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Re: pride goeth before a fall

Jun 23, 1995 04:58 PM
by Paul Gillingwater


guru@nellie2.demon.co.uk (Dr. A.M.Bain) writes:

> compulsory viewing.  This is a reality of which we "evolved"
> humans are still capable, and which, I suspect, is still around
> in different ways.  And some idiot will try to tell me that all
> those Jews and others must have deserved it for some unknown
> "karma" generated in previous lives.  B...sh.t.

Karma is one of the toughest things for me to understand,
certainly with my dull human brain.  I've lain awake at night,
wondering how a merciful God can allow such terrible suffering to
exist.  My feeling is that there isn't a "merciful God" -- that's
a Christian construct.  There is only Law.  Karma is an
incredible mystery, which may be easily misunderstood.  The
sufferings of Jews in WWII were terrible, but really no different
from the suffering of any one individual, except in number.

Each of us has a certain amount of past experience and karma
which might bring about certain causes.  Perhaps karma doesn't
specifically bring us into situations where we will be tortured,
but I agree that no-one "deserves" such suffering.  It might be
helpful to think that the karma of such a person was relatively
neutral, i.e.  normal for any typical human being, but that by
being in the wrong race at the wrong time, they suffered due to
the evil that afflicted their tormentors.  They have thus
generated a "credit balance", or wiped out much of previous
debts, by suffering so, while their oppressors have set in train
causes which will lead to much educative suffering in future.

Paul Gillingwater

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