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Experiences with Karma

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Chocolatelover254 · 09/05/2020 15:11

Not really an AIBU at all - feel free to tell me off! Wasn’t sure where to post this.
I am desperately frustrated with a situation in my life and the only thing keeping me going is the idea that life isn’t always this unfair and being the bigger person will serve me in the long term. But some days that’s hard to believe.
So, what are your experiences with karma? Do you believe in it? Please share your story with me!

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ChandlerIsTheBestFriend · 09/05/2020 19:39

This thread is very funny.

Delbelleber · 09/05/2020 19:41

Everyone at work was getting a bonus, well not everyone only staff that worked there over a certain amount of time. I worked really hard there and I wasn't getting a bonus. Didn't seem fair at all but I didn't say anything. Then I won £100 on a scratchcard and that really felt like karma at the time Grin

1555CC · 09/05/2020 19:45

@Honeybee85 As a very young worker I was falsely accused of theft by another collegue in front of other collegues, very humiliating experience.

Honeybee, seeing as you are such a believer in karma, the big question is, what do you do to deserve this? Surely you must've humiliated someone else previously and this was karma? Or does karma not apply when bad things happen to you?

ListedBuilding · 09/05/2020 19:49

Op how do you explain my best friend dying of motor neurone disease leaving behind a husband and 3 sons under 10 years old? She was one of the kindest, purest souls I ever knew, as was her wonderful mum who watched her die in the midst of her own terminal cancer?

Seriously? Some people have had such bad cards for no reason whatsoever. Your understanding of “karma” is a skewed, cherry pick crapola pile of nonsense that bears no resemblance to the actual real meaning in the Hindu or Buddhist theology.

It’s just a way of justifying being a cunt.

ParkheadParadise · 09/05/2020 19:52

ChandlerIsTheBestFriend

This thread is very funny.

Why is it funny?

maria860 · 09/05/2020 19:56

Yes yes 100% I have many stories of karma but my best one is my awful boss bullying me daily for over a year I used to come home crying.
One day I flipped at work I told him about himself and he kissed my ass after this for a little while but still hated me if you know what I mean it was so uncomfortable.
Then he came in one day so upset because his wife had left him I was over the moon tbh made my day I thought karma was done but nooo the following week he lost his job drunk driving the company car I wished for that day for 15 months and it's finally happened 😁

clairefrasier · 09/05/2020 19:59

On the day I received some exam results, someone commented on how bad my grades were. I already knew they were bad. I was devastated and didn't need to be further humiliated. A few years later, this person's child barely got similar grades to me.

SharonasCorona · 09/05/2020 20:00

Your understanding of “karma” is a skewed, cherry pick crapola pile of nonsense that bears no resemblance to the actual real meaning in the Hindu or Buddhist theology.

This ^

clairefrasier · 09/05/2020 20:06

Ex's parents basically were not happy with my ethnic background and religion being different to theirs. This was always a problem for them and I was made to feel unwelcome. My parents treated my ex like their son. Eventually, we split up for various reasons. Ex eventually ended up marrying someone of different culture and religion to himself, and also converted to her religion and changed his name.

ChandlerIsTheBestFriend · 09/05/2020 20:07

Why is it funny?

The ridiculous things people are attributing to “karma”.

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Chocolatelover254 · 09/05/2020 20:09

@ListedBuilding that’s totally shit and I’m really sorry for your loss. I don’t mean to be insensitive to people who have had bad things happen to them, or fall ill. This thread is much more of a light hearted rant for me and as I posted my real hope is that my ex partner meets his match with someone else. I would never ever wish ill heath on anyone and I can’t offer an explanation for what happened to your friend, that’s awful.

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Chocolatelover254 · 09/05/2020 20:10

I’m hoping the justifying being a cunt comment isn’t aimed at me either - if so that’s very strong Confused

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LyingWitchInTheWardrobe · 09/05/2020 20:11

There is no such thing as 'karma'.

Windyatthebeach how is that karma? He only took the photos so you couldn't have them. That happened and you didn't get them either. Confused

I wonder at the sense of karma-conjurers wishing all kinds of ill on those who've wronged them. I mean, thinking the way you do, how do you get to sleep at night? I'd be terrified if I were you that your favourite 'curse' doesn't whip around and give you the same as you wish for others.

