DESI Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Who here believes in Karma? If anyone has any good stories about Karma you should post it. I still love my ex and I deep down want the best for him, but part of me wants him to feel the pain that he has put me through. Link to post Share on other sites
mach3 Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Funny you say that - I actually mentioned that to my Ex. While I don't ever wish anything bad upon her - I can't help but think to myself - you don't treat people like this. It's just not good karma. And we all know karma has a way of kicking your ass. Link to post Share on other sites
YellowLioness Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 I like Karma. It keeps me humble. Even the little things, like where you're having really mean thoughts about someone then you stub your toe! I think that's karma. Recently, I broke soul ties with all of my exes because I got engaged, and wanted to pledge my whole self to my fiance. My life has been hell for the past two weeks, from what I believe is unresolved karma righting itself. During the past two or three weeks, I have gotten into a wreck (i can still drive my car, though), our cable was shut off, (more time to talk to eachother... or quibble...lol) I got in a HUGE fight with two of my best friends (hopefully it will strengthen the friendship, but still working on that bull hockey), my cat got sick (he's better now), and my fiance and I don't have enough money to eat anything but canned ravioli and ramen noodles (at least we have food to eat, though), and our drug dealing neighbors upstairs have had tweaker parties until like 5 in the morning on week nights (And, we still have a roof over our head, thank God). More happened then that, actually, but I just don't feel like typing it all out. lol. I'm not trying to whine, but you have to admit all of that hitting in a period of 3 weeks is alot to deal with. Maybe some would say that its just life, and I agree with that. I just think that karma makes some times in your life harder then others, as a way to punish, or to serve as a learning experience. Link to post Share on other sites
loveregardless Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 the ultimate "do unto others as you would have them do unto you.", "what goes around comes around" and "you reap what you sow" all rolled into one. I definetely believe in Karma, see religious and spiritual beliefs for more fun filled adventure. Link to post Share on other sites
Fayebelle Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Wishing bad karma can bring bad karma to you. You should focus on you own role and try to balance your own life- that is the only karma you can moniter. If your ex is meant to "get his" he will. Link to post Share on other sites
YellowLioness Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 I try not to wish anybody bad. I mean, yeah, there are people who I disagree with, but I don't wish them bad karma. Karma takes care of alllll that itself, with out me having to wish anything. Like... My ex Andrew, we'll call him, cheated on me two years ago. I thought it was the end of the world as I knew it. But, then this year I found out that with in his group of friends, he slept with his best friend's girlfriend, to get back his own girlfriend, Rachel for cheating on him. Then, Rachel, to get Andrew back yet again, slept with two of his friends at the same time. Hey, what goes around comes around! And we all know karma has a way of kicking your ass. Exactly. Link to post Share on other sites
loveregardless Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 I always try to think of other people's negativity as an extension of their inner sadness and instead of letting myself get too angry about things, just feel sorry for them that they have so much negativity and hurt inside of them. It doesn't always work that easily, so at times when its most difficult, I imagine that I am surrounded at all times by a protective force field of good energy and that any negativity that people try to attack me with just bounces off of my good energy and goes right back to them, or if I'm doing really well, just let it fall to the ground. On the surface it's just a visualization technique, but on a spiritual energy kind of level...well...it's more literal I suppose. and you can't wish Karma upon someone, good/bad or otherwise, Karma is a personal collection of experiances and energies, a personal path...and the only Karma you can control is your own, by being the best most positive true and loving soul that you can. "this little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine." Let it shine babe, LET IT SHINE!!!! Link to post Share on other sites
