Rebelutionsssss said:

I dont know about how people on here feel about it but i always try to live my life thinking that if i do good things that good things will come back to me, it just seems like every time i start being selfish or just acting in my best interest that bad things start happening to me. do you believe in karma?

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MrBlueYoMind said:

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Bill_Oreilly said:

Karma is all i have brother. I hope all is well with you and your girl. Gotta catch up sometime soon

Karma has a lot to do with intention IMO

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left her actually man but thanks. me

PatrickKn said:

Karma is really just a way to describe the cause and effect that takes place from our thoughts, actions, attitudes and our persuasiveness on others. That exists. People's interpretations of it in the past have been as uninformed as any other religious interpretations of natural phenomena in the past, but the basic concept of cause and effect through human action is a sound one that has many interpretations across a multitude of different schools of thought.

I don't think good intention always leads to reward, nor bad intention always leading to punishment. It's kind of silly to believe that in the grand scheme of things. Good intentions cause good happenings more often than not though, but bad people can have good intentions that hurt a lot of good people intentionally.

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Fennario said:

I do good to do good, I give no fucks if I get anything in return for it, in fact I don't like being recognized when I do something well, I just want to be left the fuck alone.

Treat others how you like to be treated, expect nothing in return, that's proper I think.

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MrBlueYoMind said:

Rebelutionsssss said:

I dont know about how people on here feel about it but i always try to live my life thinking that if i do good things that good things will come back to me, it just seems like every time i start being selfish or just acting in my best interest that bad things start happening to me. do you believe in karma?

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That is a selfish form of karma you believe in.  You do good for the purpose of good coming back to you, rather than doing good for the purpose of living in a world where people do good.

This is why I don't believe in karma.  Most people have expectations of reward for their good behavior, and they also lie to themselves about their bad karma.

It also blames the victim.  It makes you feel like all the bad shit that happens to you is somehow your fault and you deserve it.  It says that kids that get recruited into child armies in Africa and get their arms cut off if they refuse is somehow the result of an unprovable previous life. 

Karma suggests never-ending punishment and suffering.  If someone is a bully, then it suggests that maybe they should get bullied later on or in the next incarnation, but that requires a new bully to bully the original bully.  And then that new bully deserves to be punished/experience suffering, and it continues forever.  Punishing people for causing suffering to someone that supposedly deserves it for causing suffering, and then punishing the punishers for doling out it's perverted justice.


Instead of karma, I do good things because that is the kind of world I'd like to live in.  One where people are good to each other. 

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Jokeshopbeard said:

My feelings on karma are a combination of the two posts I quoted below. Well said lads.

PatrickKn said:

Karma is really just a way to describe the cause and effect that takes place from our thoughts, actions, attitudes and our persuasiveness on others. That exists. People's interpretations of it in the past have been as uninformed as any other religious interpretations of natural phenomena in the past, but the basic concept of cause and effect through human action is a sound one that has many interpretations across a multitude of different schools of thought.

I don't think good intention always leads to reward, nor bad intention always leading to punishment. It's kind of silly to believe that in the grand scheme of things. Good intentions cause good happenings more often than not though, but bad people can have good intentions that hurt a lot of good people intentionally.

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Fennario said:

I do good to do good, I give no fucks if I get anything in return for it, in fact I don't like being recognized when I do something well, I just want to be left the fuck alone.

Treat others how you like to be treated, expect nothing in return, that's proper I think.

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