Reply #45: No balance... [View All]

[AlienGirl]

If you mean a karmic system that evens things out from life to life, no--the only thing that seems to happen regularly, from what I've seen, is that people will continue to encounter those people they feel strongly about. (And "strong feelings" don't necessarily mean *good* feelings.)

I think someone can be a jerk, do bad things, and still wind up with a pile of money and people who like him in one lifetime, then die, reincarnate in a happy childhood, and have another satisfying life, and maybe even *still* be a jerk. Similarly, someone else might be a good person, do everything right, and yet have a succession of bad breaks in life, or even a series of short, crummy lives. Though I believe in reincarnation, I don't think it administers justice.

I think the Universe is a morally neutral playing-field, and that's why it's incumbent upon us to create ethical societies to live in: there's nobody out there gonna do it for us.

Tucker