Bad Karma

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Do you believe in bad karma? What goes around comes around.

I believe in trying to be a decent person & not screw others over but that's because it's the rite thing to do rather than being worried about bad karma. My girlfriend's parents would help others out whenever anyone needed(or wanted) something. They got taken advantage of by others(including family) & have a lot of health issues & debt that they're struggling to pay minimum payments on & can barely afford living in their rundown family home that's falling apart around them & making them sicker mentally & physically. There's politicians & corporate execs who are very crooked who have most everything going for them in life so I don't believe in good or bad karma

Unintentionally, yes. I wish I could stop believing in a world of right and wrong, and instead believe in a world of sense and realism.

No and yes and no, as a concept it's a concept that needs to be refused, the ultimate society that comes from it, and the blamability for anything, say conditions, is the worse idea ever realised, that's were other religions, or philosophies are preferable.
It can be used to name bad choices who led to bad outcomes, or as well having unclear goals/intentions who mix up outcomes, un-mindfullness, inattentiveness, passiveness, eg, forgetting things because to hasty or distracted, using a mocking way to say that's karma.
In itself its a way of reason(ing), that everything is causual; sticking burden of life and eternity to it, there's a little point but reconnecting that to your guilt, in the dna you're given, is facilitating ostentatious-constructed hierachies.
So as a thing of building a prison of guilt it needs to be rejected, AI'll find a 'algory'-way to put it's weight in your bill of existance if you're keen on keepin this thing up and about,
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What if someone treat you soooooo badly.

There are too many Karma Houdinis in the world for me to believe any kind of karma exists.

Karma is literally "your doing".
This means if you work hard you will reap the rewards of your labour.
If you're lazy, you will be poor.
If you are kind to someone, they will probably show you kindness in return.
If you're abusive, you will be disliked.
It is your doing.
Somehow the idea of karma has been corrupted from its original meaning to become some kind of magical passive revenge.
That's not what karma is.

If someone is mean to you and they end up suffering some misfortune down the track, that is created from their doing.
It has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.
If you revel in their misfortune, you are creating bad karma yourself, because that is your doing.

So when anything bad happens to me, it's always my own fault, is it?
Well that is how I feel most of the time.

^ No. Shite just happens. Everyone knows that. In my opinion it's not god/s, or karma, or anything else. Things just converge due to a whole array of contributing factors to happen that way at times so you are negatively affected.

Yar, I thought she meant the general colloquial meaning this word has taken on now, not the original genuine religious teaching. Which has nothing to do with a simplistic A = B "smack" for being a "bad" person. It's a subtle and complex teaching. I found the book "Exploring Karma and Rebirth" by Nagapriya helpful, as these are often two of the most misunderstood concepts in Buddhism.

Yep. Your karma is decided by the karma chameleon.