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    #32
    Húrin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,045 ✭✭✭Húrin


    monkeyfudge wrote: »
    Nope. Believing in some sort of magical scales that doles out bad luck based on your bad deeds is pretty damn stupid.

    Or just perhaps bad luck that they don't have your privileged western "enlightened" upbringing. But they might say the same about your smug atheism. So in the war of egos, nobody is the wiser.
    Zillah wrote: »
    If I said it in the middle of a social engagement it could be considered ignorant in the form it is used to mean 'rude' or 'offensive'.

    In the more literal sense, no, it's not ignorant, I'm pretty well informed.

    Of course it is ignorant. You know nothing about this person except that the believe in karma.


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    #33
    togster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭togster


    Zillah wrote: »
    Hence why new-agers go on about non-biblical angels, retributive karma etc.

    Buddism is not new age.


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    #34
    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    togster wrote: »
    Buddism is not new age.

    Well that's just super. Do you have any other pointless and obvious things to say that display your inability to understand a simple point?

    Please, go ahead.


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    #35
    togster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭togster


    Zillah wrote: »
    Well that's just super. Do you have any other pointless and obvious things to say that display your inability to understand a simple point?

    Please, go ahead.

    Did someone get out of bed on the wrong side this morning?!?

    Apologies. I was just stating a fact not having a go at you.


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    #36
    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    A fact I had not contradicted. As I explained in the post you quoted, New Age beliefs tend to take elements of other older philosophies, get it wrong and add it in.

    Hence why the concept of karma as a retributive force could be described as an element of New Age philosophy.


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