Posted on 07/09/2025 8:50:56 PM PDT by P.O.E.
We don’t usually think of anger and resentment the way we think about drugs or alcohol. But growing evidence suggests that, for many people, the craving for revenge follows the same patterns as substance abuse and addiction, triggering powerful biological urges that can spiral out of control and destroy lives.
Recent neuroscience discoveries show that your brain on revenge looks like your brain on drugs. Real or imagined grievances (perceived mistreatment, humiliation, shame, victimization) activate the anterior insula — part of the brain’s “pain network.”
In response, your brain activates its reward circuitry, causing dopamine to flood your brain, producing short-lived bursts of pleasure.
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But an even more powerful revenge addiction strategy exists inside our brains — forgiveness.
Recent neuroscience studies show that when you simply imagine forgiving a grievance, your brain’s pain, craving, and reward circuitry shut down and your self-control circuitry activates. In other words, forgiveness takes away the pain of past trauma, eliminates revenge cravings, and restores smart decision-making.
James Kimmel, Jr. says that forgiveness acts as “an even more powerful revenge addiction strategy.
It’s not a gift to the person who hurt you — it’s a gift to yourself.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRcfqpyuk9k&ab_channel=BarrySwift
yep, justice deserves to be served (above clip - Language warning)
I would quibble with that. We all die eventually. I would say the greatest revenge is being more revered than your adversary.
Sounds good...right after I get even with that SOB...
Dems have been playing that game of starting the fight then playing victim. Much of their playbook is rooted in the seven deadly sins - greed, envy, sloth, etc.
Look at Antifa - a switcheroo if ever there was one. Justifying their hateful actions by claiming it’s because the other side is so hateful.
Perfect.
WHO DOTH QUESTION HIS SERVANTS???
/s
Wire me fifty grand as a retainer and we can talk.
“consulting services”
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It’s not just you...
Revenge is good if justified, in years past. Kill my family member in a unjustified reason and I will kill you. This is a deterrent to more crime and makes society safer. Today the judicial system assume this role. Many times they get it wrong.
I was referencing the West Texas region of the 1850’s. There was little governmental law but some.
And pouring a whole pint of premium Irish whiskey over his grave...
...After passing it through your kidneys.
Regards,
,,, JFK had a buck each way when he said “forgive your enemies but don’t forget their names.”
-PJ
being wasted isn’t a requisite for despising Islam — solve that inconsistency
Yes, well, life is not all shoot-shoot, bang-bang, you know.
The left sells anxiety and resentment.
I hate to ask this and I nearly did to a Christian call-in show——
God presents us with many things he shares with us and wants us to have. The types such as the “think on these things” in Philippians. Love. Peace.
When it comes to revenge, he reserves it for himself alone.
Does this mean revenge is the ultimate happy place element of the universe and we aren’t worthy of it like he is?
Or something he doesn’t us to suffer through and he’ll take over. Or we aren’t qualified to decide on true justice since we lack the infinite intelligence and knowledge beyond time that he alone possesses.
Bfl
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