It is my personal belief that there is no such thing as Karma. I'm open to the idea of soul mates though. If there is such a thing I wouldn't mind meeting mine!

I used to believe in Karma, but I no longer do. Like god, any mysterious "force" has to be proven in a more rational way than anecdotally. As far as soul-mates, I understand what the term means, and I would say I have had two in my lifetime, but I don't believe there is a soul, and definitely not that there is only one true person for a soul-mate. If you're lucky, you'll meet someone who may grow into that status through shared love and experience.

Neither for me.

I don't believe in karma.

I don't believe in soul mates. I believe most of us are capable of deep meaningful love -- more than once.

Neither exist. Both are man made. Karma is repulsive and ridiculous. Imagen something deciding what you did wrong and how to punish you. It is also immoral to want anyone to suffer in anyway shape or form. Soul mates is a cute idea if we had souls. But you can be the perfect person for another in a relationship standard. It would be created from chance just like everything else.

Karma. I guess but really believe you can't worry about others so just to take care of yourself. I've always heard what comes around goes around but I don't think there is any great cosmic scorecard out there grading us. I think we tell ourselves shitty people will get whats coming to them but I doubt they really do. I know a ton of super nice people that continually get a raw deal too so its a nice thought but don't feel it is real.

soulmates. Technically I don't believe in a "soul" so no. However in a significant other I recognize the term for what it is. Sure, I think there are people out there that will sync up or mesh very well and feel like they are sharing a brain and ideas. It is a comforting thought to have someone understand you on this level but expectations are cruel and often not wholly productive imo. They create a target that you really don't "know" and may be unrealistic. I prefer to just let each day work itself out and if we get there great...if not oh well

I kinda look at myself as a karma delivery system ???

Seems unlikely there is just 1 person that perfectly matches you. I think instead, we have to be willing to adapt to each other to some degree. Willing to put up with some flaws, and try to address our own.

1. Karma - As it is defined, traditionally, i believe there is no such thing. However, there may be some basis for "karma" in the fact that those who do bad things tend to have people want to not help them, or even do harm to them. And the reverse may tend to be true as well. It's not some mystical concept, but simple human nature.
2. Soul-mates - My belief is there is no such thing. I think some people are "compatible" and some are not. There can be many factors that drive compatibility, some times not even consciously known to an individual. The degree of their compatibility may give an illusion of a "soul-mate".

There's my 2 cents....

Karma is garbage, like afterlife, hell and heaven. As for soul-mates, since I obviously don't believe in souls it is not how I would describe that feeling, but obviously to me, certain people fit together much better than others, be it their common backgrounds, way of thinking, or just chemistry. Kind of like "love at first sight" that hangs around for a lifetime.

If there are soul mates then she has done a great job hiding from me.

You could add a third topic, religion, cause I'm just calling bs.

Neither exist.

I believe in neither of those ? Sorry

1. There's no evidence for it. Also it can easily be interpreted to justify suffering or success, which often comes down to luck. I find that kind of thinking repulsive.

Karma would have my full support if it were in fact real. How does it work, exactly? Who decides what's a good thing and what's not, and what is the correct payoff or penalty? And how is it enforced. Nope. As for soul-mates, I can see two people being close enough and similar enough so that they are completely in synch - for a while. If you change and your partner does not, are you still soul mates? You'd both have to change the same way at the same time to the same degree, and that sounds like one of you is doing all the thinking. So, same as karma, nope.

Sure, I've seen 'Karma' at work, but what I've found is that it works just fine without the need for 'supernatural intervention'. In my experience, people who are rotten and nasty to others usually get what's coming to them precisely because they are just rotten, horrible people. So, if you are the kind that puts negativity out into the universe, negativity will surely (eventually) come back to you.

As for soul-mates, I just try and love everyone as best as I can. So far, my track record of being loved in return is not too good, so I know any answer I give would be either either disingenuous or jaded. I'd like to say that I hope it's true, or at least possible, but I'm not sure that I do anymore.

Thoughts on karma: It appears that the notion of folks get their just rewards is batting no better than any other random element of chance. Further, I don't accept any form of fatalism either.

