Tuesday, October 30, 2012

More fears... to be reborn as food, and to be indebted forever

   I have so many fears.  One thing I worry a lot about is all the food I ate growing up.  In Eastern philosophy it is possible for humans to be reborn as animals and for animals to be reborn as people.  I worry that I am going to have to pay back all the animals that I ate.  I've eaten thousands of shrimp, thousands of crawfish, so many fish, so many chickens, so many parts of cows, so many parts of pigs.  What if in future lives I am forced to pay that all back?  What if I have to take thousands of lives as shrimp, thousands of lives as crawfish, many lives as fish, many lives as pigs, many lives as cows, and many lives as chickens?  In order to be eaten thousands of times as shrimp, I would have to live thousands extra lives as shrimp that are not eaten.  I really think this is possible, and my hope right now is that since I have stopped eating animals, perhaps that resolution will free me from my past karma.

   Another thing that I fear is being enslaved through debt.  Right now, it doesn't appear as if I have any debt.  But if the debt of the US government is more than ten trillion, and I am forced to pay back my share of that it could be as much as 12 trillion/ 300 million people= 40,000 dollars.  Now, what if there is an interest rate on that... so it grows by 7% a year... so that would be around $3,000 a year interest.  Now, the average wage in the world is less than $3,000 a year, so potentially, I could have an escalating debt that I will never be able to pay back.  It could grow infinitely large and I could be indebted forever.  I could be forced to lose ownership of my soul and be enslaved forever.  These are the thoughts I keep having.  And the same thing could happen to anyone.

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