Wait... does... does that make me a pedophile?MaxTheReaper said:
(Also, did you see what I did thar with the exclamation marks?)
Poll: Karma is a *****
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(Also, did you see what I did thar with the exclamation marks?)
Getting a bit off-topic guys?
OT: Yes I do. I in fact talk to my self about how this guy will turn out because he always throw silly insults at me and wins the crowd. Its real. My friend always dissed me and BAM! His dad dies.
My friend always annoys everyone. BAM! His dad has a rare disease. Karma is on my side baby.
OT: Yes I do. I in fact talk to my self about how this guy will turn out because he always throw silly insults at me and wins the crowd. Its real. My friend always dissed me and BAM! His dad dies.
My friend always annoys everyone. BAM! His dad has a rare disease. Karma is on my side baby.
I believe in karma but in a fairly practical manner of understanding that any harm you bring to the world very well has a chance of coming around to haunt you.
Treat somebody like crap, maybe they'll treat somebody else like crap, and that keeps on going down the line until one day, perhaps years later, it so happens you meet somebody who treats you like crap because you set in motion the events of treating people like crap.
Of course, such a direct inheritance is very unlikely: hopefully one person in that chain knows how to shrug off an offense without conducting it to others, and even if not, what are the odds it'd come to you specifically? Not nonexistent, but certainly not high.
What's is a sure bet is just considering that the general state of your society will always impact you, and your influence of the state of the society if through your actions is not completely non-existent. Often it has been observed that the treatment we receive from others around us is often a reflection of ourselves. Karma is not hard to find, if you're looking.
"What goes around comes around" both is and isn't a cosmically remarkable thing. The understanding of karma is beyond the perception of anyone who can't believe something unless it happens right in front of them - to one who does not believe their actions truly have consequence, karma seems silly. However, as any scientist could vouch, for each action there is a reaction, that which has entered the universe does not leave it. Just because the consequences of our actions that we'll actually witness are far less than the ones we will does not mean that any of our actions can be without consequences. That actions have consequence beyond our own perception is both a deep universal truth and something merely obvious.
Karma is not always so profound or difficult. Good Karma is also evident in the smaller things we can do. If you think you're having a string of bad luck, try paying more attention: it's quite possible you could have prevented it if you were more careful. Bad Karma can also come from acts you intended to be beneficial but you didn't put much thought into the lasting consequences of. To take a classic example, give a man a fish, he becomes dependent on people giving him fish to eat, but if you teach a man to fish, he can feed himself and others. Teach too many people to fish, and the fish go extinct, and nobody eats. A life deeper observed bearing in mind the consequences of actions seems to be the solution.
I don't blame you if you can't do this yet - such wisdom takes practice and experience. I'm certainly not perfect at it myself. Look at all this time I wasted on a message board when I could have been doing something more productive that may have improved my life and the life of those around me, like a simple household chore? That's bad karma! Still, if just one person picked up a new understanding as a consequence of my writing, and becomes a better person for it, perhaps it was good karma after all.
Treat somebody like crap, maybe they'll treat somebody else like crap, and that keeps on going down the line until one day, perhaps years later, it so happens you meet somebody who treats you like crap because you set in motion the events of treating people like crap.
Of course, such a direct inheritance is very unlikely: hopefully one person in that chain knows how to shrug off an offense without conducting it to others, and even if not, what are the odds it'd come to you specifically? Not nonexistent, but certainly not high.
What's is a sure bet is just considering that the general state of your society will always impact you, and your influence of the state of the society if through your actions is not completely non-existent. Often it has been observed that the treatment we receive from others around us is often a reflection of ourselves. Karma is not hard to find, if you're looking.
"What goes around comes around" both is and isn't a cosmically remarkable thing. The understanding of karma is beyond the perception of anyone who can't believe something unless it happens right in front of them - to one who does not believe their actions truly have consequence, karma seems silly. However, as any scientist could vouch, for each action there is a reaction, that which has entered the universe does not leave it. Just because the consequences of our actions that we'll actually witness are far less than the ones we will does not mean that any of our actions can be without consequences. That actions have consequence beyond our own perception is both a deep universal truth and something merely obvious.
