NEW BOOK: Patriotism in Action: Goans in India's Defence Services. With
Foreword by Gen SF Rodrigues, PVSM, VSM, ADC (retd) former Chief of Indian
Army Staff and Governor, Punjab & Administrator, Chandigarh UT. See details
below of where the book is available.
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http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/on-forgiveness/
We are in a season traditionally devoted to good will among people and to the
renewal of hope in the face of hard times. As we seek to realize these lofty
ideals, one of our greatest challenges is overcoming bitterness and
divisiveness. We all struggle with the wrongs others have done to us as well
as
those we have done to others, and we recoil at the vast extent of injury
humankind seems determined to inflict on itself. How to keep hope alive?
Without a constructive answer to toxic anger, addictive cycles of revenge, and
immobilizing guilt, we seem doomed to despair about chances for renewal. One
answer to this despair lies in forgiveness.
What is forgiveness? When is it appropriate? Why is it considered to be
commendable? Some claim that forgiveness is merely about ridding oneself of
vengeful anger; do that, and you have forgiven. But if you were able to banish
anger from your soul simply by taking a pill, would the result really
be forgiveness? The timing of forgiveness is also disputed. Some say that it
should wait for the offender to take responsibility and suffer due punishment,
others hold that the victim must first overcome anger altogether, and still
others that forgiveness should be unilaterally bestowed at the earliest
possible
moment. But what if you have every good reason to be angry and even to take
your sweet revenge as well? Is forgiveness then really to be commended? Some
object that it lets the offender off the hook, confesses to one’s own weakness
and vulnerability, and papers over the legitimate demands of vengeful anger.
And yet, legions praise forgiveness and think of it as an indispensable virtue.
Recall the title of Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s book on the subject: “No Future
Without Forgiveness.”
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