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Grandpa

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In the physical world, there's Newton's Third Law, that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. It sorta goes with the laws of thermodynamics and conservation of energy. In a closed system, what you put in is what you get out.

It's nice to think that it would apply universally, to behavior and morality as well. And maybe it does. It's nice when we see someone get their righteous comeuppance. But then I wonder: Is the corollary to karma the saying that, "No good deed goes unpunished"?
 

Roho T Rooster

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Not to be a spoil sport; but, no, I have seen little to no evidence of karma, as commonly understood. Cause and effect? Yes. But, money talks. As long as some people can buy their way out of reaping what they sow, and poor people do major time for relatively minor infractions...no.
 

Lepplady

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Not to be a spoil sport; but, no, I have seen little to no evidence of karma, as commonly understood. Cause and effect? Yes. But, money talks. As long as some people can buy their way out of reaping what they sow, and poor people do major time for relatively minor infractions...no.
Each person is responsible only for his or her own karma. It is not comparative.
 
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Arcadevere

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Before i reach college, i don't believe in Karma and i really thought that is a sort of beliefs again that i did not trust a lot

But when i reach college, i believe in Karma because my classmate once experience it.

Here's the story, prepare for boredom

We are creating a group project of a design for a renovation of a house. We are a group of three, two male (let's call it Mr. V and Mr. L, the initials of their surnames) and a female (and it was me)

We always stay overnight at the libarary to draft stuff and make a model for it, however, one of the group member (one of the male, it's Mr. V) is so lazy and he always have a nasty excuses to not participate in our project, he even tell us that he will only pay all our expenses there, just to write his na,e in the submitted by list. That was the reason why my friend (Mr. L) was so angry. When he tell it to us (that he will pay our expenses thing), he was holding a precision knife (i think that was the spelling of it) so tightly so when our classmate (Mr. V) go away, i hold his wrist and shook my head to him. I am so silent at that time.

The library's closing time is already there, he already put his knife at the bag and he was deep inside angry. He said to me "he told us he will go 1 hour before library closing time, look what this a-hole did"
I sighed then he whisper "i hope he experienced Karma for what he did, he just leave us in the limbo for this preliminary project, what the hell"

Then the defense presentation come, he was there, like he helped us, my friend was so angry. So he exclaimed to the professor "HE DID NOT HELP US IN WHAT WE DID" (because he did not pay our expenses, i was broke at that time) so they got into the fight after defense presentation, then our professor saw it, she said "you Mr. V, you already did nothing to them and you started this fight, come to my office, take an exam" then he said "Mr. L and Ms. M (i was the Ms. M) did a great job" (we only have a written exam in that subject (Design) if we get low grades in defense presentation. So if we did not asked to go to the office and took a written exam, it means we get high or okay grade in defense presentation)

Then his individual exam came and he failed the Prelim exam, while we passed, He went to my friend and apologize, he accepted it. then a family problem came into his life so he did not take summer semester with the other irregular students of design even he really need it a lot


Sometimes, Karma just made me amuse a lot.
 
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