"Does the universe operate on some kind of zero-sum karma exchange?"
It appears so. To me at least,
Newton's third law is: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
The First Law of Thermodynamics: energy is always conserved, it cannot be created or destroyed. In essence, energy can be converted from one form into another.
To me, those two things both hint at the same thing, but cannot be fully explained by either statement alone. And I'm fairly sure that those aren't telling the whole story even if combined.
If you take a bottle from the table, you have a bottle, but the table doesn't. If you leave the bottle on the table, you don't have one, but the table does. Everything comes from somewhere. if you and your friends were to cheer up another friend by throwing a surprise party or something, your effort is converted to his/her happiness.
If you effortlessly found something valuable and gave it to someone, the same stuff applies, because some effort somewhere made that thing valuable to him/her(value is subjective). And whoever lost/dropped that item now has to compensate for that loss.
Everything you perceive is energy, that goes for feelings as well. Scientific community would probably shoot me because feelings aren't as measurable as they'd like. I'm the kinda guy that doesn't believe in solely in objective reality, because it's still witnessed subjectively. I mean we both can point out what objects are blue, but is the experience of "blue" the same for the both of us? What if my "blue" looks like your "red"? A device can tell what is the wavelength of the light reflected, but it still can't tell us how each of us experience that light.
This will eventually boil down to "what is consciousness?" and even if that was ever answered, it really wouldn't matter, you'd still have to accept it. So you might as well accept everything else that comes with it, experiencing, feelings, ego. There's nothing much to do about it than to experience it, to live it, to be it. You are the combination of everything you perceive and experience, whether it be you senses, thoughts, feelings (Physical, intellectual, spiritual) You are all that combined, at the same time, all the time, instantaneously, now.
But that's just how I see it. Now excuse me, there's a toffee ice cream cone in the freezer screaming for me.
The First Law of Thermodynamics: energy is always conserved, it cannot be created or destroyed. In essence, energy can be converted from one form into another.
To me, those two things both hint at the same thing, but cannot be fully explained by either statement alone. And I'm fairly sure that those aren't telling the whole story even if combined.
If you take a bottle from the table, you have a bottle, but the table doesn't. If you leave the bottle on the table, you don't have one, but the table does. Everything comes from somewhere. if you and your friends were to cheer up another friend by throwing a surprise party or something, your effort is converted to his/her happiness.
If you effortlessly found something valuable and gave it to someone, the same stuff applies, because some effort somewhere made that thing valuable to him/her(value is subjective). And whoever lost/dropped that item now has to compensate for that loss.
Everything you perceive is energy, that goes for feelings as well. Scientific community would probably shoot me because feelings aren't as measurable as they'd like. I'm the kinda guy that doesn't believe in solely in objective reality, because it's still witnessed subjectively. I mean we both can point out what objects are blue, but is the experience of "blue" the same for the both of us? What if my "blue" looks like your "red"? A device can tell what is the wavelength of the light reflected, but it still can't tell us how each of us experience that light.
This will eventually boil down to "what is consciousness?" and even if that was ever answered, it really wouldn't matter, you'd still have to accept it. So you might as well accept everything else that comes with it, experiencing, feelings, ego. There's nothing much to do about it than to experience it, to live it, to be it. You are the combination of everything you perceive and experience, whether it be you senses, thoughts, feelings (Physical, intellectual, spiritual) You are all that combined, at the same time, all the time, instantaneously, now.
But that's just how I see it. Now excuse me, there's a toffee ice cream cone in the freezer screaming for me.
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