Atheists & Agnostics

2naSalit

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4. That's not really what karma is.

Mon Mar 4, 2024, 03:36 PM

Mar 2024

It's not the same as "behave or go to hell" because some gawd will be mad at you. Rather it informs you that you have choices to make and there are consequences of various types for you choice. Not that anything is punishment or praise, though many interpret it that way, it is about making choices and weighing the benefits within a concept that life doesn't end in the nonphysical world but is a cyclic process that is unending and includes episodes of physical life.

Different from the judeo-christian belief systems that insist on a hierarchy that includes punishment and control over others.

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Karma, etc. [View all] DavidDvorkin Mar 2024 OP

Some religions that do not claim ancestry from the Medieval Church also have karma bucolic_frolic Mar 2024 #1

I hope karma is real kimbutgar Mar 2024 #2

"What goes around comes around" is another version of the same idea DavidDvorkin Mar 2024 #3

That's not really what karma is. 2naSalit Mar 2024 #4

However it is typically connected to a magical system of reincarnation Voltaire2 Mar 2024 #5

I wouldn't say... 2naSalit Mar 2024 #8

I agree you obviously don't think it is magical. Voltaire2 Mar 2024 #9

One way in which the concept of karma is scientific is that doing good things for other people and avoiding Martin68 Mar 2024 #6

The word "karma" is widely and wildly missunderstood and used wrong so of course it is nonsense sanatanadharma Mar 2024 #7

That makes no sense Farmer-Rick Mar 2024 #11

I like Karma. It is fun. About all. twodogsbarking Mar 2024 #10

The trouble with karma is that it doesn't work Farmer-Rick Mar 2024 #12