Child Birth and Death

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That doesn't seem like logical application of the principle, though. If doing bad things this life will cause you to have a worse situation in your next life, does it not then follow that people in a bad situation in this life were bad people in previous lives?

Then what you're talking about does not seem to be karma.

Like you said, cause and effect. that doesn't need all that much in terms of spiritual explanation. Karma is closely tied to your samsara, the cycle of rebirth, and is loosely the goodness and badness your (for lack of a better term) immortal soul gathers up which determines where you're reborn next, until you've managed to get so much goodness that you don't have to anymore and instead go on to nirvana and break the cycle.

Makes sense.

Has the OP considered that there may be any other worlds besides this one? In other words, when life becomes unlivable on this planet there may be many planets on which new birth is happening all the time, in different forms that we might not even recognize if we had to see it in our current guise.

So, if there is such a cosmic railway station or airport speeding us on our way to the next life, maybe it's not only this blue planet we know so well. Perhaps souls can even travel back as well as forwards in linear time... just like you get time slips where people have suddenly found themselves in a different time.

Luckily she doesn't have to worry about that anymore!

Not surprising to find how tough women are. Could we guys handle it?

i turn white when i get the needle. i can't even stand the sight of a needle going into flesh, the way it grotesquely puckers the skin around the poke point before it goes through. and the metallic splintery feels as it goes in. yuck.