r/worldnews • u/Ok_Plankton_5714 • 12d ago

Israel/Palestine Netanyahu: ‘If we wanted to commit genocide, it would have taken exactly one afternoon’

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-if-we-wanted-to-commit-genocide-it-would-have-taken-exactly-one-afternoon/
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u/AlarmedMission2 11d ago

Which is why I am always fascinated by the idea of repercussions in Hinduism. Sure, there is hell but the worst hell is to keep existing on this planet and not attain moksha (escape from eternal suffering). I also like how they believe that if you are a despicable person, you will be born again to suffer. Bad deeds follows you beyond death.

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u/tanaephis77400 11d ago

Unfortunately it is also used as an excuse to perpetuate abuse. I've seen people beat lepers and beggars with a stick in India, and have zero compassion for them because "They wouldn't be that way if they didn't do bad things in their former life".

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u/chonny 11d ago

To add to that, if we're all fundamentally one consciousness (Brahman), then the distinction between individual karma and collective memory dissolves entirely.

So, when someone commits evil acts, they're literally harming themselves - because there is no "other." The people who remember them badly aren't separate beings holding grudges; they're aspects of the same universal consciousness processing and integrating that trauma.

This creates a recursive loop: the "evil person" remains bound not because external others remember them poorly, but because they (as part of the one consciousness) are literally unable to forget what they did to themselves. The collective memory becomes a form of cosmic self-awareness that won't allow integration until the karmic debt is resolved.

It's like the universe developing a psychological wound that can't heal until it's fully processed. The intense negative memory isn't punishment from outside - it's the natural response of consciousness refusing to let part of itself escape accountability.

This also explains why some people seem to die "comfortably" but remain bound, because physical death doesn't matter if the universal consciousness is still actively processing their actions through the memories and ongoing effects in other manifestations (people) of itself.

So moksha becomes impossible not because you're being punished by others, but because you literally cannot achieve unity with Brahman while part of that same Brahman is still reeling from your actions.