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In reply to the discussion: Karma: a poll [View all]F4lconF16
(3,747 posts)42. No. And I think that idea is disgusting.
So someone who has something truly terrible happen, has perhaps chosen ahead of this life to experience that.
No. Go read Heddi's posts above. Think about the horrors that people experience in their tragically brief time on this rock. Think about war. Think about exhaustive poverty. Think about brutal oppression of minorities. Think about rape, torture, children starving. Think of slavery, genocide, disease, famine.
Not a damn one chose that. That is an excuse. That makes it better. That buries our heads in the sands and ignores the reality that people suffer for random shit that nobody can control. And it minimizes their suffering. And it places the blame for what happened on the victim. And that's fucked up.
And the person who did the evil, may have intended to try to resist doing that evil, but wasn't able to in the end, but will still come out at the end of the life with some sort of spiritual growth.
Dick Cheney is a sociopath. He does not give a shit about spiritual growth. He consumes people, lives, humanity, all in an effort to grow his power with insatiable appetite. He is scum, and pretending it works out minimizes the horrors he has brought upon so many. No good comes from that. Pretending it does only again minimizes the tragedy of what he has done.
Also, if people can choose to suffer, they choose to prey on others. That means you have sociopaths like Cheney who choose to be sociopaths, who prey upon all the other people who chose to be hurt. That's a pretty twisted view of life.
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"In this world nothing happens to a person that he does not for some reason or other deserve." *
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2015
#2
I have parking karma that goes with me even when I'm a passenger, not the driver.
SheilaT
Mar 2015
#30
How cool is it that you are such an awesome person that you are rewarded with choice parking spots?
trotsky
Mar 2015
#60
Karma is one of those ideas so superficially reassuring people flock to embrace it.
Act_of_Reparation
Mar 2015
#9
indeed, and here we have a much better model for the ideal personal attack:
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2015
#85
Have you noticed that more and more people are adopting trolling as a life-style?
struggle4progress
Mar 2015
#89
Have you noticed that internet communication doesn't always produce coherent conversations?
struggle4progress
Mar 2015
#93
the poster appears to be once again spamming a discussion with nonsense
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2015
#115
Karma, as I understand it, is not just a simplistic system of rewards and punishments.
SheilaT
Mar 2015
#33
like the rest of religious bullshit, it isn't that it is impossible to believe, it is easy to
Warren Stupidity
Mar 2015
#114
Karma is romanticised evil. Justification for the mistreatment of humans.
AtheistCrusader
Mar 2015
#47
Ugh, one of many various beliefs in a "just world fallacy" that can be used to explain away...
Humanist_Activist
Mar 2015
#50
The poll is fine, and yes it can be reduced to a simple concept. It is bullshit. Pure and simple.
AtheistCrusader
Mar 2015
#122