I can't wait for part 2. I am interested in how you chose this as a topic, what drove you to write about Karma? I have heard the story about the blind man but still to this day don't understand...I'm going to look forward to you helping me understand.

Karma is only going to come back around if it's on your level and dealing with a small group of people and you are all the same in social status, financially and a few other things. 

Everybody loves to see karma in action because that means that all the bad stuff that has happened to them now happens to the person or person-like.  Rarely, do people like to see good karma happen because it lowers them in some way shape or form. 

I get hit with "karma" constantly from everyone for things I must have done in a past life or my parents' karma or the karma of my fruits - even when they do exist in numbers, or society's karma or a bunch of other things.

If you've been hit with a bunch of karma, then you realize that even the wicked get worse than they deserve and kind'of discredit the whole argument. 

God's dead.  We're waiting for someone to be reincarnate into his place.  He's going to have to be immortal and real magical, as I'm sure the original God was until Satan decided that he was more clever without immortality or magic and now we're here and we don't know why. 

I prefer the Koran [Qu'ran]

"It was not because his sins or his parents' sins," Jesus answered. "This happened so the power of God could be seen in him. We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the One who sent us. The night is coming, and then no one can work. But while I am here in the world, I am the light of the world."
Then He spit on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and spread the mud over the blind man's eyes. He told him, "Go wash yourself in the pool of Siloam" (Siloam means "sent"). So the man went and washed and came back seeing! [3]

The Bible goes back on itself and presents so many arguments that it's gibberish.  Forgive.  Hell no!  If I'm spending my entire life paying for my parents, how are special after a little water?  God chose you and this ear infection that I have right now is just another display of His wrath.  I'm ready to talk to God in person.  Nobody there. 

Well, I've never been baptized, so I guess I'll be like y'all and after I get to a comfortable life where everybody loves me because of my "value" as a human being, throw some water over myself and forget everything else.  You can even break out the oil and singing monks if you'd like. 

@umweirdithink - I actually wrote a more comprehensive post about law vs grace here, too: L is for Law, G is for Grace. And if you didn't notice, this is part of a 3-part series, so I cover justice and grace, too. I'll have to check out your site in the near future.
@Gabor777 - I agree. It's just the nature of things now because of the brokenness that sin brings about. A literal deterioration of the very fabric of creation, rather.

@Colorsofthenight - Nothing you said makes sense still. And I did my research on this topic. What you're saying about karma doesn't add up at all. And for the purpose of this post, I was talking solely about cause-effect consequences. Nothing else.
I'm glad you could understand what you were saying, because you've totally lost me.
And I wonder, have you read the Bible? Because I read it regularly, and I've never once ran across anything contradictory. And when I don't understand something, I research it...I usually find there was a bit of knowledge (like cultural or linguistic matters) that I didn't have before. And when I do find out that bit of info, things suddenly make sense. As for the Koran, I can only say that I've read snippets of it.
Suffice to say, nothing in the Koran is worth giving up Jesus for. If I read the Koran, it will only be to find out what it says, not because I actually find anything worthwhile in it.

@NaitoOfNarnia - obviously you are set and can't think.  That's probably why you accept Jesus in a special way and thrust him onto other people in your special, absolute way. My opinion simply doesn't matter - not that it ever does.  I'm uneducated.  I'm stupid.  I'm not seeing the light.

Welcome to growing up.  Please note how none of them said anything - go figure.  That wouldn't have benefitted them.  It's obvious that's who God serves.

See, this has happened to me before when I accepted our Lord and Christ ,and then I realized that it was bad and would lead to more Hell on my end. 

See, I assume that special people get thrust into church as a way to help their strange or bad lives - like a tutoring program.  It's obvious that most people who are there are at least part slave, whether they realize it or not.  And the containers are masters.  Some people claim it to use it to collect people, and this is the worst part because with ideology, they are going to suck you dry in many, many ways.

You should read a variety of religious texts to both test your faith and gain a general knowledge of what other people believe so that you can agree to disagree with polite reason instead of absolute knowledge. 

@Colorsofthenight - When you can reply to me without insulting my intelligence, maybe we can have further discussions. But thanks for stopping by anyway, truly.
@soldiers_sweetheart_09 - (I have a friend who is Wiccan...I'll have to ask her about the Threefold Law. It's not something I am familiar with even as a general bit of knowledge.) And I'm glad I was able to present an accurate view on the topic. I didn't do a whole lot of in-depth study on it, but I did try to get a solid grasp at the same time. There was a LOT of content and I had to try to boil it down to its bare essentials and also keep it from distracting from my main goal in this series (what you read here is just part one of three). Feel free to ask me more about my thoughts or browse my other entries if you like. :)

@Colorsofthenight - Set in my opinion? I don't just simply spout off what I think is right. I do research and study my material very thoroughly. I did think about what you said - or, I tried to when your comments weren't completely contradictory or just confusing - but that doesn't mean I'm going to agree with you, either. And when did I insult you? Did I say anything mean to belittle you or show a lack of love? Hardly. Nothing I have said has been with the aim of attacking you. I have merely stated that most of what you have said here doesn't make sense. If you take offense to that, then that is your problem, I'm afraid, because nothing in my comments to you was unloving.