ParkheadParadise, I'm very sorry about your daughter. I do believe that when somebody commit such a heinous crime, they know that did and they can't reconcile that, whatever they think, for the rest of their lives and it must be a torment. I hope his death has at least brought you peace.

ParkheadParadise · 09/05/2020 20:11

ChandlerIsTheBestFriend
The ridiculous things people are attributing to “karma”.

In my post I stated I didn't believe in karma. I didn't post anything that was funny in anyway.

ChandlerIsTheBestFriend · 09/05/2020 20:41

In my post I stated I didn't believe in karma. I didn't post anything that was funny in anyway.

Nope, which is why my comment wasn’t about anything you said.

Legoandloldolls · 09/05/2020 20:54

Ds says karma is a load of blocks but...

Two kids with SEN. One kid in particular I had years of hes fine, it's all in your head blah blah blah. Long story but four years of four SEN tribunals.

School and la was very nasty lied. Intimidated me etc. Upshot was that the LA are now paying for private education as they made so much lies up about ds and what support they was giving him that I could prove state could no longer meet his needs. So they saved £60 a month on speech therapy but lost 17k a year in fees which honestly is criminal.

But the best part? The LA tribunal rep got such a bad reputation that he was banned from going to bar as he had a name for being deceitful and nasty. Then he got sacked from the LA. I dont hate anyone but I made a exception for him.

I bet the head teacher was frothing that my son got into a better school as well. But again, he went to far and said he had cured my son of two SEN conditions that the NHS state are for life. They was all so focused on saving pennies and proving me wrong ( arrogant HT would not back down that a paediatrician knew more about children and SEN than him) that they threw my son under the bus.

Maybe it wasnt karma but if your constantly a arsehole you do pay for it eventually I believe.

Legoandloldolls · 09/05/2020 20:56
  • banned from bar school - he was a legal grad getting work experience to go onto become a barrister
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WhoWants2Know · 09/05/2020 23:44

I might be wrong, but I thought that karma is the sum of all a person's actions and their consequences over a lifetime that then determines how they begin the next?

IgiveupallthenamesIwantedareg0 · 09/05/2020 23:56

As a PP wrote "Poetic Justice" I think "Karma" and Poetic Justice are the same thing. They aren't always directly from the person who was originally caused harmed, but if someone goes through life causing unhappiness, then at some point the unhappiness will come back to them - probably from a fully unexpected source.

1555CC · 10/05/2020 00:13

There's little doubt that if you're a drug dealer, you've got more chance of being shot in the face than if you're a librarian. That's not karma, it's just bad / good life choices. If you're nice to your elderly neighbours, help them out with stuff, they probably still won't leave you their house in their will, but they might. If you never bother with them at all, they definitely won't.

But the idea that there's some supernatural force rewarding good and punishing evil, well that's the stuff of fairy tales.

IgiveupallthenamesIwantedareg0 · 10/05/2020 00:37

I don't believe it is a supernatural force, we all have "Feelings" about people, People we feel comfortable with, people we don't - it is nothing to do with like or dislike, there are just some people we don't feel comfortable with - I see it as being whatever message you send out to others will come back to you.

1555CC · 10/05/2020 00:50

I don't believe it is a supernatural force, we all have "Feelings" about people, People we feel comfortable with, people we don't - it is nothing to do with like or dislike, there are just some people we don't feel comfortable with - I see it as being whatever message you send out to others will come back to you.

Pop over to the Relationships threads and see the numbers of people stuck in miserable relationships with total scumbags. All these women once had really good feelings about these men. And were wrong.

SinisterBumFacedCat · 10/05/2020 01:01

Only example is my grandad years ago getting tailgated and flashed by some arsehole. After the arsehole overtook him and sped off my grandad eventually caught up with him up the road where he had crashed into a skip.

In my experience though karma doesn’t happen, awful people get away with doing terrible stuff, in fact in some cases they get rewarded. And nice people tend to suffer.

EttasEden · 10/05/2020 01:02

Karma is about things coming back to you from this or a previous life. So all you people saying that 'they must have done something to deserve it' know nothing about Hinduism or Buddhism who also believe in past lives determining your fate in future lives (reincarnation) IMO karma does happen, I have many experiences of it both in and out of my favour.

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