Religion
In reply to the discussion: Karma: a poll [View all]AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Is another human made up notion.
It really is a Hindu thing that involves past and future lives as well as the one you are living now. So in that respect, it's unbelievable.
Informally it sorta means fate... determined by your actions (duh!).... but with a justice/reward/punishment element.
It's a judgement call made after the fact. You can string an edited series of events in a person's life together in many ways, and karmic is one of them. Of course there are always many more events in that person's life not included in that particular karmic one. You could possibly string a completely different selection of events from the same person's life (or even reinterpret the same ones) and come up with a completely different karma.
IOW, it's just a subjective judgement call layered onto the obvious.... that your actions effect you life.