A fundamental flaw in the concept of karma

If having bad karma means that years after you do something wrong, you will be punished for it in an entirely unrelated incident, how can you learn from your mistake? You don't know why this bad thing happened to you, so you vicitmize yourself, rather than feel guilty. This is especially true if it happens to you in a life before or after you do the thing that you are punished for. I think I am taking it a bit to literally though. Is karma meant to be taken literally or does it mean something else?

Originally Posted by CBUM

If having bad karma means that years after you do something wrong, you will be punished for it in an entirely unrelated incident, how can you learn from your mistake? You don't know why this bad thing happened to you, so you vicitmize yourself, rather than feel guilty. This is especially true if it happens to you in a life before or after you do the thing that you are punished for. I think I am taking it a bit to literally though. Is karma meant to be taken literally or does it mean something else?

a person that isnt enlightened wouldnt be able to know the difference. im not enlightened, so...

Karma when taken literally is meant to determine what caste you are reincarnated into when you die. The people therefore who are born into the shitty lower class are simply taught that they were born that way for their past sins and not to worry about what their being punished for but simply that they have done wrong and are now suffering for it. Your motivation to do better is not drawn from the specifict incident but rather your collective actions, you then are supposed to improve your dharma which are your actions so you can be reborn into a higher caste after you die. Taken non literally it could be thought of as later guilt for bad actions, not literally fucking you over but that you know you did bad shit.

Hope that helped a little at least.

[countdown2chaos]

i have to say, karma is a dumb concept, esp. if you believe youll get punish back for bad things you do, isnt it an opinion to how bad your crimes are? and to how bad youll get paid back? watch the movie catch me if you can, then tell me if karma exist? a man named frank abagnale jr. in the 1960s stole over 2million dollars from the bank in checks, worked as a doctor (he was a fake) worked as lawyer, worked as an airline pilot, screwed every chick he saw everywhere he went, worked as a college professor. he impersonated all these jobs, and stole that much money in over 20 countries, ALL BEFORE his 21st birthday. and went to jail for like a year? then popped out and worked for the FBI instead of getting jailed any longer in the check fraud department, then made up a checkfraud system every company uses today, and makes MILLIONS every month from this, and is married and has kids. sure, he was an okay guy, but doesnt change the fact he risked the lives of thousands in planes and as a doctor and could of fucked up peoples lives as a lawyer and not give student proper education in school and was a thief. now look how good his life is for doing that? fame, money, and a nice family. there's no karma there.

Originally Posted by countdown2chaos

i have to say, karma is a dumb concept, esp. if you believe youll get punish back for bad things you do, isnt it an opinion to how bad your crimes are? and to how bad youll get paid back? watch the movie catch me if you can, then tell me if karma exist? a man named frank abagnale jr. in the 1960s stole over 2million dollars from the bank in checks, worked as a doctor (he was a fake) worked as lawyer, worked as an airline pilot, screwed every chick he saw everywhere he went, worked as a college professor. he impersonated all these jobs, and stole that much money in over 20 countries, ALL BEFORE his 21st birthday. and went to jail for like a year? then popped out and worked for the FBI instead of getting jailed any longer in the check fraud department, then made up a checkfraud system every company uses today, and makes MILLIONS every month from this, and is married and has kids. sure, he was an okay guy, but doesnt change the fact he risked the lives of thousands in planes and as a doctor and could of fucked up peoples lives as a lawyer and not give student proper education in school and was a thief. now look how good his life is for doing that? fame, money, and a nice family. there's no karma there.

Well the thing about karma is that maybe in his last life he was a starving orphan in ethiopia

[countdown2chaos]

Originally Posted by CBUM

Well the thing about karma is that maybe in his last life he was a starving orphan in ethiopia

reincarnation is a stupid belief too, population grows and shrinks, its very unstable, the worlds population use to be in the thousands, years n years ago, now its in the billions? so we all reincarnate? yet there's more and more people being born? yeah, that makes alot of sense. NOT.