I do not believe in such a thing as karma, and reincarnation is one of the hardest aspects of spirituality for me to take seriously. That endless billions of people are born and reborn time and time again to learn. Learn what? That putting my hand on a firepit hurts? To learn compassion? Or to let go of all earthly desires and ascend ? If there is such a thing as a creator, if there's life after death, which seems to me to be something people who are afraid of death are firm believers of, then it shouldn't take an almost endless amounts of lives for an equally almost endless number of individual beings in order to learn whatever it is.
Why would an all-powerful Force of Creation need to experience mortal life in order to learn? Well, it could be that if there's really something as a central station hosting the Origin of all life, maybe that thing is bored out of its wits and needs constant stimulation in the form of people being born, suffering, growing old and dying to stave off boredom. Kinda like how if a malevolent Alien species came to Earth and forced earthlings to fight each other and broadcast it for the rest of the Universe to watch the spectacle.
I don't know. Until proof shows itself to go against what I believe, I'll stick to my guns and say that the lot we have in life boils down to luck. You are either lucky to be born into the English Royal Family and be raised to be a King, you are born with the talent and the right gene pool to look like Errol Flynn, or you have the bad luck of being born with lame legs in some mud village somwhere in Africa. Kinda hard for me to believe that those who happen to live in Brazil, Africa, China and so forth are either paying karma debts or living beneath human dignity to learn a lesson.
But there is a lesson here, nevertheless. There is only equality amongst the elite of men.
Why would an all-powerful Force of Creation need to experience mortal life in order to learn? Well, it could be that if there's really something as a central station hosting the Origin of all life, maybe that thing is bored out of its wits and needs constant stimulation in the form of people being born, suffering, growing old and dying to stave off boredom. Kinda like how if a malevolent Alien species came to Earth and forced earthlings to fight each other and broadcast it for the rest of the Universe to watch the spectacle.
I don't know. Until proof shows itself to go against what I believe, I'll stick to my guns and say that the lot we have in life boils down to luck. You are either lucky to be born into the English Royal Family and be raised to be a King, you are born with the talent and the right gene pool to look like Errol Flynn, or you have the bad luck of being born with lame legs in some mud village somwhere in Africa. Kinda hard for me to believe that those who happen to live in Brazil, Africa, China and so forth are either paying karma debts or living beneath human dignity to learn a lesson.
But there is a lesson here, nevertheless. There is only equality amongst the elite of men.