so some maple smoked streaky bacon got somehow tacked onto my food delivery and i decided to nuke it in the air fryer rather than send it back or let them know - something i would usually do…anway now that i’ve eaten the whole packet which reduced down to a few crisps i feel rather queasy - karma?
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Sounds like you ate too much bacon to me.
And you cooked it in an air fryer.
I don’t think you can blame the universe for this…
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I don’t believe in a universal keeping of tabs on wrongs and rights.
Wrong doings of people does have an actual impact though and that will sooner or later come back around to the individual doing the wrong doings.
Either because you did a wrong towards the very wrong person, or because consequences catch up with you in either a cascading manner or enough of it after a while starts pointing to you as point of origin 
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Uh huh.
(The concept of causality, karma vipaka , meaning actions and results, in the various indian traditions, has nothing to do with bacon, or air fryers)
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Yes.
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No
Believing that there is natural justice in the universe is the cause of a lot of unhappiness.
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There’s a pig somewhere smashing up an air fryer with an oink and a wink. Totally unrelated to your swine overdose.
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Yeah I think of Karma more in the “Fuck around and find out” way.
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Nah, I don’t. I use the word or term as a way to be lazy to get away from rationalizing and explaining cause and effect, like going “hmmm” instead of “I don’t agree”. I always think that it is weird how the universe or higher powers are portrayed to employ basic human logic. I would think that the universe or higher powers would operate with logic higher than humans, haha.
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Air fryers are awesome.
Your conscience is connecting two unrelated things and karma is the way you rationalize it causey you feel bad about not having done something you consider to be the right thing.
Karma does not exist. If it did the world would actually be a good place and not the shithole it is with the biggest arseholes being the most rewarded in society.
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It’s just taking time.
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This is a good representation of what Karma is to me.
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That’s a pretty sad outlook on life. And I wholeheartedly disagree.
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the other day i saw a kid try to smack another kid who was riding in a little car and the car ran over the smacker’s foot before he could land the smack. karma is what happens when you are in the wrong place at the wrong time doing the wrong thing imo.
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Sounds like you’re describing cause and effect. There are no punishments or rewards, only consequences.
Or maybe apophenia, seeing patterns and connections that don’t exist.
Whichever of those is more appropriate for the situation is a matter of viewing angle.
But no, I put karma in the same category as the Easter bunny, astrology, transubstantiation, palmistry, etc.
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As I understand it nearly everybody uses the term ‘karma’ incorrectly. Karma is not “I did something bad yesterday and now today the universe is making me pay the cost”. Karma refers to how the sum total of all of the thoughts you’ve thought, words you’ve said, and actions you’ve taken in this life will effect your station/position in the next life. The idea being that our humanity is a gift and if we choose to squander that gift we could fuck around in this life and end up a pigeon or some other form of shithead in the next.
Not a belief system I subscribe to by any means but that’s how I understand the concept from having read a bit in the past.
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Karma is a cat purring in my lap 'cause it loves me, flexing like a goddamn acrobat. Me and karma vibe like that.
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And disagreeing is completely fine. You are choosing to live with your head in the sand though. I envy your ability to do so. Happy for you. 
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