Karma

[Lewkowski]

https://nypost.com/2023/05/23/jordan...pickpocketing/

"An uncle of Jordan Neely — the homeless man choked to death on the subway this month — was arrested near the Port Authority Bus Terminal for allegedly stealing purses from restaurants, police sources said Tuesday.

Christopher Neely, 44, had acted as something of a representative for the grieving family in the aftermath of his 30-year-old nephew’s May 1 death, frequently speaking out about the lightning-rod case.

But Neely was also allegedly wanted for a pattern of grand larceny, including the handbag thefts, according to the sources.

A member of the NYPD’s pickpocket team spotted Neely, of Hamilton Heights, at about 11 p.m. Monday near the Manhattan bus station.

He allegedly took off when the officer approached him — and fought back when cops caught up to him after a brief chase, the sources said."

This shit is honestly downright funny. I bet Christopher is very upset it was a regular citizen who took down his menace of a nephew and not a police officer. No easy pay day for him.

[Aimless]

How did a pro-lynching creep get someone to touch his dick?

[Hazir]

What's stranger is someone in the 21st century with such a strong belief in moral geography.

[Loki]

And such a strong "Christian" ascribing to religious Buddhist and Hindu concepts.

[Lewkowski]

And such a strong "Christian" ascribing to religious Buddhist and Hindu concepts.

Dude I also like the Easter Bunny and Santa Clause, many ideas that began as parts of other religion have been secularized and there's no issue with taking part. "Karma" as a secular concept exists in every day language in America.

[Aimless]

And such a strong "Christian" ascribing to religious Buddhist and Hindu concepts.

Come on man evangelicals aren't Christians, it's just a loose network of weird little sex cults for men and women who can't maintain healthy relationships with people who haven't been extensively groomed.

[Loki]

Dude I also like the Easter Bunny and Santa Clause, many ideas that began as parts of other religion have been secularized and there's no issue with taking part. "Karma" as a secular concept exists in every day language in America.

Except karma is a clearly theological concept that is inconsistent with the precepts of Christianity.

[Hazir]

Except karma is a clearly theological concept that is inconsistent with the precepts of Christianity.

Not entirely. It's got some overlap with predestination.

[Loki]

Not entirely. It's got some overlap with predestination.

Predestination = you doing good actions is a reflection of you being saved. You don't have any actual control.
Karma = you have free will and will get rewarded/punished based on the decisions you make.

[Nessus]

Do we have free will?

[Lewkowski]

I'm actually not a Calvinist so I do in fact believe in free will. Saying "Karma" is not believing there is an otherworldly force penalizing you for a prior bad, its just a modern thing people say. Christians also believe in life after death, some of them saying "YOLO" does not mean they disbelieve that doctrine.

[Loki]

The idea of karma is that you're going to get rewarded for doing good, rather than because you were "saved". That goes against the teachings of every major Protestant and Catholic sect and would be considered quite blasphemous by some. But hey, it's not like the strength of the Christian identity in the US is tied to devoutness or understanding of the Bible.

[Lewkowski]

The idea of karma is that you're going to get rewarded for doing good, rather than because you were "saved". That goes against the teachings of every major Protestant and Catholic sect and would be considered quite blasphemous by some. But hey, it's not like the strength of the Christian identity in the US is tied to devoutness or understanding of the Bible.

Dude you are just being stubborn now. When modern American people comment about Karma is your first instinct to think they are Buddhist? Really?

[Hazir]

Do we have free will?

In the confines of this discussion I tend to say no. For both Karma and Predestination. Because both rest on the premise that good things happen to good people. Which rather lowers the appeal of being bad. It also makes every good deed selfish before anything else. Are we good at all when we are being good for selfish reasons?

[Nessus]

Dude you are just being stubborn now. When modern American people comment about Karma is your first instinct to think they are Buddhist? Really?

Have you met Low-key?

I am curious though, you seem to use as a positive signifier the word modern. Would you describe yourself as modern?

Isn't modern one of those words used by Joseph nigger-loving Biden? What right-minded American would call themselves modern, I wonder?

[Loki]

Dude you are just being stubborn now. When modern American people comment about Karma is your first instinct to think they are Buddhist? Really?

Are we talking about the Americans currently worried about Satanism, drag queens, and Target?

[LittleFuzzy]

The idea of karma is that you're going to get rewarded for doing good, rather than because you were "saved". That goes against the teachings of every major Protestant and Catholic sect and would be considered quite blasphemous by some. But hey, it's not like the strength of the Christian identity in the US is tied to devoutness or understanding of the Bible.

Yeah, but Lewk doesn't care about that half of karma. Remember who you're referring to. He likes karma because he's salivating over the punishment side of it. The universe itself seeing to it that you suffer if you're bad

[Loki]

Yeah, but Lewk doesn't care about that half of karma. Remember who you're referring to. He likes karma because he's salivating over the punishment side of it. The universe itself seeing to it that you suffer if you're bad

Unless the "wrong" people carried out the bad action or the "right" people were the recipients of it.