What Does Karma Mean To Me?

[singindemonhq]

Karma? Good things happening to good people and bad people getting their comeuppance? Are you kidding?

Humans always have these societies where some people put in far more than they ever get out and the ones higher up just live on that extra - or waste it. They've always got some crap to justify it.

Karma, in the "somewhere there's a spiritual accountant" sense - that's just another excuse for it. Don't you worry about the homeless guy shivering in that doorway. He got there from bad karma - if you give him your old coat you're interfering with his right to atone. That woman there? Needs a wheelchair, don't she? Bad karma. Don't bother helping her get one. Better yet, make sure she don't get one and feel virtuous for that. You'll be helping her spiritual development. So there's a kid that's hardly old enough to pull herself up by the cot bars being battered by her stepfather? That's still bad karma but she sinned in some other life...

How do you spell that sound that goes - "pssssshuh!"?

Don't ask me, I'm not a human. I'm glad I'm not a human. Questions like this make me unsettled about the amount of human blood in my family. Nearly all the theological stuff, whether they blame karma, original sin or a damaged unconscious - it's usually an excuse for telling people that they deserve the crap that hit them and feeling a nice superior glow about it.

Don't ask me, I'm a demon - but I'm an honest demon.

Muse: Sweet the Singing Demon.
Fandom, BTVS
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Comments

[kimuro.livejournal.com]

If that's Karma, then I'm driving on borrowed time. To me karma is a personal matter, something personal on a cosmic scale. It's the notion of "what goes around, comes around" or, to put it in more hi-falutin' terms "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you". Karma is why it was Amy March who went over-seas and not Jo as she'd expected.

To give a practical example (and to explain what I mean about borrowed time) I have to describe driving practices here in Massachusetts. Except I wouldn't inflict that kind of torment even on a demon, a dancing demon. But .. Say I know I need to make a left turn onto a side road across the lane of traffic on Washington Street. I will prepare for that turn LONG before I get to my street by allowing others to turn onto the lane of traffic in front of me. By the time I get there, I've accrued enough karma that I generally have only a short wait before I am allowed to make it.

Ok, I know that karma doesn't accumulate by conscious design. If you are looking to get in good with the Universe, you might find yourself out on the mat with a bootprint on your rear. But even so, I stick by my assertion - Karma is NOT about judging others, it's about trying to improve the balance of good in the world (or evil, I suppose if that's what you're turn is.)

Beannachd leibh, ---Caitrin a Masaitiusadh