I don't believe in Karma. It's hard to believe that the universe has this natural will to "punish" people who are bad when in reality it doesn't matter. Once mankind is erased, what does it matter? What is "bad"? Stars explode all the time, is that the universal equvalent to walking up to a random person and kicking them in the shin?
To me, it's just another man-made tool used to keep people in check and well behaved for fear that something more damning could happen to them, like religion.
If you practice and live by it, more power to you (and I'm not knockin anyone who does it), but in the end all these things were just thought up by man (philosophers).
Yeah, there's a slight possibility that a monk had a spiritual connection with an actual divine being of sorts who explained this, but I'm leaning more toward the "keep order by fear of punishment".
Besides, life is all just a series of experiences. If you're a Christian, then technically it doesn't matter since Christ died for everyone's sins. If that's true, then Karma is irrelevant. If Karma is true, then Christ's actions were pointless and irrelevant. Contradictions between man-made religions. See? (Unless I'm missing something and someone can fill me in with the correct info)
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Last edited by Stompy; 04-13-2004 at 12:22 PM..
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