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RE: Karma poll
October 27, 2016 at 11:03 am
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RE: Karma poll
October 27, 2016 at 11:06 am
(October 13, 2016 at 10:53 am)Divinity Wrote: I believe in karma, but I don't believe it's some mystical bullshit force that balances everything out or anything. I believe if you do nice things for people, it'll come back to you. And if you do bad things to people, it'll come back to you. At least if you live long enough. I don't think it's something like "Bob killed someone, so Bob is punished by Karma by getting into a horrible accident." I think it's more like.. "Bob's an asshoile. Eventually people learn that Bob is an asshole, and nobody wants to deal with Bob's shit anymore. Fuck Bob. Fuck Bob with a rusty rake."
Still an irrational belief.
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RE: Karma poll
October 27, 2016 at 11:10 am
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(October 13, 2016 at 11:18 am)Divinity Wrote: I don't even see how the fuck that'd work.
What if Hitler was a really great guy in his previous lives? Does he get off the hook for killing 6 million people? Or were those 6 million people all bad people in their previous life? How can you really punish someone for doing something they don't remember doing? Seems to me like punishment for punishments sake, and not justice at all. Punishment should teach a lesson, and mystical karma would not be teaching anyone a lesson at all. Punishment shouldn't teach anything, it is counter-productive, unnecessary, immoral and disruptive of the human psyche. It is nothing else but a way to force people to accept others' authority.
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RE: Karma poll
October 27, 2016 at 3:18 pm
(October 27, 2016 at 7:42 am)Little Rik Wrote: It doesn't make any sense to think that everything is related to good or bad luck.
I agree -- Luck has nothing to do with this. Poverty is all based on the way societies work and how people react to one another, and the causes of someone being born in poverty are related to this and not to anything supernatural.
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RE: Karma poll
October 27, 2016 at 6:03 pm
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At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Karma poll
October 28, 2016 at 5:40 am
(October 27, 2016 at 9:47 am)Little Rik Wrote: A world without justice?
It hardly happen in the physical-material world.
Why should happen in the real world?
You guys live in a fairy land where good and bad luck rule.
Doesn't life teach you that that is just bullshit?  The only justice dished out is ordained by humans in courts following Law of the land. Besides that, you're shit outta luck.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman
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RE: Karma poll
October 28, 2016 at 6:15 am
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
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RE: Karma poll
October 28, 2016 at 9:37 am
(October 27, 2016 at 10:52 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: Anytime you'd like to stop yammering on with your meaningless garble and put forth some sound logic and evidence for the existence of God, I'm here. [emoji8]
Oh, that is great to know that you are here in time of need. 
I would have never thought that I could count on your great help. 
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RE: Karma poll
October 28, 2016 at 9:45 am
(October 28, 2016 at 5:40 am)Sal Wrote: (October 27, 2016 at 9:47 am)Little Rik Wrote: A world without justice?
It hardly happen in the physical-material world.
Why should happen in the real world?
You guys live in a fairy land where good and bad luck rule.
Doesn't life teach you that that is just bullshit? The only justice dished out is ordained by humans in courts following Law of the land. Besides that, you're shit outta luck.
Gee, that is great to find someone who got solid evidence about justice dished out only in courts. 
Could you please send me a copy of this evidence of yours.
Is not that I do not believe you.
Of course I do believe you mate.
It is only for keeping that on my files just in case someone would object to it.
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RE: Karma poll
October 28, 2016 at 9:48 am
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman
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