7-4-09
I believe the concept of karma is ridiculous in every way. How anyone could possibly believe in a force that makes good things come if you do good and bad things come if you do bad is completely beyond me. Every time I hear "I've gotta work on my karma" or "Doing *insert something here* will raise your karma."
When the fuck are people going to pull their head out of their asses and realize that we don't live on the set of My Name is Earl? And the way people talk about it, "it'll make your karma go through the roof!" You act like this is some kind of fucking video game. Should scientists invent a way to make an HUD for our lives with a karma bar and a health bar? Maybe add a score while we're at it. You dolts.
That's what pisses me off. Nearly EVERYONE believes in this karma bullshit. You ever notice how when you laugh at something terrible that you find sickly amusing, you feel guilty and try to reason with yourself in your head to justify snickering over it? You don't give a shit about whether or not it's morally right or wrong, you're just subconsciously trying to cover your ass from this imaginary force called "karma".
JUST STOP. Laugh at all the terrible shit you want. Don't feel guilty, don't try to protect yourself from this karma bullshit. I thought that baby getting shot in Dawn of the Dead was funny as hell; I think it's pretty fucking hilarious when someone trips or falls down the stairs, even WITHOUT asking if they're okay first; I thought it was hilarious when the Nazis picked up the guy in the wheelchair and threw him off the balcony in the movie, The Pianist.
So laugh at all those terrible things. Laugh when people die under humorous or ironic circumstances, laugh at all those dead baby jokes, laugh when someone trips and falls down the stairs. There's no supernatural force that's going to punish you for doing bad shit.
Karma is just another stupid bullshit superstition to keep people in line. Just take a step back and really think about it. Ask yourself the question: "Should I really believe that there's a force out there that makes good things happen if I do good and bad things happen if I do bad?" If you've answered yes to this question then I genuinely pity you.
I was talking to this guy a while back who believed in karma. He said "It does exist; I've seen it myself."
This photo pretty much demonstrates my reaction to reading this IQ-lowering sentence. You have good shit coming, and you have bad shit coming; no one lives a perfect life. What the person here is doing is connecting lines with selective bias and just general bullshit. For example, lets say 99% of all murder suspects have admitted to drinking alcohol in their life. An idiot would think to themselves "wow alcohol must be the problem with all these murders." Anyone capable of even the most basic critical thinking would know that this is not the case, and that the person who made the statistic is just linking two unrelated things together.
This is exactly what's happening here. This person is completely negating everything good that may have happened to the person whom he was referring to, and only considering what bad had happened, and thus using selective bias to draw lines without including any of the other events.
Long story short, if you can't make a point without it being saturated in logical fallacies, chances are you're wrong, and an idiot. Karma doesn't exist, and if you believe it, I think you're a dolt.