When things go wrong, it's good to know what is wrong, so that we can stop doing what is wrong. This brings us closer to doing what is right. Stopping to do a wrong is doing a right. This is a benefit to ourselves and others in our world, as either we, others, or both are affected. We're connected in various ways and in our collective mess together in the end.

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Sometimes thing only happen to each one of us, sometimes things happen to a group or all of us. If I do something wrong in my life and I'm only affected, others aren't. If a group does something wrong to themselves then many people are affected. If we all live a certain way of life that produces negative consequences, then we're all going to be affected negatively at some point, to some degree.

When we don't see what's wrong, we're preventing ourselves from self-correcting our mistakes. Even when we as individuals do see something wrong with the larger picture, all the controls and restrictions upon our freedom and personal responsibility imposed by our controlling centralized authorities prevent us from being able fix things ourselves if we want to. The mistakes in our society perpetuate and compounds, as going a mile in the wrong direction is a two mile error.

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When all things are equal and there is a direct feedback between our actions and the consequences thereof, we reap what we sow. Things operate normally. In the collective global larger picture, if we all see and can feel the consequences of how we all choose to affect this planet, then we can see the results being manifested. They might not be affecting us directly in the present, but we can recognize how they are affecting others, positively or negatively.

But when we choose to ignore, or are forced to ignore and be made ignorant of the reciprocal consequences to our behavior, then we can simply and easily let things continue along a false path and way in life. We can keep doing things that have negative effects upon others, even if we don't have any upon ourselves in the present. We can be blind to the suffering of others, and this makes us perpetuate the suffering we may be causing. The same is so for us feeling the brunt of effects that others cause.

If we want to be free from suffering ourselves and have others not produce negative effects towards us, then we need to have the same concern for others. In this larger sense of interconnection and interaction, as one suffers we all suffer. It takes personal responsibility to want to see what we are doing in the bigger picture.

Pollution, wars, exploitation for our own personal gain, etc. Some things we may not feel ourselves or see them yet, but others can be. A company can be dumping toxins, waste, chemicals or poisons into the soil or water, into the environment, and they may not suffer the consequences of their actions (unless we bring consequences to bear on the,), but others can who drink the water or grow food that is contaminated.

Ignorance is not bliss. Truth will set us free.

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Reaping What We Sow, or Not

Manifested Reality Reciprocating On Us

Collective "Karma", We're All in This Together vs. Delayed "Karma", Some Are Not in This With Us Yet

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Collective "Karma"

In normal situations of direct influence, we have nowhere to go but to be affected by reality. We are all affected by what we choose to live by. What we create into the world then affects us back. We all get hit by the general aggregate consequences of the behaviors we live by.

Causality is felt, and we can change once we feel or see the negative effects.

Do right, get right. Do wrong, get wrong. We act, and receive the result. Truth or consequence. Be right or go wrong.

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Delayed "Karma"

In some cases, we have insulation bubbles around us. Some of us don't feel the full effects, or any at all, of what we are doing, yet.

We create systems of dependence, and don't understand the consequences that are produced outside by our actions. Our current perception is lacking the vision of what we are doing in the bigger picture outside of our personal lives.

We can be insulated for some time in this attempt to separate ourselves within a system and particular worldview. Eventually, the system cannot hold back the consequences that we push onto others. Eventually, the system fails to provide its insulatory capacity and visible problems manifest to reflect the wrong path and way of living.

If you can't see how this all applies, here is one example. We pay taxes to let the controlling apparatus of government go wage war against others. We may not feel the harm of what we do yet (apart from the theft of taxes that empties our pockets), but eventually we may feel the consequences as our wrong-actions are reciprocated back upon us by the other group we have harmed.

This feedback cycle has been happening in history for a long time. One group attacks another, then it the other group attacks them back. but when you are powerful and have more powerful weaponry or defenses, then you can insulate yourself from receiving the feedback that others would normally send back to you.

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