YellowLioness Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 And also very negative because they are hurt. They know just what to say to take someone down a peg, so that they come out looking more right. I work with some people like that, and I think you're very right on how to handle them. Good plan. always try to think of other people's negativity as an extension of their inner sadness and instead of letting myself get too angry about things, I don't really feel sorry for anyone, because I think we all make our own beds, but I also hate to see anyone in pain. I imagine that I am surrounded at all times by a protective force field of good energy and that any negativity that people try to attack me with just bounces off of my good energy and goes right back to them, or if I'm doing really well, just let it fall to the ground. You may or may not believe in ghosts in spirits, but if you do, and you run into a bad one, this is also a great technique to use. It helps to repel alll bad forms of energy that's sent to attack. God, I love this conversation! Whoo! Link to post Share on other sites
aFighter Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 I see bad people laughing and getting away with everything while good people suffer. It happens all the time. Karma is just some philosophy that snaked it's way into western culture. Karma is the grown up equivalent of "If you keep making that face the wind will change and you'll stay that way" pfft. Link to post Share on other sites
YellowLioness Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 I see bad people laughing and getting away with everything while good people suffer. It happens all the time. Karma is just some philosophy that snaked it's way into western culture. Karma is the grown up equivalent of "If you keep making that face the wind will change and you'll stay that way" I can see how you'd think that way. However, I think that just because someone is good in this life doesn't mean that they were good in a past life. Perhaps they are being punished for some past wrong that they did. There are alot of "good" people who do get crapped on. But, there are also alot of "good" people who don't. Your glass is half empty, no? I just prefer to not let the world get me down. It's like Incubus said, "Not everyone here is that f*cked up and cold. So remember why you came and while you're alive...experience the warmth before you grow old." Link to post Share on other sites
Fayebelle Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 1 word- Oprah I'm a believer Link to post Share on other sites
loveregardless Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 I love Incubus, and that particular song is my favorite one ever--geese I love you people! Anyway...in response to afighter: The world is full of sadness, no one ever said otherwise. But how you choose to view that sadness is up to you. My glass has been half empty my whole life, and until recently I thought very much like you, but over the past year or so I have come to see the world in a very different light, if you'd like you can have my half, that way yours will be full. And you know what else, I wish that more eastern ideals such as this would snake their way into western culture, because it just ain't cutting it on its own. And YL, I don't feel sorry in a pity sort of way for them, just sorry that it has to be like that at all. Link to post Share on other sites
YellowLioness Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 I love Incubus, and that particular song is my favorite one ever ME TOO!!!!!!!!! They are the greatest band. You got their new CD, "A Crow Left of the Murder?" Good songs on that one, too. Love "In my room," though the song should have been called, "Pink Tractorbeam," IMHO. ANYWAY, onto other things... lol.... And YL, I don't feel sorry in a pity sort of way for them, just sorry that it has to be like that at all. Oohh, I understand what you mean, now. Sorry to misinterpret. Yeah, me too, truthfully. Link to post Share on other sites
loveregardless Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 thats me, I'm cream for Brandon. Don't tell my boyfreind but I love him almost more than I love Johnny Depp. (sigh) My favorite cd is probably morning view though, maybe its because the guys were so chill at their house on the beach when they were writing it, who knows? But I'm such a chill kind of person. I need everything to be chill at all times, hey you, hush that fuss... but anyway, they just have the most insightful BRIILIANT lyrics of any song writers, love em, love em, yup I do. I saw them in concert right after they released morning view and it was so creamy. "i suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.....those left standing will make millions writing books on the way it should have been..." Link to post Share on other sites
aFighter Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Originally posted by YellowLioness Your glass is half empty, no? I poured out what was left in my glass and smashed it against the wall. I make my own destiny from now on. I'm not playing into Karma, half full glasses, blah blah blah. All mumbo jumbo Link to post Share on other sites
loveregardless Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 the world is so awful isn't it. everyone has such a wonderful additude it's just beyond me how it got that way?! Link to post Share on other sites
