Do you believe in Karma?

akaanon

I know this was posted a while ago, this time with a poll
Do you beleive in Karma?

What goes around comes around?

I'm a bit sceptical, but I hope it exists

Terry

i don't believe in it.
i've been evil all my life and good things keep happening to me. kind of reverse karma. amark if you will.

Binomate

Not at all.

monkeyfudge

akaanon wrote:

What goes around comes around?

Like threads about karma then?

Rb

atari jaguar

mickymg2003

I believe in it but somehow it doesnt affect me, ive seen it affect other people.
I'm not a nice person...I'm just never a nice person yet good things happen to me. So either it doesnt effect me or some really really bad sh1t is waiting to get me later on in life.

Do I believe in "action"? Yes, who doesn't

Heyes

For the situations that i havent been so good then, no , but for the situations where lost out then i like to think so...

Granted not really a simple answer, but hey thats life

Supercell

God and karma are the same..action and result/punishment, biological reason not to kill everyone.

scuba steve

yes

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054892374

xzanti

I believe if I step on any of the cracks in the footpath my whole family will die... Or no wait..

..Someone will steal my thread idea.. Yeah that was it



:v:

Heyes

xzanti wrote:

I belive if I step on any of the cracks in the footpath my whole family will die... Or no wait..

..Someone will steal my thread idea.. Yeah that was it



:v:

LOL Mad yoke

frobisher

Certain types of Buddhism can be pretty amazing tools but the concept of karma lets them right down. Explain the notion of karma to a child born in a WW2 concentration camp. It makes no sense.

xzanti

Heyes wrote:

LOL Mad yoke

Sorry its got a poll though... Its a new and improved version of my *no frills* thread.. Its like Malibu Stacey with her new hat.. sh*t here comes the stampede..

*runs for cover*

:v:

Heyes

xzanti wrote:

Sorry its got a poll though... Its a new and improved version of my *no frills* thread.. Its like Malibu Stacey with her new hat.. sh*t here comes the stampede..

*runs for cover*

:v:

LOL.... i dunno what to really say to that one... :rolleyes: ......:p

xzanti

Heyes wrote:

LOL.... i dunno what to really say to that one... :rolleyes: ......:p

Ah Im just in the horrors :rolleyes: ...

Sorry lads

:v:

Heyes

xzanti wrote:

Ah Im just in the horrors :rolleyes: ...

Sorry lads

:v:

LOL, i know the feeling

Eminem

Yeah i do believe in it

Savman

akaanon wrote:

Do you believe in Karma?

Prefer a curry meself

senordingdong

Not actively, but someone croses me and I can't think of a cunning revenge plan, then I like to believe in it.

Ickle Magoo

I like to believe in Karma.....tho still not actually sure it exists.....if that makes any sense?! :)

AngryBadger

Korma? Made with chicken right?

aidan_walsh

I do believe in Karoma. I believe he spreads his word around these parts. I know I have seen it, but they could just have been more of those pesky heavenly visions.

Terry

frobisher wrote:

Certain types of Buddhism can be pretty amazing tools but the concept of karma lets them right down. Explain the notion of karma to a child born in a WW2 concentration camp. It makes no sense.

i hate doing this, but i really needs to be done. a higher percentage of Irish people were either killed* or displaced between the years 1840 and 1850 yet it goes largely unmentioned in today's world. maybe it's because we don't whine as much as other races.



*debatable. i say killed because the people who were in charge at the time watched all those people die and took the good crops from the tenant farmars even though they had nothing else to eat.
in all her goodness though, queen victoria did send over £5 towards the relief fund. (church of england) god bless her.

sorry about that. it really gets to me that the famine (if you can call it that) is largely ignored in today's society in case the west brits are offended.

monkeyfudge

They weren't systematically and pureposefuly killed for the sole reason that they were Irish though, were they?

That's what makes the holocaust so shocking.. not the numbers but the way it happened.

I don't think you can possibly compare famine with genocide.

Milk Lover

what does atari jaguar mean??????????????

Ickle Magoo

I had no idea when I first joined here either...but a quick search revealed....

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=260466&highlight=what+is+atari+jaguar%3F

ZiabR

I believe in it . Its only fair.

cmcnamara01

What goes around comes around. Everything happens for a reason!

Hagar

Yes I believe in Karma. I also believe I must have been a right bastard in my last 7 or 8 lives.:(

tj-music.com

I do

AngryBadger

julep wrote:

i hate doing this, but i really needs to be done. a higher percentage of Irish people were either killed* or displaced between the years 1840 and 1850 yet it goes largely unmentioned in today's world. maybe it's because we don't whine as much as other races.



*debatable. i say killed because the people who were in charge at the time watched all those people die and took the good crops from the tenant farmars even though they had nothing else to eat.
in all her goodness though, queen victoria did send over £5 towards the relief fund. (church of england) god bless her.

sorry about that. it really gets to me that the famine (if you can call it that) is largely ignored in today's society in case the west brits are offended.

