours of homework. She then does her chores and reads a new book. She is number one in her high school class and enters the six year college-medical doctor program at city college where she excells and becomes a brain surgeon who invents a new cerebral artery bypass system that prevents the death of thousands of stroke victims and the severe morbidity of ten of thousands of other stroke victims.
a. The Puerto Rican people's
b. Tania's father who was a drug addict and abused Tania from the day she was two years old until the day he died (when she was 6) from an overdose of heroin
c. Tania's
d. Jesse the Body Ventura's
e. Rev. Ryuei's because he is a Nichiren priest

Karma Test Part 2

Good Causes? Bad Causes? Neither? Both? Can Not Be Determined? 

Select the BEST Answer.

1). An SGI Senior Leader has been teaching the Human Revolution at  the expense of the Lotus Sutra for 15 years. He has sometimes taught that Nichiren Daishonin is the True Buddha, sometimes that Nam Myoho renge kyo is the True Buddha, and sometimes that Daisaku Ikeda is really the incarnation of Nichiren Daishonn. It is a perfectly clear day and the streets have been cleared of all the snow. A snow plow is returning from cleaning the streets. The snow plow driver takes his eyes off the road for a moment to light his cigarette and runs over the SGI senior leader's car. The SGI senior leader doesn't die for 18 hours, is conscious, and aware the whole time.
a.Good Causes
b.Bad Causes 
c.Neither 
d.Both 
e.Can Not Be Determined

2). A true disciple and believer of the Lotus Sutra and Nichiren overcomes severe dessiminated tuberculosis and recurrent multiple organ failure during a one year hospital stay. He goes on to spread Namu Myoho renge kyo, the doctrines of the Eternal Buddha Shakyamuni, and The Succession Through the Scrolls of the Sutra in Japan and the United States. He is 91 years old and continues to chant twice a day every day.
a.Good Causes
b.Bad Causes 
c.Neither 
d.Both 
e.Can Not Be Determined

3). A young man hears about Nam Myoho renge kyo through his friend who is a new SGI member. They both don't really know anything about Buddhism, the Lotus Sutra, or the Eternal Buddha but they love the chant, the way it makes them feel and the philosophy that they can get anything they want by chanting this phrase to their Nichikan Gohonzon. Since the young man quickly gains tremendous energy, awareness, and perceives for himself propitious circumstances, he believes every word of his SGI senior leaders. He believes it is all due to Daisaku Ikeda and the SGI that he is receiving all these benefits. He reads the Human Revolution and the World Tribune every day on the advice of his senior leaders. He tells all his friends that they have to chant and buy the World Tribune because Daisaku Ikeda and the SGI are so great and the evil priests of the Nichiren Shoshu, Kempon Hokke, and Nichiren Shu will destroy the world and any chance for people to attain Buddhahood. He reaches a stalemate in his faith no matter how much he chants, reads the Human Revolution and goes to one meeting after another.
a.Good Causes
b.Bad Causes 
c.Neither 
d.Both 
e.Can Not Be Determined

4). A devout orthodox adherent of Nichiren's Lotus Sutra Buddhism and pioneer who has brought the teachings of the Eternal Buddha and Nichiren Daishonin to Cambodia is returning to Cambodia. Her plane loses a wing and she is killed along with the rest of the passengers.
a.Good Causes
b.Bad Causes 
c.Neither 
d.Both 
e.Can Not Be Determined

5). The mother of a new believer of the authentic teachings of Nichiren is shocked that her daughter gave up her quaker faith for Buddhism but despite pressure from the community that there is no room for a "Buddhist fundementalist" in their midst, the mother refuses to turn out her daughter. 
a.Good Causes
b.Bad Causes 
c.Neither 
d.Both 
e.Can Not Be Determined

6). A non-Buddhist hears the Daimoku, notices changes in his best friend who has become SGI and slanders the Daimoku, the Nichikan Gohonzon, and denounces Daisaku Ikeda and the SGI as a cult.
a.Good Causes
b.Bad Causes 
c.Neither 
d.Both 
e.Can Not Be Determined

7). A non-Buddhist hears the Daimoku, notices changes in his best friend who has become a believer in the authentic teachings of the Lotus Sutra and Nichiren. He slanders the Daimoku, the Nichiren Gohonzon, and the Eternal Buddha Shakyamuni while calling the orthodox faith worse than the SGI.
a.Good Causes
b.Bad Causes 
c.Neither 
d.Both 
e.Can Not Be Determined

8). An SGI member notices changes in a friend who has become a disciple and believer in Nichiren. He tells his friend the only way to attain Buddhahood is through the mentor Daisaku Ikeda and the body of SGI believers. 
a.Good Causes
b.Bad Causes 
c.Neither 
d.Both 
e.Can Not Be Determined

9). A faithful Nichiren Shu believer has a best friend who is SGI, won't chant to his friend's Gohonzon but won't criticize his friends beliefs.
a.Good Causes
b.Bad Causes 
c.Neither 
d.Both 
e.Can Not Be Determined

10). A faithful SGI believer has a best friend who is Nichiren Shu He chants to his friend's Gohonzon while criticizing his friends beliefs.
a.Good Causes
b.Bad Causes 
c.Neither 
d.Both 
e.Can Not Be Determined

11 comments:

  1. 11) Whose Karma Is It?

    "As recently as a decade ago, golden frogs were easy to spot in the hills around El Valle. The frogs are toxic—it’s been calculated that the poison contained in the skin of just one animal could kill a thousand average-sized mice—hence the vivid color, which makes them stand out against the forest floor. One creek not far from El Valle was nicknamed Thousand Frog Stream. A person walking along it would see so many golden frogs sunning themselves on the banks that, as one herpetologist who made the trip many times put it to me, “it was insane—absolutely insane.”

