Heh you bloody strange marvelous creature you. Here is what you said:
'An eye for an eye is the static "way" of saying: try walking in my shoes. How much fairer can you get? Seems quite clear cut to me? Yep metrics we do that here also, don't belive everything you hear huh Gabs! On 1 Sep, 12:55, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > *laughing* My far away friend over there sitting on your British > Isles, we count in metres here on the continent. Check what I really > said. > > On 1 Sep., 13:47, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Yes indeed, I have already given the reason I don't belive you. Can > > you offer us any other examples that the phrase 'An eye for an eye' > > when said by somebody has meant 'walk a mile in my shoes'? > > > On 1 Sep, 12:42, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Normally is normally spelt with a double l, Lee, but I see what you > > > mean anyway. > > > > I believe that you don't believe me. > > > > On 1 Sep., 11:46, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > > wrote:> I've never even thought of applying such a meaning to that > > > particular > > > > one Gabs, and I do not belive that when it is normaly uttered that > > > > this meaning is errrr meant. > > > > > On 28 Aug, 19:29, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > An eye for an eye is the static "way" of saying: try walking in my > > > > > shoes. How much fairer can you get? > > > > > > On 28 Aug., 14:55, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > In what way? If you take an eye because you percive that a man has > > > > > > taken yours, then you find out it was his twin brother, the two > > > things > > > > > > > occour to me. > > > > >> > Hoow do you replace the eye that you have taken, and is it then fair > > > > > > that you give up another eye? > > > > > > > On 27 Aug, 03:09, Darrel Farrel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > an eye for an eye is fair > > > > > > > > > Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:27:25 -0700 > > > > > > > > Subject: [Mind's Eye] Re: revenge > > > > > > > > From: [email protected] > > > > > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > > > > > > All in all I think revenge is a moral and psycological deadend. > > > > > > t my f > > > > > ay f > > > > el goodod for a while to take vgagance, but othan that that > > > > > > > > l littlrush h of feeling good what does it do in the long term? > > > > > > > > > On 26 Aug, 05:12, facilitator <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I think of revenge for variuos reasons from to timo time. > > > > > > > > > Usuly to > > > > > > > > > > corrt sosomething or someone when I have been wronged. > > > > > > > > > > But I am not very clever in that regard and don't carry it out > > > > > > > > > thinking that somehow this "correction to an injustice" will > > > > > > > > > spin out > > > > > > > > > of control and fall back on my head anyway. > > > > > > > > > > I have chosen to spend my time doing something proactive and > > > > > > > > > constructive instead. > > > > > > > > > > One of my famous sayings helps me in this regard: > > > > > > > > > "The opposite of love is not hate , it is indifference". > > > > > > > > > > I become indifferent to the offender. I am almost certain > > > > > > > > > this has to > > > > > > > > > be wrong, but it works for me. > > > > > > > > > > Still, all in all, I would prefer for the most part to be the > > > > > > > > > hammer > > > > > > > > > rather than the nail! > > > > > > > > > > On Aug 25, 9:11 pm, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > When I saw you use the word revenge in the other thread > > > > > > > > > > Neil, I got > > > > > > > > > > the full body rush. Ugh, revenge - bad. But then I read > > > > > > > > > > your amusing > > > > > > > > > > experience and I asked myself if I ever felt this way. The > > > > > > > > > > answer is > > > > > > > > > > yes. > > > > > > > > > > > At the end of my first marriage, my soon to be ex husband > > > > > > > > > > had an > > > > > > > > > > affair, and his girlfriend would call the house, let it > > > > > > > > > > ring twice and > > > > > > > > > > hang up, or hang up if I answered before two rings. This > > > > > > > > > > got my > > > > > > > > > > attention when it began, so I started watching what became > > > > > > > > > > obvious > > > > > > > > > > between them. So I asked them both directly about it, and > > > > > > > > > > they both > > > > > > > > > > denied it. It went on for a bit longer before it occurred > > > > > > > > > > to me that > > > > > > > > > > I need not suffer the intrusion into my life. I called her > > > > > > > > > > home (she > > > > > > > > > > also was married with children) every hour for twenty four > > > > > > > > > > - day and > > > > > > > > > > night, for one twenty four hour period, and hung up after > > > > > > > > > > two rings or > > > > > > > > > > if anyone answered. If my husband heard me doing this when > > > > > > > > > > he was > > > > > > > > > > home at night, he said nothing. Her husband was obviously > > > > > > > > > > not happy > > > > > > > > > > as the night wore on, as evidenced by the tone of his > > > > > > > > > > voice. Lucky > > > > > > > > > > for me, it was prior to caller ID telephones. Well, it > > > > > > > > > > worked for > > > > > > > > > > me. The