If You Give, Do You Receive?

This is my first post based on a variable, rather than a constant. In most of the other posts, I speak of something that I believe just is, like an ethic. However in this case, I am taking it in the sense that it IS, but it IS a variable, it is always changing.

People give every day. Every single person contributes something to another human, or thing in the world. Even if they are the most useless people in the world, something is contributed, positive or negative? Who knows. However, something that is taught to people around the world is that, you should always give and never hope for something in return. My mind stumbling across this idea as I had a conversation with Jonathon about how his lack of action caused a lack in return, and I began to ponder in a half focused sense.

Now, the scenario is, he never read a text clearly enough, and as a result he had to wait to go home. He lack of action in reading the text and remembering it clearly enough caused him to have to wait to go home. Simple cause and effect, but compare it to another scenario and you end up with varying results. I don't mean a different effect, I mean a different level of effect, and that is what I am focusing on.

We all know that everything we do has an effect, and many people believe that there is an equal positive and negative impact, while others believe that what you do causes the equal to occur in turn, that is the first idea that my mind skipped over. However, this seems unrealistic. I believe that in everything we do, there is no response, but something happens later on that we believe to be the cause of it, they have no relation in the sense of how much the returning action affects you in return. Take Spider Man for example. He risks his life over and over to save peoples lives and all they give in return is hatred, except for the few that truly realize what he is trying to do. So we see that even though he gives it all good, he gets back bad, as well as a bit of good, which contradicts the idea that every action has an equal response in either opposite or equal form.

So how is the response decided? I do not believe that the response to an action is decided by anything. It is totally random, depending on who it affects, how it affects them, and how they each individually react to it. This goes for nature and thoughtless things too. A person may try to be as nice as Jesus, but many may reject that person. The sad truth, I believe, is that we cannot control what happens to us without analyzing every single aspect of every single thing we do in relation to every single thought pattern of every single thing affected. The return that you receive is decided by those around you.

Prayer or interactions with a great one / many? Well, my idea of this is extremely biased by my religion, as a Christian would say that God decides it, I would say what I believe. My belief lies in an ultimate power, refer to my "The Creation of the Universe" post to get an idea of how I think this works. There is one great huge massive thought pattern that controls the universe, a concoction of all things that have thought, and that great power decides the universe's reaction, usually it gives you an exact mirror of what you have thought. The idea of that creation process brings us the power to use our thoughts to create things in this world. We think and what we think is here, simply is here, if that is truly how the universe was created.

The effect of what you cause cannot be determined, it is decided by many things that we cannot even control, manipulate, or even measure. People's thoughts, what you are thinking, and what the other people are thinking causes everything in this world to happen, even though we have the power to decide the general things that happen to us in life, many aspects are controlled by those around us.