Magical Realist
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Lot's of non-hindus claim to. Why do you, or don't you, believe it? That good things come back to you and bad things come back to you.
I wish I could say no, given my atheism, but I can't shake the feeling that when I do something bad, I'm going to pay for it in the end.
Of course, intellectually I know there's no such thing. This is purely a gut feeling.
You can transfer emotions from one person to another. Its pretty easy. We all match the energy level of those around us or the person in control. Basically the person with the most extreme set of emotional boundaries is always the target of anyone else's objectivity.
So to combat murders you use happy confusion "questions which hide your true intent", objective compassion "feeling sorry for what experience made them murders", and motherly/fatherly anger disguised as compassion "the fear which resides in any person". And you create the right balance of emotions in a sequence even a psychopath can't ignore. Fear is only an extreme form of compassion. All other emotions rest between these two and have their own extremes. But for compassion to be disguised as anger, a personal similar experience close to the one the murderer underwent has to be revealed. And the outcome of that experience has to be "true joy". An envy to all...
And here I thought I was the only one. I too have this sort of instinctive expectation of good luck from doing good for others and bad luck from doing bad. Could be some primitive form of magical thinking we inherited from our ancestors. Or a confirmation bias that only remembers the expected correlations and never notices the unexpected ones.
I do, and its ostensibly a part of my religion.Lot's of non-hindus claim to. Why do you, or don't you, believe it? That good things come back to you and bad things come back to you.