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Do you believe in karma? Have you ever had any experiences where you started thinking karma may be real?

>> No.523870

Can't say I fully understand what karma is supposed to be, so how should I know?

>> No.523875

karma?

that inner peace Buddhism thing?

>> No.523885

>>523870
>>523875

Yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma#Buddhism

>> No.523887

Instant karmas gonna get you
Gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together
Pretty soon youre gonna be dead
What in the world you thinking of
Laughing in the face of love
What on earth you tryin to do
Its up to you, yeah you

Instant karmas gonna get you
Gonna look you right in the face
Better get yourself together darlin
Join the human race
How in the world you gonna see
Laughin at fools like me

>> No.523897

According to Slashdot, I have excellent karma.

>> No.523912

it would be great for there to be an universal, mystical reward system. That would make being a good, nice person far more satisfying.
Too bad that isn't the case. At least I can get personal satisfaction from what I do.

Also, what the hell am I doing up there?

>> No.523929

If you believe in Karma, try spending a couple of days working A&E. That'll pretty much convince you that it's a load of shit.

>> No.523940

>>523885
Wikipedia says a lot of things. Care to explain?

>> No.523941

>>523912
Who the hell do you think you are?
you are the guy that bring us hope everyday wishing us a nice day, that remind us that what we do is what we want to do and anything else, you deserve it man. you are your own karma.

i remember some thread from weeks ago when some other guy said about how should it be if all anonymous lived in one planet, well i think that Colombia will be the priest that goes and face the crowds and wishing all us a nice day, and all anonymous cheering and greeting him.

>> No.523959

>>523941
just a country would be fine - or a state within a country.

Anonymous would be a great neighbor.

>> No.523984

>>523940

tl;dr - chain cause and effect. what goes around comes around, vice/versa, etc.

For example: you stole someone's precious belonging for X reason (inb4 marisa). Not too long afterwards, something of your own which you hold dear goes missing.

>> No.523993

>>523941
You're a fucking failure as Anonymous. Don't praise tripfags, you stupid fuck.

>> No.524011

>>523912

Because you're an icon for someone who makes good deeds everyday. And it looks funny.

>> No.524014

>>523993
im a failure as a human already

>> No.524016

>>523941

Columbia would be the drug dealer.

>> No.524017

No I don't.

>> No.524019

>>523912
>it would be great for there to be an universal, mystical reward system. That would make being a good, nice person far more satisfying.

Which is why being a nice person fails. Not only do you not get anything in return (most people believe you have an ulterior motive behind your niceness) but you also get treated like a carpet, a rug or someone to be used.

>> No.524041

>>523912
>it would be great for there to be an universal, mystical reward system. That would make being a good, nice person far more satisfying.

No, because then you wouldn't be nice. People'd be nice just for a reward. Being actually nice and doing it because one actually cares about the well-being of someone else without any reward is the real "nice". Having someone be nice back would be the nice reward that was never promised.

>> No.524053
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>>524019
My point exactly. Most of the time the only reward is the one you make for your own. That sense of self satisfaction that you did right.
>>523993
Seconded. We are tripfags, not tripfriends for a reason. Cult of personality is bad for everyone involved, and only reduces the board quality.
>>523941
>>524016
nah. I would be the crazy guy with a beard in the park. And I couldn't find that thread in the /jp/archive, now I'm intrigued...
of course, I used the futuristic anonymous becoming a loosely conjoined sect of monks concept before. Maybe I could work on it later, after Kyou and AND.

>> No.524057

It's all in your head. Just like luck.
You crazy Colombianos and your drugs...

>> No.524060

>>523940

Wow, you can't understand something as simple as karma?

Anyways, karma. No. Just the human brain thinking you somehow caused, directly or indirectly, the misplacement of an item. Just like clouds and what they look like.

>> No.524063

bunch of weeafags

>> No.524071

>>524053
>Cult of personality is bad for everyone involved, and only reduces the board quality.

