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RE: Karma, Real or Fake?
June 26, 2014 at 8:05 am
I personally find karma to be rather insidious. If you see a needlessly suffering person or animal, it sounds rather sadistic to say "they must've done something to deserve that". I believe it was used in Hirohito's Zen Buddhism during WW2 to justify some of the crazy shit that the Japanese soldiers did to the Chinese. I'm not a fan of any sort of cosmic justice system, and karma isn't really much better than "God will punish you after you're dead".
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RE: Karma, Real or Fake?
June 26, 2014 at 8:16 am
I think it exists up to a point as expressed in the old saying, chickens coming home to roost. For example, humans have been messed the planet up and we're now starting to feel the consequences of our own actions.
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RE: Karma, Real or Fake?
June 26, 2014 at 8:18 am
(June 26, 2014 at 8:16 am)Confused Ape Wrote: I think it exists up to a point as expressed in the old saying, chickens coming home to roost. For example, humans have been messed the planet up and we're now starting to feel the consequences of our own actions.
I can agree with that in the sense that simply stating "Actions have consequences, be thoughtful" is a good thing to do. But karma in its original sense...neh.
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RE: Karma, Real or Fake?
June 26, 2014 at 8:25 am
(June 26, 2014 at 7:13 am)Raindropz Wrote: Do you really believe in Karma? I don't. I sounds nice, but it does not live up to its name. This is actually a really broad subject, so it depends on what you mean, specifically.
Do you mean do we believe in causality? Or the Western interpretation of what goes around comes around?
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RE: Karma, Real or Fake?
June 26, 2014 at 8:47 am
(June 26, 2014 at 8:25 am)Welsh cake Wrote: (June 26, 2014 at 7:13 am)Raindropz Wrote: Do you really believe in Karma? I don't. I sounds nice, but it does not live up to its name. The Western interpretation of what goes around comes around?
That one.
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RE: Karma, Real or Fake?
June 26, 2014 at 9:49 am
(This post was last modified: June 26, 2014 at 9:50 am by vorlon13.)
Schadenfreude springs to mind.
Like the twit that tailgates me on an icy road, and finally passes, and then a mile down the road I find him in the ditch. Hard not to smile and drive on.
I don't credit God(s) for that, it is more biting and appropo if the miscreant harms himself.
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RE: Karma, Real or Fake?
June 26, 2014 at 9:54 am
(June 26, 2014 at 7:49 am)ignoramus Wrote: Karma is god's sister.
She's a vindictive bitch an has a memory like an elephant!
I stole 50cents from my sister as a little kid and 50 years later, I get a flat tyre the other day just like that.
Bloody mole! I hate you! 
ROFLMAO Damn, that is way to funny. 
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RE: Karma, Real or Fake?
June 26, 2014 at 10:44 am
Whenever someone brings up Karma I just have to ask them why they think people who are raped, tortured or killed deserved it. Since Karma would imply that they deserved it somehow...
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RE: Karma, Real or Fake?
June 26, 2014 at 10:50 am
(June 26, 2014 at 7:21 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Karma as in "What goes up must come down?"
That's the law of gravity... I think you mean "what comes around goes around" :p
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RE: Karma, Real or Fake?
June 26, 2014 at 10:57 am
"You reap what you sow"
Can karma be corrupted?
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