(December 27, 2018 at 3:06 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(December 27, 2018 at 2:42 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Karma isn't always fatal.
If people want to say, "What is the big deal of using the word, it is no different than saying "bless you".... Nope, it is still a hollow word, and even if one might accept it as an expression of emotion, on a planet of 7 billion, there are tons of superstitious individuals who buy such as being real.
"Bless you" is seen now as a form of being polite. But go back a few hundred years, there were far more humans who literally believed that if you sneezed that literally was your soul trying to escape your body.
Karma, might be seen in the west as more of a superfluous expression. But there are far more people in Asia and India that see it as a real thing.
Karma in antiquity, for many Hindus and Buddhists, was the idea, that if you did well in this life, you'd do better in your next life, being good Karma. But if you did bad in this life, you'd come back as a lower life form in the next, being bad Karma.
Karma to many even today, in Asia and India is as real to them as our conservative Christians attitude of the biblical "eye for an eye".
I don't think anyone should get upset for pointing out the origins of our species social norms, and the real reasons we use these words.
Why did you quote me?
