posted May 14, 2010 06:05 AM            

I look at my fellow human beings with the same sympathy I have for all life, albeit we are the most complex and destructive form of life...still, that's only because we have been struggling to make sense of it all, of who we are.

A cat doesn't toy with a bird or mouse he/ she has caught because they are evil. They do it partly because of instinct; ie learning to hunt; it is only natural they evolved playfulness into that learning. They also do it because they see themselves as separate to that mouse or bird. They wouldn't be able to do it if they felt a deep sense of connection; an empathic attunement to those creatures.

I look upon my fellow humans in a similar way. We all have varying degrees of empathy, and some not very much. Most people I have met do not have very much empathy for animals, and when they do, it is usually restricted to a few types of domesticated animals, who they view as below them, there for the convenience of people as opposed to having rights and sentience of their very own.

posted August 15, 2010 10:24 PM            

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi

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posted August 15, 2010 11:14 PM            

quote:

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"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi

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posted January 22, 2011 03:12 PM            

quote:

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Originally posted by Randall:
When one of the parties truly forgives, the Karmic tie dissolves.

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posted January 23, 2011 08:33 AM            

A book I hope to acquire once it is published! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Before-Forgiveness-Origins -Moral-Idea/dp/0521199409/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269134360&sr=1-1

Forgiveness quotes:

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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
-- Josh Billings

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
-- Charlotte Bronte

Forgo your anger for a moment and save yourself a hundred days of trouble.
-- Chinese proverb

"The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves."
-- Chinese proverb

When anger rises, think of the consequences.
-- Confucius

"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Forgiveness does not overlook the deed. It rises above it."
-- Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change
-- Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

an act of forgiveness sets the victim apart from the perpetrator, who failed to act humanly towards the victim at the time he committed his crime.
-- Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

For perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the moral challenge. Others of course don't care, and they continue acting with contempt.
-- Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

"Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another."
-- Emma Goldman

Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.”
-- Thich Nhat Hanh

To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Forgiveness does not equal forgetting. It is about healing the memory of the harm, not erasing it."
-- Ken Hart

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr

"Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again."
--Jack Kornfield

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
-- Petrarch

If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive.
-- Mother Teresa

"It takes courage and commitment to act in a more forgiving fashion. It is not at all a sign of weakness but a mark of strength."
-- Carl Thorensen

"Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace”
-- Leo Tolstoy

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
-- Mark Twain

Love is an act of endless forgiveness.
-- Peter Ustinov

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posted January 23, 2011 10:46 AM            

Do folks here think being hurt, in situations where we have forgotten what we did in our past lives, teaches us empathy?

Or do we need love for that?

posted January 23, 2011 04:46 PM            

He said
said the following:

"Let me find out what God he is? Who made me be an "untouchable"? Tell me what I did in my last life. I sure want to find out. OK. I sure want to talk to the God. Maybe I'll shoot him because I know the life of an untouchable in India. But what the Aryans did, they made us completely dumb. Completely ignorant. Completely Illiterate. Completely poor. Completely weak in every sense of the word for 3000 years."

Dr. Velu Annamalai - The Black Untouchables of India http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RJxyiWSwpw&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4rvbIGTLQY&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5EhcDPkgC8&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnAoFQyDkfo&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lixiVF20s18&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTMZ5Z6c6_c&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG0XmXDfdVQ&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORuHFUmvX2w&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9OasgbYIac&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkOw-YEnMjU&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mz_-ylbv60&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wws4VOd_HLw&feature=related

This seems to suggest that the Illuminati came up with the reincarnation concept and used it as a form of control.

Reincarnation For The Untouchables http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SepaLxDenIg&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt6phVLSV5w&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZXf3BNovpk&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuH3NWxfhig&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4W6LYjLrxA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRjR_9wqb0w&feature=related

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No..I am not a Virgo.