Do you believe in VENGEANCE?
@LightninStrike (5915)
Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
February 4, 2007 10:09am CST
there are people who always want to take revenge when someone hurts them or their family etc, or simply don't like something that another person has done to them.
Do you think that vengeance is a right way to manage these situations? are others better like forgiveness or do you think that it's better to apply "Eye for an Eye"?
please i am waiting for your opinions about this
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@cfrdjlilbrat (248)
• United States
4 Feb 07
i get mad and sometimes i get furious to the point that i am shaking all over, but i cannot strike back. i don't know if it's just me or if it's my belief in kharma or my belief that the only judge should be God. Regardless of the reason, i usually just swallow my hurt and go on. A few friends get an earful when i am hurt but that is the extent of it. i just don't understand some people's need to hurt others or to strike back.
@LightninStrike (5915)
• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
4 Feb 07
thats exactly my point...hurting another person will make you feel better? don't htink so, and if it does...you might have a problem..one feels better when they ask you for forgiveness for example...but causing pain? doesn't make sense
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@LightninStrike (5915)
• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
4 Feb 07
sweet thought hon, and I totally agree with it.
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@cfrdjlilbrat (248)
• United States
4 Feb 07
no, it doesn't make sense, but there are a lot of people filled with anger and hatred and that is all they know how to show. it's sad really. it takes less than a second to show someone a smile but that smile can make all the difference in the world to one person.
@willocfc (963)
• Australia
6 Feb 07
Sometimes the heat of the moment decides for us, but i definatly believe in karma... what goes around comes around. And as tempting as it is to in act revenge sometimes, that feeling is short lived. It takes a bigger person to walk away than to sink to the same level as another.
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@LightninStrike (5915)
• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
6 Feb 07
wether you use the karma, your beliefs, or simply patience if you refrain from the easy violent reaction towards what you consider an agression it's always possitive.
By the way willo, one of these days you will have to tell me more about the karma and what it implies, i would like to know more about it, if you don't mind :)
@speakeasy (4171)
• United States
5 Feb 07
Not normally but there are exceptions to every rule. Many times people hurt others without realizing it or planning to hurt them; these cases you either just brush off or you confront the person in private. That usually takes care of it.
But there are people out there who go out of their way to intentionally hurt others; they seem to think it is funny. The only way to get these people to stop behaving this way is to turn the tables on them and let them see how they feel when they are the one getting hurt.
There is the old saying "revenge is mine, sayeth the Lord"; but there is another old saying that says "God helps those who help themselves". If God didn't want you to turn the tables on them, he could make your plans for revenge fail.
@speakeasy (4171)
• United States
6 Feb 07
It doesn't take faith or religion for people to act irrationally. All of our feelings are "irrational" and love, hate, jealousy, etc. will all make people do irrational things.
@LightninStrike (5915)
• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
5 Feb 07
I am totally respectful with all you just said....even though i must say that all these sayings kept in the bible and other sacred books were written by men who belonged to a certain period of our History. Even if i wanted i wouldn't be able to escape to the mentality of the moment of History that i've been born in, so I consider that pure and clear revenge makes no sense in a reasonable mind...there is no explanation that can defend it if you stick to logic.
Of course, if you include elements like faith or beliefs, then things change, cause faith is irrational per se, meaning not that it's silly, no, but that its not possible for us to explain it through human reason.
@LightninStrike (5915)
• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
6 Feb 07
you're right, also other feelings are irrational, that is precisely why i say that the LAW has to take care of this, and we must not follow our hatred towards the person who has hurt us or our family to decide what punishment that person deserves.
@ktroth (378)
• United States
4 Feb 07
I agree with daddyduke. I have never been a vengeful person. But my ex-sister-in-law is extremely vengeful. She hates my brother (her ex) so she is doing everything she can to destroy him and make sure he and the rest of our family don't have a relationship with their kids.
My mother-in-law is also vengeful. Once I was going on a girls weekend trip and she asked me if I was going in order to get back at my husband for being gone so much. I said "huhhhh??? I just want to have a fun weekend with the girls." I don't need to "get back at him" for anything.
I always say these people will get what they deserve in the end.
@LightninStrike (5915)
• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
4 Feb 07
it's sad to be like your ex sister in law. They spend so much time and effort in hate...in revenge...if they paid attention to other things they'd be happier.
by the way your answer to your mother in law is perfect lol.
thanks for the post :)
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