@NaitoOfNarnia - I'm not here to start a flame.  You said I was "illogical" and I said "set in your ways and can't think."  I didn't say you were stupid, did I?  No, I said can't think.  I do research too, and I've read several religious texts.  What's your point with that?

I mumble to myself a lot, thus the first comment was a bit hazy, I'll admit.  Other than that, what I'm saying is right there in front of you.  How is it contradicting?

Can we agree to disagree? 

I only took it further because you did.  You don't want to discuss it, so why are we?

Your entire argument was illogical to begin with and jumped around then you searched for God in the end because it isn't fair. I was explaining why it's not cause-effect and why people tend to misunderstand karma, like you asked. I gave examples because I'm not going to state something as absolute.  I'm going to give an example.     

This is what I inferred:

You know that karma is a cause-effect reaction.  If we stand out in the rain, we will get wet.

You know that things happen for logical reasons but we don't always know why we got the reaction we did.  Jesus met a blind man and healed him. 

When you deal with reactions, it makes perfect sense why that happened, but you never thought that that was going to happen because the event wasn't supposed to happen. 

You were still, with your Jesus example, talking about karma like it comes around and goes around.  Jesus is the rain.  You noticed that sometimes bad things happen to good people, but it was relieved.  Cause-effect.  Good person - good result.  Bad person - bad result.  If the blind man were a dick, you wouldn't have been happy to see him healed.  They aren't clapping for the crackwhore. Jesus could say, crackwhore you can be part of society, but nobody wants that because she's a dirty crackwhore.  They want to see her punished because that's how karma works.  Well, they all function and have good jobs, and she doesn't and fucks all their husbands and gives them STDs.  You could go out on a limb here and say that she's a victim of society and that the wives aren't fulfilling their duties and that it's pop culture and the husband's fault for straying, but you won't because you want to see the crackwhore burn.  And the problem is the crackwhore.  If she wasn't there, nobody would be tempted but burning her at the stake is a little bit more than the onlookers deserve.  I'm going to put it that way.  She's not under your control and none of you are innocent.  Now, karma isn't working right for them. 

I'm going to give you an example from my life.  I pay for my parents.  This is obvious.  But other people don't pay for theirs like I do, and they say that I don't when it is obvious that I do.  They are washed clean and "forgiven" for things they really shouldn't be forgiven for, even after their parents, and then I'm going to take their shame because I'm the bad one and then they take control of everything and make it worse.  The level of bullshit that my life manages to get to is really special.  I've had enough.  I say, I'm a slave in a free society.  I don't have any control over my life.  The problem is that if I'm direct about it then other people have to be direct, like everything else and they can't slither away in innocence.  Rules and reasons begin to happen.  It scares them.  That could happen to me.  No, it's her!  Yes, if you do bad things, bad things will happen to you and then we'll suffer together, but I'm so used to it, it doesn't bother me, and you then become even more angry because I'm the one who deserves to be punished.  What do you ever do wrong?  So I get a lot of bad karma, especially since I have to explain to them that nobody is innocent.  Then, they'll crawl away with my realizations and punish me more and more and more because I can't ascend above my sin.  If I even managed to do anything.  Sometimes, that's a crime in itself.  I'm just going to get a motherfucking t-shirt and carry around a book that explains things.  I'm sick of wasting my breath. 

@NaitoOfNarnia - you want to know "reality?" It was karma that caused the man to go blind.  The karma of ignorance.  Had they known how to prevent blindness at birth, nobody would go blind, and they wouldn't have to deal with a blind man.  Jesus just knew how to magically cure him - that's almost as random as him going blind in the first place.  He didn't feel like sharing, so there will be more blind people from the same karma.  They could have simply killed him, but they didn't.  Thus, he is their sin and yes, can sin as well.  The whole reason he exists is because it keeps civilization from going completely Nazi, and we all become psychos about strength in its youngest and most brutal form. 

Yes, his sins did have to do with his blindness, as most sins have a cause and that's why it's usually punished in a certain way.  He can't get a job, so he has to beg.  It turns out that beggars aren't allowed, so he had to befriend anyone he could to eat since suicide is a sin and he can't find anything to kill himself with and people see him every fucking time he tries to jump off of the cliff, and he's sick of being called an attention-whore.  He sells his services and crack.

As to highligh another point, you think that you are too young to make a moral choice?  you are very wrong.  Ignorance is definitely a sin.  It's mostly the society that you are in.  In America, I can take the cookies or the CD without too much happening.  In other countries, even at 7 and not knowing that taking the cookie was wrong - and even being told I could, I'd be shot or missing a hand.  I paid for my parents not explaining things to me or lying, just like I paid for their income bracket (at various times) and their roles in society.  Yes, at a young age.

That's fine, it's my fault that the sky turns dark at night, and I'm being taken care of, so don't worry.  I always use personal examples up because that's what people will go for.  No, I'm not like that, they'll say.  That's what I thought, but it turns out Sally, who listens, is.  I don't even know about the Sallys until they pop up, and I have to open up.  What do you want to know?  Nothing is personal anyway.  That is not going to be a valid argument.  I am indifferent to it. I'm as detached as I am to the crackwhore to my various situations.