How many of us believe that there is right and wrong in life, that there is fairness and justice that supposedly exist to maintain order and equilibrium in our society? How often do we think that karma will befall those who do evil and fortune will come to those who practice goodwill?
Personally, I no longer believe in the absolute right and wrong for it is what the majority of the society that deem what is reasonable and make sense to them that they proclaim it right and everything else wrong. If one person say you are retarded, that person might be right and might be wrong too, but if others starts to say you are retarded and the number form up to a majority of the people around you, you are deemed a retarded regardless you are really one or not.
People conform to social acceptance and being able to fit in socially even for the wrong reasons. As long the majority of the group agrees on something, by going against them, you are the one in the wrong, regardless. Similarly it applies to the law as law is eventually made up of rules and regulations created by people and people mindset of the world, from a point of view of the majority, perspective of what is socially acceptable.
Next on the point of karma, that is a faith and belief that a lot of people would cling on and firmly adhere by, but in actual fact it is how we want to reason and make sense of the surrounding, to give us a more consistent and congruent environment to leave in, similarly it allow us to use it as a deterrent and preventive method that if we did something that we felt is morally not right, something equally bad will happen upon one self, but then again how do we judge what is right and wrong? Based on social norm or base on personal belief, so how then is the karma punishment deem appropriate and enough for what is actually fear of what one did and which might have been deem socially wrong?
So does karma exist then? Do punishment really fall on those who did something which is considered socially not accepted and fortune come to those who do things which are deem socially right?
On the topic of socially acceptable and what is socially acceptable; the past few days I have been meeting up with friends to catch up before I leave on my ludicrous 3 month long adventure, we touched on the topic of relationship and the issue of age gap came into focus. What is the implication and complexity of couple with big age gap and what is then an acceptable age gap difference. Interestingly, the conclusion is that the age is not a factor in a relationship but rather it is the maturity, the understanding and more importantly the commitment level of the couple towards the relationship. It is more than just simply being together, it is the will to stand beside each other regardless what everyone else say of them, it is the determination to stay together that really matters.
To end off my post, I found an interesting article in Wikipedia with regard to age gap parity. There is even a formula that helps to determines if the couple is getting social acceptance and if they are not, how much longer they have to wait before they attain the level of social acceptance. To have social acceptance, a human emotional response and psychological reaction of the immediate and distant environment filtered down to a mathematically formula is indeed quite astonishing.
Personally, I no longer believe in the absolute right and wrong for it is what the majority of the society that deem what is reasonable and make sense to them that they proclaim it right and everything else wrong. If one person say you are retarded, that person might be right and might be wrong too, but if others starts to say you are retarded and the number form up to a majority of the people around you, you are deemed a retarded regardless you are really one or not.
People conform to social acceptance and being able to fit in socially even for the wrong reasons. As long the majority of the group agrees on something, by going against them, you are the one in the wrong, regardless. Similarly it applies to the law as law is eventually made up of rules and regulations created by people and people mindset of the world, from a point of view of the majority, perspective of what is socially acceptable.
Next on the point of karma, that is a faith and belief that a lot of people would cling on and firmly adhere by, but in actual fact it is how we want to reason and make sense of the surrounding, to give us a more consistent and congruent environment to leave in, similarly it allow us to use it as a deterrent and preventive method that if we did something that we felt is morally not right, something equally bad will happen upon one self, but then again how do we judge what is right and wrong? Based on social norm or base on personal belief, so how then is the karma punishment deem appropriate and enough for what is actually fear of what one did and which might have been deem socially wrong?
So does karma exist then? Do punishment really fall on those who did something which is considered socially not accepted and fortune come to those who do things which are deem socially right?
On the topic of socially acceptable and what is socially acceptable; the past few days I have been meeting up with friends to catch up before I leave on my ludicrous 3 month long adventure, we touched on the topic of relationship and the issue of age gap came into focus. What is the implication and complexity of couple with big age gap and what is then an acceptable age gap difference. Interestingly, the conclusion is that the age is not a factor in a relationship but rather it is the maturity, the understanding and more importantly the commitment level of the couple towards the relationship. It is more than just simply being together, it is the will to stand beside each other regardless what everyone else say of them, it is the determination to stay together that really matters.
To end off my post, I found an interesting article in Wikipedia with regard to age gap parity. There is even a formula that helps to determines if the couple is getting social acceptance and if they are not, how much longer they have to wait before they attain the level of social acceptance. To have social acceptance, a human emotional response and psychological reaction of the immediate and distant environment filtered down to a mathematically formula is indeed quite astonishing.
