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Author: Pop FlyPop Fly Date: Sep 2, 2008 21:35
On Sep 2, 3:27Â pm, Paul gmail.com> wrote:> I'm not a man of faith, and don't believe in spiritual things.
>
> But I often believe in karma. "What goes around comes around".
>
> I often know of people in my life that have treated me wrong, and then
> something equally as bad has happened to them.
>
> OK, I know it sounds like that I think I'm "special" but I don't
> necessarily. It's more "different" than "special".
>
> A lot of times my wife and I will say the same things at the same
> time. Maybe that's just because we are meme-ing each other?
>
> I also look back at my life and see a lot of situations that seem
> unique that happened because I met certain people, and without these
> people, things would be different. well that's obvious. I mean, things
> might not be as special as they appear to be now. But then again, if i
> met different people maybe I would feel the same in that situation as
> I do now.
>
> Anyway.. are "Synchronicity" & "karma" merely imagined or created by
> our minds to simplify things or help  us understand things and that
> sync.. & karma don't really exist (which i often believe). I'm on the
> fence about these.
I think imagined/created by our minds. Our minds are to tuned to
constantly look for patterns, so we are bound to get false positives,
even though we also miss many real patterns. Keeping hard data is the
certain way to sort out the real patterns from the false - hence the
huge success of science.
For most of us, our minds are also wired to appreciate those who do
good and censure those who do bad, i.e., we have a sense of justice.
So when you have a situation - like an injustice - that deserves a
karmic response, your mind will anticipate and have a tension until
justice is seen to be done and fulfills the pattern. Meanwhile, the
unjust person goes through life with good and bad things, big and
small, happening to them pretty much all the time. When a big one
comes that relieves your mind's tension, bingo! You feel you have seen
karma in action.
Another example: Some cultures say that things (deaths, etc.) come in
3s and see it confirmed time and again. Why? Because in our
continuous stream of events there are usually 100s of qualifying
events in a lifetime. There's no fixed timeframe for the 3 to
transpire, so people just start counting at 1 and stop counting when
they get to 3. The next 1 is ignored or starts a new 3.
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