Do you believe in Karma?

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I dont really...
But something made me think tonight... I was in a weird mood... because i get so immensely bored during the week... while i work on weekends and my friends have partners they see after work on weekdays and whatnot... kinda never really spend time with them anymore... so i went for a drive... for about 30 minutes... found a skatepark with a night light... skated by myself for about 2 hours then went home again...

11:30pm... About 5 kilometers from my house there was a hitchhiker... and there was something about him... that made me have to stop and pick him up... and coincidentally it was an old friend i used to do fitness training with... Continued on... went over the next hill and there was an echidna... as in those turtle like creatures with sharp spines all over them... and it was right under where the lights could reach so it just appeared once i got to the top of the hill... must have missed it by like 3 or 4 inches... if i didnt quickly pull over and pick my friend up i would have ran straight over it considering i took the same angle up the road... destroying my sexy newish tyres in the process...

I might as well make a poll on this... i think i remember seeing this question before... oh well a new one...

Like i said i dont really believe in karma... but i like to act by the what goes around comes around philosophy because it gives me a piece of mind when i do what would be considered the "right thing to do" even if its inconvenient... say like picking rubbish off the ground if i walk past it...

I don't believe in karma, but like you said, having "what comes around goes around" in the back of your head can be reassuring when doing inconvenient good deeds.

Not really.

I do use the word however but I full well know it was just a coincidence but I call it karma anyway when something bad happened to that person because they had done wrong things in the past. I also say people create karma, it's called revenge. So there is karma alright, people create it. It's called revenge.

Technically I don't, but I sometime pretend I do as a coping mechanism when someone wrongs me and I have no redress...

The thing to strive for is that we should want to do the right thing - it should not be inconvenient because it should be something we want to do. Cleaning the streets, and generally being nice in all ways, should be something we delight in...

...yeah, it's hard. So we get the idea of karma - and its relations Heaven and Hell and all that nonsense - to coerce us with "be good, because Someone (and/or Fate) is watching." I think it even lurks implicitly behind most forms of the vaunted Golden Rule.

It depends what you mean by karma. I would say yes, but with reservations, and not so much in the more immediate ways mentioned above.

It goes hand in hand with reincarnation, life lessons and spiritual development, evolution and other longer term ideas for me.

I believe in Karma and other spiritual things. I believe that what goes around, comes around. If you're good to others, good things happen to you. If you're nasty to people, bad things happen to you.

I voted "no," but like the OP, I believe that everyone should behave as if it did exist. This dovetails with the "Categorical Imperative" by Immanuel Kant.

No. From a psychological standpoint, it's very paradoxical.

I do this, too.

My dogma is chasing your karma.

I had a case of bad karma today. I tried to be like the rest of the WP members by trying a bit of small talk and I got burned in each of those threads. I feel dead when I don't mention The Kinks at least 3 times a day, 7 at the most as I don't want to overdo that either. You know what people say. People will like you more, if you just be yourself.

Wish I did. Would make life much easier to deal with.

reading up on the writings of dr. ian stephenson and on the life of edgar cayce made me believe.

What an irony - today I spent most of my day reading about OOBE and the ways of achieving it Maybe we are aspies for we gathered a lot of bad karma - or maybe it was a real good one, depends on the perspective you are looking at it from

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It's simple cause and effect. You give out nothing but s**t, you get s**t back. It may take a while for it to happen, but it will.