[Closed] Random acts of kindness & Karma

Sounds like it, although I've generally avoided advocating karma after Glenn Hoddle lost the England job.

[i]I'm in a pickle in the centre of Sandwich meeting a work colleague[/i]

So to recap you're the pickle in the centre of a cheese sandwich, is that right?

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Yep, I run a Bank Of Karma having done my first good dead after retiring I won a load of biking kit the next month.....so to carry on the vibe gave half of it to my mate. This months was that I gave an American lady 20p outside the toilets in Stow when she realised you had to pay.....absolutely made her day she was so grateful as she had never had anyone do something like that (despite being about 60). Doing good deeds gives me that fuzzy feeli good feeling that I miss from my working days and can more likely also lift the overall mood/feeling of the recipient of the good deed.
NB I was waiting for MrsS not importuning outside Cotswolds bogs 😆

The two actions are clearly linked.

Sorry but I don't believe in 'karma' - however it is nice to hear such stories of thoughtful people.

Ahh it's a bit and miss game karma

A neighbour I don't know got burgled last year......so for added security she wanted some blinds put up ....my name got passed to her.....and I did the job......
" don't worry about the money love....ill help you out"
A couple of months later she wanted some decorating done....so I gave her a price...." Ooooh you more money than this other bloke"....... So I thought ok I'll knock some money off..... " your still too expensive"
Well it was getting to a point where my day rate was going down....so I had to leave it

So what happens.....all my neighbours that used me for decorating jobs ...now use this other chap...
...sod karma....he's a Tosser !!.... 😀

It's just nice to be nice. I can fire off both barrels at will if someone is being a tool but 5 mins down the street I would happily help someone if I found I could. Giving a lad a spare ticket outside of rock city for frank turner (whose mates were all going but he wasnt) was my last act of random kindness. He was amazed that someone would do that.

It's just nice to be nice

This^^

There doesn't have to be an ulterior motive or some expected payback.
[i]Try it,you may like it.[/i]

I like doing random acts of kindness.

I decided to give most of the money I would have spent on lunch to a homeless chap before xmas. He always sits in the same place and it must have been his luck day as when I got to him there was a lady serving up some food and a drink. The look on his face when I gave him the £5 made me happy all day.

I've stopped trying to give people at bus stops a lift as they all seem to thing I will abduct and murder them I think.

My favourite was giving a (fellow) biker £5 to fill his motorbike up as he'd forgotten his wallet. People (mainly the wife) laughed and told me I'd been scammed. The bottles of wine that arrived at work 3 weeks later from him (I assume) were lovely.

it's obviousy Karma.

The two actions are clearly linked.

It's not, and they're not.

Sadly I've lent small amounts of cash three times and never got it back, the last time was to the notorious fraudster Andrew Gradon at Milan Malpensa airport. I'm waiting to meet him at some airport in the future so I can collect my Euros back with interest.

I've done the random small acts of kindness and had a few in return so I do believe in karma.

Edit: I've just read that Gradon has been arrested and imprisoned in Germany. Yay! Karma!

I had 50 minutes left on a parking ticket in town today, gave it to a guy who had just pulled up opposite. Given he was driving a DB9 Volante, he could probably have afforded his own ticket but he seemed genuinely chuffed.

Stopped in at McDs drive-thru for a coffee on the way home, the girl on the til put me a large through on my free voucher despite asking for a regular. She also accepted my free coffee voucher with only 5 coffee beans on it rather than 6.

Don't particularly believe in karma tbh, the girl in McDs seemed to enjoy rebelling

miketually - Member
it's obviousy Karma.
The two actions are clearly linked.

It's not, and they're not.

Should we hop over to the religionist thread and discuss belief?

Each to his own, I'll take karma over other religions any day.

Smile at your world and your world smiles back.

Similarly, just be the best person you can.

Attitude, karma, there are probably many other labels for it. Nice one OP 😀

long, long time ago, when dad was lorry driving this what happened to one of his lorry driving mates (in rural Scotlandshire).

It was a really dreadful day and he took pity on an old bloke who was walking along in the wind and the rain thumbing, so he pulled over and asked him where he was going, as it was to a village near his route he said hop in I'm going near. Bloke said thanks and got in, after that he didn't talk much, so along they went. A fair bit further along it was blues and twos and the most offensive plod the driver had ever met, he was a pure rshole, and plod had a right go at him, (all of it according to the driver was completely unjustified), anyway plod took his details and wrote it all down in his notebook and said he would be pursuing charges later. Once that was over they continued and again the hitcher didn't say much. At the hitchers village as the weather was still awful he turned off his route and drove into the village to drop him off a bit nearer home. When he stopped the hitcher said thanks and got up, smiled, then winked at the driver and said, 'I widnae worry about the polis tae much son' and popped something on the dash and got out and walked away. On the dash was the plods notebook.

Just be ****ing helpful as often as you are able..

Otherwise you're a bit of a **** imo

Should we hop over to the religionist thread and discuss belief?

