The title pretty much sums it up. How many here believe in the concept of Karma? Now there are several differing definitions of “Karma”, depending on the source. I am referring simply to the universal law of cause and effect that says every thought, word and act carries energy into the world and affects our present reality. This is the concept behind “good karma” and “bad karma”, where things happen that one might feel are the result of past good or bad deeds, respectively.
No.
No. What goes around does not, if fact, come around.
Sure, why not?
Nope.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Yes.
No, not in the cause and effect sense.
Yes, in the ironic sense.
Well, yeah. Sometimes shes good, sometimes she’s bad. She’s always funny and affectionate, and gives sloppy kisses. She enjoys spending time outside, chasing birds, but prefers being inside curled up at my feet with a good rawhide.
Oh… wait. That’s KHARMA… my dog.
Never mind.
If you believe in the woo of karma where do you draw the line?
No.
I believe in Karma more than Dogma…
My Karma ran over your Dogma.
No.
Karma used to come and visit me when she was bored. She would bang on the door and make silly faces in the effort to get me to let her in. I’d always put the leash on her collar and take her home.
The look she gave me was “why are you being such a bitch to Karma”.
jamie, sorry for being so flip with the answer. If you want my honest opinon…bad things happen to good people for no reason. Good things happen to bad people for the same random reasons.
As much as I’d like to make things even out, they won’t. I try to live my life as a good person, but that’s because that’s how I am, not because I’m afraid that I will be smited by Thor or anything.
We have a legal system for a reason. The universe does not sort everything out hunky dory, and make bad things happen to bad people. The only justice in the universe is either by coincidence, or enforced by human beings, not karma.
There are enough jerks who never get their just deserts, and enough good people who are repeatedly knocked down, to ever believe there’s some sort of cosmic balance sheet.
Justice is something we must create for ourselves.
So, no.
No.
I don’t do good things for others in the hopes that they will do good things for me. I do good things because they are the right things to do. So I believe in ethics and morality, rather than karma.
Not in the sense that the word is normally used. I believe God will settle all accounts eventually, either in this life or on judgment day. I suspect it’s moreso the latter given there are some pretty rotten people still walking the earth and there are a lot of good people that never catch a break.
Since this is a poll, I’ll move it to IMHO.
twickster, MPSIMS moderator