Lingerdog's World

So I see some talk of karma from time to time, karma's gonna get this person or that person. I don't buy it, and I'll tell you why.

See I'm a pretty nice guy, and yet, that didn't stop my wife of five years from running off with another man, one who is 16 years older than her to boot, within a month of meeting him for the first time. So, if karma is real, we have to assume that I did something to warrant this being done to me. I have searched and searched and have yet to find anything remotely bad enough to warrant this cosmic payback to me.

And what of our son. He rarely gets to see me, misses meals, and is struggling something terrible, and for what, what has he done in his all to short life to warrant the universe doing this to him.

And maybe it's not this life, if you believe in such things, maybe I did something in a previous life, I thought that meant you just became something terrible in this life, like a dung beetle, forced to push balls of crap around your whole life.

But if I'm being punished now, for something I did in another life, isn't that like punishing your oldest child because your youngest stole a cookie?

If karma is about writing wrongs in the universe, and I beat up an old man in another life, then shouldn't I be unjustly incarcerated in this life for a crime I didn't commit?

That's what doesn't make sense to me, if karma is so powerful that it can right wrongs across different lives, how come it doesn't just stop the bad things from happening in the first place? Why not make the murderer fall dead of a heart attack right before he intends to commit his murder?

Why continue this cycle of payback in life after life, rather than just thwarting the bad things to begin with. If karma is so powerful as to change the fates of people, how come it can't do that one thing, and have everything settled at once, peace and tranquility forever?

Karma doesn't, because it isn't there.