Each to his own, I'll take karma over other religions any day.

If good things happen to people who do good things, what did the people to whom bad things happen do wrong?

miketually - Member
Should we hop over to the religionist thread and discuss belief?
Each to his own, I'll take karma over other religions any day.

If good things happen to people who do good things, what did the people to whom bad things happen do wrong?

Last time I was in London I passed a load of homeless people huddled by an air vent for warmth. I nipped to tesco and got bread cakes and cheese then sat with them while they shared or all around. The numbers on the streets left me gobsmacked.

I'll always stop to help a breakdown or flat. Once got a lovely bottle of wine. It's not about that though. It's just nice to be nice

I think that doing good to others opens you up to having people do good to you, but it's not karma. If good things happen to good people because of karma, that must open up the idea that bad things happen to bad people. I'd not like to explain that idea at my local cancer ward.

Winding up people on internet forums happens because marking exams has happened to me. I'm just spreading the joy 🙂

Just be * helpful as often as you are able..

Otherwise you're a bit of a * imo

Too ****ing right

On the flip side.. I just witnessed a homeless guy being told by a police man in a city centre to stop causing problems.. His answer...

I'm not going to stop causing problems until you lock me up.. I'm not spending another night in the rain...

🙁

On the flip side.. I just witnessed a homeless guy being told by a police man in a city centre to stop causing problems.. His answer...

I'm not going to stop causing problems until you lock me up.. I'm not spending another night in the rain...

Depressing, isn't it? I helped out at our local food bank before Christmas and some of the stories were heart breaking.

No such thing as karma - I've had plenty of shit happen to me soon after being nice to other people.

The thing is though, even if everything happening to you is shit, it still makes you feel better being nice or helpful to other people. And occasionally other people are randomly nice to you (the chances are they have shit happening to them). I'm not after payback - couldn't care less - at least I feel like I've contributed something to the world by surprising somebody with kindness.

miketually - Member
I think that doing good to others opens you up to having people do good to you, but it's not karma. If good things happen to good people because of karma, that must open up the idea that bad things happen to bad people. I'd not like to explain that idea at my local cancer ward.

Winding up people on internet forums happens because marking exams has happened to me. I'm just spreading the joy

So in brief everything in this life from physics to spiritual, accepts two opposing forces, positive and negative charged particles to positive and negative philosophical beliefs i.e. Good & Evil, so you can't really have one without the other, so there is good and bad Karma, sadly you cannot have the one without the other.

Now to feel better in the Cancer ward I'm afraid you'll have to accept the life after death theory and that our time here is defined by previous existence. You have also to have experienced something that might convince you of that, far be it from me to dwell on this in this cynical environment, but all I will say is that one day all things being even, this may come to pass and your enlightenment will be complete, until then Karma isn't a bad path to follow and being nice is neither, it also helps to think when bad things are occasioned to you by perceptually bad people from your viewpoint, then karma may deliver a just revenge further down the path.

There, I hope that explanation helps with the exam markings, I didn't realise it was Ramadam yet are the exams over already 😉

These are internal exams, which I'm going to pretend we timed for straight after a Christian festival, just to wind up the anti-muslamic chap on the other thread 🙂

😆

miketually - Member
These are internal exams, which I'm going to pretend we timed for straight after a Christian festival, just to wind up the anti-muslamic chap on the other thread

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I'm not anti Muslim - far from it...

And I do believe in karma

Always pick up the broken biker, carried/helped enough people off the mountain that at least I'm in credit when it happens to me. On a kona demo ride we helped the rep off the hill. He gave us a bunch of the raffle tickets for the evening party where the other guy won a kona hot rod and we spent the rest of the evening drinking with t-mo and fabien barrel

Bluehelmet - I for one, like your style 8)

This is just common decency though isn't it?

I struggle to explain to myself why you see so many people ignore others who are in need of help.
A few months back whilst driving along in my work van to the next job I happened across a disabled man who had overturned his mobility scooter in the road. He was sprawled out trying to lift himself back up and people were just driving round him.

I stopped and turned his scooter back over, lifted him into it and then pushed him and his Scooter 1/2 mile to his house after it wouldn't start.

A guy in a mini bus asked if we were OK after he saw me trying to lift this guy on the thing and when I asked if he could get the scooter in his bus to help him home he refused saying it would be too heavy.

In general good people do good things because they are good people. People doing stuff to get karma back are not doing things selflessly. Shit also happens to good people.

In general good people do good things because they are good people. People doing stuff to get karma back are not doing things selflessly. [i]Shit also happens to good people[/i].

This.

mikewsmith - Member
In general good people do good things because they are good people. People doing stuff to get karma back are not doing things selflessly. Shit also happens to good people.

And as lots of others have pointed out, it is just nice to be nice, in fact it's a less uncomfortable feeling than I felt after the woman gave me that pound, which frankly made me feel inadequate in my response.

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It's true

If you want to do something nice than do it, but don't expect to be treated like a god and being allowed to eat the hearts of the first born, just because you act like a compassionate human being