That's actually a really interesting point. Kudos sirrah

:Keith:

I do believe in Karma. But in relation to the issue of "children being born into Concentration Camps" raised earlier, Karma is meant to run through previous lifes as well so karmacly everything was balanced when it happened.

Kojak

I dont believe in Karma but I do think that if you are being a sh1thead to people it will come back to haunt you some day.

I dont know if that would be classed under Karma or not.

Smellyirishman

I act how I act because I feel it is appropriate, not because I expect something in return.:rolleyes:

Wacker

cmcnamara01 wrote:

What goes around comes around. Everything happens for a reason!

That sentence "everything happens for a reason" is the very antithesis of my belief system. I don't really believe in all that many things that some people believe in and others don't.

MonkeyWrench

Defined as....The total effect of a person's actions and conduct during the successive phases of the person's existence, regarded as determining the person's destiny.
i have witnessed it throughout my life many times already. i'm not sure if i believe that its a paranormal/spiritual state, more of just the way you interact with other people - if you are nice to people, they will generally be nice to you.

Terry

my name is earl is on in 45 minutes.

frobisher

julep wrote:

i hate doing this, but i really needs to be done. a higher percentage of Irish people were either killed* or displaced between the years 1840 and 1850 yet it goes largely unmentioned in today's world. maybe it's because we don't whine as much as other races.

*debatable. i say killed because the people who were in charge at the time watched all those people die and took the good crops from the tenant farmars even though they had nothing else to eat.
in all her goodness though, queen victoria did send over £5 towards the relief fund. (church of england) god bless her.

sorry about that. it really gets to me that the famine (if you can call it that) is largely ignored in today's society in case the west brits are offended.

I don't quite know where to start on this one.
I share your sentiment on the distasteful way that the English occupation of Ireland is a no-no topic in much of todays society. Alot of Irish people should open their eyes to our relatively recent history.
What do you mean by a "higher percantage"? Percantage of what? By mentioning ww2 I'm hardly negating what happened in the famine period in Ireland. While this period is now rightly taught in US colleges as an attempt at genocide you cannot compare the shear scale of horror to that of WW2. In the same way you don't want the realites of the 1840's brushed under the table you must surely want the same for WW2.
To get back on topic, if I had to decide between my child being born in Ireland in the 1840s or a WW2 concentration camp I wouldn't hesitate for a moment in picking Ireland.

Terry

the higher percentage i refer to is based on populations in Ireland in the 1840's and jewish people in nazi occupied territory during WW2. i can't find numbers right now, but i'll get back to you when i can. i do however remember that the population of Ireland was in the region of 8 million in 1801 and around 2 million in 1901. 6 million people gone in 100 years. 75% of the population.
i'm not in any wqay trying to belittle wat happened to the jews under hitler. i just think people should look a bit closer to home and not forget what happened here. our ancestors were treated like scum by the british people.
brings me back to the whole karma thing. look at how well we are doing now.

frobisher

julep wrote:

the higher percentage i refer to is based on populations in Ireland in the 1840's and jewish people in nazi occupied territory during WW2. i can't find numbers right now, but i'll get back to you when i can. i do however remember that the population of Ireland was in the region of 8 million in 1801 and around 2 million in 1901. 6 million people gone in 100 years. 75% of the population.
i'm not in any wqay trying to belittle wat happened to the jews under hitler. i just think people should look a bit closer to home and not forget what happened here. our ancestors were treated like scum by the british people.
brings me back to the whole karma thing. look at how well we are doing now.

I don't think %'s is a good way to go on this. It's kind of a case of apples and oranges. WW2 is famous for how badly the Jews were persecuted but the reality is that the top figure of 6 million Jews killed is less than 10% of the accepted total deaths throughout WW2.

But like i said it doesn't negate what happened in the 1840's. The entire system of British rule and Irish representation in parliament was geared towards utter oppression and the destroying of Irish culture. And to not deal with the blight in the way they should have was tantamount to genocide. Not doing something is doing something, if you know what I mean.

So am I right in presuming from what you said that you believe that Ireland as a nation is now getting good karma?

Terry

well, yeah. we're getting good karma. or at least we were until yesterday.

Cosine

Aye sir

It gives me something to gripe about in my spare time :v:

lyrama

Yes. What come around goes around. Just for some people it comes around more blantantly and quicker than others :rolleyes: .

Azureus

absolutely, one good turn for another on a larger scale! what goes around comes around.

Naos

Karma = Newtons Third Law.

I dont believe in a mystical force called Karma, but a positive/negitive event comprised of the results of previous actions.

User45701

im sorry but i dont understand when u get down to the point there are some nice poeple who have nothing but **** there whole lives then die and u have basterd who cling onto life for 90 years causing misery for everyone so to me it simple there can be no debate if its clear that karma dosent exist? yes/no ?