Karma poll

[Little Rik]

And this reason is the same reason why you would teach your kids how to learn how to live.

It's a stupid reason.  If God created us, then he created our brains and he knows that he could give us the capacity to treat each other well all the time so that we would not have to "learn" morality by causing strife on a global level all of the time.

That is not how the system is designed to work Ton.
By making the things easy you automatically take away the satisfaction.
Satisfaction not just for God but for the people themselves.
Suppose you start a game with the solution already in your mind.
There would not be any satisfaction.
None of whatsoever.
In this way instead there is satisfaction in achieving things and solving problems.
You tell me what would be the satisfaction if somebody would give you a degree without having studied for or a truckload of money for free without you having struggled for?
In the short term you may be very happy but after a while it would ruin your life.  

You never thought of that Ton, did you?  

Especially since both God and karma wait until we are dead to teach us this, at which point it is far too late for this knowledge to be of use.

You are guessing Ton.
1) Karma does not necessary wait until we are dead.
It may strike any time really but in case the debt is too large then people will pay their debt later on in future lives.
2) Your outer mind in most cases does not know what reactions are due and for what reason but your inner mind or your subconscious knows very well the real story and it is here that the know is explained.

God doesn't even do this for the lowest life forms, so that there are even plants and microbes that can only survive by harming other creatures.  Is there a punishment in the afterlife for parasitic germs that cause their host horrific suffering before killing them?  Or for vines that choke the life out of trees?  Or fungi that destroy insects from the inside-out?  The list of examples of terrifying behavior by plants and animals acting on instinct is lengthy.  Which means that they are wired --sorry, DESIGNED-- to cause pain and suffering and then death.  Maybe it is time for us to ask why God creates so much suffering and discord instead of creating joy and harmony.

Maybe he's not there.  That might be disconcerting, but imagine the alternative: maybe he likes to see misery and pain and suffering and death.

You keep on judging from a human point of view but lower form of lives do not have the consciousness that we have and the old saying ............NO BRAIN NO PAIN.....is valid.
Pain however is there even in small amount but nothing at the end is lost.
Once lower forms of lives die they will gain more consciousness and in an higher form of life so at the end nothing is lost and all is gain considering also that lower form of life are not bound by the karma law.