http://www.edrants.com/the-myth-of-karma/ a blog in ever-shifting standing Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:27:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.edrants.com/the-myth-of-karma/comment-page-1/#comment-246258 Jody Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:16:20 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/the-myth-of-karma/#comment-246258 Yup, it's the across lifetimes that matters. WE COME BACK, and you can bet your booty that how you live NOW is going to boomerang you over and over again. Personally, I like it. Yup, it’s the across lifetimes that matters. WE COME BACK, and you can bet your booty that how you live NOW is going to boomerang you over and over again. Personally, I like it.

]]> http://www.edrants.com/the-myth-of-karma/comment-page-1/#comment-241131 andrew Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:14:24 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/the-myth-of-karma/#comment-241131 I think the trouble we have—I say ‘we’ because I’ve thought about the life of assholes a lot—is that Karma is a borrowed concept that holds-up better under its original religious meaning than it does for secularists like us. As a justification for why “good things happen to bad people” the concept of Karma as a reckoning across multiple lifetimes is quite elegant. The problems start when you hope to see Karmic balancing day-to-day. But if the universe is truly indifferent, it all makes a lot more sense doesn’t it? I think that realization can be freeing. I think the trouble we have—I say ‘we’ because I’ve thought about the life of assholes a lot—is that Karma is a borrowed concept that holds-up better under its original religious meaning than it does for secularists like us. As a justification for why “good things happen to bad people” the concept of Karma as a reckoning across multiple lifetimes is quite elegant. The problems start when you hope to see Karmic balancing day-to-day. But if the universe is truly indifferent, it all makes a lot more sense doesn’t it? I think that realization can be freeing.

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