(September 6, 2023 at 11:23 am)Sicnoo0 Wrote: According to the theory of Karma, all suffering is caused by your own misdeeds (any acts causing suffering to others) in a past life or this life.
Let's call the first being to ever suffer Bob.
According to the theory of Karma, Bob must have done something in a past life or this life which caused someone else to suffer.
This means that someone else suffered before Bob ever suffered, which contradicts our assumption that Bob was the first being to ever suffer.
We started with two premises (Karma is real, there was a being who was the first to ever suffer) and arrived at a contradiction, which means that one of the premises must be false.
I can't see a reason not to assume that there was indeed a first being to ever suffer, so therefore the premise which must be discarded is the premise that karma is real.
By a proof by contradiction I've shown that the theory of karma must be incorrect.
You've shown no such thing.
Your premises are arbitrary and capricious, with no foundation laid for either, and in fact appear to both be random statements.
Premise 1 Let's say Bob can fly.
Premise 2 Some people say all birds can fly.
Conclusion : Bob is a bird.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist
Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist
