• peopleproblems@lemmy.world
    1·
    27 minutes ago

    Know what? I said fuck it, I keep finding out, so I better start fucking around.

    And so far it hasn’t been all that bad

  • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    8·
    3 hours ago

    FAFO is just “karma” re-articulated, it implies those who do wrong will receive consequences for their wrongness - it implies the universe is just and that innocent people don’t get punished.

    Usually rather than admit that nature is not just, that innocent people get punished and hurt for no reason, people instead try to rationalize ways that victims “deserved” it.

    For example, the Buddha taught that with enough loving-kindness in your heart, you can become invulnerable to harm from animals, so when one of his monks died from a snake bite, he claimed the monk must have not had enough love and kindness in his heart for the snake to deserve being bitten.

    In reality, sometimes snakes act irrationally and bite people who aren’t messing with them. This can happen because the snake was stressed by an unrelated event, or because of disease or illness (much like a dog can attack because of rabies).

    Ultimately karma is not just a lie, it’s a system of gaslighting victims into believing they deserved the bad things that happened to them.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      56 minutes ago

      I think that if you get enough people to think that karma exists, then it mostly does. A person will self harm when feeling guilty. The worst people, the people with no guilt and a narcissistic personality, don’t get to see any effects because they don’t think about any harm they do again.

      • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        6·
        3 hours ago

        I don’t think karma in Eastern traditions is any less victim-blaming, particularly in contexts like Hinduism and Buddhism where it’s used to explain away why poor people are poor, why people who suffer deserve to suffer, etc.

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      3 hours ago

      Before, I was not a witch.
      But now I am one.

      Later

      My body of skin waxes and wanes
      around my true body,
      a tender nimbus.
      I skitter over the paths and fields,
      mumbling to myself like crazy,
      mouth full of juicy adjectives
      and purple berries.
      The townsfolk dive headfirst into the bushes
      to get out of my way.

      My first death orbits my head,
      an ambiguous nimbus,
      medallion of my ordeal.
      No one crosses that circle.

      Having been hanged for something
      I never said,
      I can now say anything I can say.

      Holiness gleams on my dirty fingers,
      I eat flowers and dung,
      two forms of the same thing, I eat mice
      and give thanks, blasphemies
      gleam and burst in my wake
      like lovely bubbles.
      I speak in tongues,
      my audience is owls.

      My audience is God,
      because who the hell else could understand me?

      The words boil out of me,
      coil after coil of sinuous possibility.
      The cosmos unravels from my mouth,
      all fullness, all vacancy.

  • Photonic@lemmy.world
    5·
    4 hours ago

    I will tell you why, it’s because the people who fuck around are not the same who find out. The tech billionaires and MAGA influencers who helped spread it will not find out. They are above law and above consequences and they don’t even believe that phrase anyway.

    Only in the pea-sized brain of the low-life MAGA does that rule count. Ironically enough they are the exception who actually follow their own phrase – or not, because they’re probably too ignorant to connect the dots and actually find out.