Do You Believe In Karma?

[naomi24]

Rod Stewart has accused Gregg Wallace of humiliating his wife and says the backlash Wallace is now facing for his alleged inappropriate behaviour is Karma.   Is it - and do you have any personal experiences that you would attribute to Karma?

[davebro3]

Not really - any such occurences are just coincidence IMV.

[Untitled]

the world is full of horrible people who live lives that are long happy and prosperous off the back of immense harm to others. there are whole sections of the economy (tobacco, pharmaceuticals, gambling, etc) which specialize in grinding enormous profit out of human misery and pain. such people pat themselves on the back about how hard they work to make money from this suffering and live comfortably and happily. 

i don't see how anyone can look honestly at the modern world and believe in karma. horrible behaviour is not only unpunished but often lavishly rewarded. if we want things to be better then we have to make them that way... the cosmos won't do it for us.

[Canary42]

Karma obviously happens (see Youtube for some excellent examples) but it is only a descriptive term for those occasions when it coincidentally occurs, it is not some inevitable predestiny.

[ToraToraTora]

11:35 I largely agree but I would add that the "horrible people" would not be able to do it without human stupidity, which is vast.

[ToraToraTora]

The best example of karma in recent times is the whole Wagatha Christie debacle.

[Peter Pedant]

what goes around comes around

famously anti gay James Anderton chief constable of Manchester bore his daughter coming out as a lesbian

[Peter Pedant]

Canary see C G Jung synchronicity - I cdnt get past Chap 5

[barry1010]

Karma is just cause and effect - your actions have consequences, so of course I believe in it.

Committing an offence and getting arrested is not surprising. Karma is not some sort of divine intervention.

A funny example of karma is the lech walking in to a lampost because he's leching after a woman walking by.

[davebro3]

What about the lech who didn't walk into a lampost - where was karma then eh?

[Arksided]

Busy watching the woman

[Old_Geezer]

I think it extremely unlikely that reality keeps a plus & minus score related to human belief of what is good and what is bad.

 

But when it appears that life seems to have dispensed justice then folk like to attribute it to this concept of karma.

 

Yeah, every good thing that happens to me has to be karma, every bad thing proves it isn't anything of the sort.

[wolf63]

Karma is real.

She is a Police Dog working for Police Scotland. 

https://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2018/02/08/names-of-police-scotlands-newest-canine-recruits-revealed/