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Question: Why believe in karma when there is no evidence!?
Is it the hope of being rewarded and fulfilling revenge without getting hands dirty!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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humans are not made of pure logic, they often get entranced by various fictionsWww@QuestionHome@Com

Why believe in anything when there is no evidence!? It is called faith!. Humans need to explain the unexplained and we will do all we can to get it all to make sense!. Karma seems to offer an explanation for suffering and pain!. Most faiths and religions seem to be offering that same type of explanation in different ways!. Any force that allows suffering and pain better have a good explanation for it!. If you don't believe in any explanation, then you are going to walk around pretty hopeless, angry or just plain indifferent to everything and everyone!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

If you wait for undeniable evidence to believe in anything then you will never believe in much at all!. For any medical question, for example, there are usually a zillion studies that "prove" one thing, and a zillion studies that "prove" the opposite!. Even if you read about scientific "laws" the scientists admit that they are just theories that have been shown true time and again, but that may someday be replaced by more advanced knowledge!. And no, there is no evidence for Karma, only personal experience!. If you only are good to other people out of a desire to be rewarded or to be avenged then you miss the point of karma altogether anyway!. It's a way of living that promotes peace and treating others as we all want to be treated without thinking of what you can personally get out of it!. Karma is just the natural law of consequences!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I don't know that I'd call it karma, but I think that things generally even out one way or the other!.

That's the way it works in physics: matter and energy can't be destroyed or created, and every action has an equal an opposite reaction!.

On a more societal level, it's also how economics and politics work!. It's the idea behind supply and demand!.

There's no real scientific reason to believe it happens on a personal level!. However, I think the idea of being rewarded for good deeds and punished for bad things is something to keep people going, and is overall a relatively harmless belief!.

As far as revenge goes, doesn't anyone watch The Simpsons!? Karma can only be portioned out by the cosmos!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Did you fall a sleep in Science class !?

Newton's Third Law
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction!.

Karma - action and reaction:

Law of Karma
All living creatures are responsible for their karma — their actions and the effects of their actions

The irony is that Karma is the only thing most religions can agree upon despite their differences because it is base on science!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

No reason at all!. There is no law that says you must believe in karma!. However, this is what the Buddha is attributed to have said about it:
All that we are is the result of what we have thought!.
If a man speaks or acts with evil thought, pain follows him!.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him!.
By the way 'man' includes 'woman'!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

For every reaction there is equql and opposite reaction!.so ,i believe this is to make sure that when you do anything wrong you will be punished!.

To avoid from doing wrong this is been said!.

This is right but who has felt it!We don't know because this is something far beyond our hopes & many such things get found as assumption or teue later on!.

Till such confirmed report let's believe ,it won't harm us!!!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Your question is why believe in karma if no evidence exists!.
People have been trying to convince you of karma and failing to answer your question!.
People believe in karma for the same reason people believe in God, because they want/need to!.
CheersWww@QuestionHome@Com

Why do people believe in Jesus when there is absolutely no historical evidence he ever existed either !?

People are weak and need silly things to hang on to because they can't accept the fact that life is hard!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Why believe in god when there is no evidence!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

there IS evidence but you seem determined that there's not, so why go into it!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

You think George Bush believes in Karma!?Www@QuestionHome@Com