Sharon Stone gives us bad Karma
May 30th, 2008 by David Anderson
China seems in an uproar over Sharon Stone’s comments which seemed at first blush to imply that the treatment of Tibet resulted in bad Karma which led to the massive earthquake. In context, I don’t think her remarks were unreasonable, just tasteless. She seemed to reflecting on the fact that she let her strong feelings get in the way of her compassion and that it was wrong. She learned that lesson by watching the Dali Lama offer help to the Chinese. I understand why the Chinese government doesn’t focus on the latter part of her interview, and I can feel why they were offended at the first part. Of course this is not the first time she made headlines in the foreign press. Claiming that Americans didn’t care about dead Iraqi’s was not wise to say to the Arabic press while our people were facing an insurgency in both theaters. I despised her recklessness then and do now.
What I was wondering is since she is politically active and endorses products, should everyone who knows her condemn her for the next ten years or does that only apply to preachers? Is there no longer a place to grapple with these tragedies and search for meaning behind them in our world? What is with our world that we with to deny the urge to explain the inexplicable? Is it bad Karma? Is God angry at us? Are we experiencing tremors before the 2012 Crystal Skull prediction? Is mother earth getting revenge? I think the answer is no to all, but people aren’t wrong to ask. It is a natural human way to grapple with disaster. Seeking answers is our way to regain control when we feel we have none. I have no problem with differing with people to keep others from feeling even worse than the tragedy makes them feel. I do have a problem with turning normal human grappling into a political spectacle.
Let’s give our sympathy and aid to the Chinese people. We can and should say right now the only thing that matters about the quake is helping the wounded and the millions of families affected. The death toll may reach 80,000. Tears came to my eyes when I saw the grief of the families. I wept when they were forced to abandon people calling out for help because of danger to the rescuers while the families cried out. To me that was the only issue. People were hurting not a government. Loving our fellow humans regardless of national identity is the best response, not distracting ourselves with a focus on the inane. Yes, I would hope we apply allowing free speech to Conservatives and Christians as well.
I expect to see this come up the next time she gives a donation to a candidate. It will have nothing to do with the candidate, but since we have nothing better to talk about because all of our problems have been solved, it will become an issue. We can see that all around. Pastor Rod Parsley takes Islamic theologians at their word when they say there is no God but Allah and Allah has no son, and takes the Apostle John at his word when he says that is Anti-Christ (opposed to Christ not the man I John 4:2,3). For some reason he should be regarded as some rouge and McCain as intolerance by association. A priest friend of Senator Obama makes funny jokes about Clinton’s sense of entitlement and the world is offended. Senator Clinton refers to the historic June nomination fights and somehow because she mentioned RFK’s June assassination, she is advocating violence. Reject so and so not because of who they are or what they have done but because they exercise the freedom we all have to speak and find meaning.
The Presidential candidates spend more time explaining statements that they never heard than addressing the economy. It is a sad road we travel. It is a forerunner to the Ivy League speech code and political correctness invading mainstream society. If we don’t snap out of this silly posture, we will suffer for it. Not only will we never solve our problems until our economy is in shambles and our government broke, but we will have sacrificed the dynamic freedom of expression which has made us the fountain of creativity in the world.
“Sharon Stone’s latest comments only appear to add to the immense John Melnicki, Harbor Lane Associates, John Ackerly, ICT family tree. A tree that gives the impression of endless growth. Her remarks at the Cannes Film Festival just raise more questions about this interesting group of pro-Tibet players. Stone and Melnicki dated back in 2002-2003, and have been seen at several events beside Ackerly. Richard Gere is on the board of ICT and a good friend of Melnicki’s. Toss in Bush Sr. and Cohen and its simple to notice both Harbor Lane Associates and ICT have an abundance of friends in lofty places. Why would these organizations be so close to each other?”
Reference:
http://fanonite.org/2008/03/26/tibet-the-great-game-and-the-cia/
What if she was right?
Right or wrong, she has the right to explore it without the pc speech police.
