@luminous as others have said above and you yourself seem to understand on some level, karma isn't about reward/punishment as we often think of it in Western societies. We are conditioned by our culture to think that karma = justice (and in many Western cultures, that means immediate-if-not-sooner justice), but it isn't that. Karma is simply the belief that, as @frank said, the energy we put out will eventually come back to us in some form, but that doesn't mean it will happen in the same lifetime. Karma can stretch over hundreds of lifetimes and thousands of years. Something that we also don't often consider is that the "evil" that we see someone perpetrating on someone else could actually be the energy that was aimed at them in another lifetime, and this is now their chance to return that same energy. That may mean that the people we see being horrible to others are simply returning the energy that was directed at them in another lifetime, so their karma is now completed, or "paid", if you will. We don't often think of it that way.
For example, if someone is an abuser in one lifetime, then that person will experience the abuse that they dished out, often (but not always) at the hands of the person they abused. The one who was previously abused is now simply returning the energy that they received. Now, some might think that means that karma is a never-ending cycle, but it isn't. In my example here, the person abused previously is now returning that energy to the person who gave it to them, and the person who originally sent out that energy has now had that energy returned to them. For those two people (in this extremely simplified and simplistic example), the karmic involvement is now completed.
Because not all souls incarnate in the same space-time, others who may also peripherally suffer from the actions of those abusers in this lifetime may be suffering as a result of things that they did to others in the past, and they have agreed upon entering this lifetime to allow the suffering they experience from a "third party", so to speak, to be vessel for the return of the energy they put out in other lifetimes in order to settle their own "karmic accounts"
Although it's hard to grasp and process for most of us, people like Murdoch, who are generally strongly disliked, are sometimes the bravest and most loving souls in that they have chosen to take on the role of the abuser of many in order to resolve karmic debts for many souls at once. That's not an easy role to play on the stage of this planet.
Please understand that I'm not implying that Mr. Murdoch *is* actually doing this, but the possibility exists, and the fact that he has not encountered any real pushback may be a clue.
@tgraf66 thank you for sharing your thoughts and wisdom.
What you talk about has been something I've read about before when I tried to understand my own past life regression - and certainly this idea of Murdoch and powerful people like him playing in some type of wider karmic lesson is something that is shared across a variety of different books. But I find it hard for me to reconcile and accept this is the reason (even though logically it makes a lot of sense) because it absolutely stinks that there is nothing that can be done about it until the lesson has passed. This is what I'm finding so hard in the UK with 11 years under Conservative governments, and in particular this government led by Boris Johnson. It is absolutely bonkers right in the UK lol. I was going to write a load of stuff about what is happening but I'm not going to, because it isn't worth my energy. I'm feeling pretty exhaused anyway because there is a little bit of a heatwave in the UK right now which nothing like the US or Canada, but is still exhausting.
Anyway, I found this cartoon picture which I thought was funny because it perfectly summed up Boris Johnson's chaotic policies throughout the pandemic:
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-58586493.amp
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"Piers Morgan is to join the Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corp and Fox News Media, the company has announced.
He will host a new show that will air in the US, UK and Australia - his first major new presenting job since leaving ITV's Good Morning Britain in March."
@matildagirl I honestly don't know why Murdoch keeps doubling down on bringing in more media hacks to create more hateful division and dangerous disinformation. You only have to look at Sky Australia and Fox News facilitating in vaccine disinformation to see how dangerous it is. In the UK we are already dominated by Murdoch's empire, and he now wants to double down and create even more bias towards his right-wing leaning propaganda. The man seems unhappy unless he has created as much chaos as possible. I am also pretty sure he also doesn't believe a word of his own news, as he flew to the UK to jump the queue to get a vaccine earlier this year.
@matildagirl yeah I know. I also gotta stop talking about him otherwise the other members will get annoyed.
The UK situation has been pretty chaotic, but so has other places in the world. I try not to let the situation get to me, but it does get very pronounced with everything else that's been happening in my life lately. Hard to just ignore, but such is life.
@luminous Maybe time for a bit of Eric Idle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTXiqKGFNso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk
Take care