Hello; If I recall there was some level of concern about your karma in a different thread. I hope you are in an improved state now.
Making mistakes
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Everybody makes mistakes. The longer you work with animals, the better you get... but it sure does happen.
There are some interesting threads on this in the "lessons learned" forum. My favorite was the guy who accidentally siphoned a blue jack dempsey out a second-story window
There are some interesting threads on this in the "lessons learned" forum. My favorite was the guy who accidentally siphoned a blue jack dempsey out a second-story window
I believe it was a few minutes before the fish's keeper noticed it was missing, and yet another few before they thought to check the yard. But it landed in deep enough tank water to stay alive the whole time, and made a full recovery. Those large SA/CA cichlids are tough customers.
When I was thirteen, I accidentally left one of my white cloud mountain minnows in a water change bucket with just an inch or so of water in it for over twenty four hours. Incredibly, it survived.
I fancy myself a decent animal keeper... but anybody who's been doing it for more than a few years has more than a few embarrassing stories they'd like to forget. But it's better to live and learn than to start anew every day.
When I was thirteen, I accidentally left one of my white cloud mountain minnows in a water change bucket with just an inch or so of water in it for over twenty four hours. Incredibly, it survived.
I fancy myself a decent animal keeper... but anybody who's been doing it for more than a few years has more than a few embarrassing stories they'd like to forget. But it's better to live and learn than to start anew every day.
I forgot who said this, but I think it applies:
"I do not make mistakes, I learn".
Einstein though, also said:
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
So making mistakes is fine, repeating them is not.
"I do not make mistakes, I learn".
Einstein though, also said:
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
So making mistakes is fine, repeating them is not.
Hello; That is not my take on karma. That is more like reincarnation.
Using fish keeping as an example. Say a fish keeper runs tanks poorly such as knowingly keeping a fish in too small of a tank. Say a fish needs a 200 gallon but the keeper can not afford or does not have a place for the proper sized tank, so he/she puts the fish in a 75 gallon anyway. Rationalizations to the side such as the plan/hope to get a bigger tank eventually which often does not happen. This is bad karma and some feel the bad will come around and get you in some way, not necesarily as a fish keeper, in some part of your life.
Good karma is waiting untill the large tank is in place before getting the fish. Good karma is not parking in a handicap space when you are not handicaped.
Hello; My take on reincarnation is that a person reaches some level in each repeated life on a journey toward becoming a perfect being. (Pardon my ignorance as to the proper termonology, I am not of this belief.) If your thing (soul, sprit, or whatever it is called) is mean natured during a life then you may be reborn as some lower creature and must endure any number of lesser lives until making progress.
An interesting aside is that some animals appear to be believed to be the vessels of more noble spirits. Cows are what I am thinking of.
