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Do you believe in karma or coincidence? Maybe both? Do you find that events/situations happen for a reason or just at an oddly given time?
I find that certain decisions can lead up to bad or good events, which falls into the coincidence part. I tend to find karma a bit exaggerated. Many people preach it and think it's some magical sign from the universe but I want to think a little outside the box here.
Good point, FF. Coincidence requires that both events be random with respect to each other, but even random events can occasionally take place at the same time or one immediately following the other.
Karma. I suppose karma is related to the fact that decisions and their consequences tend to add up and eventually "cluster" if you follow similar patterns for a long time. So good decisions lead to lots of good consequences that sometimes cluster to make a really good, positive result = good karma. And a pattern of bad decisions lead to lots of negative consequences which either directly or indirectly can cluster to make a really negative result, with you at the center =bad karma.
Considering the myriad ways a human can conclude something is a "coincidence" (through timing, placing, seeing, words, shapes, memories etc etc etc) it would be absolutely impossible for us to go through life without coincidences regularly occurring. Our brain has evolved to find patterns, connect dots, make sense of stimuli. The honest person will realize we will see a concatenation of events or things as a coincidence regularly throughout the many years we live, and that the continual absence of coincidence would be the actually weird thing. The susceptible brain given to magical thinking will make a connection a coincidence then try to read something into that.
Considering the myriad ways a human can conclude something is a "coincidence" (through timing, placing, seeing, words, shapes, memories etc etc etc) it would be absolutely impossible for us to go through life without coincidences regularly occurring. Our brain has evolved to find patterns, connect dots, make sense of stimuli. The honest person will realize we will see a concatenation of events or things as a coincidence regularly throughout the many years we live, and that the continual absence of coincidence would be the actually weird thing.
The susceptible brain given to magical thinking will make a connection a coincidence then try to read something into that.
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What type of personality is likely to be susceptible to magical thinking?
If you accept the notion of Karma then there’s a universal cosmic balancing act where good and bad deeds of the past are duly recorded and one is either rewarded or punished in another phase of life. In fact life is chaotic, unpredictable and without some supernatural arbiter of one’s actions. Coincidence is the only rational explanation.
Everything is predetermined and happens as it should.
Excellent. You took the reply right off my keyboard!!
No such thing indeed!
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