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cheesecake7
@Keelsman I like these :)
AwesomeTeddybear
And I like the idea that you can pronounce idea the same as ikea or the other way around
backflipwilly
Party on dudes!
AbdoullahOufkir
So. If one day I take giant ass shit, will the universe just take a shit back on me.
sirjosht
Do good things and good things happen - Earl Hickey
JustTheFactsMan
These are good rules to live by, but never never never for an instant think that the universe gives a shit. It does not.
px04
FTR these are not Buddhist ideas and there are no such things as the 12 laws of karma in Buddhism
FelixtheWolf
The sooner you realize that there's little correlation between what happen to you vs. what you did to others, the more content you will be.
GoatsAndGlory
13. Karma is a bitch
malinkamishka
in response to the law of creation, the world was here before us.
KeeleonOhms
There's a reason the utopia of Bill and Teds excellent adventure is so plausible.
takenusernameudjebejdkcbd
#1 like slipping on your own bannana on mario kart
gohn5
Karma aka the law of averages
ZombieHugsAreBestHugs
14. Talk shit, get hit.
memesis
If whatever we put into the universe comes back to us, apparently I once fucked with the universe really, really bad.
ImgurOfficialWhiteGuy
Weavedaddy
Party on, dudes!
dogenuggets
*Shared*
DeepwaterJew
Don't talk about Fight Club
hullodurrr
This is drivel
Pieizgood
massakayne
....and party on dudes!!!
xSquirrelly
People, the idea of karma in Buddhism doesn't have a large impact upon this life, but what plane you are rebirthed into, good or evil.
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dizzyplaya
Karma doesn't respond to action in life, it responds by giving you lives of according suffering or non-suffering.
Boxingbud
Sort of. Good and bad karma send you back here, called "Samsara" in Buddhism. Until you have no Karma, then you get to go to Nirvana.
Boxingbud
"Samsara" is the endless cycle of birth and death into and out of this world.
Wrongleveeeeeeer
Ask people who believe "The Secret," if they believe in Karma. If yes, show them this - particularly #2 and #12 ...
Cere4l
#2 is clearly wrong though, ive proven that a dozen times over in my kitchen sink by not doing dishes
woozle
0nTheBrightside
Columbo?
Insomnia297
The Princess Bride?
IdkManButItKeepsMeUpAtNight
SlowLightning
Hipstersayswhat
Wow, there is a lot of negativity about something so simple and positive.
killengerdrhenrykillenger
Well it sounds like pseudo religious nonsense to many. it doesn't matter how positive the message is if you think it's bullshit.
TheDeviIsAdvocate
Yeah, people are lazy to the point of just completely casting off anything remotely pseudo-sciency. It is truly a shame.
Boxingbud
As a raised Tibetan Buddhist now atheist, you're fucking right. It seems all someone needs is a tight banjo and a pic of Buddha....
Boxingbud
....and BOOM wise mystical fulfilling bs that has the religion all wrong anyway.
Zelcium
The universe, in no way, conspires for or against you.
Monoliathan
take a look at The Law of Attraction
TZO2k15
Life is fair, it's people who are not!...Note most times "Life is not fair" said it's from someone who/is/has dicked you/someone over...
manimatr0n
Right. This is about conspiring for yourself.
nclu
The universe lacks the capacity to be even indifferent.
SlowLightning
It is beautiful, dark, violent and cruel. But beautiful.
javaknowledge
Bullshit.
EdwardStarsmith
I doubt the universe conspires about anything. But parts of it seem to be determined to make me struggle through my days.
AleksandrBlazkowicz
All depends on your perception and interpretation.
tortfeasor
No greater cognitive dissonance than believing that there is order in the universe. Karma is just another form of confirmation bias.
MakeItBackAlright
There is order... the idea of chaos is an illusion created by our limited scope. Depends how you look at it.
manimatr0n
This doesn't imply an order to the universe. Karma, like wyrd, simply explains how past actions, on a personal and societal level, affect+
manimatr0n
+the present and the future.
