Sharon's Stone

Sharon Stone is making news in Asia over her reported comment that the earthquake in China was karma coming home to roost for the Chinese who were mistreating the Tibetans. At first I feared that she had crossed over to the Pat Robertson School of Mystical Retribution.

Actually, she said something slightly different. She said that she's upset with China's treatment of Tibetans. She wondered what to do about the Olympics and the way the Chinese treat the Dalai Lama. Then the earthquake occurred and she thought to herself, "Is that karma [for the way they treat the Tibetans]?"

But she went on to say that a Tibetan organization contacted her to help with publicity to help them go to China to help with relief efforts. That humbled her and she realized that she was wrong. She said she needed to be more like them to be able to be a servant to those who do you wrong.

Her comment was about her personal moral lesson, not about her original comment about karma and earthquakes.

But as usual, that was not as interesting to the reporters as her internal question about whether the earthquake was karma or not and what she had learned from her uncharitable thought.

Here is the piece. I found the Asian portion very uninformative with the Chinese subtitles and presumably Japanese language, but the reporter goes on to speak English with other reporters from other parts of the world.