I'm sorry Boss. I cannot agree with that last line.
"Bad things tend to happen to bad people." is exactly what Prosperity Gospel is about, and Prosperity Gospel is absolute garbage.
The number of good and bad things that happen to a given person can tell you how good or bad they are? Nah. 🙅🏻♂️
Right now, there's a guy running an after school program for underprivileged kids, etc; who can't afford to treat his kid's Cancer, while Kenneth Copeland is worth $300 million.
Agree with you to some extent.
But in my belief system, karma exists. We don’t know how or when it will it will surface or in which lifetime.
It is not our business.
I can respect that belief, although I don't agree. While we don't know how or when it will surface, we definitely know which lifetime. It has to be during the one it was earned. What lesson is there for a bad person to receive good, just because they were good in a previous life? Life? What reward is there for a good person to keep doing good, if they won't receive it until "later"? There's only incentive for evil.
That assumes karma is an avenger. It is a teacher. Life is the school—whichever life.
Can't learn a lesson unless you attend the class.
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Ah, that’s the good part. We eventually attend the class & welcome the lesson.
In my belief system.
How do you believe that happens? Humans live life A.
Let's assume a Good person is A, bad is B.
A dies and is reborn. They have no memories of Life 1. Same for B.
If A is Evil in this life, they may receive rewards despite this, because they USED to be Good.
Humans learn by experience. If they don't retain that experience between lives, there cannot be learning.
I respect your beliefs Daddy Bones.
although i do think what goes around comes around,
to me karma is mainly what happens to one's psyche as a result of doing evil.
each act, positive or negative, changes one's psyche. anyone who's killed another, for example, understands the impact.
every negative act is inscribed in the psyche and has results in subsequent experiences. one becomes that kind of person
and mind.
not to mention the consequences coming from those one has harmed, of course.
@holon42 @LnzyHou @Heucuva8 @th3j35t3r There's supposed to be "good karma" as well as bad.
But, I too think it would help immensely to get smacked on the nose when you do the bad thing so you can connect the bad action to the punishment.