06.24.05 Karma, Forgiveness,
and maybe other stuff
Well, It's been an interesting week in Bloggerville. Ive been getting some cool people visiting my site. I don't want this to become a site about ethics, but I thought I'd create a post about Karma and Forgiveness. Does not forgiving create bad karma? When something bad happens to you, is it karma? When something bad happens to people you have done you wrong, is that karma?
As always, all comments are welcome...
As always, all comments are welcome...
Labels: Karma
5 Comments:
I'll start. I've often wondered about karma. I worked at UPS in the tech dept as a temp about 5 years ago. I really liked the job a lot and my immediate managers really liked me and were trying to get me put on staff. To make a long story not quite as long, I was in UPS through 3 different agencies, so EVERYONE was taking a piece of the pie. Well, I found out they had raised my 'rate' by $25 per hour and I was supposed to see a piece of that. Well, I didn't so I went to my agency and he found out that he was getting screwed too, so he called the other agencies who in turn called me screaming that I shouldn't know this information, blah, blah blah. They in turn gave me $3 more per hour, then 2 weeks later, the head manager (some jerk named Brock) told me that it was discovered that I was surfing the internet for porn all day. I laughed and said you're joking. He told me to get out by the end of the day. I wrote letters to UPS to which their response was basically 'We can do whatever we want, don't contact anyone in the company again'. So, I was out of work with a wife, a 6 year old and a 2 month old, plus my wife was looking at me like I was guilty. Which for the record, I never even once, even by accident, wound up at any site that was in the least bit pornographic. I think it had more to do with Brock getting kickbacks from the 'preferred agency' and I found out they were screwing me so I had to go. They could of just let me go, but instead they kicked me in the gut, and threw me in the gutter. I had a real hard time letting go of this (which I obviously have not totally done) and I kept thinking how that son of a bitch would get his. Karma pay-back time. Well, sometimes I wonder if all of the stress that was created and I kept going is responsible for my developing cancer. Or, is my cancer a result of my bad karma. What could I have done that is so bad that I would get stage IV colon cancer (to which the 5 year survival rate is 'rare' - cheery news). I have been trying to view it more as a random thing that has happened to me, I plan on being different and lasting much longer than 5 years. I've also had another thing happen to me that was not good, but I wound up forgiving the people involved which was not totally easy because it involved my relationship with my wife. I've come to think that holding on to this crap is so unproductive and detremental to one's health.
But I still secretly hope that bastard gets his.....
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:phil:, At
June 24, 2005 8:16 AM
Well, holding on to things can cause emotional damage, but I don't think there is proof that it causes cancer. We can't take blame for everything bad that happens to us.
Karma-I believe in everyday Karma, that is if you're rude to someone, they will be rude back. As for Cosmic Karma, mmm...I don't know. How does Karma explain when children get cancer? What could a child do to deserve that? This was my biggest stumbling block in Christianity, too. If God is loving, why do children suffer? No one has the answers to theses questions, and you will drive yourself crazy if you think about them too much.
Forgiveness-We all know that to forgive is the "right" thing to do. But forgiveness is not a feeling you can make yourself feel. It's a place you might get to after you've visited a great many other emotions first, like anger. Forgiveness does feel alot better than anger, though. There are a lot of people in my life that I have been unable to forgive.
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fugusashi, At
June 24, 2005 8:47 AM
I'm a big believer in karma...but I still don't know why people get cancer. Sometimes it isn't for us to know, we are just left to deal. As for forgiveness, it's for our benefit that we should forgive, not for the benefit of the person who wronged us. Focusing on the crap will only create more of it. I wish focusing on ice cream worked the same way...
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Chloe, At
June 24, 2005 3:51 PM
I think if God was really smart he (yes, I believe God is male) would allow bad stuff happening hinge on being good. It's a real flaw in his system now, and you would think...being God and all, he would have known that. This way, if I person had something bad happen to him/her, you could say,"well he/she had it coming" and really mean it.
Phil, your cancer was a freak random thing and even if you participated in the porn you are accused of viewing in the conference room at UPS, it wouldn't have been the reason you got it. I truly believe that. :)
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evawebdiva, At
June 25, 2005 7:57 PM
Hi Eva, I do think getting cancer is mostly a random thing. I've met people who smoke who have lung cancer, and people who never smoked and also have it. If there is a God, which I don't think there is in the way that mankind has made Him/Her out to be, I think they have better things to do than decide who gets cancer and who gets MS or whatever. I try to live by the "Golden Rule" "Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you". I do think there are many paths to 'heaven' or whatever you want to call it and that if you're a good person, that is a good thing. If you go around treating people like crap, well, watch out. The thing that really got me upset with the whole UPS thing is that there was this great injustice, and maybe being a libra, I have a strong sense of it. If I did do as they accused, I could accept that and would have deserved to be fired. I think that I let it cause me too much stress and that was not good for me.
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:phil:, At
June 26, 2005 5:42 AM
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