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In reply to the discussion: Karma: a poll [View all]F4lconF16
(3,747 posts)36. If it exists...
It exists as a pattern that we could see using heavy statistical analysis on a population over broad periods of time and would be due to a large number of highly complex variables.
It would not exist in and of itself, affecting people based on their actions. That idea is remarkably similar to the Force in Star Wars, where good actions and vigilance allow you to progress one way on the morality spectrum and bad actions the other. Except that karma also adds that physical events in the universe will change based on objective moral laws. Human morality is an idea, not something intrinsic to the universe.
A question for the people that do believe: do you think karma applies to animals, too?
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"In this world nothing happens to a person that he does not for some reason or other deserve." *
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2015
#2
I have parking karma that goes with me even when I'm a passenger, not the driver.
SheilaT
Mar 2015
#30
How cool is it that you are such an awesome person that you are rewarded with choice parking spots?
trotsky
Mar 2015
#60
Karma is one of those ideas so superficially reassuring people flock to embrace it.
Act_of_Reparation
Mar 2015
#9
indeed, and here we have a much better model for the ideal personal attack:
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2015
#85
Have you noticed that more and more people are adopting trolling as a life-style?
struggle4progress
Mar 2015
#89
Have you noticed that internet communication doesn't always produce coherent conversations?
struggle4progress
Mar 2015
#93
the poster appears to be once again spamming a discussion with nonsense
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2015
#115
Karma, as I understand it, is not just a simplistic system of rewards and punishments.
SheilaT
Mar 2015
#33
like the rest of religious bullshit, it isn't that it is impossible to believe, it is easy to
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2015
#114
Karma is romanticised evil. Justification for the mistreatment of humans.
AtheistCrusader
Mar 2015
#47
Ugh, one of many various beliefs in a "just world fallacy" that can be used to explain away...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2015
#50
The poll is fine, and yes it can be reduced to a simple concept. It is bullshit. Pure and simple.
AtheistCrusader
Mar 2015
#122