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486 sats \ 11 comments \ @stack_harder 18 Jun AskSN

Do you stackers believe in Karma?

I have to say, I don't think I do. Sure, sometimes the 'bad' person gets it, but more often, it just seems like people continue to do terrible things without consequence.

Do you know anyone personally that got some sweet karma justice?

A good recent example was Craig Wright, I think , not that I knew him personally. But I still feel like the amount of chaos and financial problems he caused by suing people, his punishment wasn't enough. what kind of a fucking sico just decides he's satoshi and keeps endlessly lying about it

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1458 sats \ 1 reply \ @Coyote_Cosmico 19h

A punk-ass answer: no, then yes, and it depends!

In my (limited) understanding, the word karma in the common Western vocab is a bit different from the concept in Hindu tradition.

It reminds me of how we use the word ego, which most English speakers would describe as something like a sense of self-importance or arrogance.

But we don't really have an English word that matches the one we would also translate as "ego" from some ancient South Asian text - which could be described as a sense of a self which is indivdual and separate from everything and everyone else.

Very different concept, but we use the same word in English. Similar to the word karma.

So karma, as it's usually used in English = fuck around and find out? If you do something "bad" then "bad" things will happen to you? No I don't see much evidence for that - not in that sense.

But coming from a lens of Hundusim or Buddhism I've seen karma described as simple cause and effect. If you do something "bad" that usually implies someone or something gets hurt and suffers, and that is your effect. A law of nature that is observable and measurable, like Newton's 3rd law.

The effect might be that something "bad" happens to you, but that's really subjective right?

Maybe the bad is that people are angry with you or hate you. That might bother some more than others, and it might be hard to notice, but it's still there. You might just feel guilty and suffer from that, or it may reinforce more of your own prickish tendencies which leads to other consequences down the track. Or you might really piss someone off and get punched in the mouth, which is more obvious.

So to me, karma is just cause and effect. Actions have consequences and ripple out, even if the consequences might not be so visible on the surface.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder OP 3h

i must say that yes, i think of karma as a type of fuck around and find out

942 sats \ 0 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 18 Jun

I don't see how anyone could look at the world and believe in karma.

Taking a pretty easy example, I think it's safe to say that most people in the US believe that at least one of Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump is an awful person. Plenty of folks believe both of them are, but I don't think there's anyone who believes neither of them is awful. So surely, karma should impact at least one of them.

But they've both lived utterly charmed and successful lives. Literally the only "negative karma" they've faces is losing a national election (we should all be so lucky to be successful enough in life to be able to lose one), and each has lived to at least 77 years old.

We do see bad people who die young or go broke or whatnot, but that's never karma. If karma were real, it would be consistent, or else at least we wouldn't also see good people dying young and going broke.

At best, we sometimes see justice, but even then, it's brought by men, not by the universe.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @istealcheetos 21h

it's the base of hindu philosphy

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @NovaRift 21h

I don't believe in Karma. Man, Tragedies happens with everyone, humans are just good at linking to patterns. In reality nothing is good or bad it's all imaginary creation made by us humans.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @istealcheetos 13h

huh? tf u saying?

I don't believe in Karma.

how man?

Bernie Madoff Stole billions via Ponzi scheme. Lived the high life… for a while. Ended up dying alone in prison, disowned, and with a ruined legacy. “But he got away with it for years.” Yeah, but his fall was mythic. Karma takes its time—like cancer.
Harvey Weinstein For decades, used power to exploit women. Hollywood enabled him. Now? Convicted, imprisoned, reputation destroyed. Karma didn’t need candles—just #MeToo and time.
Adolf Eichmann Nazi architect of Holocaust logistics. Escaped to Argentina. Changed identity. 15 years later? Mossad caught him. Public trial and hanging in Israel. Karma wears many faces. One is justice.
Good Karma: Keanu Reeves Known for acts of quiet generosity: gives bonuses to crew, lives humbly, respects everyone. What happens? Universally loved. Gets work, peace, respect, and dignity. No scandals. No dirt. Just grace. Call it luck? No—earned goodwill.

only some examples, the society runs on karma

and as for luck, what people call luck is mostly their own stupidity

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @stack_harder OP 3h

sadly, people like Bernie etc got away with being bad for decades, whereas their fall from grace was quite fast

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @istealcheetos 2h

yup, extreme justice is extreme injustice

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @seashell 23h

Even though i wanna believe karma is real, sometimes it just feels like something people say when they wanna think bad stuff gets paid back. but most times it don’t, assholes keep winning, good folks keep losing. real karma is probably just a story we tell ourselves to feel better.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @istealcheetos 13h

nope you're talking like the novarift guy #1009832

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @212bda1990 23h freebie

There is no such thing as "karma". But, the human mind tries hard to get an answer why things happen the way they happen (when there is no answer at all). Since the human mind is self deceptive, it came up with the idea of "Karma".