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Do you believe in Karma?
Trauma-san:
--- Quote from: Chief on July 26, 2006, 02:09:03 PM ---
--- Quote from: Bow Down To The King Of Kings on July 26, 2006, 02:04:17 PM ---
--- Quote from: 7even Denjin Hadouken Master on July 25, 2006, 03:14:36 PM ---A good act done to better your Karma/to get VIP seats in heaven isn't a good act anyway, cause greed can never be good.
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Most people do good things for some greedy reason or the other. It's almost impossible not to, you just said in your post above that if you do good you'll get good, so by the logic you're using, your'e saying nobody can do an unselfishly good deed.
What the truth is is that oftentimes doing the 'right' thing or the 'good' thing is beneficial to both people, which makes it all the more confusing why people do bad in the first place. To actively choose to do something wrong is the definition of evil.
People love babies because babies look good. People treat their wife nice because they want to get laid. People donate to charity because it makes them feel good.
Everybody does good things for selfish reasons. Mother Theresa did good things for selfish reasons. I say good for her, there's nothing wrong with that. The ends justify the means.
"chief", I've never heard of you, and I have no idea what your opinion is on anything. You know enough about me to tell me how much I talk. Your knowledge of me and my ignorance of you shows you and everybody that reads this post that you are my bitch and I don't even know that you exist. Or, to put it another way
"Youz a flea, and I'm the big dog, I'll scratch you off my balls with my mothafuckin paws"
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trauma, you want to get down ? lets boogy..
1. there are people out there that will do good because it's their nature to do so.
2. people do bad to benefit themselves.
3. not everyne treat their wife good to get laid, some poeple respect women.
4. some people donate to charity to help a cause.
5. not all people do good for selfish reasons like yourself. "trauma"
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1. If it's their nature to do so, then they're just selfishly following what pleases them, they're nature. It's natural for them to be good, so they selfishly do what's comfortable for them. If would be hard and hurtful for them to be bad, and they don't want to hurt themselves, so selfishly they protect themselves by doing good.
2. Yes, People do bad to benefit themselves. I never said they didn't, I guess your'e not intelligent enough to grab what I threw out there in the first place.
3. You again missed the point about the women. Yes, l.ots of peple respect women. My point is that you get something good out of respecting women. If respecting women was harmful to you, less people would do it. The reason people respect women is because good things come out of being good. That could be construed as a selfish reason to respect women.
4. Yes, they donate to charity to help a cause that they selfishly feel they will benefit from. Donating to help a cause is easily one of the most selfish ways you can 'do good'.... also, if the cause is something that others feel is 'bad', you're not doing good, you're doing bad to that person. Again, selfishness is tied up in all of that.
5. All people who do good can be considered doing so for selfish reasons. Doing good makes you feel good, therefore anybody who does good can be considered selfishly trying to make themselves feel good.
Sorry to burst your rose-colored view of the world; nothing is as simple as your simple mind sees it.
coola:
^ keep trying, you'll get there eventually mate ;)
coola:
oh, a general rule you should follow... the simplest explanation will be the correct explanation, one of the smartest men in the world said that. otherwise, have fun in the disgusting world you have created.
Florez:
All people act in a way to gain pleasure and to avoid pain.
It all depends on a persons nature in which way he or she thinks what will give them pleasure and how to avoid pain
Sikotic™:
Sure I do. Nature is all about balance. Every action has a reaction. What goes around comes around. The list goes on.
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