The hypocrisy is mind-boggling. If you really believed that, you would have stopped using a tripcode by now.

Practice what you preach

>> No.524091

Karma police, arrest this man
He talks in maths
He buzzes like a fridge
He's like a detuned radio

Karma police, arrest this girl
Her Hitler hairdo is
Making me feel ill
And we have crashed her party

This is what you get
This is what you get
This is what you get when you mess with us

Karma Police

>> No.524100

>>524071
Tripfags increase a board's presence. When you eliminate them completely, groupthink dominates and things tend to degenerate into /b/ shit.

I believe that 10% of tripfag posts is a healthy percentage in order to keep an imageboard's ecosystem in balance. Of course, it's really bad when you start to suck their cock in a Cirno-like way, but hating them is just pointless.

>> No.524098

Every tripfag reduces the board quality.

>> No.524107

>>524098
4chan has a lot of problems that leads to boards turning into shit. Trips and names aren't among them.

You know this, you're just using tripfags as a scapegoat.

>> No.524109

>>524098
4chan has a lot of problems that lead to boards turning into shit. Trips and names aren't among them.

You know this, you're just using tripfags as a scapegoat.

>> No.524119

>>524109
Tripfags:Anonymous::Jews:Hitler?

>> No.524122

>>524071
I had typed a long winded response, but quick reply lost it.
I'm not typing all again.
It went that I enjoyed more being a tripfag that wasn't recognized, like in 2007. If I get praise, I prefer it to be from actual work than just related to my name.
And I can't stop now.

>> No.524158

>>524122
Then change your name and reclaim your kingdom!

>> No.524166

>>524122

Then you're just an asshole now, and that's all I'll ever see you as. Nice day threads are only meaningful to me when they come from another anon. It's almost insulting when it comes from a tripfag. "Nice day Anon, you'll never be a tripfag like me LOL"

>>524109

90% of the assholes on any board are tripfags. Even look here, Sion, Nanaya, mugenjonchel, Anonymous of Croatia, Anonymous of Mexico, Gensokyo Man, formerly-anon are all retards that contribute nothing to the board except shit it up. Forced anonymous on every board can only help 4chan.

>> No.524180

>>524100
I'm not criticizing tripfags in general, but jesus christ, look at this man's own words:

>>524053
>Cult of personality is bad for everyone involved, and only reduces the board quality.

>>524122
>And I can't stop now.

This "have a nice day" trend only perpetuates the "ronery" culture of the board, which in turn encourages further attention-whoring and oneupmanship i.e "MY LIFE IS WORSE THAN YOURS LOL"

Thus the boards turn to shit.

In before internet toughguy, snowball fallacy, bawwwww more

>> No.524188

>>524053
>Most of the time the only reward is the one you make for your own. That sense of self satisfaction that you did right.

Here's the thing though, you're a tripfag. There are always ulterior motives behind "nice" gestures. While I respect what you do here everyday to an extent, I highly doubt you would have kept up with your nice day threads if you weren't a tripfag. By being a tripfag, you have an identity, an alias. And by that you gain distinct attention for your posts and therefore "getting something back" in a way.

Although anyone should be able to figure out tripfags are only in it for the attention.

>> No.524191

>>524180

I think the ronery culture is only bad in the wrong hands, which also happens to be the majority of 4chan

>> No.524208

"Don't lump me in with those Anons, I have a tripcode!"

>> No.524212

>>524191

"Have a nice day" threads always play out similar to "ronery" threads anyway. It doesn't have anything to do with anime/manga/japan/general and it just perpetuates the idea that this sort of thing is acceptable on the board.

I mean jesus christ, if you wanna complain about how much your life sucks go to /b/, that's what it's there for.

>> No.524216

>>524212

As I said, in the wrong hands

>> No.524217

>>524191
Will these hands never be clean?

