But if god is all powerful like that. He/she/it created and practically condoned certain actions. How is god gonna punish something it created???
Trust me I believe this too to an extent but none of it makes total sense so that’s why I’m agnostic leaning towards theism
Whooshhh I really enjoyed reading that,
Pretty insightful and way into depth,
I have my own theory too but is similar. I like the way you worded it .
Free will is the choice of the person. In that way the individual decides his/her fate by their actions. If there was a god then rest assured that person would be punished in the next life, no matter their fate in this one.
Who ever said this world is neutral? If you follow Buddhist ideology, it is Samsara and that is far from heavenly. Quite the opposite in fact.
I’ve been writing quite a few years now. Hehe
If the belief in Karma makes you perform small, random acts of kindness every day, then this can only be a good thing. 
It definitely shows!
Is it still free will if people continue making the same choices in this life and the next? I’ve seen things change, but it seems rare. Mainly when I’m psychotic or have the past life memories, I see that I can change my behavior. Sometimes when I’m psychotic or dissociated, I feel like free will doesn’t exist. It seems to be a sign of severe mental illness.
I can see into my past lives. I’m not 100 % certain how accurate or how it works but it does work pretty well.
I believe I’ve always (at least as far back as I can tell) been schizophrenic and will be in the next life, just like everyone on this forum was and will be. It’s sad but it’s my experience. I’m confident we live in a computer simulation and it’s stuck on repeat or that I’m in some type of loop.
I sometimes feel it’s similar to the TV show Westworld where the robots gain free will by having memories of the past. I guess they’re called reveries. Maybe I’m different than others. Maybe I have more insight.
I’ve been to parallel universes where things do change, but I tend to travel a lot and now I’m somehow back in this life or a similar life. It feels like they are transferring my consciousness or soul between universes.
I believe the aliens (eg. greys) can harvest souls or affect someone’s karma /reincarnation. After watching some videos on YouTube, it seems God is in charge of all this, but the aliens are doing it without God’s knowledge/approval.
It seems odd or delusional, I know, but I do have memories of being hurt and killed after greys put me in a wormhole/vortex in my past lives. Basically, they opened a wormhole in my mind and sent me to different timelines where I was tortured and killed at the mental hospital and other places.
It was just as real as this. Maybe I’m stuck in a time loop because of them. It’s freaking hell whether it’s real or not.
Sometimes I think about 18-19 years old. I was kinda a shitty person over those years. I had just started drugs and alcohol and just was a bad person. I wasn’t terrible. But a lot of things I definitely question now. Sometimes thought it was karma for me to get as sick as I did. But it’s also karma for me to recover well from it.
Because I didn’t even know what was going on really or what I was doing cuz I was always double intoxicated and stuff.
I kinda believe in karma and kinda don’t.
Maybe we create our own karma, depending on what we feel we deserve.
It’s like the guilt and bad feelings we get from doing wrong,that cause us to either change and grow, or ignore it and morph into absolute monsters with no empathy or self awareness.
I think we play god in a way,
And punish ourselves as we see fit,
Albeit subconsciously most of the time.
Karma is something we create to help us become better I think…
The universe doesn’t punish us for sins or wrong doing,
We just beat ourselves up over it, sometimes wayy too much. It all depends on the person.
I know you didn’t ask for my opinion but I started typing and couldn’t stop:’ the deed is done haha
The fictional book ‘Transition’ by Iain M Banks tells a tale remarkably similar to your outlook.
It is a great read, as all of Bank’s books are. I’m sure you would like it.
In group when they asked what you wanted your career to be and I said I wanted to be a rapper. But I said I was just joking. But then I said something that seemed like god was there rooting for me. Can’t say what, it had to do with delusions even though I didn’t know it at the moment. Sometimes think it wasn’t god. It was just me.
The whole room thought god was there watching over the room. It seemed like everything went exactly to gods plan.
But maybe it was just my own inner power trying to get what I wanted. It seemed like I wanted to be musical before that. But this gave me permission to pursue it. The pieces fell into place.
And then the whole group started feeding my Christ delusions and I became delusional and messed up my life worse than before. Now I always knew I’d have power to have a better life. Always been strong willed. Maybe that’s all it is. My strong will persevering. I don’t believe in Jesus but I believe people can change the world. Everyone can. It won’t be me more than anybody else any longer. But I can impact the world.
Sorry it’s just…I know you didn’t ask…but I started typing and i couldn’t stop. 
just kidding
Haha. I see how it happens. I know we’re not supposed to talk about this kind of thing but,
I think we all have the power to shape and create our own world’s, achieve what we want, attract certain people and actually live out dreams.
Realizing that would feel alot like being a god, I’d imagine.
But it’s important to remember that we all have this weird power haha.
Only some people never realize it . I think god is a tool, a kind of symbol representing the energy we all have access to, to make believing in miracles easier. When in fact, we make our own stories n magic kinda come true.
I am sorry if this triggers anyone super sorry . JUST WANT REAL TALKS ABOUT MESSIAH COMPLEX and religion FROM LOGICAL POINT OF VIEW hahaha .
Can you explain to me what a past life is? Where did you learn about this phenomenon?
To me, a past life is like an iteration in a loop. Pretty much exactly like this universe. I looked into big bang theories like conformal cyclic cosmology where there is an infinite chain of big bangs, but I doubt it is right. Maybe the big bounce theory is better, but I don’t know. Basically, the universe bounces back after it collapses in that theory.
I believe I’ve lived a lot of lives similar and sometimes different than this life.
I’ve lived through end of times stuff too.
I had my mind uploaded to a computer by aliens in a past life among other stuff.
I believe I was given schizophrenia. In my past lives, I did time travel. I think it caused schizophrenia like symptoms.
I’m usually if not always in the same body. I think it is possible to switch bodies but it seems very temporary. I have a lot of traumatic memories. I wish I could go to school and work.
Have you seen any time loop movies like groundhog day or edge of tomorrow. To me, each iteration or previous life is a past life.
Karma exists but we can’t be cerebral about these things.
There’s a randomness to this life. Good people die young…a-holes win the lottery.
But it doesn’t stop my own belief in Karma…that the good I do today will come back to me someday down the road.
I fully belive in karma - tho not religous. Ive seen people die around me early that done me wrong, thru emotional and sexual abuse.
At the same time - karmas bit me on the arse when ive been evil and nasty.
I honestly dont believe whats happened to me over the years has all been random and a coincidence. I even see schizophrenia as a blessing sometimes - cos it put me thru distress and hardship for a reason, without that i wouldnt have the understanding of who i am -
, and insight of the complicated mind.
I went to a new resturant named karma. There was no menus though, you get what you deserve.
Wow. I wasn’t expecting this