An interesting take on the motivations behind many of the news stories we see everyday.
I especially like his take on forgiveness.
James not Jimmy, I presume.
I think forgiveness means reconciliation. You agree to work together and be together, but you won’t forget, either.
What I think one can do is “letting go.” You don’t have true reconciliation and won’t renew your relationship, but you agree to let God work it out and you agree to yourself you won’t initiate hostilities toward this person who wronged you.
Sometimes you can most “hurt” someone by simply not being there to help, where you once could have been there.
Sometimes bad people need to hit rock bottom. You don’t have to fix everyone around you.
“Why it’s time to start treating revenge as the potentially deadly addiction that it is”
If they’re against Third World immigration, why don’t they just say so?
pUT cOMEY AND PRISON-FACE bRENNAN IN gAOL, AND THEN GIVE THEM LIP-SERVICE FORGIVENESS.
The scales of justice only present for those with the resources to use them.
I find it decidedly convenient that this manipulating sob - self-described ‘armchair expert’ - omits any mention of justice whatsoever from his rant.
I will have mine: It’s a moral imperative.
Good Points
Nice Catch !
So if revenge is a vice like smoking, drinking, and gambling, which the government regulates and taxes, hiw soon before I can pay my sin tax and pick up a pack of Revenge?
Does this have anything to with the rape and prostitution gangs (groomers) in the UK and soy daddies not able to do anything about what happens to their daughters?
I couldn’t agree more. For many years I craved revenge against one particular individual and it took learning of something truly terrible that had happened to him to break it, something that I wouldn’t wish on anyone and left me terrified. I can say from first-hand experience that craving revenge is utterly poisonous to your soul.
“Seek revenge and you should dig two graves, one for yourself.”—Confucius
The greatest revenge is outliving your adversary.
Maybe it's just me, but I see it as psyops.
"Revenge" has been in the news lately when the LAAP-dog media frames the Trump administration investigations into Biden's autopen abuses and the Comey/Brenner/Clapper investigations.
The entire Democrat mantra of "looking forward" is a deflection that essentially says what I've been calling the "kick me" syndrome -- Democrats get to throw the first sucker punch at Republicans, but if the Republicans dare to retaliate, it's revenge, or whataboutism, or escalation.
This sentiment codifies the Democrats' self-given right to a first strike, while demanding that Republicans be powerless to stop it or respond in kind.
-PJ
Sounds good...right after I get even with that SOB...
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.
,,, JFK had a buck each way when he said “forgive your enemies but don’t forget their names.”
being wasted isn’t a requisite for despising Islam — solve that inconsistency
Yes, well, life is not all shoot-shoot, bang-bang, you know.
Bfl
Forgiveness isnt for the other person. Its so that you can get past it and move on. Lots of times life gets placed on hold and you’re stuck. Fixated. Obssessed. Forgivensss is giving yourself the ability to continue on with life.
It doesnt mean no accountability or no consequences for the other person(s). It really means you won’t let them have this continuing power over you, taking up your thoughts and time and mental energy.
You can forgive someone, but have consequences. Like never seeing them again. Or never having a certain kind of relationship ever again. Because some things aren’t fixable once broken.