Ok, the concept of karma surfaces in just about every other thread here. Any time someone is wronged or tells of a person who has made some transgression, inevitably there is at least one person who'll reply and say that "karma will bite her in the ass" or whatever.
I mean, yeah, if you run around slapping people upside the head eventually someone is gonna slap you back. Is that all people mean by "karma" or is it something larger--a belief that there is ultimately some sense of justice in the universe? That when the chips fall they will invetibly fall into the right place?
If it's the former it seems like just a set up for a spiral of retribution and essentially an endorsement of vigilante justice. If it's the latter it seems like a way for people to take comfort by convincing themselves that since they are a good person, good things will eventually come to them and that bad people will be punished (pretty much the same way I view the Christian heaven).
I don't think I'm a nihilist or anything, but I damn sure don't believe there is a hell of a lot of order.
I don't know. Discuss. Or not. It doesn't matter.![]()



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That's what I've always concluded was the bottom line of what ppl feel. Not really, but, like anything else it's just a way ppl try to make sense of stuff....tho the Karma comments don't even seem half thought-through most of the time.

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