Karma

[HoHoBomb]

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[hashtag45]

haha
this thread rocks

 

[Sunshine]

So what do you think? Do you reap what you sow? Is there positive return on the positive energy you exude and a negative return when you give out negative energy?

I am as atheistic as you get but I think there is something to the notion that there is a metaphysical residue left behind when positive, or negative, actions and choices are made by each of us.

No. Karma does not exist. I wish it did.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

My mistake, and apologies. I was brought up Catholic and had a dose of "times when I am inadvertently bad" I was raised with.

Aye. Starting with original sin and right up through not going to heaven because you did not clean your plate.

IMHO, "inadvertently bad" is the most neglected (and therefore probably the most important) spiritual concept in almost every theological system. It is almost universally overshadowed by "intentional good" and is in, in fact, typically "unconsciously assumed" (an inherent contradiction, really, since the act of assumption implies conscious thought) to be compensated for by the positive karma imputed by good intentions if not actual documented good works.

Inadvertent bad is most readily perceived by and communicated to others, i.e. "YOU did not clean YOUR plate."

I, on the other hand, simply wasn't that hungry.

On those occasions when that minority group of people given to substantive self-reflection seek to remove "inadvertent" and replace it with self-awareness of the extent and frequency of their sinful condition, it is often difficult to retain a sense of hope in place of despair.

Thus, man tends to float between two problematic, if not wholly bankrupt rationales: "I am not really bad ENOUGH to warrant eternal condemnation" or "The continuing compilation of evidence surely brings into question the LIKELIHOOD of my ever having been or becoming redeemed."

Those sincerely searching for definitive reconciliation between these metaphysical extremes, either through ancient texts or archeological or other scientific evidences, are apt to find their quest severely challenged.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

Yeah, but you took the food. Sinner.

 

[Sunshine]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vRsscoOlo4

 

[Recidiva]

I do not think of Karma as a process that takes place in the Universe as a whole because the universe as a whole responds to physics.

However, people respond to the idea of Karma so it's helpful in dealing with them. Being kind to people will tend to elicit a kind response, whereas being rude and mean will elicit a rude and mean response, going by the numbers.

Some people are kind and will respond that way no matter what you give them, same as some people are rude and mean and will respond that way no matter what you do.

The people that are the most changeable themselves respond to the idea of karma the most. So I use it.

If I am looking for a kind response, I go for kind, because it is the best way to get it from those who are otherwise inclined at times.

I am looking for kind.

 

[Libsam]

If you believe in Karma, what did the Jews do to deserve the Holocaust?

 

[Littlefinger]

If you believe in Karma, what did the Jews do to deserve the Holocaust?

They killed Jesus? That's the punch line right?

 

[lovetoread]

I believe in karma. Always have.

What goes around always comes back around.

 

[Libsam]

They killed Jesus? That's the punch line right?

Or if you are a conspiracy theorist, the punch line is the holocaust is a lie.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I test people all the time. I don't particularly love or hate anyone but I act diversely to test hypotheses I have. And I learn much about what moves people to react one way or another.

Like...people will fuck you over if they can, but they wont do it if you ask for it. When the boss says GIVE JIMBO 1O OF YOUR LATE FILES TO COMPLETE, youll give me 10 mother fuckers. But if I say, I RUN OUTTA WORK GIMME SOME OF YOUR FILES AND I'LL PULL YOU OUTTA THE WEEDS you wont.

 

[Recidiva]

I test people all the time. I don't particularly love or hate anyone but I act diversely to test hypotheses I have. And I learn much about what moves people to react one way or another.

Like...people will fuck you over if they can, but they wont do it if you ask for it. When the boss says GIVE JIMBO 1O OF YOUR LATE FILES TO COMPLETE, youll give me 10 mother fuckers. But if I say, I RUN OUTTA WORK GIMME SOME OF YOUR FILES AND I'LL PULL YOU OUTTA THE WEEDS you wont.

I tend to give everybody an opportunity to fuck me over subtly or not so subtly once.

It's the price of sorting people out of my life.

 

[lovecraft68]

So what do you think? Do you reap what you sow? Is there positive return on the positive energy you exude and a negative return when you give out negative energy?

I am as atheistic as you get but I think there is something to the notion that there is a metaphysical residue left behind when positive, or negative, actions and choices are made by each of us.

Tough one. I kind of believe it, I try to think that if you receive a good deed you should pay it forward and in general what comes around goes around.

But when you look around at the world it really seems the 'bad karma" doesn't make its way around the way it should. Way to many vicious evil sons of bitches running around doing just fine for themselves to buy totally into it,

 

[pointless]

i just wanna know if loving really would be easier if the colors were like my dreams. i mean, red, gold and green? yeah, red, gold and green.

 

[lovetoread]

i just wanna know if loving really would easier if the colors were like my dreams. i mean, red, gold and green? yeah, red, gold and green.

You are a mean fucker.

 

[pointless]

do you really want to hurt me? do you really want to make me cry?

 

[Libsam]

i just wanna know if loving really would easier if the colors were like my dreams. i mean, red, gold and green? yeah, red, gold and green.

If the colors in your dream were red, green, and purple, then your dreams would represent the three schools of tantra. Kaula is based in your root chakra, red. Mishra is based in your heart chakra, green. Samaya is based in your head chakra, purple. These are the paths to pure consciousness.

I guess you haven't awakened yet.

 

[pointless]

i'd do some tumble 4 ya lyrics, but that's a step too far.

 

[Liar]

Meh. I'm comfortable with entropy.

 

[ElasticMermaid]

i just wanna know if loving really would be easier if the colors were like my dreams. i mean, red, gold and green? yeah, red, gold and green.

Yeah. But everyday would be like survival.