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@jbqueru

I'm an atheist, but karma is real y'all. What good is it to live in a world where I have more and people around me are miserable.

Tom Capuder

@selzero @jbqueru

"karma is real"<<Evidence, please.

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@tomcapuder @jbqueru

Cities that have a high wealth disparity also have a high crime rate. By taking from society to enrich themselves personally, people end up unable to walk down the street, and have to create gated communities.

We live in the world we collectively make.

@selzero @jbqueru

Oh, okay. That's not what "karma" means.

@tomcapuder @jbqueru

It is a kind of karma. We have a collective karma.

@selzero @tomcapuder @jbqueru there are spiritual overtones with the term “karma” I prefer to avoid.

@chris @tomcapuder @jbqueru

Yes but Chris those overtones exist because we look at Eastern Philosophy through our Abriamic Western view, that is individualistic, selfish, and micro, rather than communal and macro.

@chris @tomcapuder @jbqueru

Same. Atheist here. I even get a rash from horoscopes. I'm just saying a karma does not have to imply spirituality 🤷

@tomcapuder @selzero @jbqueru

Ok don’t be a semantic stick in the mud.

@GuyDudeman @selzero @jbqueru

If someone claims publicly that karma is real, I'll challenge it.

Maybe you shouldn't tell people how to toot. 'Bye!

@GuyDudeman @tomcapuder @selzero @jbqueru

I know THIS is also a semantic quibble, but I do love the expressiveness of your phrase "semantic stick in the mud". 🙂

@weekend_editor @tomcapuder @selzero @jbqueru

Haha thanks. He blocked me anyway, which I don't think was fair, and only proved further that he's a semantic stick in the mud.