Mistruths
Karma has always been about AFTER death, though. The good you do in this life is repaid in the next, as is the bad, then you reincarnate.
TheRelevancyOfMyNameIsRelativelyIrrelevant
so, because you don't believe in it, no one else should believe in it? Who died and made you god?
dizzyplaya
God did.
JAFIOI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2jeQ9F8RoI
TheDeviIsAdvocate
Cognitive dissonance happens when you have conflicting beliefs. Not sure how that applies here. Also, no order in the universe? Seriously?
turdfergy
Order is not natural. Entropy naturally increases
massakayne
Entropy = a thermodynamic quantity representing the unavailability of a system's thermal energy for conversion into mechanical work, often >
massakayne
interpreted as the degree of disorder or randomness in the system. >>
massakayne
lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder.
GentlemanScientist
Before I launch into something I need to know how you define "natural".
Insomnia297
Or you could say that "entropy always increases" is a form of order itself. Or that entropy still gives birth to ordered systems like humans
turdfergy
Entropy, It's delta s in chemistry/physics. The universe is constantly growing in "disorder". It naturally tends towards disorder.
GentlemanScientist
Please don't take this as being patronizing but you just repeated yourself, how do you define "natural"?
TheDeviIsAdvocate
What are you suggesting? Where does the order come from if not nature?
copingcabana
Cole's Law:
Theloniousdump
I scrolled back for this.
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Memesy
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Happyfeeths
fucking loled
justahumanonline
Listen here fucko
FavoriteAllTheCuteThings
Listen here you!
dissentery
I don't know what I expected...
RedBeardedBastard
annabond
Just take your upvotes and go away. :'')
formerwhiteguy
I, uh..I don't know what I expected.
irespondinnothingbutgifs
You clever bastard. +1
coffeemugclub
My evolution profession used this exact picture when teaching Cole's Law.
noWhiteHorseHereJustBatturuPrinsu
So... you like salad? :x http://www.clickhole.com/article/5-salads-more-calories-big-mac-3357
chowmaster
This is the only Law that makes sense in this post.
greenmanwithratstick
I like you, person.
notadisneyprincess
This comment improved my day. Thanks I needed a laugh and a smile. Bountiful slaw to you, always.
RighteousRhythm
This is a perfect example of a comment being better than the post.
arcticfryze
That's some dry-ass coleslaw. Meant for a rabbit, that is
zamirovski
Noice
randomchimi
I love you.
Shotocan
You. I like you.
Chum3
I don't
SlowLightning
Ah! a perfect example of The Great Law - Whatever we put into the universe will come back to us.
greenmanwithratstick
HA! Well played, person. Well played
PanicAtTheCostco
I like the IDEA of karma, but in all reality bad things happen to good people who don't deserve it pretty often.
kittiesonice
Maybe they're being punished for the bad they'll do in the future. Preemptive karma.
MakeItBackAlright
Karma doesn't even out the viciousness of the universe. We're all gonna die. Karma only defines your experience of your own choices.
RaygeKwit
I find that reality is more like D&D than anything. You make a decision and there's a giant cosmic dice roll. You pass the check or don't
Monka42
If you believe in karma you have to believe in reincarnation for it to make sense. Past life karma is a bitch but ultimately we becomebetter
Jupman
I call it the shit happens clause.
lostnortherner
Yeah I don't think children who are abused has anything to do with karma, some people are just evil.
TheMagicalUpvoteFearie
Westerners have realy messed up their interpretation of what karma is. But meh, they think Buddha was fat too so.
diabolicalpenguinarmyoverulesallupvotes
There's the difference between karma and consequence. Consequence is far reaching and timely yet karma is particular but not bound by time
GoogleKnowsTooMuchAboutMe
I believe in social karma, if I'm a jerk to Hannahs cousin, Hannah won't help me if I need help.
jersi0
Checkmate Karma!
