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libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
edited March 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
Do you believe it exists? I don't know if I do, but would like to think it does.
These cuts are leaving creases. Trace the scars to fit the pieces, to tell the story, you don't need to say a word.
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  • wolfbearwolfbear Posts: 3,965
    I basically think we all create our own karma. :)
    "I'd rather be with an animal." "Those that can be trusted can change their mind." "The in between is mine." "If I don't lose control, explore and not explode, a preternatural other plane with the power to maintain." "Yeh this is living." "Life is what you make it."
  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    ^^

    I kind of lean towards that too.
    These cuts are leaving creases. Trace the scars to fit the pieces, to tell the story, you don't need to say a word.
  • MattCameronKicksButtMattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    I think what goes around, comes around. I've seen this many times.
  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    well I have seen crappy things happen to crappy people. I also see a lot of bad things happen to good people. Sometimes I think it's random.
    These cuts are leaving creases. Trace the scars to fit the pieces, to tell the story, you don't need to say a word.
  • MattCameronKicksButtMattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    libragirl wrote:
    well I have seen crappy things happen to crappy people. I also see a lot of bad things happen to good people. Sometimes I think it's random.

    It probably is random. A lucky person is someone that can always think positive. They're the winners in life.

    Anyways, bump!
  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    libragirl wrote:
    Do you believe it exists? I don't know if I do, but would like to think it does.


    Yes, of course it does.
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    MattCameronKicksButt wrote:
    It probably is random. A lucky person is someone that can always think positive. They're the winners in life.

    Anyways, bump!

    I work with this women that had cancer, she beat it and it came back, she had a partial mastectomy. She has a son who has a brain injury and needs life long care. She also had a hysterectomy. But she is amazing. She has such a positive attitude.
    These cuts are leaving creases. Trace the scars to fit the pieces, to tell the story, you don't need to say a word.
  • DeniDeni Posts: 233
    libragirl wrote:
    Do you believe it exists? I don't know if I do, but would like to think it does.

    I personally believe in something very like Karma. It's called The Threefold Law of Return, and it states in part "What you put into the world through force of intention will return to you threefold."

    But you can't say... something bad happened to somebody so they deserve it. You have to look at the bigger picture. What you put into the WORLD will come back to you threefold.

    For example. It's hard for me to talk about this because its sad and it makes me cry, but back in March a friend of mine's daughter was shot and killed in an episode of gang violence in Boston. It made national news, and people reacted! Her death was tragic! This beautiful young girl did not deserve it. Her family did not deserve it! She was all about peace! She put peace out into her world, and guess what... The area of Boston where she was killed is getting cleaned up! People are taking action! The people involved in her murder are going to prison making the streets much safer. And that area of Boston is becoming more and more peaceful every day. Of course that is little consolation to her family. But there it is. That is what I believe at work in the world.

    I see it every day in my own life as well.

    *edited for spelling errors*
    "Ideas are bulletproof." --V

    Peace and Love
    Deni
    :)
  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    aww...Im so sorry about that....It doesn't make sense sometimes...what happens in this world.

    I do know what you are talking about and I think that may be true although I'm not too sure. But you are right you can't just wish bad on someone...although at the time of being angered it's easy to do. But that is just as wrong as the person do the wrong-doing.

    Thanks for sharing that.

    oh...and no need to worry about spelling. I'm not one of the spelling/grammar Nazis...:p


    Deni wrote:
    I personally believe in something very like Karma. It's called The Threefold Law of Return, and it states in part "What you put into the world through force of intention will return to you threefold."

    But you can't say... something bad happened to somebody so they deserve it. You have to look at the bigger picture. What you put into the WORLD will come back to you threefold.

    For example. It's hard for me to talk about this because its sad and it makes me cry, but back in March a friend of mine's daughter was shot and killed in an episode of gang violence in Boston. It made national news, and people reacted! Her death was tragic! This beautiful young girl did not deserve it. Her family did not deserve it! She was all about peace! She put peace out into her world, and guess what... The area of Boston where she was killed is getting cleaned up! People are taking action! The people involved in her murder are going to prison making the streets much safer. And that area of Boston is becoming more and more peaceful every day. Of course that is little consolation to her family. But there it is. That is what I believe at work in the world.

