Karma...

[santa]

Who beleives in Karma? Or the at least some of the ideas behind it?

Could be an interesting discussion... :smokin:

[higher4hockey]

i do, especially cell phone karma. i've had a cell phone for three years now, and ive never lost it permanently. i keep my cell phone on vibrate, i dont walk and talk on it, i dont have stupid ass loud rap ringtones that i want everyone to hear. i turn the ringer off completely when the situation warrants. and basically im not an obnoxious git. now i believe this has helped me with my cell phone adventures. for instance i have misplaced my phone on more than one occasion. for instance after i night of heavy drinking i wake up and go to work realizing that my cell phone is nowhere in sight. i think to myself all day at work were the bloody hell could it be? no fucking clue, i dont even remember how i got home that night. anyways i go home and lo and behold there it is duct taped to my bedroom door, some girl whos car i had been in(dont remember that) said i left it in there and since it had my nickname etched into the back of it (chimney) she knew it was mine and returned it.
another night of heavy drinking a new term for intoxification was coined after me 'chimneyed' people where i used to go to school still say this. anyways i was so drunk that i pissed myself, yes i pissed myself. i woke up the next morning underneath the table in the kitchen of my old frat house covered in this yellow/greenish disgusting sitcky splooge like liquid, probably my own vomit, and in a huge pile of piss. well my cell phone had gotten soaked in urine in the process and refused to turn on. well as luck would have it, it was time for me to renew my plan, so all i had to do was walk up the street and get a new one. i was a little bummed because i had two hundred phone numbers in there many of which i would never get back. cell phone karma kicked in and about three days later when my hangover wore off , my phone miraculously turned on and i got all my numbers back.

on another occasion thats not a very good story, i lost my phone in the woods hunting one day. it spent the night in subzero temperatures in the snow. the next day i found it and the fucker was still turned on.


cell phone karma~ its real!!

[Dutch Pimp]

...Damn!...^^^^...I thought my hangovers was bad!.....3 days?....:glugglug:

[Stoner Shadow Wolf]

wow... cellphone karma... that's... wow... good for you bro! :thumbsup:


Karma is real, it's finally kicking in for me, but im also getting a few deserved repercussions for a few of my earlier wrong doings... plus a lot of my life had been from past mistakes as it is...

i've worked on keeping more upbeat and positive, and lo and behold, karma has repaid my efforts with the most wonderful turn of events... soon to come, things will start working out much better for me, and i will try to pay back the karma fates with more good deeds and friendships.

[Stemis516]

i like the idea, i think it is applicable in our lives to an extent...i cant prove that but no one can...nonetheless parts of it are logical

now with that being said i dont think its the one single thing dictating our salvation or our reincarnation(whichever happens to be true if either) like buddists if i remember correctly......but i do think that good things happen to good people and vice versa

[thecreator]

I've been thinking about this for a while but never had a chance to talk about......I think there are repercussions for actions but do not believe in a forces making things all right in the world. Great topic!

[RedRainDrop]

Yeah i've always thought it existed..... whenever i do something really bad, it always bite me in the ass later. If i do good, my life becomes a bit better.

[santa]

I've been thinking about this for a while but never had a chance to talk about......I think there are repercussions for actions but do not believe in a forces making things all right in the world. Great topic!

Hmm yeah.. thing is.. i've only been paying real close attention to it since Mary Jane.. before that I just lived on impulses.. and largely thought two-dimensionally about things in general..

Now I see this 'karma' in effect every single day, wherever it's from and whatever it is.. there is alot of sense in it imo..

I really wish I could give some examples.. but its tricky.. If you've felt it you'll probably understand what I mean...

Some interesting opinions there though.. thanks guys :)

has anyone got any stories or evidence etc.. that would suggest karma is genuine?

peace :stoned:

[Samwhore]

No, things don't happen for a reason either. Things just happen. If there good, well good for you. Some people just think Karma as energy affecting all in a cycle. Me, no, I think that people make things happen, not some 'higher power.'

[smoke it]

karma make sense to me. what goes around comes around. people do make things happen, but if theyre good or bad things is up to said people.

[thecreator]

Damn I love this thread! Anyway Idk I think that we all believe in some type of Karma.Though we might not admit it.

[peacetrain]

There is no Karma.

If there was some sort of Karmic force, the heroic starving children of the world would cease to starve one day and be granted millions of dollars and endless food. Which never happens.

And the corporate slimeballs who make millions exploiting others would be fired and sent to prison. Which only rarely happens.

There is no Karma, only good and bad luck and everything in between.

[Dest]

what goes around comes around, its a basic principle from every religion.

[santa]

There is no Karma.

If there was some sort of Karmic force, the heroic starving children of the world would cease to starve one day and be granted millions of dollars and endless food. Which never happens.

And the corporate slimeballs who make millions exploiting others would be fired and sent to prison. Which only rarely happens.

There is no Karma, only good and bad luck and everything in between.

Well, i guess it depends how deeply you beleive in karma, and in fact buddhism....

The explanation for the starving children would come from the endless cycle of rebirth, whatever immense daily suffering is felt by these people must have come from somewhere. previous lives?

As for the slimeballs... maybe you just linked it up yourself? .. maybe the starving children are the slimeballs of the last life cycle?

But there's another question aswell.. all these slimeballs.. i'm stereotyping here, but they all seem to be... over-the-hill, balding fat guys, throwing fabricated yacht parties with no-one to confide in but golddigging cheap ass whores... are they happy? really happy? inside?

And the ones who are, perhaps they deserve it?

[Oneironaut]

People in the west seem to have very little idea what "karma" actually is. They tend to think of it as some kind of mysterious cosmic force that ensures good things happen to people who do good things and bad things happen to people who do bad things. If you actually look at Hinduism and Buddhism, you find a very different story however. Karma is actually a name for causation—the idea that causes have effects, and people are responsible for the effects of the things they cause. In this sense I don't think anybody can reasonably doubt the existence of karma.