Do you believe in Karma?

[Midwest Spy]

I don't believe in using the term believe to refer to things that I think.

Karma would be a great idea if there weren't a mountain of evidence to the contrary.

Did Johnny and Lisa reap what they'd sown? It only works when we fantasize about the bad guy getting what's coming to him.

Or you can think about it this way - Has anything bad ever happened to you? Has anything horribly undeserved ever befallen someone you love? Was that your loved one's karmic debt coming due? What terrible thing did you do to deserve the anguish you received?

It's silliness at best and intellectually irresponsible at worse. Particularly if used to console someone in pain or guide children.

I've been hesitant to answer this, but I do think that some sort of Karma comes around in our life (in either a postive or negative way). Do I have proof? Of course not.

Just things I've noticed in the past. I don't look for direct Karma (you do something, so you personally are affected). I've noticed karma affecting family members (I do something, and something happens to my wife or kids, which actually DOES affect me).

Let's take the case of Tom Petters. Minneapolis businessman. Started as a salesperson at AudioKing and ended up a millionaire businessman. People said, 'Wow he really made something of himself.' He contributed enormous sums of money to charities, and seemed like a really good guy, who'd made it big.

In 2004 or 2005, his 21 year-old son was in Italy, and ended up getting stabbed to death by the father of a girl that the young Petters was trying to court. People said, 'so undeserved (if a death is actually ever deserved).

Then in 2008, it turns out Petters had been the mastermind of a $3.5B Ponzi scheme. Just about every dollar he ever had was the result of fraud.

IMO, his son dying was a bit of bad karma coming his way.

Call it what you will, but I think 2 and 3 times now before I do anything as I 'believe' it'll have some sort of affect on me or my loved ones.