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Karma

Do you believe in a type of "Karma"?

  • Yes

    Votes: 12 35.3%

  • No, it's all about finding meaning in random events

    Votes: 13 38.2%

  • Yes, but I call it something else

    Votes: 3 8.8%

  • I think there's something in it, though have no firm belief

    Votes: 6 17.6%
  • Total voters
    34
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Swifty said:
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On the first day of a new job my admin asst was late. I was already suspicious because my new boss had made a point of saying in a defensive tone several times how helpful she was and how much I would like her. She arrived after a half hour and told the room how fast she had driven, and whose junker she had clipped while parking. Which was mine. Didn't last long.
 
Lb8535 said:
On the first day of a new job my admin asst was late. I was already suspicious because my new boss had made a point of saying in a defensive tone several times how helpful she was and how much I would like her. She arrived after a half hour and told the room how fast she had driven, and whose junker she had clipped while parking. Which was mine. Didn't last long.
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Lol .. Lb! .. where have you been hiding mate? ..

My mate's Son asked me to find him some work so I got him into a restaurant I used to manage and the little twat was late for his job interview (5 minutes walk from his Dad's flat) .. my ex boss hired him anyway with the warning "That's the first and the last time you ever do that to me" ..

He turned out to a surprisingly good waiter and is now a staff supervisor in a different place and keeps telling people "Swifty got me into this game!" .. so they can turn out well sometimes ;) ..

(at least he didn't turn up still pissed at an induction day like I did somewhere once .. I didn't want the job anyway, I even did a Breakfast Club air punch in the car park after being politely escorted out of the head office)
 
Thanks for the welcome. I've been moving into a house with many surprises, not fortean, more structural. Thank goodness, I'm worried enough about the beam in the living room ceiling without having to keep track of the nixies. Trying to catch up.
 
I recall having a car full of kids after a Xmas shopping trip to Colchester. Pulling out of the car park I was faced with the daunting task of waiting for a break in the traffic and pulling onto a dual carriageway. After a few minutes there was a suitable break but as I started to edge out an oncoming car visibly accelerated to close the gap. As he passed the guy driving and the 10-12yo in the passenger seat of said car were looking directly at me and laughing....not realising that the traffic in front had come to a halt! Crash.
We went around the roundabout and got onto the carriageway in the opposite direction, I slowed the car, opened the window, primed the kids and as we drew level...ROARED WITH FECKIN LAUGHTER!
 
Tempest63 said:
I recall having a car full of kids after a Xmas shopping trip to Colchester. Pulling out of the car park I was faced with the daunting task of waiting for a break in the traffic and pulling onto a dual carriageway. After a few minutes there was a suitable break but as I started to edge out an oncoming car visibly accelerated to close the gap. As he passed the guy driving and the 10-12yo in the passenger seat of said car were looking directly at me and laughing....not realising that the traffic in front had come to a halt! Crash.
We went around the roundabout and got onto the carriageway in the opposite direction, I slowed the car, opened the window, primed the kids and as we drew level...ROARED WITH FECKIN LAUGHTER!
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Reading this has just reminded me of my encounter with car-based 'instant karma'

About 20 years ago I was being driven to an NHS appointment in the morning. An icy, snowy landscape glittering around us as the lovely lady driving me wended her way through the north Dorset lanes on a clear and sunny day. She was driving carefully and moderately as the roads were still frozen. Although the car was comfy and fairly warm, we were both wrapped up sensibly in woolies, hats and gloves. A proper winter's day!

Then a twonk in a pale bluey-grey sporty two-seater overtook suddenly after tailgating us for a mile and zoomed off ahead, obviously intent on something very pressing and more important than being stuck behind two biddies.

As he sped off into the lanes ahead, around a corner, I remember saying to my chauffeuse something along the lines of "Silly twit! He'll end up in the hedge if he's not careful"

About 10 minutes late, a few miles further down the road, on a sharp bend, was a pale bluey-grey sporty two-seater, nose-first into a ditch and hedge... driver trying to jab at his brick-like mobile phone with frozen fingers after having had to clamber out of said frozen ditch whilst wearing a sporty leather blouson a la Jeremy Clarkson and no gloves/hat. We smiled at him as we carefully pootled by at 22mph :)
 
ramonmercado said:
I bet it gave him paws for thought and he was feline sick after that catastrophe.
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I'm betting that there was no contract of sale. Probably just as well, because there may have been an awkward claws in it.
 
I am not religious in the slightest, but if I have anything that can be called an article of faith, it is that people, at least in the long run, get pretty much what they deserve.
 
I love the video of the bloke giving the finger and then losing his mobile phone. There are so many good clips on that.
 
Chip shop owner 'celebrates' after death of the Queen.
Receives almost instant karma from locals.
 
Stupidity. That business will probably be gone.
 
chicorea said:
It is, on its original context. But the word "karma" was reprocessed and recontextualized for so long on our languages and cultures, that we can assume that it's legitimate to associate it with less orthodox interpretations. We use decontextualized words all the time, like coffee and algebra, both of arabian origin, and we lose the origins of them.
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The word karma really only started to become an everyday word in the west with the advent of the Hare Krishna's in the mid/late 60's.

Karma is a Vedic term and it's meaning, both gross and subtle, is described in many Vedic scriptures written down around 5 000 years ago.

It's not that the 'origins' have been lost. It's more that most don't know where to look. It's one of those 'if I don't know where to look, how can I look for it' type things. The most well known of those books that describes karma in the proper sense is in the Bhagavad Gita (Song of God). I have about the commonest authoritative version (Bhagavad Gita As It Is) and karma is described in the chapter called Karma Yoga (fruitive actions).
 
Mythopoeika said:
Stupidity. That business will probably be gone.
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Well, the owner will be 'run out of town' I expect, but the business itself is likely to stay. And it will probably do well 'under new ownership' due to the publicity it has received.
 
Lol.

Boy George was and is a Hare Krsna of sorts. He was very much into the Hare Krishna's when he wrote that song.
 
He used to live not half a mile from me in Borehamwood.
George O'Dowd.
Bleedin oddball.
 
*Update*

I spoke too soon! Jaki has had her windows panned in and is closed again. Of Fortean interest, have a look at the fourth photo down as it shows a closeup of the signs in her window, demonstrating the differential sanity mentioned above.

https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/11/scot...mashed-for-celebrating-queens-death-17351133/

Jaki Pickett’s shop in Muir of Ord, the Highlands, has been vandalised twice in 24 hours over her tasteless reaction to Her Majesty’s passing.

In a video posted on Facebook, she could be seen dancing and screaming with joy.
Holding a chalkboard that read ‘Lizard Liz Dead’ and ‘London Bridge has Fallen’ with a smiley face, Ms Pickett opens a bottle of bubbly to toast the monarch’s death.

Hours after the official announcement on Thursday, police were called to a mob outside the fish and chip takeaway over the now-deleted clip.
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