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So folks,

Just wondering...

Do you believe in Karma? If so, why? Do you have any stories about it? or Do you think Karma is just an excuse some folks tend to use to sound self righteous?

I'll discuss my beliefs about the subject, after I hear some of yours.
 
i dont believe in karma, i believe in someone waiting as long as it takes for something bad to happen to the person that wronged you. I dont see a greater good out there that is balancing out evil and good i guess.
 
Yes I believe in Karma, Ying Yang etc..
This way you treat people with respect and that's how every human should be.
Scientifically its something unprovable.

My own experiences :

If you do a good deed, you will feel better and feel proud of yourself..later on I would experience more luck etc.. (this could be mentally though, you know your brain is extreme powerfull and if you feel confident etc. you can shine and ray out like a invisible aura etc.)

When I beat someone up in the past, I would undergo law sue's etc.

Everytime when I would laugh at someone or make fun off, the same thing happened to me, example - someone had bad acne, later I had the same problem.
(yes coincidence you might say) But its not coincidence cuz there are many other issues Ive encountered..

To summ it up, everytime I did something bad, I always got the same treatment or worse....

I believe highly in Karma and I DO NOT BELIEVE IN COINCIDENCE.....there are too many coincidences happening in the universe, when you all analyse them you'd be a retard just to say, meh those are just coincidences....
 
In order to believe in karma one must believe in fate to a certain degree. Since I don't believe in fate, I don't believe in karma.:monster:

I believe that people have a natural tendency to try and explain things that happen to them. Some people believe that the world is fair and balanced. So when something happens to them, they look back at their past actions and try to find a connection. But I'm not one of these people.
 
I believe in the basic concept, but not that some greater force governs it.
Of course if you do good things then good things will happen. People will see you as a good and decent person, and therefore are more prone to trust you with things.
 
I believe that your demeanor in society will affect how people treat you. If you are generous and kind, then you are likely to receive the same treatment. I believe the flip side of being a general arse hole also has adverse effects.

But in my experience, most people view karma as like some cosmic police force watching over everyone. I think it's a lot of shite because "what goes around comes around" isn't true all of the time (as in not 100%). Bad stuff happens to good people and people who are out to cause trouble get away with it. It's naive to think that they are all punished in the end because we see all the time that people get away with it.

You might say the consequences of one's actions come later in life. Well, I doubt you're going to keep track of someone to make sure it happens, if it happens at all.

I try to be positive anyway. When I hit a bump in the road, I try to look on the bright side and see what good can come out of the situation. I think some people confuse looking on the bright side of things as some force paying them back for good deeds.
 
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Personally, I'm not a believer in Karma. I see the opposite happen in everyday life. I see good people get crucified for doing something good for others. I see bad people get away with crime because the law protects them and not the innocent man. I see good people struggle to make it through life because they can't catch a lucky break. I see bad people catch lucky breaks with high frequency.

There are a few lines I tend to use in everday life that express how I feel about Karma. "Nice guys finish last" and "No good deed doesn't go unpunished". I've worked hard and have taken my lumps in life, and I've finally become successful. But even at the elder age of 27, I still haven't found true love, yet I've always treated women with the utmost respect. Karma hasn't done me any favors, I've had to work hard to get to where I'm at, and I'm not a bad person who deserves to be shut out in life while the bad man gets everything he wants in life. Nice guys finish last, that concludes my thought. :mokken:
 
It's possible, but not somethingi look into heavily. Peopl gte away with stuff all the time and never get caught, move on to bigger crimes, don;t gte caught yada yada. Hell people have told me that since i've never been cauight by the law smoking, that I'll get caught in time. It's not a matter of when, it's a matter of if. IF your smar tabut a situation you won't get in trouble.

But now I'm rambling. Long story short, it's possible but not a firm beliefe.
 
To answer my questions, I certainly do, but I think it's personal belief. I could debate it, but nothing would change my real thoughts about it.

Though when I think of Karma I think of it a tad different than most folks. Most folks say.. You do a good, you get good. You do bad, well you get bad.

That's not necessarily what I'm thinking here. The reason being is not everyone believes in karma. It's more of a integrity thing, that only the person can gain from it. You might think it's ludicrous, but then I don't believe in organized religion either.

My thoughts are this. Alright say you do something good, or what you think is good at least. Say you had a friend who just needed 25 bucks to pay his water bill, well it might short you for the month for your food expenses but you give that to him/her. My thoughts are hopefully this person will do the same, not once or twice, but maybe three times, because they know the feeling of being short on cash for their water bill and the feeling they got when someone helped them out.

You can be a sarcastic ass hole all your life, or just a comedian, but when it comes to helping your bother out, do you give a rats ass? Most people say yes with nothing to show for it.. or just so it shows they are not a heartless bastard/bitch.

I mean it's one thing to always be looking to help people, which I find quite wrong actually, because I believe in a little thing called Fate. If the opportunity arises and a ping goes off in your brain, you are given the free will to help the person out. Though I believe bad karma takes a while to accumulate, which is a bit screwed up, but we are humans not saints.

Ever heard the phrase, bad things come in threes? Do yourself a favor, next time you have a shit day, ask yourself was it just one thing? Another thing, lie a bunch. See what occurs. There are folks who can lie their way out of a paper bag because they can support their lies with other lies and keep their stories straight. Though I've seen them fall.. which to me I have no sympathy for due to they were only hurting themselves in the first place anyway.

