I don’t believe in karma being a boomerang that comes around again, but i believe that a negative stone thrown in the pond of life will lead to negative waves rippling through it and getting caught by the resulting wave should at least be no surprise to the stone thrower.
I believe in ‘Fuck around and Find out’.
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Yes, but more metaphorically - to put it simply I think people are their own Karma. People carry around the consequences of their own actions.
That manifests in how they treat interpersonal relationships which in turn shapes reality.
The Marx quote about social beings creating social reality is appropriate here however, what is ‘good’ and ‘bad’ isnt universal truth but one that exists within the social reality of a time period.
I believe in certain instances “eye for an eye” punishment can be appropriate. If you want you can view that as restoring “karmic balance”.
Yes, its a wider application of newtons third law, which is that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Karma is like seeds tho; not all actions have the correct conditions for them to ripen, and sometimes they take many years to ripen, sometimes even more than a lifetime. So it can’t be said that all actions bring results, because the conditions might not be right.
In the therevada tradition, karma actually means volitional action. People often mis-define karma as the result/fruit of the action. So a distinction is made between karma, and the fruits of karma.
As a metaphysical thing, I don’t think karma makes sense. If I murder Bob, then karma would dictate that I need to be murdered to receive justice. So John comes along and murders me. Justice has been served. But now John is a murderer and karma dictates that he also now needs to be murdered. So Dave murders him. And it just goes on and on, neverending. Also can these people be said to be guilty when karma needed them to do this? It’s like how Judas gets blamed for betraying Jesus, but god needed Jesus to be betrayed to get his plan to work! It’s all just nonsense.
no, not in the sense that every good or bad thing is a tally that is rewarded or punished. i think in broad terms sure it points towards how things evolve to some degree
As materialists we should deny superstition and beliefs in gods. Our little monkey brains try to connect the dots way too much just to make sense of the immensity of information that the world provides through day to day life.
Dont harden yourself so much to religion, it will create divisions where there could be co-operation.
I think the correct materialist approach is to be Agnostic - we still cant prove the nature of reality so the big shrug seems like the most rational to avoid falling victim to the trap of atheist orthodoxy.
What, indeed, is agnosticism [writes Engels], but… “shamefaced” materialism? The agnostic’s conception of nature is materialistic throughout. The entire natural world is governed by law, and absolutely excludes the intervention of action from without. But he adds, we have no means either of ascertaining or of disproving the existence of some Supreme Being beyond the known universe (Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, p. 18).
(This was an excerpt fom Georges Pollitzer’s Elementary Principles of Philosophy )
My face is not ashamed, but i do not shame others for what they believe.
