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[fairgoldberry]

Occasionally, there is a life lesson the Universe seems to keep hammering at me.  Aside from all the other things that happen, I'll notice a variation on a specific theme

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[puppie]

Personally, I don't think anybody really *deserves* anything unless it's directly related. Like -- you treated your girlfriend like a plaything object and then she dumped you, that's karma/deserved. But, you're self-absorbed and bitchy and you lost your entire family in a house fire? Not karma, not deserved, just random. And that house fire may or may not change you from self-absorbed and bitchy, and I still might not like your personality, but I'll bring you a casserole anyway. Yanno?

[starwyse]

You always post thoughts that make me thinky.
That's one of the main reasons I love you :)

[neohippie]

I think a lot of people have a too-simple view of Karma. In Germanic cosmology there's Wyrd, which has to do with the interconnectedness of all things, and that can kinda sometimes work sorta like Karma, but it's more complicated than that

Wise as always

[otterdancing]

This is certainly an issue I have dealt with this year as I have begun to transform my inner definitions of love and compassion. This is lovely observation and great advice. Especially the last paragraph. Thanks honey.

[saffronhare]

This bit stood out with little sparklers and trumpets in my brain: "I see a lot of tendency, especially within the pagan community, to call it 'karma' when bad things happen to someone they don't like and unfair when bad things happen to their friends. I'm starting to find that a little jarring, because it seems like there's not a sense of proportion, and that none of us is really that good a judge of what other people deserve."

Gonna have to save that and think on it some more. It's pretty ego-centric to think like that, but I bet I fall into the trap sometimes too.