Like all things, it’s as meaningless or meaningful as you want it to be.
By your interpretation I suppose. So it is just as good as any other platitude, and just as meaningless. Either karma applies or it doesn't. Otherwise it is just random chance.
You got me. Cannot argue with blind faith.
That's putting it nicely
Some don't. Still karma?
Look there isn’t a man sitting in a chair that dictates and balances things.
Well maybe some will join the gangs too.
You know they have done studies on large segments of the population comparing praying families to families that don't, in regards to family members who are ill or other serious life situations. You know what the findings are, pretty much universally? Prayer is no better than random chance.
www.latimes.com
Some don't. Some become teachers to help inner-city kids. Some become priests. Some become therapists. Athletes. Politicians. The list goes on. Is that karma?
It applies but in a much more complex manner.
Well maybe some kind adults pulled the kids out of that situation and the kid becomes good.
That's cause and effect.
You know, true believers in karma believe that one's karma is only generated by the individual's actions and therefore only affect that individual, that they do not affect the cause and effect of others.
Maybe. Why not? What if he learned some other way? Somewhere in the chain some proto-jedi taught himself how it all works. Luke could have done that as well, we can never know, but we cannot discount the possibility.
