Sin & Forgiveness
October 26, 2015 at 3:36 am
(This post was last modified: October 26, 2015 at 3:38 am by miaharun.)
(October 26, 2015 at 2:57 am)robvalue Wrote: If you're reborn as a new life form, with no memory or any connection at all to the previous life you were, in what way are you still "you"? At most it seems like you'd keep the same reference number in an array. But everything else is totally different and unrelated.
I don't know why you'd want to believe that "gonna get raped" follows one person to another basically entirely new person with the same serial number. Luckily there is no evidence for this being the case, I don't even understand how it's supposed to work. The universe nudges a potential rapist? "Go on, she was a real bad person in her last life. Rape her." Unless there is some weird force actually influencing people's behaviour, then the concept makes no sense.
And then... because this guy was influenced to rape by this karma force, he should be held less responsible for doing it because he was under duress. Does karma make this allowance? For this karma to work, people would have to spend a lot of time under duress to mete out this weird form of justice. So how could their life then be judged fairly at the end, to give them a karma score? Karma ends up judging itself.
It is a kind of force which goes from life to life, cause and effect. We are just a result of many many previous causes put together. If one has done a bad karma in a previous lifetime, that result can come up in the present life.
Although it is an entirely new person that person carries the potential, force or result, what ever you call it within him or her. There is plenty of evidence for rebirth. Example where small children describe their past lives even their parents and sometimes their murderer.
Nobody nudges a potential rapist. Example a child who has had a unhappy, violent childhood (then again due to bad karma), grows up to be a violent, unhappy man who will kill or rape another person whom he gets the opportunity. The victim of course suffers like this due to his/her previous misdeeds.
Karma does not make allowances. It is cause and effect. You do a misdeed it will come back to you in this life or in another lifetime. There is no "judgement". Merely an action and the then the result of the action.
"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path" - Gautama Buddha
