Anonymous
Post 02/28/2024 09:59     Subject: Bad people get theirs eventually
I want to belive in karma but I don't see it happening around me. What I see is good people getting sick and bad things happening to them, that's what I see.
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2024 09:56     Subject: Bad people get theirs eventually
Isn’t karma about reincarnation? That people just get theirs….. eventually, in a house fire, doesn’t even seem to be the same belief.
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2024 09:55     Subject: Bad people get theirs eventually
Anonymous wrote:Karma is a religious belief that can’t be falsified. I respect it as someone else’s belief but I personally don’t believe in it, just like other religious beliefs. If it gives people peace and comfort and could theoretically be true, I’m in no place to tell them they are wrong.

So, OP, if it gives you comfort to believe that people somehow, someday will get what they deserve, you should believe it.

Alternatively, there is a great short story by Andy Weil called “The Egg” that explores this topic. It’s so short, I highly recommend it.


Here’s a link to the story.

https://wjccschools.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/galactanet.com-The-Egg.pdf
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2024 09:53     Subject: Bad people get theirs eventually
Karma is a religious belief that can’t be falsified. I respect it as someone else’s belief but I personally don’t believe in it, just like other religious beliefs. If it gives people peace and comfort and could theoretically be true, I’m in no place to tell them they are wrong.

So, OP, if it gives you comfort to believe that people somehow, someday will get what they deserve, you should believe it.

Alternatively, there is a great short story by Andy Weil called “The Egg” that explores this topic. It’s so short, I highly recommend it.
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2024 09:49     Subject: Bad people get theirs eventually
Anonymous wrote:The problem with karma, as illustrated in this thread, is what is just to some is unjust to others. Trump is a good example. You think he is evil, others see him a victim of evil perpetuated by partisan Democrats and their witch hunts. Who is right? Who is wrong?

Who are *you* to obsess over karma happening to others? And why do you care? Maybe out there is someone watching you carefully waiting for karma to happen to you over something you may not even realized happened.


Broad question here: Is it a matter of those who do evil things feigning ignorance? Because that is not the qualification for karma.
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2024 09:48     Subject: Bad people get theirs eventually
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don’t know about karma. I do believe that the energy you put out in the world comes back to you eventually. If you treat people well they will respond appropriately, and if you screw people over it may come back to haunt you.


How do you explain the tragic and brutal murders of people, mostly women, who others describe as "lighting up a room"?

Why do people who "light up a room" attract psychos who want to dim and turn off their bright lights?

That seems more common than stories about evil bad people getting justice.


This is exactly why stalking is taken more seriously these days. There are too many rejected men with mental issues, who are suitable for no one. If you suspect something, do something.
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2024 09:47     Subject: Bad people get theirs eventually
The problem with karma, as illustrated in this thread, is what is just to some is unjust to others. Trump is a good example. You think he is evil, others see him a victim of evil perpetuated by partisan Democrats and their witch hunts. Who is right? Who is wrong?

Who are *you* to obsess over karma happening to others? And why do you care? Maybe out there is someone watching you carefully waiting for karma to happen to you over something you may not even realized happened.
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2024 09:42     Subject: Bad people get theirs eventually
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don’t know about karma. I do believe that the energy you put out in the world comes back to you eventually. If you treat people well they will respond appropriately, and if you screw people over it may come back to haunt you.


How do you explain the tragic and brutal murders of people, mostly women, who others describe as "lighting up a room"?

Why do people who "light up a room" attract psychos who want to dim and turn off their bright lights?

That seems more common than stories about evil bad people getting justice.


Women are bad at backing each other up, because they see each other as competition. It is not reasonable or accurate, but it is their truth. There are women who (falsely) praise the worst of the worst, and there are women who can not be bothered to say one nice thing about other women, lest they look worse than they already do. But karma is real - not always timely, but definitely real.
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2024 09:36     Subject: Bad people get theirs eventually
Anonymous wrote:There is a Psalm that asks “why do the wicked prosper?” I find myself praying it a lot these days. My organization placed a political appointee who is incompetent and vengeful to lead my whole department. I ended up requesting a lateral transfer after she bullied me. I had to relearn a whole new set of skills. She drove my disabled colleague out of the department as well. So far she is still there. A lot of people will privately talk about how they don’t like her but any fantasy I had about her getting hers is not going to happen. I look at incompetent immoral politicians, people with questionable business practices and I just do not know. I don’t see a lot of Justice being meted out.


I was just thinking about a similar situation I suffered through. I blew the whistle and was eventually fired. She's still head of the department five years later, although there's been a huge amount of staff turnover.

