I have a hard time with the Karma statement made in the link above.
I don't know why it just doesn't sit well with me. It's as if the person is saying that it's a comeuppance or justified for his actions or behavior involving the poor woman who died and her baby too.
I dunno. He was still being investigated and charges hadn't been brought forth as of yet. For me, the man facing his charges for her death and her baby's death and his punishment would have been karma.
Nevermind me, I'm just feeling a bit off today. But for some reason this man being shot in the face and it being described as karma didn't sit well with me.
JMHO.
I agree - the karma talk is spiteful and unneccessary. If taken to its logical conclusion of being used this way, perhaps the EMT was right not to help the woman, as perhaps she "deserved to die," as well. (I certainly don't believe that, but if you believe certain people deserve bad things, then why worry about what happens to anyone?)
On a professional note as a religious studies specialist (though my specific field is not in Eastern traditions), it also bugs me that this word has become so pop, and is not used correctly - in Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism, karma is the spiritual residue of
all actions, good and bad, and actually directs your reincarnation in the afterlife, which results from the karma your lives have accrued - it does not normally determine whether you get shot in the face trying to park your car.
And I would like to remind people that taking joy in the suffering of others is also likely to affect your own karma - and not in a good way.
MOO.
ETA: I don't mean to sound like a jerk here - I just think it's dangerous when people take pleasure in the misfortune of others.
