Karma,is it real??

[Jezzascmezza]

No, it's all bollocks.
*Ceiling fan detaches from roof and lands on my head.*
Yes, dammit, it's totally real.

 

[Ixnay1111]

We've all seen My Name Is Earl. You're going to die.

haha nice

karma wont bite you if you were good at cheating

 

[punksnotdead]

No.

 

[pearcinator]

Karma is real...at least half of it is.

Good things dont necessarily happen to good people...BUT
Bad things will (eventually) happen to bad people.

Thats just what I believe and so far its pretty much true.

 

[Custard_Angel]

There is no binding force of karma, but the concept of "if you act like a dick to people, people will act like a dick to you" holds some truth.

Then again, those same dickheads often succeed in the avenues they pursue by exploiting people who worked harder by being the domineering personality.

Oh well...

Short answer no.

Longer answer no, but sometimes...

 

[Firehound]

Karma is not real. People you've been a dickwad to messing your day up in the future somehow because you wronged them and they hold a grudge are.

 

[Jonluw]

No. I have never come across a reason to believe it is.

However, I think that generally speaking, acting nice to people will pay off in the end for non-supernatural reasons.

 

[Hosker]

I usually find it can be disproved with one question: why do bad things happen to good people?

 

[MadeinHell]

"Karma" is not real.
But being nice does usually yield niceness to you. Personally I think it's because of morality. If you do a good thing you feel better about yourself, hence anything that would normally be "standard" is nicer for you. Thus you feel like something/someone is repaying you for your good deeds.
This works the other way. If you do something bad you feel bad about yourself and things that would normally not have influence over you now suddenly feel crushing.
So basically "karma" is nothing more than your brain shoving placebo in your throat.

PS. Obviously it doesn't work for psychopaths and politicians. Those people have no morality hence no "good/bad" feeling.

 

[ThatDaveDude1]

Oh you silly westerners and your misinterpretations of Buddhist theology...

 

[Cazza]

It's as real as you make it.

 

[Hafnium]

What a wreck of a post, wow..
But no I don't think it is. Karma and fate/destiny is imaginary, there are actions and consequenses.

 

[Kortney]

To all the people who have basically said: "No", I ask: "Can you prove that?"

The burden of proof is on the people making the claim - surely. This is how everything works, right from the legal system to the scientific industry.

Pointing out the fact that you can't disprove karma is meaningless. You can't disprove the "flying spaghetti monster".

Karma is a belief. Just like Religion. It is, for many, a religion itself.

Agree.

So no-one can prove whether or not it is Real.

I think we can go close. If karma existed, surely everyone who has committed horrible wrongs against humanity would be punished for it. This is obviously not the case.

If you believe in it, then it is real.

In a philosophical way, yes. You could argue that believing something makes it real.

If you don't, then it is arbitrary and silly. It's the exact same thing as God and Heaven and all that shit.....

Agree!

 

[DementedSheep]

Do I think some mystical force keeps track of how naughty or nice you are? No. Shit happens, life is not fair and does not dish out punishment based on how good you are. If you think it exist you will notice bad things more because you will be looking for them.
That said if you lie, cheat or are an asshole to people all the time it will bite you in the ass because you will be found out eventually if you keep doing it and if your an ass to others they will be an ass back. Also you probably won?t end up feeling that good about yourself. So don?t cheat! the consequences of being found out are worse than failing and you get no sense of accomplishment. Wouldn't you rather achieve on your own merits?

 

[Astoria]

Karma is as real as your paranoia wants it to be. It's all got to do with your state of mind. If you believe that bad things will happen then every bad thing that happens you'll be like 'oh my god it's because of that test oh my god'.

At least that's what I think you are asking, you're paragraph doesn't really make much sense.

Yeah pretty much this. You can find something in anything when you look hard enough.

 

[jonyboy13]

Tell most rich people about Karma and they will laugh their asses off, they can be as much of an asshole as they want and it won't matter.
An easier explanation is if Karma is real, how come there are very rich and happy bad people?

 

[itsnotyouitsme]

i hope so. i've been having really really sucky days and today is when something that could make or break my future is at stake so maybe it'll turn out good for balance for the bad days ive been having.
oh, and every time i cheated on a test karma bite me in the ass so yeah, your screwed somehow

 

[Xearo_Disaster]

Karma - in the Eastern/Buddhist philosophy sense - is very real. 'Karma' means 'action' and refers to cause, effect and intention. You can't deny cause and effect, and that is essentially what Karma is referring to. As someone said above, if you are nice and do good things, people are likely to recognise it and treat you nicely. If you cheat, the effect could come around in a variety of different ways. It could be anything from minor to crushing guilt or your teacher finding out and banning you from further examinations. Obviously in Buddhism and other Eastern religions it goes off on other tangents, but in essence it is all about cause and effect. In the Western sense of some universal balancing force that flows around the world and/or influences what type of animal you're reincarnated as, no. Not in my opinion, at least.

Oh you silly westerners and your misinterpretations of Buddhist theology...

QFT. :') Although it's also incorporated in Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism and different forms of new-age religions to certain extents.

 

[ELD3RGoD]

"If a man dedicates his life to good deeds and the welfare of others, he will die unthanked and unremembered. If he exercises his genius bringing misery and death to millions, his name will echo down through the millenia for a hundred lifetimes. Infamy is always more preferable to ignominy"

Doubt that helps but it is true!

 

[Tipsy Giant]

Karma is just another way for a society to move past mans basic instincts, like any religion.
Probably the least destructive system, but it's more big picture than tests etc.
The idea is largely the same as for any morality based superstition, if we all behave to a social code,
we can achieve a state of heaven on earth.

So you cheating didn't really hurt anything in the grand scheme, but if everyone cheated we'd make tests pointless and isn't life just one big series of tests? wouldn't the excitement be in the highs and lows, the doing well on tests from your accumulative knowledge to the failing and reassessing your grasp of a subject.

I'm not a judgemental dude. I've made my fair share of bad decissions, but it's learning from them that makes us grow, not the getting away with it.