posted August 24, 2013 08:10 PM            

What you're describing is a type of synchronicity, and the first thing that comes to mind is that you empathize with the people in a way that makes you visualize being them, and perhaps you're one of those people who has a way of making things happen by imagining them very hard. That is, you give an old lady a jump and at some level you imagine yourself being in her place and then a few days later that imagining comes true. Besides, I have a hard time seeing someone needing a jump as having "bad karma" (other than "natural consequences" needing no mystical interpretation).

Understand, I'm really not a big fan of "you make everything happen to you" as it's a very slippery slope of blaming the victim and not everything comes from within, there are many other wills out there beside your own and they get a say in what happens to you as well. However, I do recall an experiment I did when I was 17 that made me think magic was more than positive thinking. Long story short (and I forget some details) I adapted an experiment from a Robert Anton Wilson book (I think Quantum Psychology) to say I'd find dimes instead of pennies and I did, for example I found 3 dimes while walking about 10 blocks (unfortunately for me experiments like this turn out really impressive for me at first but can't be repeated...but then creativity & originality seems to be how my own personal magic works). That (and similar experiments while running with Discordians) allows me to believe in synchronicity that can be guided by things like visualization and actions that "echo" in unexpected ways.

posted August 24, 2013 08:50 PM            

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posted August 24, 2013 08:53 PM            

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posted August 25, 2013 12:58 AM            

I find it strange because ^ even though that good deed may indeed be good.. and maybe one person or many benefited from it - it might just not be what you were supposed to be doing.

It might be better to only help people when you are specifically asked for help... rather than go out of your way to take a detour and do a good deed (that was not in your path).

I think the detour-style good deeds end up "punished".

posted August 25, 2013 01:09 AM            

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I paid to fix my mom's car ac and went there to ensure it was done properly, and then I drop my pristine iPhone hard on the pavement (never dropped once since new and in over a year)

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This might be different. I'm not sure why it happened in this particular situation. Did your mum ask you to pay for the AC?
Was there someone else who could've paid for it perhaps?
This seems like a situation that would be - 'in your way'... 'on your path', so to speak - since this is your mother, so it's normal for you to offer to pay...

So maybe this situation does not fit in with my theory.

But in my life... I have only had bad luck.. in a situation where I went literally -out of my way- to help... when I had clear signs that I just shouldn't go there.

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Today, I was helping someone unselfishly,

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posted August 25, 2013 01:20 AM            

on the other hand some people can change the luck of a whole place (and not always to the better) just by being there.

Thoughts are electromagnetic energy. You are being receptive....you saw someone who needs help and was receptive to that energy, and probably all what subtly came along with it.

They needed help and were thinking of there trouble and where in the universe to get it fixed....they were projecting these vibes, and kind of 'unloaded' them on you.

you just need more energetic protection into your life: meditations like IQ's violet protection one, swimming in the ocean, the correct positive affirmations, more importantly awareness of the energies around u and protecting yourself before helping others when it is too much.

posted August 25, 2013 01:25 AM            

"I'm so glad that Rita didn't lose her sight in both eyes." A few days later - she lost the sight in her other eye. (Three years ago.)

"Thank goodness we've never had to deal with Parvo." Three days later, a disease similar to parvo, affects our dogs.

"I live for my animals and family. They are the best part of my life." Cue a rash of deaths in both, and my family crumbling.

posted August 25, 2013 02:41 AM            

In the case of your phone, Randall I would guess that you were being just a little controlling hovering over the guys whose job it is to do the job lol. So instead of minding your own business you were interfering with theirs..and yours (your phone) escaped your grasp.

If you had reason to suspect they would bungle the job you maybe need different techs, if not, you're paying them, so let them earn it?

And in saying "at least it wasn't leprosy" , teas, you are visualizing leprosy(paraphrase). And so you will get your manifestation.

IF you believe in the power of thought! There's the rub..plenty of people who are completely unaware or unbelieving in the power of thoughts will go on their merry way a long time before something like a brick wall stops them "trespassing" or "wishing for" something they fear.

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posted August 25, 2013 11:05 AM            

Mabe your energy is vunerable to other peoples karma, and some how it gets played out through you as well. I agree with the other person who mentioned protection for your energy, so its not invaded.

posted August 25, 2013 12:34 PM            

by Franklin P. Adams

There was a man in our town who had King Midas’ touch;
He gave away his millions to the colleges and such;
And people cried: “The hypocrite! He ought to understand
The ones who really need him are the children of this land!”

When Andrew Croesus built a home for children who were sick,
The people said they rather thought he did it as a trick,
And writers said: “He thinks about the drooping girls and boys,
But what about conditions with the men whom he employs?”

There was a man in our town who said that he would share
His profits with his laborers, for that was only fair,
And people said: “Oh, isn’t he the shrewd and foxy gent?
It cost him next to nothing for that free advertisement!”

posted August 25, 2013 12:51 PM            

Sounds like lessons in learning how o give and also receive help.

Or maybe you are simply balancing out karma.

Maybe the "bad" things that happen to you are there for you to find the silver lining in and to realize they are not as bad as they seem.

It could just be the circle of 'good deeds' at play. You help someone, someone helps you and on it goes. To remind that sometimes you are there to give help and sometimes you need to receive it yourself. That we are all interconnected.

I'd be careful about thinking that every time you do something nice, bad is going to follow it. If you think that way, that's what you will experience.

Good and bad are going to happen to you regardless of what you do. It's called life.