Karma,is it real??

[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.

 

[Griffolion]

I had a test last,and I didn't study soooo I cheated and Im not shure what im gonna get(I never cheated,until now!)and for some reason I acted all nice and didn't swear,because I thought that Karma was gonna bite me in the ass...So what do you think?Will it,or will it not that is the question(and is karma real,lol)I will edit what I got!


PIECE OFF!!

'Karma' is an extension of the psychological phenomenon known as the 'Just World Hypothesis'. It basically states that if you believe that you've done something to deserve a bad response then it will inevitably happen (see the phenomenon 'confirmation bias' for more on that). Likewise, if you see someone known to be a 'bad person' have something bad happen to them in the street (say for instance, a car drives past them through a puddle and soaks them) your first reaction is 'good, they deserved that'. That is essentially karma. It's been integrated into some world faiths, but it's really just a psychological phenomena, more than likely a remnant of the way early human societies evolved with the constant strain of guilt and shame due to not fully knowing whether 'the gods' were mad with them or not when their crops didn't grow or their animals died due to disease.

 

[BlueSinbad]

I used to believe in it...but now I don't believe in it for shit! I'm the nicest most unselfish guy on the planet and I get nothing back for it.

 

[Haydyn]

I like to think karma is real. But doing good things entirely to offset the bad? I don't think it works like that. In my mind, if one wanted to have good karma they would work on not doing bad things rather than do good things just to get away with the bad.

 

[xdom125x]

If you do something genuinely evil, chances are someone will find out and try to punish you for it, or you'll be panicking over how it will come back to bite you and you'll walk straight into more trouble. Karma itself is not a force, it's an idea given to us by the tendency for bad things to happen to some not-so-good people.

Bad things, more often than not, happen to the best people.

Well, if they happened to the worst people, those things wouldn't really be considered bad (I mean what happened to them might be bad, but the fact that it happened to them instead of someone else is percieved as good).

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.

That is pretty much exactly what I thought. Plus the lack of a time limit can mean that anything bad happening to you can be percieved as karma biting back. I think it is based in people's desire to see justice as a natural force in the universe.

 

[Soods]

I don't think karma exist, but I've noticed that when bad things happen to people, they start doing bad things

Also: Can you share your cheating method?

 

[Littaly]

That. Is. Not. Karma!

That is the bastardized pop culture concept that people erroneously call Karma. Karma is not a force, it is literally just your actions in life.

That's pretty much the way I understood it too. As I understand, Karma is the belief that your actions impact the world around you, and that when you die, that impact is what stays with the world. Or am I wrong about that?

 

[Fetzenfisch]

Actually i think the deal works exactly the other way around. Well i may confuse it with a soul-contract here, but i still lead a very nice life, disproving the karma theory.

 

[RabbiiFrystofsk]

Karma's something i abide by, it's one of the few spiritual things i appreciate and to be honest i've felt for the last few months that stuff has been going really well which is attributed from all the good stuff i did for years. Not that i do good stuff to get good karma later that's not what it's about.

 

[k-ossuburb]

No, it's not real, and it's a bit egotistical to say that it is because you're working under the assumption that the entire universe is centered around you and the meaningless acts you perform on an insignificant ball of rock.

Anyone who thinks that the universe is conspiring against them when they do something that is socially unacceptable (within that culture) or is willing to reward them for a "good deed" (within the culture) is egotistical at best; totally insane at worst.

Reality just does not work that way, my friend, as you're under the assumption that, not only is the universe concerned with your actions but it's also working under the specific laws of your particular culture.