Theinternetwasinventedforveryimportantscience
The idea is not that being good will prevent bad things from happening, it's that good things happen to good people.
Feralkyn
I think the idea is that we're part of the universe, so whatever we do to it, we do to ourselves
TheWholeBlueberryExperience
Or that they have done something bad in private that few/themselves know about.
trainWithLegs
Thought you said IKEA
Enderman526
same
SirGunther
Aristotle believed this as well. Luck plays a huge part in everything.
NakedTacoNight
True dat.
lkat
Yeah I'm still trying to figure out why things always go shitty for me because I'm not a shitty person.
Boxingbud
Karma breakdown: We live in Samsara, the endless cycle of birth and death. Good and bad karma both keep us here. You want NO karma to get...
Boxingbud
...to Nirvana, Buddhist heaven. So it's about balance.
Boxingbud
I was raised Buddhist but I don't actually believe in it.
carebearsandstares
Not really, Karma is just another form of Western Natural Law or Chinese Daoism, bad things are not sustainable, based on Universal Reason.
xSquirrelly
Karma has no impact upon this life. It is your rebirth. God,demigod,human,animal,spirit, or "hell." Where you are reborn is decided by karma
PanicAtTheCostco
I like this concept better. I guess karma has become a loosely used term
menapoeka
Well the western trope of vindictive karma is kind of a hodgepodge of christian values and hinduist words.
Digpoint
Sometimes it is not Karma from direct action but the Karma of the decision. Good people die in war. Karma of the decision of joining the mil
eternalposer
And children who are born only to starve or die from disease? What have they done to deserve such a hell?
funkmaster40
That is one obviously dangerous decision. What about walking down the street and getting hit by a drunk driver? Getting diseases?
PrincessJimmyCarter
Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?
mamoru
"And this life sentence that I’m serving / I admit that I’m every bit deserving / But the beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair"
TheifofZ
Everyone gets the idea of karma wrong; Karma isn't immediate like that; Karma is a function of the cycle of Reincarnation. You do good this-
TheifofZ
Of course, the bastardization of Karma is that the cycle is far more immediate, which isn't how fate works except when we take it into 5-
TheifofZ
-life, then your NEXT life will be better; continue to be good and earn up karma, eventually you take a break from the cycle in paradise. 2
TheifofZ
Addendum here: No matter what, eventually you'll be dropped back into the cycle of reincarnation. The Great Wheel turns, and you are part.
TheifofZ
Your next life will be worse. And this is over all lives and all forms of life; you might be a cockroach or raven your next life. 4-
TheifofZ
So if you were a saint in the last life, you'll get good stuff in this life, even if you're a dick. Of course, if you're a dick this time 3-
TheifofZ
our own hands, thus removing the concept of fate and Karma from the punishment involved. The more you know. 6/6.
RumbaSambaMambo
Actually, karma is just the name of the law of cause and effect. Consider it works in a way comparable to physics.
px04
Exactly, there's no metaphysical blah blah attached at all
insanitycontinuum
I don't think karma is what happens to you, but how you react to it.
JudgeRhymehold
Also doing something just for good karma isn't really good karma
vonsandwich
Unless bad karma has allowed you recognize that the things you have been doing are bad, and help you change your behavior for the better.
GrimRiderJ
All the time. How does karma account for child death? Was it the parents bad karma or the babies?
GrimRiderJ
Odds just weren't in their favor no matter how they rolled the dice.
thundercactus
Sometimes bad things just happen. That's why reincarnation is a part of this belief.
thundercactus
In order to find balance over many lives.
samahiel
Karma is not a reward or punishment, it's a result. It is also impersonal. You inherit the karma of others as others are doomed by yours.
