Do you reap what you sow ?

This just convinces me even more that there is no god. Yes we reap what we sow but we also reap what other peole sow for us, that’s why we have crack babies and child abuse and ethnic cleansing. All the evil in the world is people.

@downtide reaping what you sow was referring to karma a bit. Doing bad usually brings bad things toward you… but why is a new born bad ? what’s his fault ?

You don’t need to use this an excuse as an atheist not to believe in God ^^

God, I hope so!

I’ve worked very assiduously all my life to make the world a better place without hurting anyone—certainly not those I love. It is a difficult balance sometimes. With luck, I won’t fuck up.

On a macro scale, people don’t always reap what they sow. The universe is utterly indifferent to justice.

@Hibernate Karma is a nice idea, but there’s no shred of evidence for it whatsoever. Bad stuff happens to good people, good stuff happens to bad people, etc.

@downtide “All the evil in the world is people”. I suppose it depends on what you mean by evil, but nature inflicts a vast amount of pain and torment. Again, in an utterly indifferent way. Google “Eye Parasites” for a tiny little slice of non-human induced suffering.

Yes….without question.

Frankly, I believe reincarnation has as much validity as anything else. I have no idea whether it’s true or not, but it would explain many of the word’s seeming injustices.

On a more practical scale, I’ve always found the advice given by James Allen (As A Man Thinketh) to be most instructive.

The universe is chaotic. Random things happen.

I second marinelife’s comment. Yes part of it is design but there is also alot that is left completely out of your control.

We usually reap what we sow, in the negative context, when we think about it – knowingly doing wrong things – expecting it to come back at us – karma, if you will. This pygmalian effect is very powerful.

I believe we do reap what we sow.

Yes. I think we do.

I have yet to really reap what I’ve been sewing. I should be happy and in love by now, and I’M NOT.

@Hibernate I don’t believe in karma as it’s classically defined, at least in terms of having bad things happen to you because you were bad in a past life. But I do believe that your actions in this life have an effect. If you spend your life being nasty to other people, then most other people are going to be nasty in return. And vice-versa, of course.

I would like to believe it is true. Certainly I live by the idea that the more you give, the more you receive in return. It just may not come in the form you think and we may not recognise our good fortune straight away.

As to those asshats who hurt others and behave unethically, I am not really sure if karma ever really gets them. I hope it does (even in a small way). I sometimes think though, when considering people who have been cruel to others and I have seen it, I wouldn’t know if they got what they deserve. If someone is horrible and mean eventually you would think their luck would run out and they would pay. We may just not witness it and again, it may be in a form that we wouldn’t expect.

Still though, I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about those sorts of people. Life is short and I don’t think it is really worth my effort to worry about how life is treating asshats.I just have to make sure I am being the best I can be and trying to make a positive contribution to life.

Karma is not like minute rice! If you read about it, it may take several lives to “payback” Hitler’s little jig-jog there. But I do believe if you are friendly and ‘good’ over time, you’ll have friendly good people around you.