Does Karma really exist?

[FrankWelker]

Does it? Someone has really shafted me badly at work, to the point where I cannot believe that she has done this and not offered me any support at all when she saw how broken I was.
Other people keep telling me she will get her comeuppance, but is this really true? Has anyone actually had that happen?

Of course not.

‘Karma’ is a comforting little fairy tale that people tell themselves when they can’t accept the reality that life is unfair, that the honesty, hard work, loyalty, integrity etc of good people are often exploited by the greed & selfishness of bad people.

Nope prayed for karma on my neighbour,yet the parasite still breaths! However .. I stole a packet of sweets out of my sons sweet tub and my back filling came out which resulted in removal of the tooth!!! Soooo not sure think karma only applies to me!!!!

I believe in karma
And no, karma doesn’t mean that people always deserve the bad things that happen to them.

No, Thatsthewaytis, it's more like, you'll keep posting on spiritual threads just to take the piss instead of trying to be helpful, and one day someone will come along with a much better put-down for you than I can think of.

@ChurchofLatterDayPaints

No, Thatsthewaytis, it's more like, you'll keep posting on spiritual threads just to take the piss instead of trying to be helpful, and one day someone will come along with a much better put-down for you than I can think of.

Ah I see. So as you believe in karma you’ll be fine and dandy. But anyone who doesn’t agree with you will have a karma put down in their future. Got it!

And I have been helpful to the OP. I have pointed out bad things happen to good people, karma is a load of tripe so no point hoping or waiting for the person who treated her badly to get their come uppance. Best to move on and find happiness where she can.

A lot more useful than rambling on about past event clearly predicting what happens you you later in life which quite frankly in the context of child loss described on this thread is despicable of you.

@PlanDeRaccordement

I believe in karma And no, karma doesn’t mean that people always deserve the bad things that happen to them.

Just when it suits your belief system then?

Hmmmm. Common sense shrieks no, of course not, at me. Life has suggested otherwise, several times.

I hate the idea of karma. I can’t believe anyone would still believe in it in this day and age.

As if my baby daughter deserved to die as soon as she was born, or my ASD and learning disabled DS deserves to have the life he has .

Not to mention that I certainly didn’t deserve the parents I was born to, the abuse of every kind that I suffered through in childhood, or the multitude of shit stuff that has happened to me in adulthood.

I wish I did believe in past lives as then it might make sense in that I must have done something horrendous in a previous one .

Plenty of child murderers live in relative comfort to old age in prison btw. Plenty of unsolved murders where the perpetrator has never been caught, probably lived to old age and enjoyed life.

I believe in revenge is best served cold though!

I think that people who treat others badly run the risk of pissing off someone who can affect their lives negatively.

@ftw163532

Just when it suits your belief system then?

I’m a practicing Bhuddist.

Karma doesn't mean that bad things will happen to bad people and vice versa, and everyone gets what they deserve. It's a more nuanced and sophisticated concept than that. In essence, it just means that your actions shape your future.

Clearly rapists win the lottery and children get cancer. That's not what karma means.

This woman isn't going to get any cosmic justice for what she did to you. And if she did, eg get a bullying boss, would that boss get karma too? Good karma for punishing a nasty person, or bad karma for being horrible herself?

What karma could mean in this context is that this woman has now turned you against her, and maybe at some future point that won't be to her advantage. And if she is consistently awful to people, she will probably eventually reap the results of making lots of enemies, and no friends to have her back.

@Turtles25

I believe in "What goes around comes around"

Doesn't mean it does. Exponent here of the "Shit Happens" school of philosophy. What counts is how you deal with said shit

Nah. Life's not fair.