What grinds your gears?

tsx_guy · Postby **tsx_guy** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:14

katy perry... oh wait... i love her.

GR-8 · Postby **GR-8** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:14

Learjet45 wrote:I can see your point, but I think you're oversimplifying karma. It isn't necessarily do bad and you personally get punished. Wiki explains it well with the idea of "what goes around comes around" and it's inherent that if you do something bad, bad things happen to you in return. That doesn't necessarily mean something like you steal and then you fall and break your leg, but more along the line of you steal and then maybe your car breaks down on your or something more like you get hurt.

It actually is (from a broad perspective) partly cause and effect. You do something bad, so you cause something bad to happen that affects you. In Alex's case: the lady did something bad, so her bad karma led to Alex keying her car. Especially if you argue that what Alex did was unnecessary and excessive, it's all the more proof that she did something bad, so something bad happened. Well, even if it was excessive, it was bound to happen because she f'd up.

I'm not saying karma exists. I'm saying the general concept can apply in many cases. It's like God. Do people believe there is a God? Yes. Is there definitive proof he does or doesn't exist? Nope, not for either side of the argument. Can you prove karma exists? Nope. Can you disprove it based on how people define it? Not really.

I agree with Erod and your statment here. But Alex took direct action. Karma has to play out itself without your direct involvement, even if it takes place during a certain action or days later. There is a difference between Karma and pay back.

I wonder what bad thing will happen to Alex now since hie keyed up her car. He did something bad to someone so something bad will happen to him.

And as to the part in bold is that not what Erod said? You say he is wrong then at the end you say it's more along the lines you get hurt.?.?.?.?

Learjet45 · Postby **Learjet45** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:14

I guess what I'm trying to say if from erod's statement, I interpreted it as you get "hurt" whether physically or by some other means, but I think it can be something bad that happens to you in general and doesn't necessarily mean you get truly hurt, but more inconvenienced or hurt or just have something bad happen in general. Maybe I was just interpreting what he meant wrong.

erod550 · Postby **erod550** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:14

I didn't mean you'd get hurt specifically. Just that something bad that is unrelated and cannot directly be traced to the original action would happen at a later time. I was just giving a hypothetical example. If it can be directly traced to the original action (such as getting caught driving like a tool in the parking lot and getting in trouble because of it), that's not karma. That's just direct consequences to your actions.

If I rat someone out at work and get them in trouble, and then later that day a bird shits on my head, that is what some would consider karma. The two actions cannot be directly linked, but some people think the universe gets even with people in this fashion. But if I rat someone out at work and then my coworkers find out and they don't like me anymore, that's not karma, because it's directly related to the original action. Make sense?

tsx_guy · Postby **tsx_guy** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:14

mahn i love this thread

Learjet45 · Postby **Learjet45** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:14

Back on to what grinds our gears: I love Colorado, but it's been too dry lately. I've been itching because of it and it's starting to anger me.

kingtut · Postby **kingtut** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:14

soft water.

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:14

It's humid as hell over here, it seems moreso during the summer but I'm sure that's because it's hotter then, too. When I had a roommate a couple months ago, we had about 5 of those little Damp-Rid dehumidifier things, and my skin was drying out LOL! I only have 2 right now and I have to empty them about once a month. I dislike dry skin, but I HATE humidity.

geo2maz · Postby **geo2maz** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:14

speedjunkie wrote:It's humid as hell over here, it seems moreso during the summer but I'm sure that's because it's hotter then, too.

In the springs or are you somewhere else right now??

Learjet45 wrote:Back on to what grinds our gears: I love Colorado, but it's been too dry lately. I've been itching because of it and it's starting to anger me.

I agree! drives me nuts, cold weather sucks the moisture out of the air, these last few weeks have been bad, I drink tons of water and am still thirsty all night... ugh!

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:14

geo2maz wrote:In the springs or are you somewhere else right now??

Oh I'm definitely not in the Springs right now lol. I've been deployed since Sept. I'll be home in a few weeks. It's dry in most places over here too, but we're right near a body of water, so it's crazy humid, especially in the summer. I swear, one night last summer when I was here, it felt like 150% humidity and it was about 2am. It's ridiculous.

Learjet45 · Postby **Learjet45** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:14

Where are you?!? I wanna know

It grinds my gears that I don't know where you got deployed to

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:14

Well it's gonna have to stay that way LOL. The country we're in doesn't want us to say, but I will say this...if they think the whole world doesn't know we're here, they're delusional LOL.

Learjet45 · Postby **Learjet45** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:14

I figured there was a reason behind you never specifically saying

Gah I really wanna know though. Damn!

AuroraAxela · Postby **AuroraAxela** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 9:14

speedjunkie wrote:Well it's gonna have to stay that way LOL. The country we're in doesn't want us to say, but I will say this...if they think the whole world doesn't know we're here, they're delusional LOL.

LOL North Korea?

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 9:14

^Nope, but from what I said I can see why you guessed that LOL. It's not that serious of a hot spot really. Supposedly there are terrorists downtown and we go down there to shop and eat from time to time, but I still wouldn't say it's very dangerous...I mean, they let us go shop and eat down there. LOL

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