It was a time of craziness, a time of wearing face masks, a time of self-quarantine, a time of riots, and protests, a time of protests, a time of riots and protests a time of re-evaluating life's greatest priorities A time of looking at hard ugly truths.

A time of prejudice, a time of tribalism, a time of confirmation bias, a time of erupting

frustrations, a time of uncertainty, a time of massive change.

And in this time of craziness, a few rowdy infants dared to ask, is there any justice at all in this world?

Is there anything at all to this thing called karma?

I'm Rank Macbatten, Faith Detective, and this is your next installment of

infants on Thrones. This is infants on Thrones.

The philosophies of men

mingled with humans.

We are the court. The court. Yeah!

Welcome back to Infants on Thrones. I'm Glenn Ostland and this is episode 637. An insatiable need for justice and the meandering search for karma part four.

So let's quickly recap where we've come up to this point. This all started with Tom asking the question.

I'm wondering if you subscribe to any form of karma whatsoever.

So we explored what Hindu culture has said about the nature of reality and the idea that

karma means action. Thank you Andrew Ainsworth for that episode. We explored the idea

that all action has an opposite and equal reaction, a balancing

of the cosmic scales, if you will, in a universe of interconnection greater than we typically acknowledge or understand.

Thank you, Alan Watts. I'm not a guru. We scratched the surface of

reincarnation and continued existence after death which brought with it an interesting variety of responses from many of you listeners,

some who believe in the possibility of near-death experiences and others who do not at all and I'll address those

listener responses another time but I don't really want to derail this thing with

near death experience and all that stuff because it's clear that for Tom at least

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