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What 'Karma' meant before Reddit and HN
- mooism2 14y agoSlashdot had karma before Reddit/HN. Don't know if they were the first or whether they copied it from another site.
- treskot 14y agoAgreed. But my point was before these social submission sites started using the word karma it actually meant something. Karma (Sanskrit: कर्म[1] IPA: [ˈkarmə] ( listen); Pali: kamma) in Indian religions is the concept of "action" or "deed", understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect (i.e., the cycle called saṃsāra) originating in ancient India and treated in the Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, and Sikh religions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma
- z3phyr 14y agoI am not surprised.
- stackcollision 14y agoIt never even occurred to me that there might be people who might not know what this word originally meant. Wow.
- sonabinu 14y agoKarma is dharma ...
- mping 14y agoAlthough wikipedia is great, I think if you are going to link to a site about Karma, there's alot of better stuff on the internet explaining Karma. I personally prefer the Buddhist view: http://cttbusa.org/buddhism_brief_introduction/chapter2.asp http://cttbusa.org/buddhism_brief_introduction/chapter2.asp