If one goes around causing people hurt and treating them badly....

[Darth_Kitten]

does it REALLY come back to bite them in the behind?

Discuss.

[khashka]

1. Yes

The threefold law actually works (Wiccan reference).

Trust me on this one.... I know of what I speak.

Khash.

[Darth_Kitten]

3. Who or what makes them accountable?

I'm very curious.

[khashka]

4. Goddess knows!

It just works out that way. I think it has something to do with physics and more math than I can comprehend.

Khash.

[Darth_Kitten]

8. Cool.

[lildreamer316]

9. Themselves.

It is not possible to treat others badly and be really comfortable with yourself. You can convince yourself you are, to infinity, but to anyone with a clear view of you, it will be vitally apparent. Therefore, you will not exude the positive energy needed to attract to you truly good people. If someone good DOES enter your sphere, it is to learn a lesson for themselves...then they will leave.
It DOES come home to roost. Not always in this lifetime, though. Whoever said patience is a virtue had no idea.
Think about it. Crimes so vast as, say, PolPot's, would take much more than one lifetime to atone for.

[AlienGirl]

24. What if you knew Pol Pot was now living a comfortable life

as, say, a professional party DJ, and had a lot of friends and a loving family? Would it change your beliefs about karma if you saw direct evidence that it doesn't work?

Tucker

[La Lioness Priyanka]

13. what threefold law?

crap there is worse in my future...i knew it!

[khashka]

18. The only two rules in Wicca

1. Do what thou will an' harm none.

2. The threefold law - what ever you do will come back to you threefold. Do good and you will get three times as much good in return. Do evil and you'll get three times as much evil in return.

I'd add "All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals" but that's not so much a rule as a statement of purpose.


Khash.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

19. i think i maybe screwed!

[khashka]

21. I doubt it

It's the people who worry about their evil acts who commit the fewest....

Khash.

[hickman1937]

2. Not if you've got enough money and power.

But then again the end game(afterlife)rules.

[Redstone]

5. The Big Wheel of Kharma turns slowly sometimes, but

turn it does.

Redstone

[Darth_Kitten]

6. I should have more faith....

but I've been burned too many times.

but I'll take your word for it.

[Redstone]

7. Trust me on this one.

Redstone

[khashka]

11. Hey Darth Kitten

You got me and Redstone speaking the truth.....

Khash.

[Darth_Kitten]

17. I just see too many people getting away with too much...

hurting so many others...and that's just in my very small corner of the world.

I let things overwhelm me, I cannot help it.

[AlienGirl]

25. What if it's broken? nt

[La Lioness Priyanka]

10. yes

it does

if you saw my behind..its quite raw

[swag]

12. Sometimes the badly treated get hold of a pool cues

and beat the offending ones bloody.

And then, rollicking music and pizzaburgers for all!

[Az]

14. We make the world we live in

Ours is a learning species. As a child we learn from our parents, teachers, and friends. As we grow older we develop a stronger sense of what our values are. But even after we are adults we weigh and balance what others do as a measure of what is permissible in our society.

Thus if you do harm to others or set bad examples others will learn from this and in time you create a world where that is the standard by which all live.

[distantearlywarning]

15. Sadly, no.

But if you cause enough hurt and act like enough of an asshole, you might have a bright future as a Bush administration crony, especially if you are incompetent and unqualified as well.

And truly evil people are often rewarded with 90 mil/year salaries as corporate CEOs (or a birthday party filmed by MTV's Sweet Sixteen show).

[In_The_Wind]

16. I believe that it does.

I also believe that the good that we do will come back.

[Darth_Kitten]

20. Very interesting posts all....

[KyndCulture]

22. karma is a motherfucker... really it is. nt

[AlienGirl]

23. Nope

In fact, they usually get rich that way and then have more money than the people they hurt, so they can hire better lawyers, while the people they hurt continue to struggle under the debt load they left behind.

But no, I'm not bitter...

Tucker

[Zomby Woof]

26. Yes

All of my enemies have had some bad shit happen to them this past month.

This trend will continue until they kiss my ass.