    I see it every day in my own life as well.

    *edited for spelling errors*
    These cuts are leaving creases. Trace the scars to fit the pieces, to tell the story, you don't need to say a word.
  • MattCameronKicksButtMattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    libragirl wrote:
    I work with this women that had cancer, she beat it and it came back, she had a partial mastectomy. She has a son who has a brain injury and needs life long care. She also had a hysterectomy. But she is amazing. She has such a positive attitude.

    If she really does have a genuine positive attitude then she's probably quite a lucky person - if you see what I mean? :o

    I think it's your perspective on life. If you're happy, then no one else can take that away from you. That's probably all we need in life. It's something that cannot be taken away!

    I'm not sure about Karma. I'm just thinking about someone I knew at school.
    Like you said, it's probably random.
  • DeniDeni Posts: 233
    libragirl wrote:
    aww...Im so sorry about that....It doesn't make sense sometimes...what happens in this world.

    I do know what you are talking about and I think that may be true although I'm not too sure. But you are right you can't just wish bad on someone...although at the time of being angered it's easy to do. But that is just as wrong as the person do the wrong-doing.

    Thanks for sharing that.

    oh...and no need to worry about spelling. I'm not one of the spelling/grammar Nazis...:p

    Thank you for the kind words. We are still dealing with it, and its hard. Sometimes we talk about Chiara like she's still here. Its so hard to believe that she's gone.

    And on the spelling issue. It's always bothered me that I'm not a good speller, especially considering I'm trying to be a writer. lol So I'm pretty much my own spelling Nazi. It doesn't bother me when others don't spell things right, but it always bothers me when I don't. If I catch it I always try to fix it.

    I like message boards that don't let you know when a poster has edited a post. Then I can correct myself and anybody who reads it afterwards will just think I'm perfect! ;)

    *edited for typo* HA HA! ;)
    "Ideas are bulletproof." --V

    Peace and Love
    Deni
    :)
  • #X.#X. Posts: 142
    Karma is much like the Wheel of Fortune in the Tarot set. Life is in constant motion, cycles. You should always look at the lessons to be learned while at the same time trying to balance the changes, good and bad, that life presents. From death comes rebirth, from change new opportunities arise. Look beyond circumstances to see the causes, then you can understand karma a little better. There's also the threefold presents itself. Good happens to bad, and bad happens to good, for we are not perfect humans. #X.
    "The Poet is a madman lost in adventure."
    -Paul Verlaine-

    "With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."
    -Edgar Poe-
  • DeniDeni Posts: 233
    X seems to have the general idea.
    "Ideas are bulletproof." --V

    Peace and Love
    Deni
    :)
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    Yes, karma.
    Emit positive energy
    Recieve positive energy

    Always do the right thing, it comes back around.
    And well, life is just not very easy.
    And not at all easy to understand.

    Bad things will always happen, we have to learn from em.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • geniegenie Posts: 2,222
    libragirl wrote:
    well I have seen crappy things happen to crappy people. I also see a lot of bad things happen to good people. Sometimes I think it's random.

    I hate to agree with you, but i think you are right, and i hope you are wrong.
    Cause frankly the list of ungrateful people who have treated me badly for no reason increased.........:(

    Yeah, i'm one of those people who doesn't ( only sometimes ) forgive and certainly doesn't forget, so i wish for karma to get some people and hit them where it hurts. :mad:
  • Sian-of-the-deadSian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    I like to think we make our own karma... I can say that cuz things appear to be looking up for me at the minute.... I probably would've said karma sucks ass 2 weeks ago.....
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  • geniegenie Posts: 2,222
    Sian-of-the-dead wrote:
    I like to think we make our own karma...

