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.

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.

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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.

Don't be believe in either one.

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

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.

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

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

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'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 .

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.

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

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

If they exist, they are both too damn slow to arrive.

Karma: the unsubstantiated belief that ones actions affect the physical form they will have next time they are reincarnated. It's just superstition, but what goes around does seem to come around. (We certainly hope this is true with respect to the current occupant of the Oval Office.)

Soul mate: someone who will watch your favorite shows with you, read the similar books and articles and discuss them at length with you, lie down when you lie down, get up when you get up, play darts with you using a picture of the President's orange mug for a target.

Karma doesn't exist. Shitty things happen to shitty people when people powerful enough decide to do something about it... Look at all the nazi war criminals that escaped to south america as an example... soul mates... I think you can find someone who is aligned to you... however, I don't think that there is a singular person out there for whom this connection could exist.

Karma: An ancient internal moderator of (moral) behavior. It is sorta the precursor to the heaven/hell carrot/stick western silliness, that taught people the golden rule.

Soul-mates: I think smell has the most influence on this feeling. Smell is profoundly underrated as an influencer in all things emotional, and therefore, behaviorally.

We are programmed to use all out senses to determine interest, and avoidance. Smell is the most powerful memory recall stimulant.

Body odors include many chemical substances such as hormones, and pheromones, that are not consciously detectable.

I maintain how someone smells is a prime determiner for creating and continuing a relationship.

And: the wif and i share many similar ideas about morality, correct behaviors, and a sense of humor that keeps us both laughing, that has kept us together for 34+ years.

1. What I have seen of people's interpretation of karma is really just schadenfreude or wanting vengeance. Not very karmic. No good deed goes unpunished! (;
2. There is always another mate. It's all in the mind.

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