Karma, no. Soul-mate, yes. Had one. It's rare. I may, perhaps, possibly have met another.

Hmmm Karma, and interesting subject for the community here, they say every action has a reaction, and also Karma especially bad Karma is a bitch, i think and believe in Karma. Soul mates is a tougher subject. In many cases i just don't beileve it exits

If Karma were real, it probably looks like a dirty hooker in a seedy hotel. Because everybody has been using and abusing it.

Example: A guy I had been working with was smoking out on the sidewalk when a person approached him and asked for a cigarette. He told her no. She stormed off, turning towards him and yelled: "Karma's gonna get you!". For not giving her a cigarette. What, is karma going to give him cancer? Is he gonna suck the filter out and get it lodged in his throat and die? Will a blimp advertising Winston cigarettes crash on top of him and kill him?

Soul-mates? I'm not sure anyone on this planet has soul. James Brown used to. Michael Bolton wishes he did. I've yet to meet mine, I think. Until that happens, I'm a skeptic.

I'm an Atheist. There is no cause and effect doled out by some power. But, if I treat myself and others well, I'm likely to attract like minded people.

As to the soul mate thing. Again, I'm an Atheist, there is no soul. That's a religion fiction. But, there are like minded people. There are also plenty of people with opposite features that attract each other .

Both concepts seem to encompass a capacity to violate natural law as it is presently understood, and therefore neither is of interest to a sceptic.

i doubt the universe understands good/bad behaviour seems just another control tool albeit not as intense as heaven/hell and you get out what you put into a relationship

1. Karma is self-inflicted.
2. The existence of a soul-mate somewhere within Earth's population is a mathematical certainty.

I don’t believe in karma. I’ve had too many terrible relatives that went through life catching too many lucky breaks.

I do believe in soulmates. I do however also believe that not everyone is meant to find one. I believe some are supposed to walk alone getting only fleeting glimpses of love and happiness along the way.

Karma is a bitch, believe in soulmates can be found more than once.

#1 -- I wish, but no. #2 - No.

Don't be believe in either one.

Kharma is just statistics: if you’re regularly a bad person towards other people, then chances are those people will simply return the favor. It’s like a bank robber. It’s possible to pull off that one heist and get away clean, where peopl mess up is they get greedy and keep doing it. It’s only a matter of time until the more numerous authorities catch up and pick up on any potential mistakes you’re more likely to make as you keep going. Not that robbing banks is a good thing, but I think it illustrates the point I’m trying to make.

Soul-mate? I think you’d first have to prove there is such a thing as a soul before you could talk about them pairing up. As far as the concept of “the right one for me” i do t think there is only one right person for anyone. I think there exists a subset of individuals who are more or less compatible with you. If you spend a significant amount of time with this individual then it seems to you that this person is “the only one, your soulmate” when in reality you’ve just grown used to their company and simply can’t conceive of ever having this type of relationship with anyone else. So I think a lot of the soul-mate type of thinking is just confirmation bias, same as khama.

No such thing, and no such thing

No such thing, and no such thing

There are some people who have done horrific things to others that never seem to have their day with karma. I don't know if I believe in it or not.

Karma is a Sanskrit noun which means work (noun). A karmika is a worker. The karma that you refer to comes from the religious belief that your actions /work affect your life and the life in next incarnations. One popular verse from Bhagavadgeeta that refers to karma says "कर्मन्येवा अधिकरास्ते, मा फलेशु कदाचन" meaning that you're entitled to your work and not it's result. According to Bhagavadgeeta no sin can be committed by you as far as you are doing your duty. Who assigns your duty? I do not know! Some says it is determined by your birth. So if one is born in an upper class it is because he or she did good deeds (karma) in the previous birth. By always doing good deeds, you can ultimately achieve "Moksha" or liberation.
This is the importance of karma in Hindu beliefs. I don't agree with it, but it is very interesting.

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.

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

I think that those things are silly religious fictions.

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.

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

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.

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

Karma? is self fulfilling. soul mate? 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!