REcolLECtion of GOoD times 3...Newton's Laws and Karma

The top ranked scientist Isaac Newton has three laws of physics associated with his name, which more or less govern the ophysical world as we understand it. I have been associating lots with a fellow schoolmatey tehtarik pardner who also propounds that in the Buddhist faith, the concept of KARMA parallels the physical law FIRST of newton's which states:

To every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Simply put, if you slam someone in the face with a ten-pounder force, your fist also receives a ten-pounder -- never 11- or 9-! -- force in return. The difference is that your targeted opponent's face feels immense pain, while your anticipated fist feels just a slight slap like on the wrist as your anticipation and that part of the human anatomy is adapted to withstand larger forces than a 10-pounder -- unlike the opponent's face. If this is not a good example, please go and refer to Newton or Einstein who beat Newt to the rank of GREATEST SCIENTIST IN THE WORLD as we humans know it.


So myGOoDfRiend explains that humans will essential reap what they sow. Simply put, if you do good, the same will retrun to reward you, if not immediaitely, then later. That's why Miss Pateince is also Mr, Ms or in-between Virtuous. So when someone does a bad thiong, the probability by Karmic law is that soemthing bad will return to visit him, bestA immediately-lah, Desi prays. But if it cometh back ten years later, it's OK 'Cos the "badnurse" will give him a punch ten times stronger?! If I digress, please forgift me, because when you venture into the matter of FAITH, one tends to stray from the material world that we easily see, feel or smell. On matters of the soul and spirit that the concept of Karma preaches, you go beyong the physical realm, and we use Newton's physical laws to try to approximate the truths inherent in religious faith.

I had once composed a poem, which was also reproduced in my 2007 little anthology tiotled Midnight Voices or sumthing... if tjhoiu haveth a copy, sell it back to Desi can, for RM30 -- twice thy investment for I myself have run out of a decent clean kopi!:)

Cheers, ENJOY the kopi extract -- no, it won't kill you... neither would it heal your cancer. But it works thy lazy hazy mazy brain cells a little as the effort of reading expends energy using thy eyes from the nutritious food you consume in vast quantity -- like mandarin oragnge and Nian Gao now -- which sends electrical waves to thy sleepy brain cells reacting to the stimulus, and hopefully you take some t=ime to join Desi and Sdr WongSC in rruminating on this peAcefool'D Sundae:( or :(, YL, Desi, knottyaSsusual




Reflecting on Newton's law

To every action
There is an equal and opposite reaction
Goes one of Newtonian laws
governing physical forces and motion

Extrapolating on Newton's law to human affairs
In light of the tragedy of Sept 11 morn
I fear that human response to
such horrendous attacks on humankind
Usually brings forth an opposite but often,
more than an equal, reaction,
Inflicting more, and spiralling, violence and tragedy on innocent ones

Borrowing Dylanesque wisdom while we're
adrift in this wind of confusion and sorrow
"When will they ever learn?", I say,
Leave the wrath of the Maker
To visit upon the actors of such cowardly acts.




The premise of my poem was that in human affairs in inflicting violence, usually the reaction is often greater than a reaction to physical force, creating a spiralling chain of increasingly more violent events. I firmly believe there was no way the U.S. could avoid following up with retaliatory action, as some reaction must follow such an attack on humanity. It was only a question of how and in what form the “reaction” (retaliation) would be, and for how long, to justify the objectives once the enemy has been identified and the objectives have been spelt out. My final premise of the poem was that finally, an end must come, and only God – in whatever form we perceive Him to be - can exact the just retribution on the perpetrators of the terror attacks.

DESIDERATA: Come back for a little more as I join some angry/hungry mateys for lunch...K!? This is a rhetoric Q, please don't react unless ypou wanna tell me to meet and you have a BIG angpow for this mousey writHer!

"GONG XIO FA CAI!
Hong Pau Na Lai!
Zu Ni Shen T Jian Kang
WAN XI RU YI!"


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(R.Mckuen)
[Recorded March 20, 1969, Hollywood]

I have been a rover
I have walked alone
Hiked a hundred highways
Never found a home
Still in all I'm happy
The reason is, you see
Once in a while along the way
Love's been good to me

There was a girl in Denver
Before the summer storm
Oh, her eyes were tender
Oh, her arms were warm
And she could smile away the thunder
Kiss away the rain
Even though she's gone away
You won't hear me complain

I have been a rover
I have walked alone
Hiked a hundred highways
Never found a home
Still in all I'm happy
The reason is, you see
Once in a while along the way
Love's been good to me

There was a girl in Portland
Before the winter chill
We used to go a-courtin'
Along October hill
And she could laugh away the dark clouds
Cry away the snow
It seems like only yesterday
As down the road I go

I've been a rover
I have walked alone
Hiked a hundred highways
Never found a home
Still in all I'm happy
The reason is, you see
Once in a while along the way
Love's been good to me