I'm Not Religious, I'm...
a Karmic Polytheist.
I don't even know if that's possible, but it sounds cools, so I'll go with it. It dawned on me the other day when I started saying, "Don't rip off the bus driver or the transportation gods will strike you down." Karma is the underlying foundation, so if you do something bad, bad will be done to you. Vice versa applies as well. It works like this:
There are a number of "ruling bodies (to quote Tom Gara)" that govern all things: transportation, water, relationships, food, culture, etc. If you do something good/bad in one of those areas, something good/bad will come in return. This does not mean, however, that good will come in food if you make the transportation ruling body happy. Each category is, therefore, mutually exclusive from the others.
Here's an example:
Say you argue with a bus driver that the 1 LE fare is too expensive and demand to pay 75 piastres. If you get away with it, you'll be made to pay in some form of transportation mishap. You might end up getting on the wrong tram and ending up miles from where you had intended.
Conversely, if you make the transportation ruling body happy by taking a city bus and microbus to a friend's house, you will be rewarded in kind.
That is all. There are no rituals, symbols, or any such thing. Just be mindful of the ruling bodies.


5 Comments:
I'm so with you on this. Last night I could have jumped on a waiting bus without paying (they don't check on the York Transit) But I missed it to buy a ticket and waited 20 minutes for the next one with -20 wind freezing my ears off. I know it'll come back around though so I don't get too frustrated over it. The last thing you want is bad transportation karma during a canadian winter.
This is a variation of the old "What goes around comes around"
Always a good way to live
become the ruling body, man
hmmmm i dunno about that...i think sometimes they do mix. like last time i was buying food which costs around 150NTD and i gave the guy 150NTD and with my receipt he gave me change of 50NTD and i never said anything. so today i was adding value to my mrt card and it stole 300NTD from me!!!!!
Money has its own Ruling Body, so I think what happened to you follows the rules.
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