R. Richard
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BlackShanglan said:
If you find yourself down a dark alley, facing more than one nasty opponent, you might see my point of view.
I spent a lot of my early life down dark alleys.
Is Karma Dead?
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If you find yourself down a dark alley, facing more than one nasty opponent, you might see my point of view.
I spent a lot of my early life down dark alleys.
galaxygoddess
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I was raised on the premise "You do good, you get good, you do bad and you will get bad."
My brother took 20 some odd years to figure this out. I however got it right off the bat. My mom and I used to have a "good deed of the day" and we would try to do ONE thing nice for someone somewhere. Some times it wound up being a lot of things for a lot of people but that what we liked.
I feel sad that I haven't done any good deeds in a long time and I feel it's affecting me physically. I have a need to be nice and do good. I know some people who think they have a "right" to be lousy human beings and take, take, take without a single ounce of give and it makes me so very mad.
Our society is getting in a nasty habit of rewarding bad behavior with money and attention and then others see this and try to immulate it and thus continues a cycle of violence. This world is doing down hill fast, and it is going to take the good being rewarded and being talked about over the bad to make any difference. What kills me though, is how bassackwards our society is, they they will punish the tiniest infractions severely, but huge atrocities were are seemingly "forced" to "forgive". For example, a man (a few people have done this actually) took a bottle of water, and a homemade "fake" bomb to an airport. They gave him hell and tried to detain him over the bottled water but let the bomb on through. How asinine is that??
I also think this world is too damned sue happy. By today's standards I could have sued no less that 15 different people/stores due to injuries my own carelessness within those stores caused me. But I took responisbility for my own stupidity and didn't try to blame anyone. For example: I was in the gas station buying some drinks, when the edge of my skirt caught a wine bottle that was sitting too close to the cooler. Instead of looking at what my dress was hung on, I just simply yanked it and pulled a wine bottle off and it crashed into the floor. The glass shattered and cut up my foot and ankle. I could have freaked out, I could have sued, I could of had those people in litigations forever for having that rack too close to the cooler. If anything I could have demanded some form of resitution. Instead, I tried to help the clerk clean up the mess. When he asked about my bleeding foot, I said "oh it's nothing, I'll heal" and moved on with my life. I still go in that store, i still buy drinks and that rack is still sitting there, but I watch where I'm going now.
Celebrities are another problem entirely. When that whole "Paris Hilton goes to jail" incident happened, my only though was "finally, she'll get punish for something!" then when they isolated her for "medical reasons" my only thought was of a story my corrections teacher told the class. Currently, in prison for the rest of his life, is a man in a wheelchair. He has MS SO badly and has for so long that he has been in an electric wheel chair for most of his life. He is convicted of breaking in a second story window and beating and raping a 25 year old woman. The man cannot move from his chair and yet he was convicted for life for this hienous crime he is not even physically able to committ!! How's that for "medical reasons"?
This world just shames me.
I appologize for my ranting ^.^:;;;
My brother took 20 some odd years to figure this out. I however got it right off the bat. My mom and I used to have a "good deed of the day" and we would try to do ONE thing nice for someone somewhere. Some times it wound up being a lot of things for a lot of people but that what we liked.
I feel sad that I haven't done any good deeds in a long time and I feel it's affecting me physically. I have a need to be nice and do good. I know some people who think they have a "right" to be lousy human beings and take, take, take without a single ounce of give and it makes me so very mad.
Our society is getting in a nasty habit of rewarding bad behavior with money and attention and then others see this and try to immulate it and thus continues a cycle of violence. This world is doing down hill fast, and it is going to take the good being rewarded and being talked about over the bad to make any difference. What kills me though, is how bassackwards our society is, they they will punish the tiniest infractions severely, but huge atrocities were are seemingly "forced" to "forgive". For example, a man (a few people have done this actually) took a bottle of water, and a homemade "fake" bomb to an airport. They gave him hell and tried to detain him over the bottled water but let the bomb on through. How asinine is that??
I also think this world is too damned sue happy. By today's standards I could have sued no less that 15 different people/stores due to injuries my own carelessness within those stores caused me. But I took responisbility for my own stupidity and didn't try to blame anyone. For example: I was in the gas station buying some drinks, when the edge of my skirt caught a wine bottle that was sitting too close to the cooler. Instead of looking at what my dress was hung on, I just simply yanked it and pulled a wine bottle off and it crashed into the floor. The glass shattered and cut up my foot and ankle. I could have freaked out, I could have sued, I could of had those people in litigations forever for having that rack too close to the cooler. If anything I could have demanded some form of resitution. Instead, I tried to help the clerk clean up the mess. When he asked about my bleeding foot, I said "oh it's nothing, I'll heal" and moved on with my life. I still go in that store, i still buy drinks and that rack is still sitting there, but I watch where I'm going now.
Celebrities are another problem entirely. When that whole "Paris Hilton goes to jail" incident happened, my only though was "finally, she'll get punish for something!" then when they isolated her for "medical reasons" my only thought was of a story my corrections teacher told the class. Currently, in prison for the rest of his life, is a man in a wheelchair. He has MS SO badly and has for so long that he has been in an electric wheel chair for most of his life. He is convicted of breaking in a second story window and beating and raping a 25 year old woman. The man cannot move from his chair and yet he was convicted for life for this hienous crime he is not even physically able to committ!! How's that for "medical reasons"?
This world just shames me.
I appologize for my ranting ^.^:;;;
wfbfootball
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in my opinion karma maynot neccesarily be dead, but it takes a more passive approach to things, its true that people may not believe in it as much, or practice good deeds as much, but even though there are many bad people in this world, there are also good, and if oyu want to see real karma look at the evil people in power, the ones who practice bad deeds every day of their lives, the chances are that their home life, or personal life may be in terror, kids may hate them, wife cheating on them, they may hate themselves to the depths of hell deep down, butn ever on the outside, ya never know, but thats just my opinion
cloudy
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I think, in the end, you can only be satisfied that you have done the best that you can under the circumstances.
Fate kicks you in the ass whether you've been "good" or "bad" - doesn't matter. If there is such a thing as hell, it's right here, right now.
Fate kicks you in the ass whether you've been "good" or "bad" - doesn't matter. If there is such a thing as hell, it's right here, right now.