    "Then the frogs around El Valle started to disappear. The problem—it was not yet perceived as a crisis—was first noticed to the west, near Panama’s border with Costa Rica. An American graduate student happened to be studying frogs in the rainforest there. She went back to the States for a while to write her dissertation, and when she returned, she couldn’t find any frogs or, for that matter, amphibians of any kind. She had no idea what was going on, but since she needed frogs for her research, she set up a new study site, farther east. At first the frogs at the new site seemed healthy; then the same thing happened: the amphibians vanished. The blight spread through the rainforest until, in 2002, the frogs in the hills and streams around the town of Santa Fe, about fifty miles west of El Valle, were effectively wiped out. In 2004, little corpses began showing up even closer to El Valle, around the town of El Copé. By this point, a group of biologists, some from Panama, others from the United States, had concluded that the golden frog was in grave danger."*

    a. The individual Panamanian golden frog.
    b. The Panamanian Golden Frog Population.
    c. The Biologist.
    d. Nichiren's (big old Daddy in heaven responsible for everyone and everything)
    e. Siddhartha's
    f. No one's.

    * Extract from "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History" by Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 1.

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  2. 12) Whose Karma Is It?

    "THE last people to see great auks alive were around a dozen Icelanders who made the trip to Eldey by rowboat. They set out one evening in June 1844, rowed through the night, and reached the island the following morning. With some difficulty, three of the men managed to clamber ashore at the only possible landing spot: a shallow shelf of rock that extends from the island to the northeast. (A fourth man who was supposed to go with them refused to on the grounds that it was too dangerous.) By this point the island’s total auk population, probably never very numerous, appears to have consisted of a single pair of birds and one egg. On catching sight of the humans, the birds tried to run, but they were too slow. Within minutes, the Icelanders had captured the auks and strangled them. The egg, they saw, had been cracked, presumably in the course of the chase, so they left it behind. Two of the men were able to jump back into the boat; the third had to be hauled through the waves with a rope."*

    a. The Great Auk's. (for being clumsy and slow)
    b. The Icelanders.
    c. The Brits.
    d. Nichiren's. (The fascist Monk)
    e. The other large birds Population that benefited from a man-made extinction and got a new breeding ground.

    * Extract from "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History" by Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 5.

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  3. On saying that Dr. Mark, next time someone asks for a Biological explanation for karma, try avoiding quotes from old Sutras and make an effort to keep up ...

    Dear Greg Romero:

    Your insults are in vain and your superior wisdom is not enough to grasp my intent for being here ... If you think this is all about me: You'r Wrong! If you think I give a Flying F***K about you and Mark, you are wrong again.

    There is more to it than meet the eye ... sorry if you feel I've exploited your blog for the wrong reasons - My reasons. Tough S****T

    Think about it Thick Heads! Full Identifiable ID?, Why? Someone want's to be found - correct? By whom? ... My temporary legacy to Melissa And Diana Ramos - SGI Mimosa Gang. Get it you self centered basterds?

    ...


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    1. Pedro, I understand your anger from wanting to protect those you care about. I feel the same way towards the SGI who have mistreated my wife who has been a Sokka Gakkai member for over 50 years. In Japan the majority of patients receiving psychiatric care are suffering from depression are Soka Gakkai members.

      Their is a crises of faith amongst those who believe in the core doctrines of the faith because the organisation has changed its direction by moving away from it's roots without informing the members of where they are going. This problem is in epidemic proportions throughout the Globe within the SGI, just read some of the experiences that people share on this blog and you'll see what I mean.

      Even though I've had a go at you in the past, because your attitude pissed me off, I want you to know that there is more to what's going on than what you realise. Tcare

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  4. Thanks Pedro. Your examples demonstrate the complexity of cause of effect. Mine, the simplicity. Everything on a case by case basis.

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    1. Do you really whant me to tell you the difference between "Your" cause and effect and the C&E operating in Natural Selection?, so be it:

      Your C&E is Moral driven and Human Centered. You will never find such thing operating on a biological level. That Simple.

      Your behavior towards C&E resembles the Christian "Gap Scientists".

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  5. On the same note: (final remarks)

    1. I'm blogging while you'r asleep; That gives me plenty of time to do whatever I want and save it before you even have the time to read and/or remove my posting on your personal blog ... though!

    2. I do not give a shit about Sutras; My brain somehow learned how to shut down at the first couple of lines -- Like, if it's obsolete and irrelevant for my day&age it's not worth the effort.

    3. Intent: The more pus I can draw out from you the better ... serves my purpose quite well.

    4. I didn't bring Das.Cult.Org into my household, I can thank that to somebody else.

    5. Do us a favor: File a formal complaint with Google or whoever for my inappropriate behavior (swearing mainly) on tour blog! That would also suit me quite well since ASGPT don't have the balls to do it ... (you see how easy it is for one to put oneself on the "persecuted" side of things? All you have to do is piss-somebody-off big style!!)

    6. As Vicious as you can get!

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    1. Why would I do that Pedro? Thanks to you, we have been able expound even a sentence or a phrase of the teaching. Regarding evolution and the similarities between the evangelicals and us, there really are none. They believe that evolution is a guided process through which God works. We believe it is a guided process through which cause and effect works. We are the agents of everything on heaven and earth. Those auks you speak of, through their cause of causing no harm and having suffered greatly will be reborn into more favorable and a more evolutionarily advanced condition. Those who mercilessly killed the auks while taking pleasure in their demise will be reborn into unfavorable and a more evolutionary retroregressed state.

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  6. you are wrong pedro. ha, you came here by choice. shame on you.

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  7. Shame fully and dully accepted Mr. faceless B for Blogger Greg Romero.

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  8. best wishes pedro. your right , i have lots of face.

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