Karma is nothing more than a name attached to an idea accepted by society to make us "better people." Nothing more.
Karma,is it real??
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I cannot speak for him, or comment on what video may have been watched, but I agree with what he wrote.Nouw said:
Things you do have consequences. These consequences may be negative, if your action is negative. It is not a cosmic force, it is simply a series of social reactions to your actions, or self inflicted harm.
For instance, as has been pointed out so many times in this thread: If you act like a dick, it is likely that you will receive a negative response. You might find that the guy you screwed over last week, won't help you with that project you need done now. It's not cosmic or divine, it's just a consequence of your action.
To make another example... You may have been a murderer and rapist who targeted children. You are caught, thrown in jail, and in jail, some other inmates kill you. Again, not cosmic balance, just criminals understandably discusted by your crime.
And these are just the very visible/obvious examples. In any social interaction, a million small variables determine how we act towards eachother, most of them actually unconscious. You may project guilt of some hidden lie, or someone may rightfully suspect you of something. Their treatment of you will be determined by your previous actions, even if they have no proof for them.
I think that is what the poster meant. Actions have consequences.
Which I didn't bring up because it is the anti-karma. I was saying that karma is an illusion that we use to explain perfectly natural cause-and-effect.ScumbagEddie said:
Every ethereal force exists to everyone who believe in it. So if you believe in it and think it'll bite your ass - it probobly will.
I believe the only force/magic/whateverthehellelseyouwanttocallsomethinglikethis is willpower.
I've had this proven to me many times. I've spent a lot of time making certain discisions and just waiting to see how it will effect everyhing and I've come to the conclusion that shit just happens sometimes and you can't do anything about it, but there's nothing wrong with that - it's just the way things are.
I think this question is asked by all people who have or play games in which one descision might affect the rest of the game.
The interesting thing in life is that whatever you do you'll always do something bad or good along with it. The two are like an oreo cookie - you are the cream and they are glued to you like horny jailbait. Even if you've cheted it's good in one prespective and bad in another, right? Well give it some thought and you'll see that it's like that for everything else you do.
With one wink we might be just destroyers of worlds... it's possible and quite hard to comprehend, but it's reality. ^^
I believe the only force/magic/whateverthehellelseyouwanttocallsomethinglikethis is willpower.
I've had this proven to me many times. I've spent a lot of time making certain discisions and just waiting to see how it will effect everyhing and I've come to the conclusion that shit just happens sometimes and you can't do anything about it, but there's nothing wrong with that - it's just the way things are.
I think this question is asked by all people who have or play games in which one descision might affect the rest of the game.
The interesting thing in life is that whatever you do you'll always do something bad or good along with it. The two are like an oreo cookie - you are the cream and they are glued to you like horny jailbait. Even if you've cheted it's good in one prespective and bad in another, right? Well give it some thought and you'll see that it's like that for everything else you do.
With one wink we might be just destroyers of worlds... it's possible and quite hard to comprehend, but it's reality. ^^
With morality like mine (or a severe lack of it) I should be in a bedside hospital in agonizing pain somewhere in a poor country where everyone seems to hate you.
On a more wide-spread note, karma happens to those who do something wrong and people catch them and prove it. E.g. the law. If there was some higher force like karma protecting us we'd be fine but usually things go wrong in the first place because something bad happened to someone and then they get angry etc and hence the bad things they do isn't there fault and it's all very complicated.
Basically the only thing you've got to worry about in cheating on a test is your pride and if you've already cheated then you probably don't care about that so much - no offense intended. Just don't worry about the mystical force of karma biting you in the butt because if you don't get caught then you're pretty much scot free. Why do you think there's so much crime in the world?
On a more wide-spread note, karma happens to those who do something wrong and people catch them and prove it. E.g. the law. If there was some higher force like karma protecting us we'd be fine but usually things go wrong in the first place because something bad happened to someone and then they get angry etc and hence the bad things they do isn't there fault and it's all very complicated.
Basically the only thing you've got to worry about in cheating on a test is your pride and if you've already cheated then you probably don't care about that so much - no offense intended. Just don't worry about the mystical force of karma biting you in the butt because if you don't get caught then you're pretty much scot free. Why do you think there's so much crime in the world?
In a sense, yes. If you're nice to someone, odds are, they're going to be nice back but if you're an ass, then you're going to be treated like one.
However, if you do something good for someone else, don't expect the universe just to suddenly shine upon you.
In the sense of people being nice to others in return for being nice, then yes, that's Karma but simply getting punished for doing something you probably shouldn't have by fate alone, no. This universe doesn't give a fuck if you cheated on a test or if you killed someone.
However, if you do something good for someone else, don't expect the universe just to suddenly shine upon you.
In the sense of people being nice to others in return for being nice, then yes, that's Karma but simply getting punished for doing something you probably shouldn't have by fate alone, no. This universe doesn't give a fuck if you cheated on a test or if you killed someone.
If it is real, It must surely hate me for giving me one good thing of such small proportion, then give me a tsunami (pun not intened against Japan) worth of shit in my face
"Whats this, we dropped a bit of good luck on him? SPAM HIM WITH THE POWER OF SEVEN MOONS OF BAD LUCK!"
"Whats this, we dropped a bit of good luck on him? SPAM HIM WITH THE POWER OF SEVEN MOONS OF BAD LUCK!"
If you are nice to people, they might be more inclined to be nice to you. But there's no such thing as a supernatural force that punishes you if you're not.
Karma is only real in the sense that you believe it is real, and thus it affects your perception. I.e You feel you deserve something bad happening to you, and when it does, you percieve it as Karma.
I think the common ups and downs of life are often mistaken as Karma, when someone who wrongs you suddenly has a bad day the next week it's probably just life as usual.
I have a friend who is probably the most unluckiest guy on the planet. Ironically his last name is Murphy. If Karma is real....I don't want to know what he's done to reap that upon himself *tries not to think about it*