{"id":1992,"date":"2025-04-19T13:09:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T13:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/i-cant-believe-its-all-bad-karma\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T13:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T13:09:20","slug":"i-cant-believe-its-all-bad-karma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/i-cant-believe-its-all-bad-karma\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can\u2019t Believe It\u2019s All Bad Karma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t believe people who go through horrific things in this life were bad people in past lives who are getting their due.<\/p>\n<p>I think if karma is factual it\u2019s more complicated than that. I think there is randomness in the equation.<\/p>\n<p>For example, a while back in the news it was reported a woman in New York was walking through a park and a large tree branch fell on her and killed her.<\/p>\n<p>I see that as randomness and not some karmic payback. <\/p>\n<p>Personally, I don\u2019t like the idea of karma. I don\u2019t like the idea of assigning a person\u2019s bad behavior in a former life to bad karma when they are going through something horrendous like a terminal brain cancer or the loss of their legs.<\/p>\n<p>I do believe in action and reaction in this life. A person commits a crime and usually imprisonment is the reaction, but in my belief that\u2019s not past life or this life bad karma. <\/p>\n<p>But karma is based on belief and speculation, and I choose to believe there\u2019s more than karma involved when it comes to a person\u2019s suffering. <\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t believe people who go through horrific things in this life were bad people in past lives who are getting their due. I think if karma is factual it\u2019s more complicated than that. I think there is randomness in the equation. For example, a while back in the news it was reported a woman&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/i-cant-believe-its-all-bad-karma\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}