Religion and Religious Type Concepts Thread

[samba99]

Moving this discussion from shannon journal to here. Please share your thoughts and ideas. Educate. If have useful knowledge or resources don’t keep it to yourself :p


To start with, I asked shannon about this particular situation. If you have thoughts about it, it will be great to share since shannon is busy lately.

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Are you talking about Karma ? You a believer ?
I've always believed that karma stuff is just a lie from gurus so that they can keep their power for themselves and scare people from doing what they want.

I go on evidence to form my beliefs. And I can tell you, doing whatever you want will bite you in the end if it unbalances the equation. Whether it's now or later. I have been bitten by my misunderstanding of that fact many times, and I have used my understanding of that fact to win many times as well.

If you want to call it karma or simply the universe maintaining balance, it is there. And if you want to test it, I'm sure that eventually you will learn what I know from painful experience. Belief is not required, which is a good thing.

Shannon,
Can you give a simple example on how to win using karma.

I can’t think of a simple equation but since most of us deal with relationships and money. I will try to give a money scenario:

For example, if I saw a homeless guy who is suffering different kind of negative emotions. Then I donated some money to him which resulted in a magnitude of joy (or other positive emotions) at the same moment I experience either of the following:

A- same magnitude of the positive emotion experienced by the homeless person.
B- same magnitude but negative emotion due to (money loss)
C- different magnitude of either positive or negative emotion.
D- nothing ( least possible?)

How does karma role plays here?
How will the universe balance this out?

At the balancing moment does the same homeless person (variable) have to be in the equation?