{"id":2927,"date":"2008-06-04T22:44:11","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T04:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/sharon-stone-says-china-earthquake-is-bad-karma\/"},"modified":"2016-04-13T18:41:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T00:41:05","slug":"sharon-stone-says-china-earthquake-is-bad-karma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/sharon-stone-says-china-earthquake-is-bad-karma\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Stone says China Earthquake is Bad Karma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> HONG KONG<\/strong><em>  &#8212; The backlash in China against Sharon Stone continued Wednesday as the Shanghai International Film Festival said the American actress was not welcome at this year&#8217;s event<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The 50-year-old &#8220;Basic Instinct&#8221; star provoked outrage in China after suggesting that the recent earthquake in central Sichuan province may have been the result of bad &#8220;karma&#8221; because of Beijing&#8217;s rule in Tibet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Sharon Stone made comments about China at Cannes. She later said she was &#8220;deeply sorry.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the Sharon Stone Karma Article on CNN.<\/p>\n<p>******************<\/p>\n<p>This reminds me of when Pat Robertson said the devastation flooding in New Orleans was God&#8217;s punishment for their evil ways (and then went on to threaten other towns with eartquakes for their tolerance of homosexuality).<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;m just surprised at how often I read about this kind of thinking &#8211; that natural disasters spring forth from the hearts of men. It strikes me as very Neanderthal. Zeus died a long time ago in mythology and is no longer hurling his thunderbolts at us.<\/p>\n<p>This earthquake in China is very painful for the people &#8211; it strikes them to their core much like the disaster in New Orleans was for us in the United States. Nature is not always here to accomodate our human wishes &#8211; sometimes it just does it&#8217;s thing and we happen to be affected. There is no good and bad in it &#8211; only our perception of how it affects us.<\/p>\n<p>THAT is what really gets my attention when I read comments similiar to this. The earthquake was bad for us, but for nature just one of many processes. What could that possibly have to do with a system of good and bad mysterious checkpoints being logged on our personal paranormal records? We have invented a word called &#8220;Karma&#8221;, but just because there is a word for the concept does not mean that it really exists outside our feeble minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG &#8212; The backlash in China against Sharon Stone continued Wednesday as the Shanghai International Film Festival said the American actress was not welcome at this year&#8217;s event The 50-year-old &#8220;Basic Instinct&#8221; star provoked outrage in China after suggesting that the recent earthquake in central Sichuan province may have been the result of bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-Ld","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6619,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions\/6619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}