MrTranewreck
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MyNameIsLong
You, I like you. I've always struggled with explaining karma to others
thundercactus
I'm sure you agree, the most common explanation given is that you don't have to do something bad BEFORE something bad happens to you
thundercactus
BUT because something bad has happened to you, something good will eventually happen. And 2nd most common one is that good karma can...
thundercactus
take YEARS to come back to you. Things need to be balanced, but they don't need to be balanced right NOW.
samahiel
"Why should I suffer for HIS action" is forgetting that the self is a momentary illusion. Everyone suffers for every action eventually.
suckedintothevortex
Thanks for the explanation! I normally hear people say, "karma is a bitch" so I've always associated it with punishment.
samahiel
Karma comes from the Sanskrit word for "action". When you perform actions they have results that may be skillful or unskillful ...
samahiel
at achieving their intent, which may be good or ill. By reducing your reactions, studying your past actions, and mindfully choosing ...
samahiel
skillful actions you strive to reduce the future suffering of yourself and others.
blitherypoop
It's a nice thought, but most people think they're good. Shit just happens. I'd rather just get on with it than pretend anything matters.
PanicAtTheCostco
So far it seems like you're the only one to really get my point
EataFuckingDick
(2) of the positive system. If everybody does it, it will turn out great. So all you gotta do is put those good vibes out there.
PanicAtTheCostco
I really like what you just said there. Wouldn't have guessed you'd think that way with a username like @eatafuckingdick lol
EataFuckingDick
(1) I think I get it, but in a way it's about pulling your weight. Like recycling, maybe you don't get rewarded directly, but you're a part
graehall
Karma is like conspiracy theories, they're both escapes to pretend there is purpose and reason to random raw reality.
Placeboy
At the same time, we can't pretend to be able to predict and understand every cause and effect of everything that happens.
PanicAtTheCostco
That's the point I'm leaning towards. Shit just sort of... happens lol
graehall
That it does, and when you pull on your big kid pants, you let go of superstition, and accept exactly that. Shit happens. That's existence.
PanicAtTheCostco
Yup. Sometimes you gotta look out for yourself regardless of what "karma" may present you with afterwards. And you just keep keepin on
graehall
The real demonstration of your character, of who you are as a person, is being good, day in day out, in a random uncaring universe.
iwould
The reward for good karma is happiness or internal peace. The idea of putting good info the world in order to receive good back isn't about
Eliaso10
Right, so it goes for giving good things, but for the bad that will happen to one despite an excellent conduct is unjustified by karma
iwould
Worldly possessions / emotions.
icameinlikeafeckingball
Sure, but it’s pretty hard to be happy or find peace when bad shit happens to you all the time, all the more if you’re doing nothing to (1)
icameinlikeafeckingball
deserve it. (2)
Articate
Actually, karma is a mistranslated subject, and even good karma isn't good. It means you do something to get good back. It's not happiness
iwould
A lot of eastern religion is loosely translated. But the idea of karma is deeper then fling good for reward. Leave that to judeo Christians
iwould
A lot of eastern religion is loosely translated. But the idea of karma is deeper then fling good for reward. Leave that to judeo Christians
Articate
The central concept to Taoism and Buddhism is to escape karma; to not do things for the reason that they're good.
Klitanuz
I like the idea of karma aswell but it doesn't really work because you can't define something as "good" (1/2)
SIMPalaxy
I think of it being the desired outcome. And he who is most passionate and persistent in this, receives what he puts in.
Klitanuz
Reality is objective, everyone has their own. And what is an act of goodness in my eyes may not be so to you. (2/2)
TinkerWithMe
It could be argued that perception of reality is subjective, rather. While an actual objective reality could exist.
iwould
Well that's a debate of whether or not true moral law exists.
Klitanuz
I suppose, but what/who is supposed to decide what is what. I think most people think, in their mind, that they are good people. 1/2
ScottKent01
Do you mean subjective?
Llamahunter
No, he meant objective.
Dystakruul
*subjective FTFY
Klitanuz
Right, thanks :)