Whether "Karma" exists in this life or the next is irrelevant unless you believe, and then will we be aware of getting our just desserts either good or bad. Do we truly recognize Karma?
I tend to think yes - the Universe will balance things, though on its time scale and not necessarily ours. Many who got away with things in their lifetime did not escape infamy. They did become famous, but not as they imagined, and what they plundered has been plundered in turn by others.
Your comment regarding the time line is a great point - and certainly one echoed by the ancients. Of course they felt the infamy may be suffered by the children...
Those who seek to assess the world conditions today in relation to yesteryear, the freedoms of many to think, analyse and comment, are often as fraught with fear, terror and death, as ever history has shown it to be in the past.
Conquer, control and domination are as rife in every part this world of 8 billion peoples, as at any time in history.
Are we really each, so much mare an advanced animal, in spite of all the technological smarts, at our beck and call?
We still shrill or choose to be silent.
We stlll plunder or more often plundered.
We still deny or are denied truths
We still kill or can be collaterally killed.
Are we really all more civilised than our forebears, for whom survival was a daily event?
Should we be sceptics? I think Pyrrho is the go to ancient philosopher for wise counsel. He realised that the ignorance he confessed to was very different in kind from the ignorance of say, children, dogs, and stones. It was learned ignorance. It was the result of intellect and enquiry; trying to know and failing. A failing of reason proposing questions to itself that it could not answer. It was a painfully acquired recognition of Pyrrho’s limitations, not the barren ignorance that never tried to conquer itself. I reckon, to compare scepticism in the classical sense (not its current usage) with unreasoned faith is a category mistake.
As pertaining to the question with questions everything section below the article- It is rational to have a belief in Karma, but irrational to convince someone else is they don't believe it. I for one do believe in karma, not just the sense of immediate cause and effect, but a law that carries over after death. Off the top of my head, I can't recall a valid argument against it, as it is a belief carried in most religions and philosophy, including Socrates and Carl Jung, and of course the Samsara liturature of the Vedas. My favorite story regaurding karma and the afterlife comes from "The Myth of Er."
Being overly skeptical or trusting is self-placing a hood over one’s consciousness.
Whether "Karma" exists in this life or the next is irrelevant unless you believe, and then will we be aware of getting our just desserts either good or bad. Do we truly recognize Karma?
So Anya, what is your take on Karma?
Personally, I feel like its one of those things that you should act like it exists even if it doesn't...
Can't go wrong with that
I tend to think yes - the Universe will balance things, though on its time scale and not necessarily ours. Many who got away with things in their lifetime did not escape infamy. They did become famous, but not as they imagined, and what they plundered has been plundered in turn by others.
Your comment regarding the time line is a great point - and certainly one echoed by the ancients. Of course they felt the infamy may be suffered by the children...
Those who seek to assess the world conditions today in relation to yesteryear, the freedoms of many to think, analyse and comment, are often as fraught with fear, terror and death, as ever history has shown it to be in the past.
Conquer, control and domination are as rife in every part this world of 8 billion peoples, as at any time in history.
Are we really each, so much mare an advanced animal, in spite of all the technological smarts, at our beck and call?
We still shrill or choose to be silent.
We stlll plunder or more often plundered.
We still deny or are denied truths
We still kill or can be collaterally killed.
Are we really all more civilised than our forebears, for whom survival was a daily event?
Should we be sceptics? I think Pyrrho is the go to ancient philosopher for wise counsel. He realised that the ignorance he confessed to was very different in kind from the ignorance of say, children, dogs, and stones. It was learned ignorance. It was the result of intellect and enquiry; trying to know and failing. A failing of reason proposing questions to itself that it could not answer. It was a painfully acquired recognition of Pyrrho’s limitations, not the barren ignorance that never tried to conquer itself. I reckon, to compare scepticism in the classical sense (not its current usage) with unreasoned faith is a category mistake.
Remember President Reagan’s quote, “Trust, …but verify.”
As pertaining to the question with questions everything section below the article- It is rational to have a belief in Karma, but irrational to convince someone else is they don't believe it. I for one do believe in karma, not just the sense of immediate cause and effect, but a law that carries over after death. Off the top of my head, I can't recall a valid argument against it, as it is a belief carried in most religions and philosophy, including Socrates and Carl Jung, and of course the Samsara liturature of the Vedas. My favorite story regaurding karma and the afterlife comes from "The Myth of Er."
No…unfortunately.😕