After Sharon Stone's unexpected brouhaha for wondering out loud if karma had anything to do with its massive earthquake disaster, WQ asks the unthinkable: Is the typhoon currently invading China's east coast kismet for its brutal abuse of Uighurs?*
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*Answer: No, probably not. But its police state mentality cannot be helping climactic conditions in the empire. Things are interdependent, connected in unfathomable ways. Living beings are one with their environment: They emerge out of it, depend on it, and return to it. They have no separate existence from the whole. Since everything affects everything else, China is wise to respect the ethnic (non-Han) inhabitants of its occupied territories. Although neither karma nor kismet have the tendency to turn around that quickly, do mass acts bear a collective result? They did for the Buddha's relatives, the Sakyas, who were massacred.
