Oct 2017
judaic moral absolutism vs. christian moral relativism (alt. title).
whenever i hear people talk about
forgiveness for past ills,
and how not being able to forgive
someone an ill, will never mean
you can transcend the past ill...
i find this a horrid teaching -
if someone did ill unto you there
is absolutely no reason as to why
the ill transforms into a forgiveness,
esp. if the said party has no
honour to realise the ill deed -
and soon forgiveness spirals into
the christian *mea culpa mantra
and instead of forgiving someone
you start blaming yourself,
self-laceration (if jesus really was
a hippy, and not a prophet from
egypt who the jews thought
was egyptian - can't really argue
with the unearthing of the lost
scripts of st. thomas etc. in egypt,
and how he tried to storm jerusalem
with 30,000 followers, escaping
narrowly with - probably a dozen -
back to egypt, cf. the historian
josephus) -
which i find strange that no one
has made the dot dot dot connection...
besides the point,
i don't believe in forgiveness -
but at the same time i don't believe
in revenge...
what i believe in a continual exercise
of punching that bag of resentment...
you can only believe to become the master
of never allowing resentment to creep
into your system,
but whenever someone mentions
"forgiveness" i start to think of
the mea culpa spiral, and the inkling
into: so, we do not need courts of law
anymore?
i'd still champion the old testament
motto of oculus per oculus
(eye for an eye) -
so if the old testament motto is
absolutist, the new testament motto
is relativistic... and as much as people
sprinkle wonder-dust on the liberating
prospect of reaching a point of mending
an ill by forgiving the party who
did the ill, i can't but sneer at the person
making the suggestion...
e.g.? oh, you mean the sort of
"forgiveness" expressed by a relative
of one of the victims of the charleston church
shooting, tears in her eyes, and the culprit
behind bars? or like john paul ii
in the prison cell of mehmet ali ağca?
that's forgiveness?!
as far as i know, the only "person"
to have ever genuinely forgiving someone,
was god forgiving cain...
and he said unto him: hey,
the siberian wilderness is all yours!
and he even branded him with a sign
that read: untouchable.
there is no need to work of forgiving
someone,
the thing you have to train, pet,
and take care of, is to never allow
resentment to overpower you, overcome you,
submerge you...
putting it bluntly: **** forgiving,
just ensure you are never close to perpetual
resentment;
once more, i'd choose judaic moral absolutism
(oculus per oculus), over
christian moral relativism -
that a ****** is relative to 20 years in prison,
rather than the gallows;
so never, ever feed the mollusk of forgiveness,
feed the mountain of climbing the summit
and standing on it, breathing the clean air
of having overcome resenting the climb.
whenever i hear people talk about
forgiveness for past ills,
and how not being able to forgive
someone an ill, will never mean
you can transcend the past ill...
i find this a horrid teaching -
if someone did ill unto you there
is absolutely no reason as to why
the ill transforms into a forgiveness,
esp. if the said party has no
honour to realise the ill deed -
and soon forgiveness spirals into
the christian *mea culpa mantra
and instead of forgiving someone
you start blaming yourself,
self-laceration (if jesus really was
a hippy, and not a prophet from
egypt who the jews thought
was egyptian - can't really argue
with the unearthing of the lost
scripts of st. thomas etc. in egypt,
and how he tried to storm jerusalem
with 30,000 followers, escaping
narrowly with - probably a dozen -
back to egypt, cf. the historian
josephus) -
which i find strange that no one
has made the dot dot dot connection...
besides the point,
i don't believe in forgiveness -
but at the same time i don't believe
in revenge...
what i believe in a continual exercise
of punching that bag of resentment...
you can only believe to become the master
of never allowing resentment to creep
into your system,
but whenever someone mentions
"forgiveness" i start to think of
the mea culpa spiral, and the inkling
into: so, we do not need courts of law
anymore?
i'd still champion the old testament
motto of oculus per oculus
(eye for an eye) -
so if the old testament motto is
absolutist, the new testament motto
is relativistic... and as much as people
sprinkle wonder-dust on the liberating
prospect of reaching a point of mending
an ill by forgiving the party who
did the ill, i can't but sneer at the person
making the suggestion...
e.g.? oh, you mean the sort of
"forgiveness" expressed by a relative
of one of the victims of the charleston church
shooting, tears in her eyes, and the culprit
behind bars? or like john paul ii
in the prison cell of mehmet ali ağca?
that's forgiveness?!
as far as i know, the only "person"
to have ever genuinely forgiving someone,
was god forgiving cain...
and he said unto him: hey,
the siberian wilderness is all yours!
and he even branded him with a sign
that read: untouchable.
there is no need to work of forgiving
someone,
the thing you have to train, pet,
and take care of, is to never allow
resentment to overpower you, overcome you,
submerge you...
putting it bluntly: **** forgiving,
just ensure you are never close to perpetual
resentment;
once more, i'd choose judaic moral absolutism
(oculus per oculus), over
christian moral relativism -
that a ****** is relative to 20 years in prison,
rather than the gallows;
so never, ever feed the mollusk of forgiveness,
feed the mountain of climbing the summit
and standing on it, breathing the clean air
of having overcome resenting the climb.
