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Post by drystyx on Jun 3, 2017 16:46:43 GMT
I call it completely unChristian when used in a negative sense, because I constantly see people rationalize their demonic love of demonic activity with the word.
As for the positive sense, I have no problem if it's used to mean someone deserved healing, but not for rationalizing someone getting a promotion over another person, or something along those lines.
There are no worse judges than humans, unless it is the evil principalities that choose the most incompetent and hateful humans to honor curses from. No curses should be honored.
"Karma" is a sick word for sick people, unless you say something like "poor little Gina was blind, but so nice, and I'm glad she can see now. Good karma." I think it's incorrect, but it's not negative.
So take your "karma" and go home and cry to your mama with it. I got your karma right here.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Jun 3, 2017 17:04:48 GMT
Karma is not a supernatural thing but rather an inevitability.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2017 17:18:48 GMT
I'm not a Christian at all, but to me, karma sort of means 'be the change that you want to see'. So example, if you treat others poorly, you have every reason to expect that to 'come back round' to you, because statistically speaking, others will be just like you (not caring about morality) and you haven't done anything to try and effect a change in that system so have no right to expect anyone else to do so. There is not literally any supernatural system of retribution, but karma is still a useful metaphor.
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Post by Vegas on Jun 3, 2017 17:23:49 GMT
"It's a bitch."?  |
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Post by Jillian on Jun 3, 2017 17:27:27 GMT
Karma is for me something which concerns us all regardless of religion etc. If we do terrible things somehow I think that at some point somehow, somwhere, our actions will catch up with us and when it happens, we know it.
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Post by koskiewicz on Jun 3, 2017 21:32:42 GMT
...what goes around, comes around...
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Jun 3, 2017 22:18:36 GMT
I never had anything for or against the word, but then I never looked into its origins. Every few years I'll hear a reference to good karma or bad karma, and that's about it.
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Post by captainbryce on Jun 3, 2017 23:56:45 GMT
I call it completely unChristian when used in a negative sense, because I constantly see people rationalize their demonic love of demonic activity with the word. As for the positive sense, I have no problem if it's used to mean someone deserved healing, but not for rationalizing someone getting a promotion over another person, or something along those lines. There are no worse judges than humans, unless it is the evil principalities that choose the most incompetent and hateful humans to honor curses from. No curses should be honored. "Karma" is a sick word for sick people, unless you say something like "poor little Gina was blind, but so nice, and I'm glad she can see now. Good karma." I think it's incorrect, but it's not negative. So take your "karma" and go home and cry to your mama with it. I got your karma right here. Karma is a belief that one's actions (positive or negative) ultimately affect their fate in the future. Good karma would be positive experiences gained from positive actions, while bad karma would be negative experiences resulting from negative choices. Karma is not a "curse". Galatians 6:7 is a curse (one of the many curses in the bible). If you have a problem with curses, you probably want to stay away from the bible. |
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Post by shannondegroot on Jun 4, 2017 0:18:17 GMT
Karma only exists if you believe in it. If you want to believe you stubbed your toe because you tripped some old lady then so be it but how could you tell you wouldn't have stubbed it regardless? And why is stubbing your toe the punishment? Is everything bad that happens to you a karmatic reaction to some bad thing you did at an earlier time? And how fast does karma usually work? How much time between the wrong doing and the karma reaction must there be to associate it with one another?
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Post by captainbryce on Jun 4, 2017 0:42:49 GMT
Karma only exists if you believe in it. If you want to believe you stubbed your toe because you tripped some old lady then so be it but how could you tell you wouldn't have stubbed it regardless? And why is stubbing your toe the punishment? I don't think anyone actually believes that, or would equate those two things with Karma. And I think that comparison is demonstrative of someone who doesn't actually understand Karma. It has less to do with a time interval and the poetic (ironic) outcome of a specific expectation. Usually events that are said to be the result of Karma are related. Example, you fire someone not because of their job performance, but rather because you personally don't like them. Two years later, you are summarily dismissed from your position because your new boss doesn't like your attitude. Many would attribute something like that to Karma because you are receiving the same injustice as you levied against someone else. |
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Post by shannondegroot on Jun 4, 2017 3:00:51 GMT
Oh, then I now really believe karma is BS. Someone might forget what even happened 2 years earlier or not even understand what they did wrong to get fired, and never truly understand why the karma slapped them 2 years later in a coincidental way or that it was even karma trying to repay them or teach them a lesson in the first place. Trust me I know people who would believe a family member getting Cancer is karma for that person yelling at them for constantly doing a job wrong. |
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Post by clusium on Jun 4, 2017 3:02:41 GMT
I think of Karma Chameleon, by the Culture Club.
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Post by captainbryce on Jun 4, 2017 3:50:00 GMT
Oh, then I now really believe karma is BS. Someone might forget what even happened 2 years earlier or not even understand what they did wrong to get fired, and never truly understand why the karma slapped them 2 years later in a coincidental way or that it was even karma trying to repay them or teach them a lesson in the first place. Trust me I know people who would believe a family member getting Cancer is karma for that person yelling at them for constantly doing a job wrong. There is a difference from the colloquial usage of the term (by people who never knew anything about the philosophical concept), and how it is interpreted by Buddhists and Hindus. |
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Post by clusium on Jun 4, 2017 3:54:13 GMT
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Post by Vegas on Jun 4, 2017 17:42:11 GMT
"My karma ran over your dogma."? |
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