Karma

I don't believe in karma- I used to. I just believe no matter who you are you just got to make the most of your life. I question karma when bad things happen to good people.

Yes, it can take a while to happen.

My sister used to take medication for epilepsy and kept the tablets in her handbag. She had a steady boyfriend whose mother didn't like her and stealthily removed one of the tablets and had it analysed. She then successfully persuaded the boyfriend to dump my sister, who was very upset, and went to church to give thanks for his lucky "escape" due to her actions from marrying someone who was "ill".

Years later we heard that the ex-boyfriend had become ill with Crohn's disease and died in his 40's.

Whilst this is a terrible thing to have happened, the mother was still alive and must have suffered dreadfully. My sister was able to stop taking epilepsy medication by the age of 21 and is still with us today.

karma/you reap what you sow . Does this mean the person who has been harmed is also reaping what they sow ?

Oh yes, I love Karma. As a child of the 60s I would - wouldn't I ?? My only problem with it, is that it often takes so long to happen !!

Me too Phoenix, having a truly sh...y year!

I am still waiting - there is one man in Tenerife who has caused our family so much grief, and cost us a fortune who has no intention of paying his large debts - but it will come to him... one day...Patience.

Absolutely yes! My mum always said "what goes round, comes round" and as I have got older I have come to appreciate what that meant.
Those who cause harm will get their just desserts when the time comes and I will in no way be involved in that - just sit back and
watch.

Definitely feeling smug

I love a bit of Karma. It is quite logical in my opinion, everything being a social construct we live within what we create.......

We all know that a man/woman who bunks off and leaves their kids for anther partner can't be trusted...karma has a lot of common sense on its side.......you reap what you sow, you get out of life what you put in etc.

Works for me. Sometimes karma needs a nudge..........nothing's perfect.

I'm a great believer in fate, what will be will be. What goes round will eventually come around.

Several years ago I was buying a house, but just as we were about to exchange contracts, the woman selling the house withdrew the sale, costing me several hundred pounds in survey fees and requiring me to beg my landlord to ignore my notice to vacate a rented property. I was told that the vendor only withdrew the sale to get back at her ex, who jointly owned the house. A couple of months later, a neighbour told me that this woman's car had been stolen from the front of the house. Was that karma? I promise you that the fact I was working with young offenders at the time was pure coincidence, but I am not proud of the smug feeling I that came over me at receiving this news. Come to think of it, I still smile about it.

Well, yes I'm afraid I do.
But isn't the thing about Karma that, "EVERY thought and EVERY action has a consequence and a re-action"?
So therefore, sitting here with clenched teeth wishing ill fortune on someone "nasty" is highly likely to bring something bad back to me.
Isn't it?

I have been maligned and would far prefer a public apology and admission of wrong doing. Failing that Karma do your worst.

Oh yes , I know it happens , and now my daughter is happily married bless her , but what hell she went through to get to this happy place , and so did we as her family . I would say Karma is the best way to think , when need be . Phew thats my first time posting , hope it works .

Or, closer to home, various sons in law morgana!

I would. Karma cannot kick in soon enough as far as I am concerned as I am still waiting but I live in hope every day that karma will happen real soon. It's the only thing that's keeping me going right now

Since the concept of karma is religious it is not rational and cannot be real. The current 'Pick n' Mix' attitude to belief and religion falls to the ground when people are confronted with the blunt question of, 'Do you then believe in reincarnation and that your granny can come back as an ant?' - because, of course they don't!

What we are then talking about is the mean but delicious sense of 'justice' we feel when someone disagreeable gets their comeuppance and suffers some misfortune. However, that connection between bad behaviour and suffering punishment is not an actual concurrence but is merely a coincidence onto which we are foisting an interpretation.

Nevertheless, it is an almost universal feeling of satisfaction.

Sorry Archers

Crikey I feel dumb who's Rob Titchner

Philip green springs to mind!

People seem to say " what goes around comes around" which seems similarly to Karma or the Wheel of Fate. . I suspect that is American. I know Karma is Hindu and Wheel of Fate medieval.
Anyway to think of another thread, Rob Titchener is hopefully going to get some soon.

I have said exactly that many times phoenix when life is unravelling around me. Also I know both types that Eloethan refers to.

I find myself agreeing with Eloethan about Karma. Wish it did exist though.

Oh yes I believe in karma, we had some very gratifying news today

I sometimes think that I must have done some pretty bloody awful things in a previous life.........