YellowLioness Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 I poured out what was left in my glass and smashed it against the wall. I make my own destiny from now on For some reason, and I don't know why, I found that quote extremely sexy. Ohh, I love bad boys...Mmm...reminds me of something my fiance would say. Then again, maybe it was all that talk about Brandon and Johnny Depp. I've loved Mr. Depp since Edward Scissor hands when I fell into those big, brown eyes... **************************************** Sorry, I had to take a moment. Anyway afighter, I'm not saying that you don't choose your own actions, and that you don't make your own way. I read in the bible that God helps those who help themselves. Karma doesn't take our choices away; we choose how we handle the situations that life throws at us. Link to post Share on other sites
loveregardless Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Johnny is my man beotch...haha...i'm just kidding, you can have him on weekends. No but seriously, I love him...I really do. He is my perfect fantasy man, artistic and dark and mysterious, eccentric and strange..and oh so damn sexxy. (cream) Brandon pales in comparison, poor thing. Oh Johnny... Link to post Share on other sites
DESI Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 The whole karma thing, I never really believed in it, because good things happen to bad people all the time, and bad things happen to good people all the time. I do not really believe in past lives. However my ex of two years cheated on me, and I thought it was the end of the world. Well about 1 year after that, the girlfriend he was with (the one he cheated on me with) cheated on hiim! He tried crawling back to me, but by then thank god I was already over him. Here is another story, a long time ago the ex before him hit me, and I broke up with him. He was so rude to me after the break up. Turns out now at the age of 21 he has a child from a girl that he is not in love with. And he doesn't even know if the child is his. To me I think thats kind of Karma. They I guess will get theres or is that just sometimes. The reason why I wanted to post about Karma is because my most recent ex, hurt me the most out of anyone. We were planning on getting married, our families spent christmas' together etc... Then out of no where he breaks up with me. He never calls me to see how I am, or anything. When we do talk (he wanted his stuff back) he is so incredibly mean to me. I mean like really mean saying that I bought out the worst in him, and we were never good for eachother, and F**K You etc.. This is a man that I wanted to be with forever, someone I thought I knew inside and out. Someone I didn't think would ever hurt me. I am trying not to wish Bad Karma onto him, but I am sure it will happen. However another question I have for myself is what did I do to deserve that? Where did I get my bad karma from? Link to post Share on other sites
loveregardless Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 because you cannot control other people you cannot control what happens to you, all you can control is your behavior and your reactions. when bad things happen to you it isn't necessarily because you did anything to deserve it, it's because someone or something caused it to happen. but if you do live a life where you repeatedly hurt others, are caustic and cruel, then it will come to you in the end. karma is not what you get for what you do...its what you do and how you live and the path your soul chooses to follow, and when its all said and done, you'll be smiling and he'll be left to deal with the life/path he chose. i know it hurts...but its where you go from here that makes the difference between you and him. one day everyone who has caused pain and suffering on other will know what they have done. one day, they will know, and they will weep when they feel the pain they caused....i promise, one day they will know! )))))hugs)))))) Link to post Share on other sites
YellowLioness Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Karma just makes the most sense, to me. Sort of like... Every action has an equal but opposite reaction, right? Well, perhaps intentions work that way, too. If you hit someone with a car with the intent to kill them, I believe that your intent and action create deliberately harmful karma. If you hit someone with a car with out the intent to kill, say for example, they just ran across the road in front of you, I believe that Karma will still punish you for hurting that person, but not as much as if you had done it deliberately. . Link to post Share on other sites
loveregardless Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 so this morning I have been doing more research on "karma" and it's pertaining to neagative events that happen in our lives, and it is apparent that the general concensus is that things that happen to you now that are "bad luck" or "unfair" are a result of actions made in a previous life. The only positive way to deal with these consequences without accumulating more negative or bad karma is to accept responsibility for all events in your life good/bad/otherwise with the same additude and try to be positive in your reaction. By reacting neagitively you are only creating more of what you don't want! Apparently it has a lot more to do with past lives than your current life, and often karma can take several lives to manifest itself in your current life. and I now belive in karma and reincarnation even more than I did before...because I've learned more. I love learning! I don't understand why it's not more popular?! Link to post Share on other sites
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