Do you believe in karma?

[earthboundmisfit]

No actually I don't. Bad things happen to good people. And sometimes good people have to do bad things.

It sometimes takes a while. I'm ten years older than you, and I know I still haven't been around long enough to see some things come around full circle.

['andersom']

It works in that way, that I will likely make the mistakes again that I did not learn from.
That's not just true for me, but for most people I guess.

And the mistakes I did learn from, I won't do again.

There is enough random badness and goodness to defy the concept of Karma. Earthquakes and such. But in other aspects, yes, I think there is something that you could describe with the terminology of Karma.

[Blasted]

What about people who make the same mistakes, over and over again, whilst fully knowing they're making them? 

['andersom']

Oh, I've made mistakes for over 40 years. And did deal with quite a few the last few years.
And there are probably mistakes enough left for me to deal with.

I'm not afraid of that any more. Life will never be perfect, nor will I.

I am a lot happier than when I was 20 though. Even if the facts seem to indicate something else.



And even with a perfect life. Shit will happen. Karma is a concept. It does not explain all.

[earthboundmisfit]

What about people who make the same mistakes, over and over again, whilst fully knowing they're making them? 

Some people stay in a cycle because it is comfortable and familiar, and staying in that cycle is much easier than change. Something comfortable and familiar can be the more attractive option than change and uncertainty, even if the comfort and familiarity are toxic.

[Celticgoddess]

What about people who make the same mistakes, over and over again, whilst fully knowing they're making them? 

Some people stay in a cycle because it is comfortable and familiar, and staying in that cycle is much easier than change. Something comfortable and familiar can be the more attractive option than change and uncertainty, even if the comfort and familiarity are toxic.

QFT

['andersom']

What about people who make the same mistakes, over and over again, whilst fully knowing they're making them? 

Some people stay in a cycle because it is comfortable and familiar, and staying in that cycle is much easier than change. Something comfortable and familiar can be the more attractive option than change and uncertainty, even if the comfort and familiarity are toxic.

QFT

[P7PSP]

What about people who make the same mistakes, over and over again, whilst fully knowing they're making them? 

Some people stay in a cycle because it is comfortable and familiar, and staying in that cycle is much easier than change. Something comfortable and familiar can be the more attractive option than change and uncertainty, even if the comfort and familiarity are toxic.

QFT

Bandwagon.

[El]

What about people who make the same mistakes, over and over again, whilst fully knowing they're making them? 

I call them "mom" and they deserve what they get.   

[Buzz Killington]

I prefer to be karma, as in taking it upon myself to see that people don't profit from being assholes, stuff like that.  I like to think that I may not be able to solve the world's problems, but I can keep my little corner of it a bit nicer.

[renaeden]

Same. If it were karma, then I have a lot of good karma coming my way. But it isn't happening so I feel I have more of an internal locus of control.

Geez. I have learnt something in psychology.

[P7PSP]

Same. If it were karma, then I have a lot of good karma coming my way. But it isn't happening so I feel I have more of an internal locust of control.

Geez. I have learnt something in psychology.

John the Baptist survived on locusts and honey.   

[Al Swearegen]

I don't believe in Karma. At all.

[ZEGH8578]

i wonder...

people who yes "yes absolutely"
are you guys blind and deaf? :S

have you paid no attention to anything that has happened in the world?
if there was karma, this would be george w bush:


or are you saying that g. w. bush has never been stripped naked, beaten and smeared in shit, cus it was a nice and decent thing to happen?

karma doesnt exist. i wish it did, but it doesnt.

[ZEGH8578]

and before someone goes "no karma DOES exist, cus bush is sad now! he isnt president any more, besides hes newspapers arrived late! HA!!!"
no.

for karma to exist, i want a picture of g.w.bush smeared in shit.
i want a photo of pinochet executed in a football stadium, or ayatollah khomeini hung by the throat from a tower crane.

if karma settles by giving evildoers a little annoyance in life "awww prison break isnt on " then karma is a fucking bitch, and totally useless to everyone.