Talk:instant karma
Add topicLatest comment: 5 years ago by Dan Polansky in topic RFD discussion: June–December 2018
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Sense 3 (of the adjective) of instant + sense 2 of karma. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 20:34, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
- It isn’t, actually, though. Here’s your difference. If you throw a rock at a window, and immediately after, a bird poops on your head, you might call that karma, and it is instant. But it isn’t this. This is, you throw a rock at a window, and instead of it breaking the window, it bounces off and hits you in the head. If you go look at all the instant karma memes, all are instances of this sort of thing happening. Pandeist (talk) 22:08, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
- Or if you help someone across the street and there's an accident where you would have been standing, that wouldn't be instant karma, either. In other words, it's an unforeseen negative consequence to a negative action- immediate, coincidentally self-inflicted poetic justice. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:16, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, that!! Always negative, and always essentially self-inflicted. Pandeist (talk) 03:19, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
- Or if you help someone across the street and there's an accident where you would have been standing, that wouldn't be instant karma, either. In other words, it's an unforeseen negative consequence to a negative action- immediate, coincidentally self-inflicted poetic justice. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:16, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
- Keep, although this is quite close to sense 2 of karma, and make it more clear that it is about self-inflected negative consequences.
←₰-→Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 08:07, 25 July 2018 (UTC) - Delete, SOP. Per utramque cavernam 11:12, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
- Leaning keep, this appears to be a set phrase. bd2412 T 02:52, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
- Weak keep, probably per Chuck Entz; I am too lazy to think about it deeper, hence only a weak one. For reference, karma #2: "A force or law of nature which causes one to reap what one sows; destiny; fate." --Dan Polansky (talk) 11:23, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
- RFD kept: no consensus for deletion. I count 2 deletes and 2 bold keeps (=1 + 0.5 + 0.5) and 2 pro-keep non-boldface posts. Multiple months have elapsed. --Dan Polansky (talk) 15:26, 30 December 2018 (UTC)