I know it may be hard to understand from my POV, but I'm dishing it out there.
 
Seeing as I am constantly punched in the face by the metal fist of Karma, yes I do believe in it.

I have examples:

I stood int he doorway of a store once dozing off as I often do, an elderly woman was carrying heavy building supplies, and I hadn't yet realized she was waiting behind me to get through -- as soon as I learned of this, I of course, apologized and opened the door for her apologizing a few times actually, then as the woman got into her car she gestured to me to come to her car and I did and she thanked me rewarding a nice 5 dollar bill :) {doesn't sound like much but it felt good.}

Here is bad Karma:

My sister asks me to do something little me ofcourse being lazy and refusing sarcastically joking about her having to pay me to do it, I get up and walking out the door bump into soemone holding a cup of ice cold milk and spilling it all over myself. ;)

These have really happened to me so, yeah, again -- I believe in Karma. :wacky:
 
I believe that when you do something good, you feel good, and this can affect the way that you think, making you feel happier and at ease, and then in turn more likely to interpret good events as being great.

If you spend your life beating people up or stealing then this may also affect the way that you think, making you feel insecure and nervous, always on edge and interpreting bad events as much worse than they are.

That said, there are people that do good things that are always on edge, and people that do bad things that are at ease (it depends on how your mind is wired), but I do believe that, as a whole, events affect our mindset and when we experience doing a good act it has a positive effect on the way we view other things.

It's easy to see how you could observe your own or other people’s experiences and believe in karma, but on the other hand I believe that it's really in the way that you think. The same events can happen to good and bad alike (if it is even right to split people like this; I tend not to like to label a person as bad as I can't possibly know how his / her mind works and the life he / she has had). Someone could be leaving a charity after making a donation, or could have just saved a child from being run over by a speeding train, then all of a sudden they could slip on a banana skin and smash their head open on the pavement. People would put that down to bad luck, or an unfortunate accident, but if the same thing was to happen to someone who had stolen from a charity, or had thrown a child into the path of a speeding train, then the accident could be viewed as karma in action.

Karma seems to be used as an outlet of hate by some people. They watch with glee as somebody that used to bully them when they were younger is sent to prison or is seriously injured, and then they shout "ha! That's karma!”. Saying that makes it feel better for people. I personally just believe it's in the mind though.

Bad events can happen to all, and so can good. You could follow anyone and wait for a bad event to happen to them, and it eventually will, but if someone were to follow you then they'd find the same.

So for me I don’t believe that the cosmos have a way of punishing those that do bad, and rewarding those that do good. I’m not against the idea of this force existing, but I just don’t believe that that is what I have observed. Good and bad can happen to anyone, but having a good and healthy mindset makes a person more likely to enjoy the good, and doing bad can spawn guilt and other such negative feelings that make this harder. When observing other people, it is us that define what is good and bad, and we label people like this, and then we take note of all the bad things done to a bad person, and the good things done to a good person. If you were to swap and then count the bad things done to a good person, and the good things done to a bad person, then suddenly the universe isn’t being fair. Either that or what we consider to be good or bad is wrong, which is something that I’d rather not think too much about for fear of going insane.
 
I used to but as of late, not anymore. I used to try and do good things in the hopes that good things would happen to me. But they didn't. I find that most of the time, being a cynical ass gives me comfort from the stress of everyday, boring life (doesn't sound stressful but it is) yet bad things don't really happen to me. I guess that could be the karma getting me back for not being nice; By giving me endless hours of nothingness to fill. Or that could just simply be my desire to stay inside my house. Perhaps that's the karma at work there. :hmmm:

Anyway, currently, I don't believe in karma. I do sometimes to nice things, but nothing comes my way. I do bad things, same result. Maybe I'm immune to the effects.
 
I don't really believe in Karma. I'm not a necessarily bad person, nor am I the greatest, yet it seems that bad things happen to me most often than not. I had borrowed some money from a friend (actually my best friend) and neglected to pay her back instantly (I don't think I was working at the time). She comes over for my birthday a few weeks later, and says she's short on cash and takes my birthday money to pay her back. I probably should have lied and said I didn't have it, but when I said I did and it was birthday money from my folks, she then assumed that they would just give me more to replace it. They don't, they're kinda in a tough situation. =/ After that I kinda stopped hanging out with her.

I've lost 2 jobs in the span if two months (lost one, acquired a new one, lost it due to stress and anxiety issues).

I had paid 1900$ to a Government Visa Agency to help my bf get a Work Permit. Turns out they neglected to tell us certain criteria he'd need, until the last month before he had to go. Now he lost his job (due to back issues, can't work under the strain), lost 1900$, and don't have the Permit for him to come back into the country right away. Now we have to find a new route.

These are all extremely shitty things to have happened in the last year. Anything good happen to compensate for any of that? Nope. If I manage to get my money back at least (which is tough, having a hard time finding a lawyer to help out, also unsure of how to even tackle the situation) then maybe my life will have broken even. But not having a job and living off my folks who are having a rough time financially is just shitty 'karma'. :mokken: Or it would be if I believed in it.
 
I have too much experience in doing things just because it's the right thing to do to believe in karma. I've never really had anything good enough to warrant all the crap I've been through, especially considering all I've ever tried to do in life is to be good and fair. I've even been the mediator in attempt to keep peace among friends more times that I can count, but in the end, I barely get so much as encouragement.
 
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