do you believe in karma? ( Archived) (30)

Absolutely!!!

Most religions have some explanation for it. Even though I'm Christian, I tend to like the Wickan 3 fold rule, what ever you do comes back to you 3 times over.

Do you ever watch My Name Is Earl? pretty funny show and all about Karma.

i second that ...its alive and well

yes but i call it being resposible for my actions. and we all know " every action has an equall and opposite reaction." which creats the way the world goes around.

Nice answer...used to quote to my kids when they were growing up.

Yes...watch what you say and do to others.....it WILL come back and bite you in the butt

Yes, absolutely I do.

i would like to hear the half wit etrapolation. when you have a lets say child abucting buisness man who steals and tortures people his whole life, just out of mocking jest towards and GOD or KARMA or Justice. (we have a lot of these people, for real. Cults and cults of them.) Forget that, think of just the one. THey live a long life and die of natural causes at the age of 89. what were you saying? just curious. speically the experts.

pride and idiocy for the win

yes this is puzzling, this may lead to belief of an after life, or later judgement/payback.

I don't choose to believe that life is limited to the 89 or how ever long physical lives we get here. I do believe in an after life. For me, I do believe in other lifetimes. One life is too short to learn everything we need to to grow significantly closer to our highest potential as humans, I believe. I believe that the better we do and the more we learn to integrate positively, the more we draw good to ourselves and can help others. That's the other part of Karma. It comes back to us when we do anything, positive or negative. I liked the person's comment whi said it can also be called personal responsibility. . . and I think on the grandest scale.

Each faith has their own ideas of what happens to us as a result of positive or negative actions we choose in life. Some call it heaven, hell or purgatory. Some call it other lifetimes. I guess I just can't believe that anybody could stay ignorant forever and ever. What would be the point? Whatever the highest Power is in each person's religious tradition, surely that Power is the ultimate and perfect Teacher. We won't be left negative forever but taught over time. How long that probably is is up to each person's belief system. If I believed in only one life and no spiritual influence, I probably would ask the same question you are. It's not that I'm judging your opinion or that I can prove what I believe. For me,I just don't feel I need to have a debate over it. I'm the only one who needs to believe myself ultimately. That part is my responsibility.

Jeesh, I got long winded!!!

No, I don't believe it exists.

I see bad things happen to good people and vice versa all the time.

I feel we have to be the best we can be to have inner peace, not for hope of reward or fear of retribution.

I met a man who was Hindu at a party a few months ago, and the conversation turned to Karma. His beliefs list 3 types of Karma:

1. absolute karma attached to a soul across time
2. relative karma that begins and ends in a lifetime
3. pre-ordained karma, like a jarful of fireflies

The "Americanized" version of Karma is more like a "what goes around comes around" type of belief.

I believe there is karma,but the man with their actions may divert it in a sense..