Karma

From what I've read, karma basically is made up of repercussions. The results and connections aren't always understood...

Originally posted by BackFire
Sounds like a cop out excuse to me. If Karma exists then if someone killed a bunch of people something extremely horrible would happen to him. It isn't always the case.

It's not consistant and there are plenty of people who have done horrible acts that live long happy lives without ever seeing ANY consequences to their actions.

I never said karma had to take the form of a judge or anything, just simply that if Karma existed it would be consistant with people, it is not.

That sounds more like the "eye for an eye" theory then Karma.

Basically that's what Karma is. "what goes around comes around" type of belief. Obviously, that's not always the case, so Karma get rejected in my book.

Originally posted by Samurai Guy
Do we all get what we deserve?

Is there no crime/wrong that goes unpunished? No good deed that goes unrewarded?

Discuss...

Yep. Since im a believer in many lives, I do believe in Karma.

Lil Bitchiness> Why?

She's Budhist, and as far as I know Budhists by default believe in Karma.

Bush-ist?
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Oh shit, good thing I changed that, she would have flew down to california and killed me for making a typo which makes it sound as if she supports Bush.

You saved my life, Omega.

Well i think it is partly true but things still can happen because they are meant to happen and may not have anything to do with Karma, but i do beleive in it at part i don't have much in faith but i beleive because there has been alot of times it has happen around me and to myself.

yes, i do believe in karma. every dog gets its bone sonner or later. i don't know why, i don't know when i started believeing it, i just know i do.

Originally posted by BackFire
Basically that's what Karma is. "what goes around comes around" type of belief. Obviously, that's not always the case, so Karma get rejected in my book.

If you look at it in a form of Black and White, then you will dismiss any sort of "belief." Look deeper, oh wise BackFire.

Sorry, no. I don't look deeper into things if they don't immediately make a little bit of sense. That would require being open minded, and being open minded is dumb because then you star to trick yourself into believing ideas that are stupid.

hug

Poor BackFire.

Haha! Yeah The Omega you saved BF.....this time...

But yeah, hes right, i believe in it by default.

Good judgment comes from bad experience, which mostly comes from bad judgment.

Karma certainly makes sense, becuase if you're good to others, others will want to be good to you. The reverse also works, of course.

Karma doesn't mean that if a person does something terrible, they will suffer equally. That's not a cop-out, that's karma. Actions have consequences, but they may not be equal to the original act.

Originally posted by Cipher
Karma doesn't mean that if a person does something terrible, they will suffer equally. That's not a cop-out, that's karma. Actions have consequences, but they may not be equal to the original act.

Exactly. Everything has a punishment to it. No matter how long you wait, there will be punishment for your actions.

In Hinduism, karma can mean simply action or work, but over time it came to refer but the personal consequences or destiny which accrues from actions. Every action produces an equal and opposite reaction. Every time we think or do something, we create a cause, which in time will bear its corresponding effects.
Hindu philosophy, which believes in life after death, holds the doctrine that if the karma of an individual is good enough, the next birth will be rewarding, and if not, the person may actually devolve and degenerate into a lower life form.

I don' t interpret karma as an immediate reward or punishment of every individual action made by a person, but as the sum of all your actions together at the end of one' s life.

Whether I believe in it or not is a different matter.

"karma karma karma chamelon, you come and go" 😘

The principle of Karma is reflected in Newton's 3rd Law, "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."

Imagine that every living thing is connected to every other living thing by a web of causal relationships. When living things interact, they exact forces upon one another that result in new causal chains.

Just as disturbing only one strand affects the whole web, so do our actions. How the web is affected is determined by whether our actions are good or bad.

The idea is that because it is your actions that create the world you have to live in, "you should be the change you want to see in the world".