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Originally Posted by DuffMan
I pray to God that he doesn't let something as unproven and unscientific as karma to have an effect on anyones life.
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I see what you did there...
Just to stir the pot a little though, there might actually be more logic behind the idea of karma than the Christian religion (or other monotheistic religions).
I'm not talking about the belief of karma where all good you do (or bad) gets revisited on you because it somehow goes in some mystical spiritual ledger that evens out based on certain gods or powers, which I believe is a more Hindu version of karma. But the simpler more Buddhist based idea that any good you put in the world simply improves it and therefore makes it more possible that a good deed would be visited back on you. Or the reverse for bad obviously.
It's not a belief that anything evens out necessarily, just that good often begets good and evil often begets evil (to use absolute terms I'm not very fond of).
You smile at someone, they are very likely to smile back. It's just that simple. You hurt someone, you give them a reason to hurt you. Actually very logical stuff.