>> No.524224

>>524217
not after fapping

>> No.524228

>>524166
I wish I could give you some of the cold numbers from the /a/rchive. In both boards, anonymous owns about 92% of the total posts.
The thing is that many of these anonymous posts are of subpar quality. It's only that you have no way to track them down to a single person. In a way, tripfaggotry only serves to identify anonymous, and if they're inherently bad, then flag them as useless.

>>524188
Maybe it's a Light kind of thing. People only make a connection if an easy pattern is used. Otherwise, it would have been just a daily dose forced meme.

>>524180
nice day was never about ronery. It's about enjoying what the day brings to you.

Also, one of my points for using a tripcode. This discussion would be difficult to follow without a identity to link to a set of posts. Still, it's an exercise in futility, but it's always nice to see why exactly is that anonymous hates me.

>> No.524229

>>524217

If you want your hands to be clean stop playing in the mud.

>> No.524234

>>524217
... Out, damn spot..

>> No.524240

>>524228
>nice day was never about ronery. It's about enjoying what the day brings to you.

1) That still has nothing to do with anime, manga, or japanese culture

2) Key word is WAS. Almost all "Nice Day" threads turn into a BAWWWfest. Ever heard of such a thing as "Knowing when to stop"?

>> No.524241

>>524166
>Forced anonymous on every board can only help 4chan.
Yeah, it made miracles for /b/, didn't it?

Fuck off with your ANONYMOUS IS LEGION bullshit. No one cares about your hivemind Anonymous shit, go back to /b/. Seeing "Anonymous" as one single entity is what killed 4chan.

>> No.524242

Tripfags aren't that bad, guys. They're pretty much no different from anon except that they have a name. Big deal. If you want forced anon gb2/b/.

>> No.524251

>>524228
>This discussion would be difficult to follow without a identity to link to a set of posts

Said discussion would not even exist if you posted as anonymous. Additionally, if in your own words 92% of anonymous can follow a discussion without needing to use a tripcode, why can't you?

>> No.524252

>>524240
this thread is not even related to karma anymore, why do you keep posting?

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>>524228

/jp/ as a good number of USEFUL tripfags. Hong dumps the FUTTTTTTTTA, Youmu does the Touhou Surprise, Myon posts Myon, just to name the few. Only Anonymous we know is not Anonymous is Dan Kim. The countless Anonymous of -place- arent so bad either.

Useless tripfags are Lilly, Spring, and the 2 Sakuya's.
God, I hate those Sakuya tripfags.

>> No.524263

>>524254
You forgot to put mugen under useless tripfags

>> No.524268

>>524241
It's not about that. Forced anon would stop tripfag circlejerking, which hasn't gone overboard on /jp/ but has on other boards.

>> No.524270

>>524242

Read the goddamn thread, this is not some LOL ANONYMOUS IS LEGION, it's that the "have a nice day" threads are creating a trend which is contributing to a decline in quality of the board.

Think of it this way. It would be fine if, instead of posting a Have a Nice Day thread, sat back for 10 minutes and actually came up with a decent topic for discussion, that's positive contribution towards the board.

Have a nice day threads only serve to inflate his own ego and let self-diagnosed depressives complain about how it's the only nice thing that ever happens to them.

>> No.524276

>>524254

Don't forget fags who casually use emoticons like Eksopl and huge faggot trolls like YandereAliceFag.

>> No.524282

>>524270
These guys sure seem to think it's still about ANON IS LEGION
>>524208
>>524166
>>524098
>>523993

>> No.524283

>>524270

What's another repost in a sea of reposts?

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524284

OP here.

lol

>> No.524285

>>524242
Typical /jp/ response. "It's my way or the highway!"

Get back to kindergarten with that logic.

>> No.524286

>>524241

signed, forced anonmity really is a bad idea when your userbase is like 4chans.

