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BlackPuma

BlackPuma

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I know that out of respect I shouldn't, but I get so angry when people talk about karma as though it's a real force to keep everything neat and fair. I'm all for generosity and common decency, but it's not credit for happiness, nor prosperity nor is it a shield from bad things.

To each their own, but don't talk to me about freakin' karma.
 
MollyBeGood

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Curb makes the world a better place to be.
LD is the funniest dude ever!! Can't believe the show had no script.
Love HBO Now :thumbup:
 
MollyBeGood

MollyBeGood

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BlackPuma said:
I know that out of respect I shouldn't, but I get so angry when people talk about karma as though it's a real force to keep everything neat and fair. I'm all for generosity and common decency, but it's not credit for happiness, nor prosperity nor is it a shield from bad things.

To each their own, but don't talk to me about freakin' karma.
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Oh I agree.
 
anomicdeer

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A pool place called me for an interview. Now that I think about it, I'm wondering if they're only calling me because although they may not hire me to be a lifeguard, they'll get their money for the lifeguarding courses.

Why do I have to have the mind that I have?
 
S_Spartan

S_Spartan

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BlackPuma said:
I know that out of respect I shouldn't, but I get so angry when people talk about karma as though it's a real force to keep everything neat and fair. I'm all for generosity and common decency, but it's not credit for happiness, nor prosperity nor is it a shield from bad things.

To each their own, but don't talk to me about freakin' karma.
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Just another branch of:

Just-world hypothesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If the masses didn't believe these things they wouldn't feel that they have any stake in reality, if they felt that they didn't have a stake in reality then they wouldn't get up in the morning, if they didn't get up in the morning then no work would get done....dig it?
 
Opaline

Opaline

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It's disturbing how much I can identify with Quentin Compson from The Sound and the Fury. Not literally in his obsession with the Southern code of honor and all of that, but in the way he thinks about things to some degree and being unable sometimes to view things in more than black and white.

Not sure if anyone knows what I'm talking about but I guess there's a chance, haha. And not that anyone cares :p

Also, it's just occurred to me that there are some parallels between The Sound and the Fury and Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. I don't even know if they were written around the same time or not or have anything to do with one another whatsoever (I don't think so), but they both deal with the decline and decadence of the aristocracy in their respective countries and how they've fallen into self-absorption and self-destruction, sitting around mourning the loss of their prestige and lost in their vices. I remember the one quote from the latter, "All we do is sit around all day, drinking vodka and complaining" or something to that effect.

I know for sure no one cares at all about THAT but I had to write it somewhere, it was an English major epiphany! Sort of.
 
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BlueDays

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FountainandFairfax said:
I have to be up in 4 hours...

Chance of sleep: 15%

Chance of looking like a maniac tomorrow and feeling like crap: 1 billion.
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^You have a busy day tomorrow?



I often wonder if past lives are real.
Some things in life seem so familiar to me, without a logical explanation.

One example.....I have never ever smoked (cigarettes or anything else).
Yet when I hold a pen between the two fingers you normally hold a cigarette between I feel really relaxed and sense of comfort comes over me.
It feels like I have smoked all of my life. I find it very puzzling. :idontknow:
 
anomicdeer

anomicdeer

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I bet that's what they're doing. They're making sure they contact people without certification so they can get money for their classes. The thing is, I actually want to try. I know there will always be someone better but, damn I have a spark of hope in there laughing at me...
 
BlackPuma

BlackPuma

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S_Spartan said:
Just another branch of:

Just-world hypothesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If the masses didn't believe these things they wouldn't feel that they have any stake in reality, if they felt that they didn't have a stake in reality then they wouldn't get up in the morning, if they didn't get up in the morning then no work would get done....dig it?
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And that's fine, like I said, to each their own. People should believe whatever they need to get them through the day. But it intensely ticks me off when people present it back to me personally as though hardship now will turn to happiness later because the rules of karma dictate it so.

It is, to put it lightly, crushingly unhelpful.
 
FountainandFairfax

FountainandFairfax

in a VAN down by the RIVER
BlueDays said:
^You have a busy day tomorrow?
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Yep, leaving the fortress in fifteen minutes. My family owns a lot of rental property and every now and then one opens up (usually utterly destroyed by the tenants) and I have to go in and get things back up to code. I'm working with my grandad today.

Fortunately, I fell asleep sometime after 4:52, the last time I looked at the clock, so I've actually had much worse days.

Thanks for asking, Blue. :D
 
S_Spartan

S_Spartan

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BlackPuma said:
And that's fine, like I said, to each their own. People should believe whatever they need to get them through the day. But it intensely ticks me off when people present it back to me personally as though hardship now will turn to happiness later because the rules of karma dictate it so.

It is, to put it lightly, crushingly unhelpful.
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Oh yeah it pisses me off also!
 
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