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Cubie
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Maybe your supposed to build up your karma for one climatic release at death? Dmt
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Tangerines




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Yea maybe I should have robbed that one kid because maybe he deserved it and I was awarded the opportunity. 
There are people who do nothing but harm and live a happy, well life.
And there is even more of the opposite. Good people get shit on and get nothing in return.
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blkjkrabbit

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Bandersnatch said:
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Tangerines said: Keep the money. Even if you believe in Karma you, which I think is BS, maybe the wallet was left there because blkjkrabbit has done good things and that guy is recieving the bad karma. That is exactly why karma is shit. It is so subjective.
But keep the money man and honestly, I would leave the wallet on his front doorstep or in his mailbox.
That's the thing about Karma... how do you know you're not rejecting the good returns?
If Karma exists, I've refused so many karmic rewards that the
universe owes me a fat bag of reefer or two.

I think this is a shitty situation for the dude but I'm gonna take the cash because I could definitely use it for food to help me through the month. The guy lives in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Washington, and he works at Microsoft and has club cards to all sorts of crazy restaurants and malls and shit. Really, $140 is a small fuckin price for a wealthy dude like this to pay for the world of shit he could catch if someone else chose to exploit the hell out of it. I'll mail it out to his address later and think of a small note to leave him.
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blkjkrabbit

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Re: my moral judgment [Re: Tangerines]
#7940848 - 01/27/08 03:18 PM (16 years, 5 days ago) |
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Tangerines said: Yea maybe I should have robbed that one kid because maybe he deserved it and I was awarded the opportunity. 
There are people who do nothing but harm and live a happy, well life.
And there is even more of the opposite. Good people get shit on and get nothing in return.
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Tangerines




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wear gloves and wipe all fingerprints off. Maybe I would just be paranoid, but if he is a rich asshole with the resources he could try to get fingerprints.
Better safe than sorry.
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BurningBeard
The IncomparableMr. Flannery

Registered: 01/23/08
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Re: my moral judgment [Re: Tangerines]
#7944064 - 01/28/08 06:53 AM (16 years, 4 days ago) |
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As I see this there's the option to be part of the problem vs. part of the solution.
Good people get shit on... does that give anyone the right to do the shitting?
Seems like a fucked up viewpoint to me.
Yeah, good people rarely get the rewards they deserve for their good, and as cheesy as this sounds, that shouldn't matter. It's the action itself that should provide some moral relief.
There is nothing subjective about karma. Do good and eventually reap good from what you've done. That may mean tomorrow, and it may mean ten years down the road. But, what goes around, comes around.
End cliche and sheer cheese.
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Tangerines




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Karma is bullshit dude. I don't trust anything I cannot prove.
And it IS subjective. How is it not?
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BurningBeard
The IncomparableMr. Flannery

Registered: 01/23/08
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Re: my moral judgment [Re: Tangerines]
#7945045 - 01/28/08 12:10 PM (16 years, 4 days ago) |
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Here's where we differ in view point.
There are things that I feel are inherently negative and things that are inherently positive.
Positive breeds positive, negative breeds negative.
This is simply a matter of how you view the world around you.
Karmic action for me has always lead to good results.
Obviously you've had different results, so I can understand where you're coming from.
So I guess in that respect it is subjective... but I never thought of morality itself as a subjective thing. There are gray ares, sure... but I think on the whole, most actions can be labeled clearly as negative or positive.
Though I'm sure I'm in the minority here.
-------------------- Daedalus, your child is falling and the Labyrinth is calling. Renegade heaps, humanity abandoned Bower of the vowels, you lit them and fanned them. Mercury, the courier, celestial messenger Bed with Dawn, your bride. Arrowhead of Diane, pierce the mind of a man, Tongueless muse of time
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Tangerines




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Have you read any philosophy? Morality is 100% subjective. Hence why the views of morality have been getting debated for thousands of years.
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BurningBeard
The IncomparableMr. Flannery

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Re: my moral judgment [Re: Tangerines]
#7945100 - 01/28/08 12:22 PM (16 years, 4 days ago) |
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Nope. Not big on philosophy. I'd rather generate my own philosophy than follow the pre-written ideologies of others. To me, that's far more appealing.
That's not to say I never will delve into it, and that's not to say I don't find it interesting. I just haven't bothered because it's inherently opposed to my own world view.
Here's where I stand. I don't support nabbing someone's wallet, money, or anything else for that matter that is left lying about. That was the original quandary, and that's where I sit with it.
If you wanna shoot the shit about the subjectivity of morality, the meaning of the universe, or any other deep philosophical topic, PM me. Always down for some deep discussion.
-------------------- Daedalus, your child is falling and the Labyrinth is calling. Renegade heaps, humanity abandoned Bower of the vowels, you lit them and fanned them. Mercury, the courier, celestial messenger Bed with Dawn, your bride. Arrowhead of Diane, pierce the mind of a man, Tongueless muse of time
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