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> it occurs over millennia and its only continuation is through the mind itself

Minds last no longer than brains, which is a human lifetime; how could it possibly occur over millennia?

> nothing supernatural other than reincarnation, if that qualifies) and that rebirth is true.

Rebirth and reincarnation are supernatural beliefs; they have no foundation in fact or evidence at all.

> but I think that karma is real

Based on what evidence?

> (not the loopy, Westernized kind

It's all equally loopy.



I will take another go at explaining what OP said. Things you do have consequences; if you beat your wife every day, it is likely that your son will solve his problems by beating people. You will be dead soon, he will live on to inflict this on the world.


While that makes much more sense, that's not what karma means. So if that's what he meant, then he doesn't actually believe in karma.




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