Karma

I love hearing people talk about karma. They speak of it as some sort of natural retribution phenomena. It is like some sort of magical evening-out mechanism. It is something that puts the occurrences in the world into some sort of natural order.

If you do something bad, karma is going to come for you. Really?

No, there is no such things as Karma. It might make people feel better about themselves and their place in the world, but no, there is no great magical hand ready to sweep across the universe and put wrongs right.

I just don't think people think about these things. (But then, it's good for a laugh, people's naivety) Look at it, there are too many cunts in the world getting away with shit for it to be even remotely true.

The only karma-like response that might happen maybe a reaction to the negative energy you might put out in the world. If you exude negative energy all the time, you will probably attract negative energy back to you.

If I steal something, and nobody knows that I stole it, there is no karmic debt coming for me. Nothing. There is no great spiritual entity keeping tabs.

Maybe, if I am aggressive and rude and generally toxic to all the people I meet, then yes I am probably going to attract aggression and rudeness and toxicity back to me, so there is some kind of karmic debt coming in my direction, in that situation. Most likely. I would attract it.

If I committed the perfect murder, and nobody knew I'd done it, there is no karmic debt.

If I go around killing people, like a serial killer and people know it is me racking up the body count, there is a very good chance someone would kill me.

If I steal from the deaf & blind and the sick, you know, even terrible things, and the deaf & blind and the sick, don't know, and I get away with it, no I don't have to be afraid of any karmic debt.

Thinking that the natural order of the world would eventually catch up to me for my bad deeds, all other things being equal, is just magical thinking. I know it probably makes people feel better about themselves and their places in the world but, no, there is no natural balancing out mechanism in the world. People are weird who think so.

When I do something terrible, of questionable moral value, even when I put mangoes through as potatoes at the supermarket, for instance, and worse, I never tell anyone, I never tell a soul. I guess that is one way to guard against karmic retribution.