Karma - Mag an Avet...

[Yerman]

Not sure if the mods want this here or not but I'll put it here and go from there.

So, what is this Karma thing I am talking about. I have never seen it on this board so I am assuming that nobody here knows what it is. I can't take credit for it though. I am a member of another forum for Sig Sauer Handguns and they do this all the time. Hopefully it will catch on and people here on this site will learn to appreciate what it offers all of us. So, what is it?

Well, the idea is that I will post here that I have a free item to give away. If you are interested in the item, post "please add me into this karma" and thats it. I will pick a person at random and then ship the item to the winner of the karma. The idea is that by doing nice things like this, it will eventually come back around to me. You know the old saying, "what goes around, comes around."

For this karma, I have three rare earth magnets and three washers that are discribed in the "Magging an Avet" tutorial posted on this site by Tom (thanks Tom). Not worth a lot of money but it's simply a nice gesture. Again, hopefully some of you will take on to this and we can have lots of Karma's on this web site.

On a side note, if other of you are going to be doing this as well, to pick a completely random number, I will be using Excel. With each post, there is a coresponding post number. I will load all of those numbers into Excel and use a comand to pick a number at random. As a result, only one post per person per karma. Don't post several times to increase your chances at winning the Karma. I will make sure that everyone has the same chance of winning the karma as everone else but it will be easier to sift through the all post if everyone only post once. So, good luck and think about things you can give away to members of GB!!!

[sourcreamnjive]

I've done that on another site as well...it works!

[Carnivore]

First off I don't want this to be a negative response but just my feelings on karma. Good Karma can't be manufactured you have to be giving stuff just for the purpose to give it and hope it helps someone else out. When you do it for the purpose to get something good back it is (again to me) setting up a card game and stacking the deck.

I am assuming that you really want to give this stuff away so please don't take this as an attack or a flame. I am not trying to put down or make fun of the situation at all, just saying whats on my mind about the subject that is all.

[Yerman]

Originally Posted by Carnivore

First off I don't want this to be a negative response but just my feelings on karma. Good Karma can't be manufactured you have to be giving stuff just for the purpose to give it and hope it helps someone else out. When you do it for the purpose to get something good back it is (again to me) setting up a card game and stacking the deck.

I am assuming that you really want to give this stuff away so please don't take this as an attack or a flame. I am not trying to put down or make fun of the situation at all, just saying whats on my mind about the subject that is all.

Well, I can see your point, but I think what I am trying to do is give back to a community of people who have helped me out a lot. I wouldn't know half of the stuff I know about fishing if it wasn't for this site. I can see that it may sound like I am trying to "set myself up" for good karma, but that was not my intention. I was simply trying to explain to everyone why I think we should all help eachother out like this, and give small gifts away as a kind of "thank you" for all the help. I hope others who do this feel the same way and don't give away things for the specific purpose of trying to get good karma.

Again, I can't take credit for this idea or the fact that I called it "Karma." It's simply what I am used to from other web sites and it's what it has been called as long as I have been around on message boards. I hope that explains it...

On a side note, can you remove the other post I put in the "tackle" section. I couldn't decide where to put this thread and you seem to have put it in the right spot. I didn't even know this "off topic" part existed...I'll have to spend some time in here....

[phishy]

good luck with this..sounds more like abusing the concept of karma tho.
When you give, you give from the heart with no expectations...or dont give at all..my take.

[moogie]

Hi guys,
It's Moogie. I thought I'd throw in my two cents on this subject.
I don't belive in Karma at all. I believe that what happens, happens, good or bad.
All the folks on the Left Coast were wishing, hoping, thinking good Karma for the San Diego Chargers.
Need I say more.

I remember the first time I heard the word Karma. I was a teenager in the 60's. I heard some hippie talking about it. He was passing out flowers, telling me that if I keep thinking good Karma, I wouldn't get drafted.
I got drafted anyway.

To me, Karma is another way of saying luck. Just because someones runs his beautiful boat over a floating telephone pole, in the middle of the ocean, doesn't mean he has bad Karma.

Call it what you want, it's still bad luck.
The only people that have good Karma all the time are those who are in good standing with the Lord.
That I belive, and I don't know too many of them.

However, I like this idea about sending little things to people, as long as I don't have to become a computer genius to do it.
Sign me up.

I sure could use a few squid beaks. . . .
Moogie

[Duduk]

Originally Posted by Yerman

Well, I can see your point, but I think what I am trying to do is give back to a community of people who have helped me out a lot. I wouldn't know half of the stuff I know about fishing if it wasn't for this site. I can see that it may sound like I am trying to "set myself up" for good karma, but that was not my intention. I was simply trying to explain to everyone why I think we should all help eachother out like this, and give small gifts away as a kind of "thank you" for all the help. I hope others who do this feel the same way and don't give away things for the specific purpose of trying to get good karma.

Again, I can't take credit for this idea or the fact that I called it "Karma." It's simply what I am used to from other web sites and it's what it has been called as long as I have been around on message boards. I hope that explains it...

On a side note, can you remove the other post I put in the "tackle" section. I couldn't decide where to put this thread and you seem to have put it in the right spot. I didn't even know this "off topic" part existed...I'll have to spend some time in here....

Sign Me Up

[larcus]

Moogie-
For a guy that needs squid beaks, living in San Diego (where they are catching 60 pound Humbolts now,) would be good Karma!

[gearhound]

please add me to the karma
really don't believe in karma, but have a knobby magged avet sx
[chris macey style] for someone plugging it really makes the reel more
controllable. just got it, but here on the mass coast its a little cold to be surf fishin. but right after christmas went out to the football field to try [weather in the 40's] with 3 oz roberts ranger on a ron arra 1321 rod threw 85 yds flat
footed. without adjustment on the mag got nothing but backlashes. still newbie
at conventional casting. reslly can't wait until late april or may to find out its true ability

paul
:fisherdude1

[FishersDad]

'Please add me to this Karma"