Has karma worked out for you?

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Cindy  Lou Profile
Cindy Lou answered

ehh...hard to tell. I just try my best to brush all the dirt and dust off myself every time I get knocked down and realize there's not much I can do about anyone else .

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Cindy  Lou
Cindy Lou commented
Wow I never got notifications for any if these comments but I am so glad I saw it. I am going to look up one of those dolls too.
Cindy  Lou
Cindy Lou commented
@virginia I can't remember when I found this meme. I like it too :)
Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
Sincerity and Dozy, I did not receive notification of your comments...hmmm...anyway yes, Sincerity, this meme you found is one to live by...
Jann Nikka Profile
Jann Nikka answered

No.

Hell No

Absolutely No.

No.

HappyTo BeHereTo Profile

I can't complain.


Well, I shouldn't.  I do sometimes.  Like today.  Grrrr...

Ancient Hippy Profile
Ancient Hippy answered

Heck yeah. In a previous life I was butt ugly. Look at me now!!!!


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Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
Dear Hippie, after 29 ruined rugs/chairs/shirts/etc., I NEVER even hit the Blurt button with anything in my mouth...
Ancient Hippy
Ancient Hippy commented
That's a good thing Virginia. I've lost my coffee a few times.
Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
Hippy, when our fifth son was born it seemed a bit unlikely and for years I used to ask Mrs Didge who his father might have been. I promised that I'd still love him but she never told me. Then when he was about fifteen he joined the army cadets and got a buzz haircut. And there, standing up on both sides of his head like a taxi driving along with both doors open, were two ears about as big as yours in this photo. *Sigh*. He was mine all right.
Virginia Lou Profile
Virginia Lou answered

Dear Zack,

I do have to say that after a rough start, if this is karma it has worked out okay.

Call me Z Profile
Call me Z answered

In the short term, yes AND no. I find that doing something outwardly thoughtful or kind has a way of returning in our favor, just as doing things that are stupid or impulsive or cruel can return to bite us on the butt. There is no measure of how much I learned from the latter. 

In the larger frame, it seems incredibly naive and simplistic to credit or blame one's general situation in life on undefined events from supposed past lives. For my part, I recognize the years of hard work I and many irreplaceable others put in to have wrought this marvelous life I awaken to everyday. Not merely coincidence. That said, it amuses me to ponder what past dastardly deeds so many of my insufferable kin are now paying for.

Tom  Jackson Profile
Tom Jackson answered

Hinduism and Buddhism believe in karma.

The bible also has something similar in Galatians 6:7:  Be not deceived; God is not mocked: For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

But I'm not involved in balancing the justice-mercy equation in the universe, so I just keep movin' on.

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Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
Dear Tom, lovely...
There is a tradition in Sufism that one of their mystics once asked the Beloved God if God ever prayed...and the answer was "Yes; My prayer is that My mercy be greater than My justice."
Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
I thought Ecclesiastes 11:1 (the bit about bread on the water) had a bearing, too.

And Virginia, clever people, the Sufis. They had some great fables.
Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
Dozy for a long time I thought i WAS Sufi. Turned out I was really just, well, generic...
Didge Doo Profile
Didge Doo answered

Solomon, a particularly smart cookie, suggested that when we cast our bread upon the waters it will repay us (well, we "will find it after many days"). It's not a bad philosophy. What goes around comes around, not by any mystical balancing act (karma) but because the kind of personality we develop attracts similar people and leads us into areas of either satisfaction or contention.

Of course, bad people often gain great wealth and respect (Donald who?) and good people often have bad things happen in their lives, so the idea of karma isn't absolute.

Denis Wholey put it this way: "Expecting the world to be fair to you because you are a good person is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian."

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Tom  Jackson
Tom Jackson commented
(insert "together" in the appropriate place.)
Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
A tragedy, Tom. The sort of thing that can scar a young man for life. :(
Tom  Jackson
Tom Jackson commented
I'm not sure if it has, but I know that my companions probably briefly contemplated scarring me for life.
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It worked perfectly. Two years ago I was bullied by my "best friend" to the point where I became depressed and suicidal. After we graduated I cut contact with her and she got hit by a car ( she survived), never got into the military like she wanted to and ended up working at Taco Bell life got crappy for her.

Darik Majoren Profile
Darik Majoren answered

I don't believe in Karma.

The idea of justice based on wrong doing might sound "Good" to those only thinking of one side of the action. If Karma really is a thing, then you would hope that it will repay someone harming a victim accordingly . . . What you may not understand is what did the victim do to deserve the harm . . If Karma is equal, then in some way the victim is receiving payment for a wrong doing they did . . . And not only does this never end, but what about those victims whom are just little children . . What could they have possibly done to deserve the harm that some receive.

Karma is just our "Hope" that nature or the world has it's own supernatural justice system. Reality is that SOME Murderers, Rapists, and Pedophiles get away with it and go to the grave not receiving a bit of justice.

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Tom  Jackson
Tom Jackson commented
Pretty long explanation of a martial arts move when you could have just said you don't understand what "tapped out" means.

It means "out of resources for understanding Catholicism."
Darik Majoren
Darik Majoren commented
"I'll narrow it down for you---1st Corinthians." - So, Lord Thomas doesn't know

" But you have demonstrated that you do not have the background to understand most of what I say." - So, Lord Thomas doesn't know to "Communicate"

"You need to either have taken the prerequisites or have an open mind in order to learn from me." - You've NOTHING to teach.

"Trying to explain things to you has been demonstrated to be a waste of my time. " - So, "conversion" to Catholicism is the only measure of time wasted or not wasted. I think what you meant to say is that your concepts fail time and time again . . .

"Now I simply respond to you to provide clarity to others. " - And I will try my best to provide that clarity for those others as best I can . . .
Darik Majoren
Darik Majoren commented
So, a lesson for you - This is a verb usage "And since you "tapped out" around 7, your knowledge (as well as your understanding) is locked in at that level and you obviously are content to work with those tools."

If you are "Tapped out" regarding resources, it is an adjective used to describe something.

I responded with it used as a verb, as you ORIGINALLY offered up. It means "To Submit" . . . feel free to look it up

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