Karma

[BoyNextDoor]

So what do you think? Do you reap what you sow? Is there positive return on the positive energy you exude and a negative return when you give out negative energy?

I am as atheistic as you get but I think there is something to the notion that there is a metaphysical residue left behind when positive, or negative, actions and choices are made by each of us.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Bad karma gave me kidney cancer.

 

[pink]

I believe in karma. I have my bitchy times but overall, I try to be kind and make good choices.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

I believe in karma. I have my bitchy times but overall, I try to be kind and make good choices.

Has it paid off?

 

[BoyNextDoor]

If there is a karmic negative scale then bitchy is pretty low on it, and mean is pretty high on it.

 

[glynndah]

I try to be deliberately good when I can to balance out all those times when I am inadvertently bad and may not even realize it.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

Raised Catholic, glynndah?

 

[pink]

Has it paid off?

Pretty much, I am blessed. I am healthy, I have a wonderful daughter, a roof over my head, a job I enjoy, my ornery pets, friends, church. I am lucky.

 

[glynndah]

Raised Catholic, glynndah?

Nope.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

Nope.

My mistake, and apologies. I was brought up Catholic and had a dose of "times when I am inadvertently bad" I was raised with.

 

[glynndah]

My mistake, and apologies. I was brought up Catholic and had a dose of "times when I am inadvertently bad" I was raised with.

Is that a Catholic thing?

 

[BoyNextDoor]

Is that a Catholic thing?

Aye. Starting with original sin and right up through not going to heaven because you did not clean your plate.

 

[glynndah]

Aye. Starting with original sin and right up through not going to heaven because you did not clean your plate.

Hm. Glad I was raised "whatever church is closest so we can get an hour without the little brat".

 

[Littlefinger]

I try really hard but I also try not to feel like I'm entitled to anything. I find that even if you don't believe in the metaphysical, it is a psychological thing. If you're already in a negative mental state, then when something bad happens it is perceived as worse than it is. Same with the opposite, being positive and putting a positive or optimistic spin on things, turns things that happen into unexpected rewards.

We all live within our own heads anyway, constantly viewing the world as a hall of mirrors filled with projections. Perspective is everything.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Karma sounds a lot like Santa Claus.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

Littlefinger just defined the "luck of the Irish".

As in "I stepped in dog shit, but luckily I was not wearing my Sunday shoes!"

 

[eyer]

So proudly proclaiming to believe in nothing...

...yet still searching everywhere to believe in something.


Too friggin' funny.

 

[Littlefinger]

Littlefinger just defined the "luck of the Irish".

As in "I stepped in dog shit, but luckily I was not wearing my Sunday shoes!"

So, not the same thing? I've been calling it "fake it 'till you make it."

 

[BoyNextDoor]

So, not the same thing? I've been calling it "fake it 'till you make it."

Totally the same thing - you nailed it 100% with "being positive and putting a positive or optimistic spin on things, turns things that happen into unexpected rewards. "

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Pretty much, I am blessed. I am healthy, I have a wonderful daughter, a roof over my head, a job I enjoy, my ornery pets, friends, church. I am lucky.

Church? Are you a Hindu or Buddhist?

 

[hashtag45]

I try really hard but I also try not to feel like I'm entitled to anything. I find that even if you don't believe in the metaphysical, it is a psychological thing. If you're already in a negative mental state, then when something bad happens it is perceived as worse than it is. Same with the opposite, being positive and putting a positive or optimistic spin on things, turns things that happen into unexpected rewards.

We all live within our own heads anyway, constantly viewing the world as a hall of mirrors filled with projections. Perspective is everything.

I see things the same way; a matter of perspective. aka what's seen as being bad for one person can be seen as good to another one.

 

[Bert Notorius]

jesus had really bad karma.

 

[Tryharder62]

jesus had really bad karma.

I don't think you caught the ending! (He wins)

 

[BoyNextDoor]

He at least had enough good karma that it saved all of us and all future people, for all time, and all the people that ever were, from the taint of original sin. That is a fuck-ton of good karma. Just sayin'

 

[Skiddles2015]

Your karma just ran over my dogma.