[Buddha-l] Re: Greetings from Oviedo

[Jim Peavler]

On Oct 6, 2005, at 5:29 PM, Chan Fu wrote:

> On 10/6/05, Jim Peavler <jpeavler at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>> The sun, in fact, is the cause of the hurricane Katrina. Wouldn't it
>> have been wonderful of Brownie had blamed the sun instead of everybody
>> and everything else.
>
> Actual, it isn't any more the "cause" of meteorological phenomena than
> this planet's own existence, or the presence of water or an
> atmosphere.
> If y0u need to blame something, blame the second law of thermodynamics.
> Which, for all we know, might be the only true God.

Of course, I oversimplified. I only wanted to go back a couple of 
kalpas. I stayed within our own kalpa to assure that my post would be 
on a Buddhist subject.