bullsnakesam

What is Karma? The encyclopedia defines karma as "The force generated by a person's actions to perpetuate transmigration and in its ethical consequences to determine his/her destiny in his/her next existence. As such, this query is a double-bladed dagger of conflicting perspectives. There are many meandering roads that string-off and lead away from the main issue of the question, but with great endurance bear with me on the general topic. What is Karma? Does Karma exist? If it does indeed exist, then how does it influnce our lives and the lives of others in the three spectrums; past, present, and future? Can Karma carry over and effect not just people, but the surrounding area? These are but the few questions of many boiling under this discussion.

What is Karma?
As the definiton above explains in detail its the force that influences our lives through even the most minute of actions in everyday circumstances, along with the power to direct or destroy the lives of those around us. But how does Karma work and where are its origins? To be continued.

Does Karma exist?
Personally...I believe it does. Coming from a family that prides and stresses tradition and familial bonds over any other issue has helped shape my line of thought. But I digress. Thus I believe that Karma does have the extraordinary gift for bringing great fortune or our untimely, or timely, demise.

If it does indeed exist, then how does it influnce our lives and the lives of others in the three spectrums; past, present, and future?
Now this is a triky pickle. How does Karma work? It all depends on the viewers poni-of-view really. If you believe that someone deserved what they had coming to them, then maybe they did. Then again, maybe not. It's a delicate scale. Where one murderer finds glee, the conservative husband finds despair. If the said murderer were to kill said husbands family, did he deserve? What was it in his past or present that dictated such a response? Or what was it that drove the murderer to carry out this crime? Which answers my main question. If there is indeed a balance of good versus evil, then why do the good suffer more than the wicked? Where one stroke of the sword or swipe of the pen may be the start of something new and exotic or downright dreadful. Only time tells.

Can Karma carry over and effect not just people, but the surrounding area?
In many instances, yes. The Nazi death camps. The Gulog. Prisons. Fractured Households. All retain a disconcerting sense of distortion because of what took place on their hollowed grounds. The deaths of the many outweigh the deaths of a few. When great forces gather and commit to doing something terrible the effects will linger and haunt the decisions of the descendants. Where one thing was grand and exponential, the follow-up is low and poor.

The point is that when an action takes place, whether it be salvation or damnation, the action itself leaves a mist and alters the lives of those who took part in the action or were mere bystanders. In some shape or form, Karma has a way of shifting the lives of the common everyman.

Neo Zelda

I personally believe it does exist. What goes around comes around as I always say. I've seen it happen. My best friend told a guy she would date him after we went to Florida. Because she wanted to be single in Florida for some reason. So this guy is totally in love with her right. He counts down the days until Florida he can't even enjoy himself because he wanted her sooo bad. Then we come back from Florida and he expecting her to say "ok I'm ready to go out with you". But instead she wants to go out with another guy. So she ditches the guy and starts putting her moves on this new guy. So in turn the new guy dosen't want her and she's left with no one. What goes around comes around.

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bullsnakesam

That's very true indeed, Neo Zelda. I've seen the very same thing happen before and am glad to have not been caught up the whole debacle. But, i was there for my bro and, you know, you have to be there for your friends. Otherwise, if you have anything else you ant to add or discuss, please PM me or merely answer the call to one of forums.

Mar

That's not Karma. It's teenage hormones.

What is Karma?

Karma is the effect you have around others and yourself. Any reaction to take will effect someone, and eventually the actions they take will lead back to you. It's not what "goes around comes around." It's your actions in a domino that effects others. Eventually their actions will effect you.

Sometimes it's good. Sometimes it doesn't make a difference. Sometimes it's for the worse. Karma happens everyday to people, you just have to notice it.

Does Karma Exist

If I stop breathing will my body lack oxygen and later lead to me dying? View it as your brain being one person, and your body being another. Your brain tells yourself to stop breathing, and your body feels the effects. Eventually your brain will shut down, because you also need the oxygen.

Karma can be the most complicated, or the most simplest of things.

How does it effect our past, present, and future

What we do a minute later will be our past. Then we'll be in our present and expect the future. Our actions in our past and present will effect our future.


Can Karma carry over and effect not just people, but the surrounding area?

Well, your actions effect someone else, won't their actions effect a community of people, including yourself?

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bullsnakesam

Thanks for the input Mar. As well as for the gift. I agree with your point-of-view. It's an interesting perspective and I respect that.

mihir

Karma is a sanskrit word and its true meaning is one's actions and deeds. The total effect of a person's actions and conduct during the successive phases of his existence; regarded as determining his next incarnation. Ask if you want clarity. Maybe you mean Destiny, fate or A distinctive feeling atmosphere.

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Ice

Karma is basically a rep system here. If you do a good deed you get good karma while if you do bad you get bad karma. There are many levels of Karma though. They have different names for each one.

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shaolinXLAW

MAr i do agree that yeah that is human hormones (what neo Zelda said) but the ***** ditched the guy and in return for her evil *****y deed she got **** that is karma and it will bite u in the ass if ur not a ****wad to everyone!!

MAR i do agree that most of that is hormones (what neo zelda was explaining) but the b&#$h ditch the guy and in return for her b*#&hy deeds she got ****!! so karma is out there and it will come to bite u in the ass if ur not a ****wad to everyone!!

Deadeye

The general idea of Karma is that "What comes around, Goes around," which means that if you were to slay a village of starving children, you'd probably suffer a fate equal to the action. But who's to say that you won't get a favorable fate for saving all of those children from a grim life?

I guess it really depends on conscience and how the action is looked upon personally, so that kid who *****slaps people at will is probably looking at it as helping people take their mind off of other painful memories.

I don't know about you guys, but I'm off to slay a village of starving children.

Bitey

I believe what goes around comes around. Well it does for me anyways.

Metal Wing

Karma... What goes around, comes around...

All that makes me think of a quote:

"Human kind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange." ~ Edward Elric, The Full Metal Alchemist

Not only alchemy. I believe everything in this world is balanced out. Just like energy cannot disappear, neither can our actions.

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Acid Bunny

whats karma again?

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Metal Wing

Read top 2 posts >.>

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Bitey

Umm? Hello this is the REAL world not some anime. Everything works like that, its not like it just started once he said it. It is almost never equivalent exchange, I mean what did the blacks get out of slavery? Also the 100 or so years after slavery was abolished?