Though I've long believed in karma and known that no human can possibly see enough pieces of the puzzle to assemble adequate numbers of them to even begin to see the overall picture, I've chosen to believe.

And as far as good and bad go, I'm rather certain we don't have those answers. For example, while we may see wealth as "good", we've seen enough lottery winners' lives ruined, and FAR too many rich assholes to think there is anything inherently good about money. (And SO many deeply good, tragically poor folks. So maybe it's not a "tragedy" at all, but merely a mindset from the blinders we wear, yet deny.)

After all, the world as we KNOW of it (meaning physical, at least) is much like a clock, more vast in scope than anything we can conceive of. Yet if even one piece fails, the entire clock comes to a halt (or at least fails in its appointed task, thus failing.) Thus, it seems we have two possibilities for creation: order or chaos. And if we have anything less than perfect order, we have total chaos. To simply make the claim that order doesn’t exist because we can’t see it opens up so many things that we can also call failures, such as love, gravity, music, justice or equality.

But in truth, no part CAN fail, because each and every moment is the result of each moments prior moment, which is the result of ALL prior moments. How to deviate randomly in a world in which randomness simply doesn't exist? (I once asked an engineer about existence of "random", and he eventually conceded to the term "mathematically random".)

But when I learned about fractals around 1990, and that everything was made of patterns that are connected, I suddenly had a great new hope for humanity. To think that all things we know are connected, be they math, science, religion, art, philosophy...god(s); was the greatest single event in my life. To see that the gods, in their many forms could be proven mathematically, and that every person’s every word, thought or action, no matter how hidden, was their specific responsibility to all the world, seemed to me the very path to mankind’s “salvation” from themselves.

But I’m still waiting…..

I do understand that nothing I’ve said here has to be believed or understood by anyone, no matter how strong my own beliefs or convictions in the matter. Still, they may be worth a moment of thought.

Thank you for a thought provoking article..