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actually within the boundries of reincarnation and karma it doesnt quite work like that. good karma from a previos life could actually lead you to lead the life of a contented peasent farmer with a good wife and loving children. all rebirths are a part of the individual souls reach for eventual enlightenment. good karma could lead you to be born to rich parents
but then if you were to generate good karma from that life it could actually be harder, due to the fact that it easier for the rich to get Extreme gambling, alcahol, drug issues, ect from earlier in there life. so being born rich can hamper your karma. then again within that life you also have the chance to be a philanthropist. a life as a rich person with abusive parents would be a lot worst than that of a poor person from a loving family.
karma means there is no escape from your actions even in death. but you can tip the blance if you are diligent. there is no *redemption* with karma.
i have heard a lot of people over the years spout some proper b's about karma.

1: "disabled people had bad karma in a previos life"
wrong! a person who is born disabled has a greater set of challanges ahead of them, especially in a third world country. the good karma they are going to generate for that lifetime makes the karma of a rich person who donates to charity seem insignificant
(indded with the tax bonuses it is actually in the riches benifit to donate)

2: "rich people have had good karma"
wrong! a lot of rich people go through miserable lifes. and with there resources they can potentially do a lot more hurt than most. money leads to power, power corrupts corruption = bad karma

3:a buhhdist or hindu gets better karma than a christian
wrong! according to there own wrtings karma is universal and the same for all creatures. a wild dog who gets enraged by a child but sees it is no threat and stops itsefl gets good karma, the dog that savages it gets bad. a chrisitan preist who brings a feeling of hope to his congregation gets good karma. a buhdist monk who uses his religion to feel supirior to others gets bad
on the path to enlightment a soul will have reincarnated as a preist of evry religion

4: "so i murder loads of babies but i die, so i wont remeber it in my future life so the punisment lifes wont affect me"
hahaha.
there are worst things than being human. and when you are reborn as a human your previos memory is fragmented by the process of childhood and our extremely complex neuro chemicular development.
there are also other levels of reality.
maybe you will come back as a hungry ghost, completly aware of your previos life and filled with the need to kill babys still, but killing them will no longer bring you satisfaction. and this will go on for a very long time as well. maybe a thoasand years.
or maybe you will come back as a battery hen, but as its punishment you will be aware

5: "karma takes away my freedom of choice"
you couldent be more wrong oh multitude. it can determine the parents you are born to but..
like you already had a choice over that.. a rich man can become poor. a poor man can become rich. that is choice. a poor man could transcend while a rich man falls. it is the way of it. even in death there is choice.

peace k: