If you secularize the idea of rebirth, removing any idea of cosmic justice, all you have is a hypothetical naturalistic process. What you’ll be reborn as will depend on what’s being born, and the odds don’t look so great.
I can actually secularize the idea of cosmic justice. I can totally imagine the idea of karma being a completely mechanistic process, just extremely complicated and convulated involving multiple other dimensions.
Karma has been interpreted that way, as basically just cause and effect in the field of human ethics. It’s also extremely misunderstood by virtually everyone in the west.
Well without spoiling anything, it sounds like it might be right up your alley.
Very funny and very thought provoking. They get pretty in the weeds at times about how something like “secular” karma-like system might work, and how the complexities of the modern world would make it essentially unworkable.
If you secularize the idea of rebirth, removing any idea of cosmic justice, all you have is a hypothetical naturalistic process. What you’ll be reborn as will depend on what’s being born, and the odds don’t look so great.
I can actually secularize the idea of cosmic justice. I can totally imagine the idea of karma being a completely mechanistic process, just extremely complicated and convulated involving multiple other dimensions.
Karma has been interpreted that way, as basically just cause and effect in the field of human ethics. It’s also extremely misunderstood by virtually everyone in the west.
Have you watched The Good Place?
No
Well without spoiling anything, it sounds like it might be right up your alley.
Very funny and very thought provoking. They get pretty in the weeds at times about how something like “secular” karma-like system might work, and how the complexities of the modern world would make it essentially unworkable.
“You’re being reincarnated.
Roll the D100.”
Here I come, Pelagibacter ubique.