What goes around...

[JohnnyV]

Do you believe that what goes around, comes around? Why, why not?

What about Karma?

[chornbe]

I believe that people get what they deserve, more or less. But, I don't think it's due to some cosmic karma. More, I believe that if you're a decent person and you treat people well, then they're more inclined to treat you well. if you're a prick you're going to piss people off and get treated accordingly.

$.02

[TommyWillB]

Maybe a good topic for a poll.

But to answer the question I have to say I DO... I beleive in Karma and "Do un to others...".

...and I'm a very non-religious secular sort of guy, so the fact that I feel this way drives me nuts... I don't think I SHOULD feel this way. It doesn't make logical rational sense.

[Qion]

Not everything in life does make logical, rational sense. I believe that our intelligence is only scraping the surface of what there really is. So, to believe that you are a "secular" person, and yet to believe in something that seems to collide with that mentallity is completely logical. I personally have swaying beliefs about Karma, because it does seem to happen pretty regularly, but I am unsure that it actually exists. Maybe it ties in with other religion, in that God tries to make things fair among human relations.

[JohnnyV]

I'm a relatively religious person and I didn't believe in karma most of my life. More recently (since I've been in college) I've been paying alot to the people around me and myself and what happens to us. I've come to believe in 'karma' in some form. It almost seems that they universe has a way of balancing itself out.

[adambyte]

I believe in karma, however, I am willing to extend it accross multiple lifetimes... for instance, Bush may get away with what he's done this lifetime, and live out the rest of his days doing whatever the hell he feels like on his ranch... but the next 100,000 lifetimes, he's going to be an ant that gets stepped on accidentally.

At least, that's what I believe. I could be wrong. Who knows?

[Darkshadow]

So what kind of karma do you need to be the person stepping on said ant?

[CaptainQuark]

… Bush may get away with what he's done this lifetime… but the next 100,000 lifetimes, he's going to be an ant that gets stepped on accidentally…

If karma really worked, then for each for those 100,000 lifetimes, Bush would be reborn with a label on his back saying "I was George W Bush in an earlier life" so that everyone could squash him on purpose!

Does that count as anti-American sentiment?

And just where does Rice get off telling Europe what it can and cannot do? Sure maybe the US is the policeman of the world, but where I come from, the police have to abide by the law. Or does the US get to change the law? In which case, the world becomes a police state - just like Iraq was. Does that mean that Europe is justified in invading the US and kicking the government out of office?

The EU may be an imperfect institution, but it's a hell of a lot more democratic than the US!

With apologies to the American contributors to this forum. I don't dislike Americans, but I do dislike the US government and its policies – both foreign and domestic.