calls stopped. Nothing was ever mentioned by > > > > > > > > > > anyone until > > > > > > > > > > one day a couple of years and after my divorce I got a call > > > > > > > > > > from her. > > > > > > > > > > She had gone into AA and wanted to make amends. I listened > > > > > > > > > > to her, > > > > > > > > > > encouraged her to continue with her program, and kindly let > > > > > > > > > > her know > > > > > > > > > > she was not welcome to call me again. > > > > > > > > > > > This, by the definitions above, would be revenge, although > > > > > > > > > > for me at > > > > > > > > > > the time, it was the only way I could think of to get the > > > > > > > > > > calls to > > > > > > > > > > stop. I wasn't thinking of getting even, but stopping the > > > > > > > > > > calls. I > > > > > > > > > > wasn't delighted in this poor families frustration, but > > > > > > > > > > glad the calls > > > > > > > > > > stopped. > > > > > > > > > > > On Aug 25, 7:33 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > It's not a good to let let a imp see e you give it an > > > > > > > > > > > injection - it > > > > > > > > > > > will take revenge. My guess amongst humans is that there > > > > > > > > > > > is so little > > > > > > > > > > > justice that revenge gets taken in all kinds of > > > > > > > > > > > inappropriate ways. > > > > > > > > > > > The idiot wife beater may well be really pissed off over > > > > > > > > > > > other matters > > > > > > > > > > > and so on. Young Iranian boys off to get killed by Iraqi > > > > > > > > > > > gas wore > > > > > > > > > > > socks marked 'Death to Israel'. From the Baltic to the > > > > > > > > > > > Balkans one > > > > > > > > > > > set has taken revenge against another for over a thousand > > > > > > > > > > > years. In > > > > > > > > > > > Albania, the men have to stay indoors whilst the women > > > > > > > > > > > toil in the > > > > > > > > > > > fields for fear of vendetta (no doubt a cunning sexist > > > > > > > > > > > use of > > > > > > > > > > > 'revenge'). Petty revenge is nearly always taken out for > > > > > > > > > > > the wrong > > > > > > > > > > > reasons against the wrong people. It's usually nasty and > > > > > > > > > > > childish. > > > > > > > > > > > > On 25 Aug, 23:30, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > I think you covered it all. > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Aug 25, 5:00 pm, Molly Brogan > > > > > > > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Revenge or vengeance consists of retaliation against > > > > > > > > > > > > > a person or group > > > > > > > > > > > > > in response to perceived wrongdoing. Although many > > > > > > > > > > > > > aspects of revenge > > > > > > > > > > > > > resemble or echo the concept of making things equal, > > > > > > > > > > > > > revenge usually > > > > > > > > > > > > > has a more injurious than constructive goal. The > > > > > > > > > > > > > vengeful wish is to > > > > > > > > > > > > > make the perceived wrongdoer go through what they put > > > > > > > > > > > > > the victim > > > > > > > > > > > > > through or to make sure the wrongdoer can never do > > > > > > > > > > > > > what they did > > > > > > > > > > > > > again. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Revenge has been a popular theme for art and culture > > > > > > > > > > > > > throughout > > > > > > > > > > > > > history. Many popular motion pictures have used it as > > > > > > > > > > > > > a central theme, > > > > > > > > > > > > > including Payback, Death Wish, Star Trek II: The > > > > > > > > > > > > > Wrath of Khan, Star > > > > > > > > > > > > > Wars: Revenge of the Sith, and Kill Bill. Classic > > > > > > > > > > > > > literary examples of > > > > > > > > > > > > > revenge stories include The Oresteialet,mlet, The > > > > > > > > > > > > > Mchanant of Venice, > > > > > > > > > > > > > Don Giovanni, and Moby-Dick. > > > > > > > > > > > > >venge sege en in the l ght t of ethics highlights the > > > > > > > > > > > >tension between > > > > > > > > >> > > > wh we e think of a just versus whate thihk ofof as > > > > > > > > >> > right. But even in > > > > > > > > > > > > > the light of ethics, some may accept revenge as the > > > > > > > > > > > > > ethical > > > > > > > > > > > > > alternative when an impartial system of justice is > > > > > > > > > > > > > missing or > > > > > > > > > > > > > ineffective, reasoning that punishment of wrongdoers > > > > > > > > > > > > > is a better > > > > > > > > > > > > > alternative than no punishment whatsoever. In these > > > > > > > > > > > > > cases, it seems > > > > > > > > > > > > > reasonable that revenge may be an appropriate > > > > > > > > > > > > > reaction to small > > > > > > > > > > > > > infractions, assuming the revenge is kept small as > > > > > > > > > > > > > well. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > What do YOU think?- Hide quoted text - > > > > > > > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > > > > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > Get back to school stuff for them and cashback for > > > > > > > you.http://www.bing.com/cashback?form=MSHYCB&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT_MSHYC... > > > > > > > > - Show d text -ext -- Hide quoted xt - > > > > - > > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. 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