Karma Suit Ya?

Some people get away with all kinds of crap and never suffer the consequences. That is grossly unfair and wrong, and that is the reason I still partially cling to the idea that there is such a thing as Karma. If there is not, then there should be more retribution legally and morally allowed in the Here-and-Now.

By the looks of things, I guess there are billions of people who do not believe in Karma or in the Great Hereafter where all is meted out as Justice and Mercy because there is one helluva lot of killing/retribution going on here on Planet Earth.

The irony is that most of these self-motivated retributionists profess to believe in God or Allah or Somebody Up There, and if they believe that God/Allah/SomebodyUpThere said THOU SHALT NOT KILL, then all this killing makes no sense to me. It is a walking contradiction. It looks to me like they justify it by claiming to exact retribution by killing in the name of God/Allah/SomebodyUpThere. It is insanity. Moral bankruptcy. Ethical malignancy. It's all just gigantically wrong.

I used to believe in spiritual and psychological consequences too, based mostly on fairy tales, but now I am not sure that I do. If I believe that resentment will ultimately harm me, then it probably will. But if I feel the entity known as resentment (or any other feeling) and don't buy into the idea (BS) that resentment harms me, then it probably won't. There is no proof of it one way or the other.

I think when any feeling (any feeling on the human continuum of feelings from love to hate) interferes with your ability to live your life, then that is probably harmful, but we're all guilty of that. Who lives a truly authentic, fulfilled, autonomous, and self-actualized life? Hardly anybody. Maybe nobody.

I think being a realist and dispensing with as much bullshit as possible inside your head and heart is probably the cleanest and least complicated way of living because then all these mental gyrations and ideations do not interfere with your ability to enjoy your life. I think that's the real test - how much you enjoy your life regardless of your feelings, your possessions or lack of them, your associations with others, your health or lack of it, and so forth.

I do realize in my heart of hearts that there is no such thing as justice or equality. There just isn't. Not on this earth. And I am not guaranteed anything beyond this earthly experience. It cannot be proven to exist. To expect justice, equality, or mercy is to delude oneself.

And to wait for Jesus or some other prophet to come here to equalize things...well, we're still waiting, aren't we? How big a delusion might apocalypticism be? It might be encouraging an absolute laziness. If Jesus or another prophet is going to fix everything, why should we bother? That seems to be the raisin debt that excuses all of our inactions on this earth.

In the meantime, despots, dictators, right-wing lunatics, oppressors, corporations (oppressors), criminals, rapists, sexists, ageists, religious nuts, sexual perverts, and all kinds of truly insane people get away with all kinds of truly unjust, morally reprehensible, and heinous behavior. In fact, many of these behaviors and evil people are actually rewarded.

How does all this get reconciled? Do we just tolerate and passively accept this state of being forever? No guts. No glory. That is why poverty, joblessness, exploitation, abuse, and insanity of every stripe prevail and are never rectified. The human species has one metric fuck-ton of amends to make even if there is no God and no Savior. And if there is, then I believe that Jesus did not come here to help us become rich and wasteful, and Jesus didn't come to bring us Peace of Mind. How can anyone have peace of mind when there is no much injustice and insanity to eliminate? Anyone who cannot see the colossal injustices on this earth is blind in more ways than one.