Thoughts on soul-mates: Well, I hold no beliefs in anything supernatural and the concept of soul fits into that category right along with leprechauns and angels. Now, if one defines soul as the sum total of another human being and should there be a genuine compatibility match and the two of them cross paths and circumstances are such that they will have to interact enough so that each will recognize the other, then, yes. Otherwise, no.

I fond words like these very hard to actually divine meaning from - I don't agree with the idea of soul mates because so often that is a fleeting thing that falls apart when they meet yet another soul mate and someone gets ditched - I don't feel I am a soul mate to my partner just best friend and always got his back and he mine. Karma is a word I think that means when something good or bad happens we could attribute it to anything at all and Karma is one way of thinking we get payback for being a good guy or payback for doing something bad on someone - Words are often sleekit wee critters!

Karma? is self fulfilling. soul mate? no.

Oh man last time I commented on Karma people went off if you take all religious symbolism or mystical symbolism away from the word Karma if you look up what the word actually means it just means action it just means that your actions will have an effect on your life with that said sometimes s*** just happened
As for a soul I do not believe in the concept

Neither are real.

Some people confuse karma with consequences. If karma is real explain how Kim Jong Il died of a heart attack on a train and not at the feet of some of the thousands of people who's lives he destroyed? The same argument people use for god gets used for karma.

Soul mates are the same, the odds of one soul out there just for you that you happen to run into out of 7+ billion people on the planet is unfortunately absurd.

Karma really has been misinterpreted. It is nothing more than cause and effect. If you do something there is an effect but it doesn't necessarily mean that you are rewarded or punished for what you did. It is more that what you did has affected others.
Soul mates also doesn't necessarily mean your life long perfect companion. It more or less means another person, male or female, who you are synaptic with.
So nothing at all woo-woo about these 2 words. They have just gotten misused in jargon

Actions do ripple, and sometimes bad actions take their toll on the purveyor, but if karma as a concept means the universe settling every score and making things fair eventually, it’s probably bullshit, or a misunderstood expectation of the term more accurately. The concept is more or less a metaphysical version of the golden rule. Do good and you’ll feel good, good things will return to you. Do bad and you’ll feel bad, all of it usually holds true in some form but it largely depends on the conscience of the person observing it. If you have no conscience and can do bad without feeling bad, for example; a sociopath has freed themselves from karma largely by not giving a fuck. So it’s a voluntary mental principle that works for most of us, but I think it’s driven by a satisfying sense of confirmation bias and wanting ultimate justice to exist. Sometimes it just doesn’t. When it does it’s placebo effect. You’ve thrown a dart and then drawn the target around it to give meaning to events. although it can still be beneficial to think in those terms and I often try to behave as if I’m assuming karma is very real. Its a good way to be.

I used to believe in soulmates but I now realize the sheer amount of people I could possibly fall in love with, thats nonsense too. That’s not to diminish the importance of any Love we find in life. Finding the right person isnt so impossibly rare but finding the right person with all the other circumstances being right to fall for each other is. Both being in the same country, speaking the same language and crossing each other’s paths with reason to interact makes it hard on the odds. Then both being single, catching each other on a good day, one not being too weird or nervous to try, the other not being too defensive or judgy to take a chance n bite, no one displaying any crazy dealbreakers within the first few dates, while comparing a list of fundamentals and principles that could clash, all of which makes getting into a good relationship incredibly unlikely. The myriad ways things could go wrong and the narrow way things have to fall to go right makes Love a miracle of luck for all practical purposes. So if you’ve got that kind of love, treat em as if that’s your soulmate. Again not literally true, but a useful concept.

I think that those things are silly religious fictions.

It’s like astrology; you see lines where their otherwise are none.

I like the concept of karma, but certainly do not believe in it. To some extent, a kind person will typically receive kindness back, because people recognize that, but there is no cosmic justice. Some terrible people have utterly fantastic lives and some wonderful people endure a lot of awful and far too little good.

As for soul mates, I think it is ridiculous to believe there is one right person. There are people with whom you are compatible, and finding one who is just right for you is rare, but it is just compatibility. The need to find "the one" is so fatalistic--find someone fantastic and be fantastic with them. If something happens to that, do it again.