Is revenge OK?

SugarFemme · 03-26-2012, 09:53 PM

By seeking revenge, you are allowing someone to rent space in your head when they probably should have been evicted a LONG time ago. Your best revenge is to go on with your life and live WELL.

Mtn · 03-26-2012, 10:11 PM

"We should not seek revenge on those who have committed crimes against us, or reply to their crimes with other crimes. We should reflect that by the law of karma, they are in danger of lowly and miserable lives to come, and that our duty to them, as to every being, is to help them to rise to Nirvana, rather than let them sink to lower levels of rebirth." HH The Dalai Lama

His Holiness is a pretty smart guy.

~ocean · 03-26-2012, 10:12 PM

revengefull ppl r very ugly on the inside, wish them well...they need healing.

PaPa · 03-26-2012, 10:24 PM

Revenge, for me, does not reap what I want for my own life. By seeking revenge I am seeking to harm someone else for retribution to what they have done to me. Does that make me a better person? No. It actually lowers me to their standards of acting. So for me revenge is not a tactic I choose to allow in my life today. Sooner or later they will get theirs because karma always come back to smack someone in the face. We reap what we sow.

Martina · 03-26-2012, 11:13 PM

i rarely hold a grudge. i just let things go, but there are what seem like smaller things that have happened that i have had a hard time letting go. i think when people are unnecessarily cruel, i have a harder time.

If someone is doing the best they can and it affects me, well that sucks, but it's life. i can still even care about them, if from a distance.

But stupid cruelty just haunts me sometimes. i don't get it. ANyway, i would never seek revenge, but if a piano just happened to fall on their head . . . .

Reader · 04-21-2012, 06:04 AM

This thread came to my mind again lately bc of Trayvon Martin's mother. I have seen her interviewed many times. It always amazes me that she seems to carry no vengeance in her heart, and that she seems to show compassion, or at least tremendous character and restraint, toward GZ.

I'm just so awed by her.

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PaPa Senior Member How Do You Identify?: GQ Butch Daddy Relationship Status: A Very Protective BIG Daddy... Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 2,657 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,597 Thanked 5,871 Times in 1,530 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Revenge, for me, does not reap what I want for my own life. By seeking revenge I am seeking to harm someone else for retribution to what they have done to me. Does that make me a better person? No. It actually lowers me to their standards of acting. So for me revenge is not a tactic I choose to allow in my life today. Sooner or later they will get theirs because karma always come back to smack someone in the face. We reap what we sow.

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Martina Senior Member How Do You Identify?: * Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: * Posts: 4,999 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,409 Thanked 18,286 Times in 4,167 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	i rarely hold a grudge. i just let things go, but there are what seem like smaller things that have happened that i have had a hard time letting go. i think when people are unnecessarily cruel, i have a harder time. If someone is doing the best they can and it affects me, well that sucks, but it's life. i can still even care about them, if from a distance. But stupid cruelty just haunts me sometimes. i don't get it. ANyway, i would never seek revenge, but if a piano just happened to fall on their head . . . .

04-21-2012, 06:04 AM	#6
Reader Timed Out How Do You Identify?: Butch, Dyke, Feminist, Contrarian Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Single Join Date: May 2011 Location: New Jersey, The Garden State Posts: 732 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,308 Thanked 2,229 Times in 586 Posts Rep Power: 0	This thread came to my mind again lately bc of Trayvon Martin's mother. I have seen her interviewed many times. It always amazes me that she seems to carry no vengeance in her heart, and that she seems to show compassion, or at least tremendous character and restraint, toward GZ. I'm just so awed by her.