Follow up to a karma question. for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction?

Question

A good deed you send out returns to you in a bad deed

If you believe that karma is real and you believe what newton stated "every action has an equal and opposite re-action"Then wouldn't that mean every good deed you sent, results in a bad deed towards you?

The opposite re-action of good is bad, therefore; if i were to steal from a man an equal and opposite good thing would happen to me, meaning I would get something of the same value for free.

This would make sense of the age old quote "bad things happen to good people"

This even makes sense of the biblical realm, If god is all pure, then it was ultimately inevidible that a equal and opposite force would be created (Satan)

Does my reasoning seem logical to you?

I said "If you belive in karma" it was just a thought stop being so quick to bash someone

Answer 1

It does smell of logic. I will further ponder this over the weekend.

Answer 2

No, it simply means if you do something bad, don't expect the results to be positive. If you throw a ball at someone's head, what would you expect them to respond with? Would you be shocked if they threw it back, twice as fast? Probably not.

If you gave someone something, do you expect them to be angry with you or happy with you?

It's rare that a good deed is met with a negative result. It DOES happen but then thats another action causing a reaction, the reaction becomes an action which causes a reaction with is an action which causes a reaction etc.

Karma also doesn't mean that if you punch someone you will be punched back. It means that you may suffer somehow for that action.

what you say has some "logic" to it but no factual basis in real life. Newton's belief isn't really accurate in that context

Answer 3

Not true. Karma may be a good life model but it's not an actual force. Newton's law doesn't apply. Sometimes doing good gets you good, sometimes it gets you bad, sometimes it gets you nothing.

You have to buy into the supernatural aspects of karma in order to reap any rewards or penalties and all these rewards and penalties occur after you die. It's like the christian heaven in that sense. It's easy to promise anything because nobody can disprove it.

Answer 4

This does apply to life in a way for example: hit someone in the head with a ball, the person is going to have a reaction towards you for that action. Save someone's life, that person will also have a reaction towards you for that action.

Answer 5

You are taking Newtons law far to literally. It simply means if you push on something, it will push back with an equal force.

But not opposite in the way you are suggesting. It is a scientific law, it doesn't dislike the things it applies to.

Answer 6

That is Newton's law of Physics, not the definition of Karma.

Answer 7

Buddhist who believes in Karma.

Answer 8

What I mean is as long as you are playing the "opposites" game, You will find that as long as you see good, you keep bad alive. One cannot exist without the other. Take Happy, as soon as the happy subsides, you experience the loss of happy, which is sad! As long as you see LIFE as the body, you give death reality!

Answer 9

There are two ways of looking at the world.

You can look at it from the perspective of man or from the perspective of God.

Yes, we can see things from God's perspective by what the bible tells us.

That is why the bible is called the canon, the standard by which everything is measured, the plumbline for what is true and sound doctrine.

Answer 10

You are a tad off. Karma comes from what you show the universe (your subconscious) you approve of. What you wish on others will instead happen to you.

Answer 11

Sure...I am so sick of debating over whether karma is real, or what its bastardized meaning is in Western society, that I would be willing to agree to anything...