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http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/depeche+mode/walking+in+my+shoes_20039392.html Francis On 1 Sep., 21:22, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, I did hear you hearing this song (which is not the one I had in > mind): > > If I could be you > And you could be me > For just one hour > > If you could find a way > To get inside > Each other's mind > > If you could see you > Trough my eyes > Instead of your ego > > I believe you'd be > Surprised to see > That you've been blind > > Now the whole world > You see around you > Is just a reflection > > And of karma > Says you be > Just what you saw > > So unless you > Lived your life > Of total perfection > > You gotta be careful > Of every stone > That you should throw > > Have you ever spend the day > Throwing stones > At one another > > Cause I don't think > Or wear my heat > The same way you do > > Well I maybe > Come in people > But I'm still your brother > > And when you strike out > Trying to hurt me > [Its a burning fuse] > > (2x) > Walk a mile in my shoes > Walk a mile in my shoes > And before you abuse, criticize and accuse > Walk a mile in my shoes > > There are people > On reservations > And out in the ghetto's > > And brother there > Before the [grace] of god > Go you and I > > If I only > Had the wings > Of a little angel > > Don't you know i'd fly > To the top of the mountain > And then I'd cry > > (4x) > Walk a mile in my shoes > Walk a mile in my shoes > And before you abuse, criticize and accuse > Walk a mile in my shoes > > On 1 Sep., 14:04, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > 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 > > ... > > Erfahren Sie mehr » --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