Karma is not always so profound or difficult. Good Karma is also evident in the smaller things we can do. If you think you're having a string of bad luck, try paying more attention: it's quite possible you could have prevented it if you were more careful. Bad Karma can also come from acts you intended to be beneficial but you didn't put much thought into the lasting consequences of. To take a classic example, give a man a fish, he becomes dependent on people giving him fish to eat, but if you teach a man to fish, he can feed himself and others. Teach too many people to fish, and the fish go extinct, and nobody eats. A life deeper observed bearing in mind the consequences of actions seems to be the solution.
I don't blame you if you can't do this yet - such wisdom takes practice and experience. I'm certainly not perfect at it myself. Look at all this time I wasted on a message board when I could have been doing something more productive that may have improved my life and the life of those around me, like a simple household chore? That's bad karma! Still, if just one person picked up a new understanding as a consequence of my writing, and becomes a better person for it, perhaps it was good karma after all.
Goddamn it!! 9th time I've been ninja'd today!MaxTheReaper said:
You're right. When people start believing in something strongly enough, everything they see will appear as an affect of what they believe in.
Although, I would like to say that there is a force that keeps everything in line, but I know there isn't. I look at starving children in Africa or people who've been abused or raped or animals that have been killed and that's when I know that there isn't.
For misspelling "you" like that, karma will subject you to a punishment of Yo Dawg, where you will have a torture chamber in your torture chamber so you can scream while you scream.*Squidwogdog said:
*If you didn't understand that, then go look up your memes.
I don't know that I believe in karma as such, but the law of equal and opposite reactions would tend to support at least a truncated version of it. Ie: If you piss someone off, nine times out of ten they will get back at you, regardless of whether it's just treating you like shit from then on or telling your grandmother that you gave them herpes in an act of same-sex love.
I believe in enforced karma: do unto others as they've done unto you.
Supernatural karma, however, is something I do not believe in.
Supernatural karma, however, is something I do not believe in.
I believe that every action will have a ripple effect. But I can guarantee if you were the last person on Earth any action probably wouldn't have an effect, mainly because it all boils down to the way people treat you depending on whether you've been nice or nasty. From this people can use what power they have and judgement of your persona to (If they can) make your world alot harsher or nicer depending on the morality of your actions.
It's only a crime if you get caught.
It's only a crime if you get caught.
That seems a very roundabout way of saying "it's me".MaxTheReaper said:
...anyway, "Karma" always seemed like a bizarre concept to me; surely everybody has a different opinion of what constitutes "good" and "bad" Karma. Are we supposed to believe that all these different interpretations are mutually compatible?
Yeah. Karma is the thing that enforces the belief of God the most. If you do good things, God will reward you for the things you do. If you do bad, God will punish you for the things you do wrong.
In many ways, Karma is religion without all the stories.
In many ways, Karma is religion without all the stories.
Karma as some kind of magical force that influences how much luck people have is of course completely ridiculous. However, the idea that people that treat other people better will have a more rewarding life generally is true. Both because social people usually are happier and therefore perceive the world around them more positively and because you will get more support with your own problems when others like you better.
Karma does not exist as some sort of equalising cosmic force.
But it does exist, in a sense, as a social construct. Basically speaking, if you are nice, other people are more likely to be nice to you. Doesn't always work out that way, of course, plenty of nice people get screwed over.
But it does exist, in a sense, as a social construct. Basically speaking, if you are nice, other people are more likely to be nice to you. Doesn't always work out that way, of course, plenty of nice people get screwed over.
I believe in several different types of karma. I believe in
1)Instant karma-were you do something that yields an immediate result(when I say instant and immediate, I mean over your lifespan)
2)Lifetime karma-has more to due with reincarnation and rebirths
3)Universal karma-Every living thing amasses karma so in concept the planet(s) have karma to
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1)Instant karma-were you do something that yields an immediate result(when I say instant and immediate, I mean over your lifespan)
2)Lifetime karma-has more to due with reincarnation and rebirths
3)Universal karma-Every living thing amasses karma so in concept the planet(s) have karma to
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