On a global scale, Trump, Putin, etc. Bad people often triumph. I will only get more stressed if I wait around for some sort of divine retribution. Karma to me is wishful thinking, although the law of averages does mean some get their just desserts.
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2024 09:29     Subject: Bad people get theirs eventually
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I used to believe in karma, but then nothing seems to be happening to Trump or Netanyahu or Stephen Miller or Bannon or any of the those horrible people in charge of slaughtering and starving the Palestinians.


Really? You don't see that anything bad happened to Trump (lawsuits) Bannon (charges) and you don't see how the treatment of middle eastern people, or other groups of people, has come back and bitten other countries over time?


Are you kidding me? Lawsuits and charges are the “karma” Trump and Barron receive? Neither of them are going to actually go to jail, both have millions of dollars to live, and are worshipped by their cult.
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2024 09:23     Subject: Bad people get theirs eventually
Anonymous wrote:I used to believe in karma, but then nothing seems to be happening to Trump or Netanyahu or Stephen Miller or Bannon or any of the those horrible people in charge of slaughtering and starving the Palestinians.


Really? You don't see that anything bad happened to Trump (lawsuits) Bannon (charges) and you don't see how the treatment of middle eastern people, or other groups of people, has come back and bitten other countries over time?
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2024 09:20     Subject: Bad people get theirs eventually
I used to believe in karma, but then nothing seems to be happening to Trump or Netanyahu or Stephen Miller or Bannon or any of the those horrible people in charge of slaughtering and starving the Palestinians.
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2024 09:20     Subject: Bad people get theirs eventually
Anonymous wrote:Look, being "good" doesn't "protect" you from "bad things". Bad things do happen to good people, average people, all people.

AND I have also seen that what goes around, comes around. People put things out there that, in time, come around and bite them in the a$$. I have seen it time and time again.

I'm not talking about kids with cancer. I'm talking things like cheating and then being cheated on, or sand bagging a colleague who ends up being your boss, or needing a favor from someone you've wronged, or otherwise just reaping what you've sown. Stealing a husband only to find out, huh, what do you know, behind closed doors he is an abusive jerk just like his ex wife always said! It happens.

I had somebody scr#w me over in a real estate situation. Within a year the house BURNED TO THE GROUND. Not kidding.

You believe what you want, I'm going with "karma is real" and NOT screwing people over.


Cool. The all-knowing karmic force governing the universe: not so much concerned with innocent kids being tortured, enslaved, or incinerated to death; thoroughly invested in avenging your loss of your security deposit. That makes sense. Good use of his time.

Have you considered the possibility that good things and bad things happen to all kinds of people every day, and it need not trace back to *you* as the main character?
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2024 09:15     Subject: Bad people get theirs eventually
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Look, being "good" doesn't "protect" you from "bad things". Bad things do happen to good people, average people, all people.

AND I have also seen that what goes around, comes around. People put things out there that, in time, come around and bite them in the a$$. I have seen it time and time again.

I'm not talking about kids with cancer. I'm talking things like cheating and then being cheated on, or sand bagging a colleague who ends up being your boss, or needing a favor from someone you've wronged, or otherwise just reaping what you've sown. Stealing a husband only to find out, huh, what do you know, behind closed doors he is an abusive jerk just like his ex wife always said! It happens.

I had somebody scr#w me over in a real estate situation. Within a year the house BURNED TO THE GROUND. Not kidding.

You believe what you want, I'm going with "karma is real" and NOT screwing people over.


Sure, AND the house literally burned to the ground. I mean. Maybe Karma is a bad description... Irony is real? I dunno.

Karma is real except all the times it isn't. OK. It's mythical child like thinking.


Probably some sort of insurance scam, not karma.
Anonymous
Post 02/28/2024 09:12     Subject: Bad people get theirs eventually
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Look, being "good" doesn't "protect" you from "bad things". Bad things do happen to good people, average people, all people.

AND I have also seen that what goes around, comes around. People put things out there that, in time, come around and bite them in the a$$. I have seen it time and time again.

I'm not talking about kids with cancer. I'm talking things like cheating and then being cheated on, or sand bagging a colleague who ends up being your boss, or needing a favor from someone you've wronged, or otherwise just reaping what you've sown. Stealing a husband only to find out, huh, what do you know, behind closed doors he is an abusive jerk just like his ex wife always said! It happens.

I had somebody scr#w me over in a real estate situation. Within a year the house BURNED TO THE GROUND. Not kidding.

You believe what you want, I'm going with "karma is real" and NOT screwing people over.


Sure, AND the house literally burned to the ground. I mean. Maybe Karma is a bad description... Irony is real? I dunno.

Karma is real except all the times it isn't. OK. It's mythical child like thinking.