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I wrote a piece about Sharon Stone and the Universal Studios fire at: Scholarspartan.blogspot.com

The case isn't that Miss Stone stuck her foot in her mouth it's that she opened it in the first place.
We prefer movie stars to be scripted from start to finish which means they aren't allowed to express points of (un)popular opinion. If bad karma, an Oriental notion, is supposedly what begets people who do bad things to others then why can't China be suspected of getting a spoonful of it?

Just because Miss Stone is rich, blond, and a Hollywood movie star doesn't mean she is wrong.

Scholar - thanks for your comment. I heartily disagree with you, however. I don't care about her being "rich, blond, and a Hollywood movie star". Being those things doesn't make her automatically wrong - nor does it make her RIGHT. Personally I do NOT expect movie stars to always follow what is scripted for them. I don't know what you expect of them, or what you think society expects of them.

Plain and simple, when that many people are involved in a catastrophe like the Myanmar cyclone or the China earthquake, it is - pure and simple - very bad form to act as Ms. Stone did. I have many thoughts and opinions about China's governing bodies and laws and political choices. Do I say her people DESERVE to be struck by an earthquake and killed, or trapped and dying slowly without food and water, or crippled by falling buildings - because of the actions of their country's government?

Sorry - I don't buy that. What Ms. Stone *thought* about the matter is her private business. To be so heartless as to say, flat out, that people deserved to die in a tragic event because there are people at an elite level whom those individuals have no say over or control over is just flat out rude of her.

I would think the same thing if she said it about the people abused by the junta in Myanmar, or if people voiced it about the government of the USA against the people dying and losing everything in the floods in the Midwest. She's free to think it all she wants; to purposely say it to the press the way she did was just MEAN.

I see. Then the real meany in this story and countless others like it is faith in the Almighty.

What good is saying there is a God if God is ALWAYS AWOL when bad things happen? Who does He ever smote and, by extension, deserved it? Is this a God or Karma or whatever oceanic beliefs strongly held by folks one of sugary positives? If so, and it would be imaginative of you to argue for the existence of God since He apparently issues no judgments, then these religious doctrines amount to fairytales---dangerous fairytales because too many believers stake their lives on them---and should go the way of Grimm's collection.

Now if the point is that God exists and only He can judge, then how do we ever know if no one is permitted to say so? Not a celebrity, not a politician, not a clergyman, no one...?

I certainly don't cotton to shock jocks or mean spirited people who aim to shock and stir discontent, and I don't see Miss Stone fitting that mode.

If we must tolerate various religions, then we must accept the bad and painful with the good and fanciful. Personally I think Karma ad hoc genus are bunk. The natural disasters adjusting the world population are scientifically explainable and reflective of global warming.