On Karma and the Multiverse

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Xervean United States. Nov 30 2009 23:29. Posts 682

Ok lets begin by discussing Karma. What is it exactly? Well most people think of it in terms of if you do something bad it will come back on you say 3 fold (like the Wiccans believe). People tend to think of it as like a mystical thing imposed on us by the gods where you will eventually get what you deserve.

What karma actually is though is simply cause and effect. Every single thing that you do in life creates possible effects. So Karma naturally is the entirety of the chain of cause and effects. If you do good things your entire life, good things will be far more likely to happen to you. People will like you and you will have many more opportunities in life. And of course on the flip side if you do evil, people will hate you and seek to destroy you (or you will destroy yourself).

What is the multiverse theory? Well basically one interpretation of it is that in anything occurs the universe splits out into bubbles one for every possibility that can ever occur. Say you roll a 6 sided die. Well there is a different universe created for each possibility of what it lands on. This theory is a possible explanation of quantum mechanics basically. Check out Schrodingers cat. I copied this from wikipedia:

Schrödinger's Cat: A cat, along with a flask containing a poison, is placed in a sealed box shielded against environmentally induced quantum decoherence. If an internal Geiger counter detects radiation, the flask is shattered, releasing the poison that kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when we look in the box, we see the cat either alive or dead, not both alive and dead.

Also I read about this sick quantum mechanical/multiverse russian roulette theory that if you play it you will never lose because everytime you pull the trigger you cease to exist in certain universes and only continue in the ones where the chamber is empty.

PS DONT TRY THAT AT HOME

If this is true what are the implications? It would mean that there is a universe where I have never lost a single hand of poker and I am the king of the internet. Also there is the universe I am in now... along with infinitely many other ones. I believe we create our own realities. Every single decision I have ever made has led me to this moment. Now dependant upon the decisions we make for say in poker the greater the probability that we end up in a great universe thats what we want.

So next time you lose a hand as a 99% favorite simply think that in all of those other possible universes you are a winner. Keep in mind that if you keep making good decisions you will eventually end up where you want to be. The secret of life is controlling Karma aka cause and effect.

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Timonga United States. Dec 01 2009 02:10. Posts 1074

nice read