TRobinson465 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:37 amEvents are the result of kamma, as seen when the Sakyas were invaded and MahaMogallana tried to intervene
Do you mean when the Sakyas deceived, ridiculed & humiliated the neighboring King by giving him a slave girl to marry? I think the kamma on that occasion was visible in the here & now. The neighboring King was deceived, lied to & ridiculed & got angry and thus acted out his revenge upon the evil actions of the Sakyas.
TRobinson465 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:37 am I am not going to sit here and answer all your questions since it seems likely you will put a bunch more wacko meanings into my comments that come from nowhere.
I think my questions were reasonable because I am attempting to work out the
moral law behind these ideas of past life kamma. For example, generally, in Asian society, ideas of past life kamma result
inaction towards evil. For example, a child is abused and, instead of reporting this to the police, the people just say the abuse occurred due to past life kamma. While I do not personally agree with these beliefs; at least they makes logical sense to me. A person did evil in a past life and is then logically punished with abuse in the present life. But the idea that Jews were reborn in Nazi Germany due to bad past life kamma but then had to be saved with atomic bombs doesn't make sense to me. If all misfortune occurs due to past life kamma then there is no point being against evil/misfortune because the evil/misfortune is
predetermined. Regards