    So in a sense we bring everything on ourselves, whether it be good or bad?

    if, so i strongly disagree. i was at the pub this weekend talking to this guy who said he doesn't like people with name Anna, because his girlfriend was Anna and she cheated on him and run off with another woman's boyfriend....so was it his fault it happend to him?
  • urbanhippieurbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    I'd like to say 'what comes around, goes around' but sadly it's not always the case...
    Here's hoping though :)
    A human being that was given to fly.

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  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    genie wrote:
    I hate to agree with you, but i think you are right, and i hope you are wrong.
    Cause frankly the list of ungrateful people who have treated me badly for no reason increased.........:(

    Yeah, i'm one of those people who doesn't ( only sometimes ) forgive and certainly doesn't forget, so i wish for karma to get some people and hit them where it hurts. :mad:


    But yeah...that's just my opinion or my perception how things are...I have no idea if I'm right or wrong. But I do hope I am wrong.
    These cuts are leaving creases. Trace the scars to fit the pieces, to tell the story, you don't need to say a word.
  • geniegenie Posts: 2,222
    libragirl wrote:
    But yeah...that's just my opinion or my perception how things are...I have no idea if I'm right or wrong. But I do hope I am wrong.

    i hope so too ;):)
  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    genie wrote:
    i hope so too ;):)

    ;) Im usually wrong about a lot of things....
    These cuts are leaving creases. Trace the scars to fit the pieces, to tell the story, you don't need to say a word.
  • SpunkieSpunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 6,778
    Yes, I believe Karma exists. That's why we all die.
  • SchlitzSchlitz Posts: 141
    I sure hope Karma is real.
    i have to remain at top sassiness, even though my inner sass is struggling
  • nothingman44nothingman44 Posts: 1,495
    i am a firm believer in "what goes around, comes around."
  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    Nope, I don't believe it.

    I think it's easy to believe it, if you forget about children who die soon after they are born or any of other various incidents where karma seems to be absent.

    Hitler for example, killed what 6 million jews, in exchange for his life. Hardly seems fair.

    If you kick someone in the leg and they punch you in the face, is that karma or reciprocal aggression?

    Likewise, reciprocal altruism can explain good incidents of karma, so-called, while providing an explanation as to why it's absent in other cases.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I was hurrying to the beans aisle in my local supermarket the other day, and some fat fucker pushed me flying out of the way, and bought the entire store's worth. I cried.

    On the way out of the doors, that man's legs fell off and he spontaneously combusted. Nobody wanted to claim all the beans tins, so I made a makeshift crate out of his charred ribcage and carried the lot home. Not needing the rib bones myself (as a devout Buddhist this week), I gave them to some starving local dogs, and later cooked myself some lovely beans for dinner. How could I not believe in karma?
  • drtyfrnk29drtyfrnk29 Posts: 846
    tish wrote:
    Yes, I believe Karma exists. That's why we all die.
    Man, I feel inspired now.
    I'm so dangerous I smoke dynamite.

  • AllieAllie Posts: 2,908
    yes I think it exists
    "...like a word misplaced, nothing said, what a waste.."
    "Sometimes life should be consumed in measured doses"
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  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    I was hurrying to the beans aisle in my local supermarket the other day, and some fat fucker pushed me flying out of the way, and bought the entire store's worth. I cried.

    On the way out of the doors, that man's legs fell off and he spontaneously combusted. Nobody wanted to claim all the beans tins, so I made a makeshift crate out of his charred ribcage and carried the lot home. Not needing the rib bones myself (as a devout Buddhist this week), I gave them to some starving local dogs, and later cooked myself some lovely beans for dinner. How could I not believe in karma?

    that's damn good fins.
    copy/paste it to the poetry room, yes/no ?
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    doesn't it feel good inside yourself to help someone/animal/a life
    to put out some quality energy into the universe

    or to do a good thing, like pick up some a-holes litter they threw on a beach
    where you are walking enjoying the day-your day-everyones day

    to me, good karma is about forgiveness and not hating

    we are all connected, as in, all life is woven together
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
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