“What if she was right?”
Um, if “karma” was a real thing, don’t you think Dubya would’ve been struck by lightning about 50 times by now?
Why is she even relevant?
David as for Ms. Stone , well not much ” I care” for anything she has to say, but she has the right to say it.
I would like to focus on your last paragraph. You mentioned that the candidates spend more time responding to things they or their associates have said then they do in responding to questions about the economy or other issues. I would agree, but is this a result of our PC world ,or is it do to a lack of differences between the candidates, so that to seperate themselves they must attack the others.
Do they possibly have no stand out position on anything , so they choose to hurl attacks of racism, or other moral accusations at each other as cover for their complete lack of ideas on how to move the country forward.
I believe that these sort of attacks are not ment to enlighten the voters as to the character of their opponents, but are used merely as camouflage to mislead the voters about their own deficiency of character. .
And the only way this behavoir ends is when voters stop buying into these soap opera tactics and demand real answers to real questions and no longer let the ratings driven media set the agenda for our decision making process.
It is common knowledge that the Iraq war caused hurricane Katrina.
I agree 100% Frank.
Frank, on the issues Obama and Hillary are not very different. However now that we will have Obama and McCain, where there are substantial differences on many issues, I think you will find the issues addressed all the time, which should be to your liking, mine too!
Hillary’s not dead yet Perry
Perry , you have once again chosen to ass- u – me to know what I ment , and once again you are mistaken. When I said that the candidates are so much alike I was not merely talking about the current two Democrats . I would include Senator Mc Cain , but don’t stop there. I believe this is a wide spread problem with our system.
It would seem as if there are no candidates who have the guts to truly stand out in front and lead a movement from either party. They all mouth the same tired rhetoric with small little tweaks that are ment to appeal to the base of whichever party they happen to be from.
We will not see another land slide election until some candidate dares to speak the truth and is willing to stop pandering to special interest groups , be it eco-terrorist who wish to bring down capitalism through mandated ristrictions on our most important industries, or if it is those same industries who want to look the other way on immigration so they can get cheap labor.
I long for a time when the candidates and their parties have distinct characters so that when the voters make their choice they can do so with an elimate of certainty that they are going to get an elected official differnt from the person they chose to vote against. Because if we as voters can not turn this around we are moving towards a one party system. We are not far from it right now, when you cannot tell which candidate, or party says what if it is not identified by an “R”or a “D”.
I sincerely thank Miss Stone for expressing her concerns about the injustice that occurs in China. Perhaps the earthquake is really a retribution from the God to punish Chinese people for their cruelty and insensibility toward Tibet’s people.
Chinese government and her supporters, due to their own selfishness, brutally oppressed the freedom of speech and the human right in Tibet. If they don’t get what they deserve, it is unfair.
Don’t expect people to have mercy on you when you don’t have mercy on the others.
Someone said “Tibet was liberated the presants in Xizang eat Dalai lama’s sh*t.” Compare this with how Mr. Bush liberates Iraq after 9/11 for oil. If Chinese have no other intention, Chinese should have left Tibet after liberating her.
Don’t say that you Chinese people are helping Tibetan. It is insulting. Moreover, your helps have never been enough. Now get the hell out of there.
I don’t get why people think we’re in Iraq for oil. If we were there for oil we would have taken the oil rights and Haliburton would have a huge straw in the ground pumping it to the US.
We’re by far the largest consumer of oil, China is expected to eventually overtake us given their current growth rate, but that’s not for a number of years. That means the oil would be coming here for the most part, because we’re the largest consumer.
If you dump billions of barrels of any commodity on the market, the price goes down because of supply and demand. The price has not gone down, it has gone up. Demand has not gone up, so what does that mean? If demand has not materialy increased, but the price has, that means that supply has actually gone down!
We’re in Iraq for a different reason. Oil is not the reason.
I can’t believe people actually think there is some dude sitting amongst the clouds wreaking havoc on the human race for all of the bad things they do. If that were the case the US should have been obliterated decades ago.
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