Karma - Love it or hate it?

[Dravyk]

I some times wonder if Kharma works both ways as it should.

Love it when some bastard gets their "just desserts"!

That said, like many of us, I have some good Kharma supposedly floating out there, that's waaaaay overdue coming back home.

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by Dravyk

I some times wonder if Kharma works both ways as it should.

Love it when some bastard gets their "just desserts"!

That said, like many of us, I have some good Kharma supposedly floating out there, that's waaaaay overdue coming back home.

Are you sure?

Take a good, long look at your life and decide if you like what you see.

If you do...your Karma has come home.

Good Karma isn't about winning the lottery or some other huge event. It's about the small, day-to-day things that make up a life.

[Dravyk]

Eh, this could get both complicated and come off sounding whiny (by any one) the more Kharma gets explored and compared to "is life fair", which we all know it's not, it's just life.

The discussion could get even weirder still if we figure out, if we're getting Kharma now, saving it up for the next life, or living the Kharma now from the past one. So ... I think I'll forego the deep examination of it, lest we this thread become a tome.

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by Dravyk

Eh, this could get both complicated and come off sounding whiny (by any one) the more Kharma gets explored and compared to "is life fair", which we all know it's not, it's just life.

The discussion could get even weirder still if we figure out, if we're getting Kharma now, saving it up for the next life, or living the Kharma now from the past one. So ... I think I'll forego the deep examination of it, lest we this thread become a tome.

Actually, what you said made perfect sense. (That's always rather scared me. )

Karma is a word that gets tossed around a lot, mostly by people who don't truly believe in it or understand it.

I do know that it doesn't announce itself when it shows up, whether it be from this life, past lives, or whatever.

Life isn't fair. Life frequently sucks for the best people. Sometimes when you look at some people's lives you're left with the feeling that the Great Whatever dropped the ball. When you look at aspects of your own life you mutter "what in the hell did I ever do to deserve this?" Well...nothing. You did nothing to *deserve* it. Shit just happens.

My faith has a tendency to teach that each incarnation is to help you learn something. Again, no white dove shows up holding a parchment to tell you what the hell that is.

I can't explain or define the "Great Whatever." I just know it isn't me.

I'm oddly comforted by that.

[Dravyk]

Yeah it just gets all weird. If Kharma isn't someone winning the lottery, but Kharma IS someone who's a bastard winning it, making more money and eventually loses it all -- well, shit, we think that's great. How is it? Isn't the scummy guy who lived it like a king for say seven years had it better than the average schmo who's still struggling? Hell yeah! So where' the Kharma?

And then there's the whole... so and so lives an improverished life, let's say currently. Is he been given that because in the last life he was a rich bastard who cared about no one, and this is his come uppance? Or is this life in preperation for the next one in which that person's Kharma will be rewarded by being born into the family of a billionaire?

Chicken and the egg ... yin and yang ... And then there's the more generally accepted "we got one life, and bang, that's it" theory .... Think about it too hard and grey matter will explode!

[Dravyk]

Hmm. One thing I know for sure ...

This is all Anthony's fault!

[MorganGrayson]

I think any conversation involving Karma should segue into a discussion of mantras.

"Blame Anthony!" makes a good one.

[Nickatilynx]

Originally Posted by Dravyk

Hmm. One thing I know for sure ...

This is all Anthony's fault!

NO!!!

I won't have it!!!

Its technicks fault...somewhere along the line..oh yes it is...