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Do you believe in karma? How about luck?
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Anonymous 1w

To me karma logically makes sense because doing bad things makes the world a worse place and therefore the world is more likely to treat you bad in return. "Luck" suggests an outcome is pre-determined to be in your favor, and that just scientifically doesnt make sense. Luck is just confirmation bias.

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Anonymous 1w

In fact find the prevailing western concept of karma offensive. Horrible things happen to good people and assholes get away with murder all the time. You have to be very privileged and naive to believe that the world is naturally just.

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Anonymous 1w

It is true that you often reap what you sow in your relationships with people and We like when people get what they deserve. But is the world naturally just and fair? No way.

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Anonymous 1w

I’ve always taken luck to be descriptive, not prescriptive. Like, it totally makes sense to say you got lucky or you need good luck today or something, you’re just describing the way things went or you would like them to go. I don’t think it’s debatable whether most people have been lucky in certain situations before. Luck as like, a thing you can have permanently, I’d say no, but I feel like that isn’t the main meaning.

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Anonymous 1w

Luck is more like "positive coincidence" or a "favorable chance event" but not a thing that can be actively improved or gained. Karma is believed to be moral causality. But what is good/bad differs between individuals/cultures. The universe just exists and things just happen. People decide on morality, not the universe. So the idea that good things always happen to good people isn't scientifically founded, just confirmation bias.

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Anonymous 1w

It’s complicated.

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Anonymous 1w

If you say no to karma, you’re not tapped in. Luck is debatable

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

I don’t believe in supernatural things 🤷

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

Then you’re not tapped in

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

I don’t even know what that means tbh but imo believing in magic is immature

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1w

U get it

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

Okieeeee, we all have our beliefs

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

Karma doesn’t always reveal itself to the public, but every action does in fact have a reaction

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

So that’s just physics and is unrelated. Someone could, actually no, people DO commit murder and never get caught, dying free and happy. That’s not justice. Karma is inherent justice

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

Bro, u got no idea what’s going on in the world, I’ll tell u that😭😭😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

Karma means every time you do a bad thing, a bad thing is done to you as punishment by the universe. The universe is not a person, it can’t do anything to someone. It just exists. And people do get away with murder so I don’t know what you even mean here

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

Every action in this world bears a consequence; you must first give something in order to gain something; for every action there is an equal opposite reaction ❤️

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

There r other reactions other than legal justice. I dont know what they would be for a murderer who got away with it, because I’m not a murderer tho. But there would be consequences

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

Like what?? You committing a bad act does not mean you will magically be held accountable for it by the universe. The universe is not a sentient being. It can’t commit revenge

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

Yes it is bro.😭 I’m sorry but u rlly have no idea what’s going on in the world. No offense.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

The universe is 10000000% a sentient being

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

I do not believe in magic. That is childish

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

You must be a troll or something

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

Lol okay bud

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

No, just someone who does drugs lmfao

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 1w

But unlike luck, karma can be controlled. Actively doing good or bad things increases the likeliness of good or bad things happening to you. No amount of gambling will make you luckier (statistically you would trend to be unluckier/more avergae over repetition), but for karma if you do a bunch of bad things and make your environment bad, those bad things that will happen to you in return are an indirect result of your actions.

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