Re:U.S. Supreme Court keeps ruling barring prosecution for s...
by sysbin on Monday December 16, 2019 @02:08PM
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> My understanding is that in some religions, we are living today in the "afterlife" of a previous life, and subject to karma based on what we've done.
If one has bad karma that has put one in an undesirable social position, it's not a stretch that Earth is a hell for those people, and we're supposed to be the demons that make life miserable for them.
Can you name those religions for me. I view everything as deterministic and see the world as either heaven/hell. Although the idea of karma doesn't make sense when understanding determinism. Since everyone is destined to do bad or good depending on the life they're born into.
edit: whoever downvoted me, I'm asking a simple question and stating what I observe. Please let me know why you find the need to downvote for that.
Re:U.S. Supreme Court keeps ruling barring prosecution for s...
by colejohnson66 on Monday December 16, 2019 @02:48PM
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If I’m remembering correctly, a few Eastern religions do
Re:U.S. Supreme Court keeps ruling barring prosecution for s...
by sysbin on Monday December 16, 2019 @03:07PM
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I get the eastern religions that reference karma but the part I'm interested in is from "it's not a stretch that Earth is a hell for those people, and we're supposed to be the demons that make life miserable for them" and because I haven't seen that expressed before. It would be nice to know the specific names that share that ideology of others being demons for some that are destined to experience a bad life this time around.
He was wanting to put together a program where students would go volunteer to help NGOs do software projects in India.
Something he was surprised by was that NGOs in India are almost all oriented around lobbying the government to do things (particularly that they'd already promised to do) and not around provisioning social services themselves.
My understanding is that in some religions, we are living today in the "afterlife" of a previous life, and subject to karma based on what we've done.
If one has bad karma that has put one in an undesirable social position, it's not a stretch that Earth is a hell for those people, and we're supposed to be the demons that make life miserable for them.