User blog comment:Fimber/Why I understand Uther's reasons for banning magic - and why no one is a saint on "Merlin"/@comment-5191335-20120613020311/@comment-5102537-20120823122749

OMG, Worshipper, I still owe you a response! I'm sorry that I forgot about it.

You seem to have to fight a lot with everything that happens and has happened in your life. I'm sorry to hear about that but I'm also glad that you have the strength to gain so many positive thoughts from it! It's admirable that you are not allowing the problems to bring you down.

When you speak of Karma, I suppose you believe in reincarnation? As far as I know, Karma is also what we take from previous lifes into our current ones (in case there is reincarnation). It also implies that whatever happens with us, we deserve it due to the "good" or "bad" things we had done before, no matter when.

I have a problem with believing in Karma, especially since animals that have to suffer at our hands surely haven't done such terrible things to deserve to suffer in a most unimaginable way. Moreover, what cruel "higher power" it must be to let living beings suffer without them knowing why and only because they are not perfect and naturally born with flaws and mistakes? Imagine how much we all depend on our environment and on others. It's absoluetly impossible for us to be perfect and to do everything right. If I built a robot (for example) and build it with flaws, I can't blame the robot when it makes mistakes because I created it that way. If I want something or someone being perfect, I need to make sure to make it perfect instead of punishing/destroying and blaming my creation, because in the end, it's my own fault.

I really don't know what to believe since religion, personal wishes and desires and science collide with each other.

Look at the show. It sounds funny but when we think about it, every character is the invention of imperfect human beings who put their thoughts and fantasy into the fictional characters. I've heard of authors who despised some of their characters, but actually, the authors were the ones who made the characters the way they were. It's kind of insane, if you think about it :-D The "Merlin" characters  fully "depend" on what the writers make of them, their whole "fate" is predestined by human beings. I would go nuts if it was similar with us in the real world.... I just hope there is no being or entity, as imperfect as we are, who sets our future and destiny in stone. ;-)