>>524229

I'd like to illustrate this, many years ago I discovered a image board entirely dedicated to the hot glue fetish. Back then it seemed to be filled with both japanese and english speaking posters, yet there was no shitposting or racism everyone was friendly to each other and made efforts to understand each other and contribute to their mutual interest of blowing their hot load. And they were quality contributions, with no dead horse beatings

This is a good example of a community still under the radar. It's simple, a community gets more shit the more popular it gets. The reality behind all of this is the fact that the majority of people have the internet and the majority of people also are not very funny to the kind of people that spend so much time online.

I think the team really doesn't care about poster quality anymore, it's a lost cause. If you want a site to get big you want it to get shit it's as simple as that. Moot seems to really play around with the idea that this site will be profitable one day, personally I think that the dot com bubble will burst again before that happens.

>> No.524289

If you don't like ronery, stay out of it. Ronery threads, nice day, etc. are demonstrations of our community's solidarity. Otherwise, we're just like any other weeaboo shitfest. Our self deprecation is what makes this board better than any other. Not to mention that those that complain incessantly about ronery when it's not even relevant are even more negative than the roneryfags themselves.

>> No.524294

>>524286
>signed, forced anonmity really is a bad idea when your userbase is like 4chans.

Yes, but /jp/'s userbase is not the same as /b/'s.
And /b/ is beyond repair. Forced anon or not, nothing can save it outside of deletion. But then moot wouldn't get as much money.

>> No.524295

>>524285
Gee sure is ironic around here.

>> No.524296

Another tripfag thread?

>> No.524297

I remember when I was fifteen, I gave a girl my jacket since she was cold. When I got home, my mom came back from the local casino and gave me a hundred bucks.

Needless to say, I felt lucky.

>> No.524309

>>Our self deprecation is what makes this board better than any other.

Signed. Whenever some fag complains about ronery, repeat this to yourself.

>> No.524311

>>524286

Agreed. In all honesty I liked 4chan better when it was a SECRET INTERNET CLUB just because the userbase was smaller and in many cases actually contributed towards board quality.

One of the better examples I can think of is SaiGAR. Saigar 2007, despite the spam, was a fun time in which people learned about a bunch of new anime, and was an excellent example of what /a/ could achieve if it put its mind to it. As for 2008, well... that's what a four-fold increase in the number of posters will do to the quality of a board.

And yes, I'm perfectly aware that "board quality" is just a catch-all buzzword that doesn't actually mean anything.

>> No.524324

>>524297
Exactly. It was two different events, but still you made a link in your mind. Maybe it is better that way, that thinking that doing good things will be somehow rewarded.

Still, that was really lucky. And I bet it felt good too when you saw her face when you gave her your jacket.

Fuck yes, actually discussing the real topic. tripfaggotry has been done to death by now. truth is, I regret nothing.

>> No.524327

>>524254

I think Dan Kim turned into a really unfunny faggot the moment he discovered 4chan and he also set a awful precident of webcomic artists trying to import 4chan humor into their own works.

>> No.524338

>"Anonymous existed way before the Scientology thing. Anonymous existed before it was called Anonymous. Anonymous is a phenomena. You've got web sites—Wikipedia, 4chan—places where anyone can post and contribute, and everyone has an equal voice."

>> No.524348

>>524338
I don't want to know where this is from.

>> No.524354

I suppose I believe in Karma. It could just be the mindset, but whenever I what I can for others I end having good things happen to me down the road.

However I can't really say I've had Bad Karma.

>> No.524359

>>524294

Don't fool yourself, it's like saying that only one arm is fine when the rest of the body is one giant cancer. We are only a click away.

>>524311

The whole "secret internet club" thing ironically only really came out after it was already far too popular and frequented by too many people. Also what the fuck you think saigar was good and 2007 WAS WHEN 4CHAN WAS SECRET AND UNDERGROUND?

>> No.524361

>>523861
Take shit karma shit back to /b/ you fucking retards.

>> No.524366

I sort of yanked a rare item from this girl in an MMORPG just to spite her for being a dumbass and a cunt.

Then a day later, I found out $100 from my wallet went missing.

