Karma...

[Gaillo]

Um, Gaillo, love, it's all about intention. If you give freely with NO expectation of something in return, that is the key.
If you go and try to manipulate your karma by gifting somebody something by their inspiring post doesn't sound like karma to me.
It sounds like gifting someone something cuz they just gifted you.
NE gave away freely with no expectation in return. That's different.
Hope that makes sense. PS. I don't need any silver.

Maybe so... but I have zero altruistic tendencies - I like to see other people happy and prospering, so I pretty much ALWAYS get something back when I give. Would I give freely of my time, resources, etc. if I did not know who it was to, and had no expectation of seeing where it was going? Definitely not.

BTW, I suspect TheNocturnalEgyptian had similar motives when he gave away the orgonites, I'm sure he got a great feeling of satisfaction in seeing people appreciate what he had to offer, along with an excellent chance to spread the word about a little-known technology.

My theory? EVERYONE operates out of self-interest, it's just that many people are not conscious and rational about it.

[Old Herb Lady]

Maybe so... but I have zero altruistic tendencies - I like to see other people happy and prospering, so I pretty much ALWAYS get something back when I give. Would I give freely of my time, resources, etc. if I did not know who it was to, and had no expectation of seeing where it was going? Definitely not.

BTW, I suspect TheNocturnalEgyptian had similar motives when he gave away the orgonites, I'm sure he got a great feeling of satisfaction in seeing people appreciate what he had to offer, along with an excellent chance to spread the word about a little-known technology.

My theory? EVERYONE operates out of self-interest, it's just that many people are not conscious and rational about it.

Not everyone. Only people that have not learned to let go & get rid of the ego.
Once one releases the ego ...... Then it is completely possible to "operate" with no self-interest.

[Gaillo]

Not everyone. Only people that have not learned to let go & get rid of the ego.
Once one releases the ego ...... Then it is completely possible to "operate" with no self-interest.

That idea (getting rid of the ego) is at the CORE of many new-age and occultic belief systems. As for me, no thanks... if you (properly) define the Ego as one's "sense of self", then getting rid of it is the WET DREAM of globalists, collectivists, and all others who would prey on man's mind by first destroying the individualistic and self-identifying aspects of it.

[freespirit]

i think it may be more along the lines that our "pride" makes us think that we are the greatest thing since sliced bread, when in reality, on the grand scale of the infinite, we are mere specks of dust whirling about the galaxy between here and our own demise...

[Old Herb Lady]

That idea (getting rid of the ego) is at the CORE of many new-age and occultic belief systems. As for me, no thanks... if you (properly) define the Ego as one's "sense of self", then getting rid of it is the WET DREAM of globalists, collectivists, and all others who would prey on man's mind by first destroying the individualistic and self-identifying aspects of it.

Nothing new agey or occultist about love. That's what the CORE of your karma is . ( or the opposite of love....hate) The whole "karma" thing sounds new agey & occultist to me.
Love is not new agey or occultist. Big tough ego guys can NEVER see /realize this.

[Joe King]

Rockerfeller,kissinger are going to die peacefully in their sleep when the time comes

What makes you think that?

[Twisted Titan]

The physical life is very, very short, like a dot on an infinite line. Think eternity Twister, eternity !

But nobody can say with absolute certainy what will become of them.

we just assume they will suffer......we tell ourselves that for our own peace of mind as the possibilty that they got over is just a tad to much for most to bear.

no one that has crossed the great chasm of death ever returned to show the living what becomes of those with intolerate moral behavior

[cortez]

Nothing new agey or occultist about love. That's what the CORE of your karma is . ( or the opposite of love....hate) The whole "karma" thing sounds new agey & occultist to me.
Love is not new agey or occultist. Big tough ego guys can NEVER see /realize this.

Kamma in the sanskrit or karma as it came east is translated directly to mean 'action'. its not new agey, and is the teaching of antiquity as the proof of co dependent origination.

[sunshine05]

I feel like I have always tried to help other people, not wanting anything in return. Not thinking about Karma, it's just something I do because it feels right. I have spent countless hours working on this wrongful conviction, the Cooper case. I don't know the guy and personally won't benefit if he is released but I couldn't sit back and watch the injustice without doing something about it. A lot of people have questioned why I'm so eager to help a stranger but honestly it amazes me that more don't. What happened to him could happen to any one of us and when it happens, we need to expose it.

I'm not sure I believe in karma. There are some pretty evil people who seem to get away with their evilness. The prosecutors and police in the case mentioned above for one.

[Neuro]

i think it may be more along the lines that our "pride" makes us think that we are the greatest thing since sliced bread, when in reality, on the grand scale of the infinite, we are mere specks of dust whirling about the galaxy between here and our own demise...

Yeah, but I would still say that even the most useless eater, a pitiful excuse of man, a badsmelling waste of space, is still a far greater thing than sliced bread... The real miracle is that molecules consisting of mainly carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen (stardust) has blended together to make an organism that is able to walk, talk, eat, recreate, think (sometimes even original thoughts), invent... I really don't know how this came about if by chance evolution, or by the hand of some god, which we cannot understand. Or through some other unknown sequence of events. But it is a miracle, and possibly the greatest miracle of the universe!