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No matter how many people tried to act like friends towards me to take advantage of me I would still be as helpful as I can towards people without sometimes thinking about myself. It's like a disease for me.
Maybe you are just a good hearted person to the bone? The people of faith on here will understand when I say that the God of the Universe sees what a good person you are, and also sees how awful and selfish some people can be. If if you don't believe in a Higher Power I would at least say that Karma is real, and that there is balance in the Universe.
Ideally, I would love to see someone like you learn to set boundaries in order to protect yourself. I wish you well, and I mean that from the bottom of my heart.
I dont really believe in karma or in a higher power. But I believe that people will be friendly towards you if you do the same, that you can rely on them when you need help. It isn't often the case which is why I actually started to make some limits (like not giving strangers always money if they need it).
And I thank you for your comment. I were wondering the past day why helpfulness is important and thanks to you I found a purpose.
So that would be why bad things only happen to bad people and little kids don't get cancer or blown up by terrorists, right?
Karma is bullshit, there is no balance, it's all random, get used to it
It probably is but when it doesnt harm people but makes people be more friendly and more helpful towards others then why dont let them believe in it?
We respect your opinion but you don't have to shove it up our faces.
Belief in Karma IS harmful because it reinforces the powerless belief that what will be will be and there's no point in trying to change the world for the better. It also leads to guilt in people who believe they somehow deserve the bad things that happen to them. For example, that children who are sexually abused chose to be born into a life situation where that would happen to them: good way of letting predators off the hook and blaming the victim, eh?
Check out countries where there's a strong belief in karma and that's where the most disadvantaged people will be suffering the most.
I wasn't intending to shove anything up anyone's face, merely being direct and to the point and I know that sometimes comes across as too bl unt
Fist off: I agree that there be might a chance that people won't change things since they believe it will sort itself out but this doesn't only affect people who believe in karma like for example Christians (heaven/hell) and it doesnt mean that you would automatically change if you would believe in atheism ("what's the point in changing anything")
->Belief in (enter any religion (even atheism)) IS harmful because it reinforces the powerless belief that what will be will be and there's no point in trying to change the world for the better.
What I'm trying to tell you is that it doesn't really matter person belongs to one of these groups. But people who believe in karma would gladly help you since they "work for better karma".
I completely understand your argument about the child. Religion should not be part of the judiciary (except some moral values religion teached us for example "thou shalt no kill")). But we can't be certain what the individual person thinks. Some are "hardcore" belivers while some are simply believing to give life a purpose. I bet RoseIsabella would agree that the predator in this example should definitely be punished and that she's more likely speaking about minor things we do in life.
I haven't really found good example of countries. Of course some people see handicapped people as people with bad karma in their past life but shouldn't be karma there to convince people to help others like them?
Bringing in beliefs other than karma is irrelevant, since this thread is about karma and the fact that other belief systems take the same fatalistic attitude to society's wrongs doesn't make it right: not in the moral sense of "rightness" but for the ultimate improvement of society.
Please explain how a belief system (atheism) can be a religion when it's very name means a lack of belief in any god or gods?
Keep looking for examples of karma believing countries which don't have extremely unequal oppressive societal systems: betcha you can't find even one.
I don't need a belief in karma to know that helping others is good for the society I live in, as well as good for me because I know I'm making positive connections with others and that has to be good for society as a whole.
You have stupid anime protagonist disease (SAPD). As in, your life is getting sapped by these people, and you deserve to take better care of yourself.
I don't know whether you are just an amazingly kind person, or you feel like you have to do this to procure self-worth.
I'd say it's normal, because this behavior is relatively common, although people don't talk about it very much.
I simply do it so I could rely on others people help (or if I help a stranger then he would be hopefully more kindly towards others)
I believe that every action (no matter if small or big) will have impacts on other peoples personality and that if we start to be more kindly towards others then they would slowly start to do the same to us
I agree mostly. However,
I still think that it's important for every kindhearted person to set up boundaries, so that they don't leave themselves exposed to be taken advantage of by bad people.
Worse, I've seen people's families and children being put into harms way because they were too nice, overly trusting and generous.