>> No.524370

>>524364
;__;

>> No.524375

>>524342
just the tripfag I needed. Mind giving some anonymous|tripfags stats?

More on topic, I am randomly nice to people outside. Usually they just eye you weirdly, others give a polite nod and smile. But I have never noticed something good happening afterwards because of it. Really, sometimes I wonder why I keep at it. I try to delude myself, thinking that if I can make a little splash, it would be enough to make a change.
Ha.

>> No.524376

>>524361

Karma originated from Buddhism, so I don't see why it wouldn't relate to /jp/.

>> No.524380

>>524361

/b/ is MY GF RATE. Idort.

>> No.524391

The Secret Cool Kids Club attitude only comes out when people are trying to desperately save their board. Really the things that hurt us lie not in touhou, ronery, nice day, tripfags, or whatever else, but instead in the attitude of the posters. If the posters are constantly bitching and complaining instead of contributing, obviously shit is going to go down the drain.

>> No.524399

>>524391
like this thread right now

>> No.524419

>The whole "secret internet club" thing ironically only really came out after it was already far too popular and frequented by too many people.

Yes but for want of a better term it was a good way of describing the state of 4chan in 2005-2006. And no, 2003-2004 don't count because /a/ was slow and boring after it came into existence.


Also what the fuck you think saigar was good

>Yes

and 2007 WAS WHEN 4CHAN WAS SECRET AND UNDERGROUND?

>No, that's not what I said.

>> No.524424

>>524391

No I've been posting on 4chan without complaint for a good 4+ years all the while thinking that it has been really going down the shitter for a good 3 years of that.

Maybe you just like poor quality threads. I personally don't threadshit unless a topic isn't worth saving.

>> No.524431

>>524359

>The whole "secret internet club" thing ironically only really came out after it was already far too popular and frequented by too many people.

Yes but for want of a better term it was a good way of describing the state of 4chan in 2005-2006. And no, 2003-2004 don't count because /a/ was slow and boring after it came into existence.


>Also what the fuck you think saigar was good

Yes

>and 2007 WAS WHEN 4CHAN WAS SECRET AND UNDERGROUND?

No, that's not what I said.

>> No.524436

/b/ died the minute some fuckwit thought /b/ was a super seekrit special little club and brought along all his little failfriends begging for acceptance until they overwhelmed the majority. Before that, /b/ was a total shithole where everybody hated on each other, there was nothing to be proud of, and the only redeeming quality was that it was so occasionally funny. You could get away with posting shit that would get you banned anywhere else on the internet, really the only reason to post at all.

>> No.524450

>>524431

Saigar was not good and you are a bad poster for thinking that.

Honestly, at it's core it was all spawned from nothing but a typo, what a worthless gimmick.

>> No.524459

>>524436

Grey areas motherfucker.

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524468

Fuck this shit. Who is in the mood for some headphone girls?
Fuck yes you want some headphone images, this is far better than the same discussion we've been having for the last 3 months.

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>>4chan is dead.

>> No.524470

>>524450

It was a break from SaiMOE and it served to raise the profile of a bunch of decent manga/anime.

Also it's one of the few things /a/ has actually accomplished to a moderately successful extent. Ever.

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>> No.524494

>>523861

I've been a painfully nice guy all my life and I just get shit on daily. If karma does exist, I'm going to win the lottery the day before I die or something.

I figure I'll just start acting like an asshole and taking what's mine. If there's no karma, then there's no backlash to fear.

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>> No.524496

>>524470

Yes I really want to raise the profile of anime further because that has proven to be a great idea so far.

Also saimoe really isn't that interesting anyway, the only interesting part is where all these foreigners follow it and stop over popular bitches fron winning much to the dismay of elevens with poor taste.

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>>524514
I missed the actual ratio by a lot then.
Thanks for the data.

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and the detext I used for the cover of the /a/lbum.
Hijack succesful, let's never speak of this again.

Damn, such a shitstorm over nothing.

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