The easy option
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You know, one of the things I strive towards with this blog, is how to try and leave behind a maybe just slightly better print on how to think about animals and our own involvement with them.
I am sure you, just like me, have very strong feelings about what ought to happen to people who are cruel towards, mistreat or or kill animals. I am in awe when I watch programs on Animal Planet where you see those specially trained people who go out and rescue animals from cruelty and all kinds of horrendous situations. They sometimes stand face to face with the most vicious and callous of purpotraitors and frankly, how do those officers handle the sheer anger and fury they must feel about those individuals? Honestly... how do they do it??
A while back I posted this quote "Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game". Someone left a comment saying that those who shoot animals for fun should be shot themselves. It's bloody difficult curbing your own feelings about the matter, isn't it?!
BUT... like Gandhi so unbelievably wisely said "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind".
How about the forgiveness stance, that you can forgive the person but you can NOT FORGIVE THE ACT. The easy option is to want to see the person wiped off the surface of this planet. It's happened throughout history. Humans are heavily printed with the want for revenge and the inability to forgive.
We all know that cruel or callous people always seem to have a history of having been badly treated in one way or another themselves. But how are they ever to be set free as humans if they will never be forgiven?
No, I am not some better knowing, on my high horse saint... I don't know if I could do it. But I have travelled up that path of forgiveness to some degree and all I can say is that I believe that there's a better way for the future of living in harmony on this planet along that pathway of forgiveness.
(This study of forgiveness comes from a small book called "The Seven Pillars of Forgiveness" and can be bought via Feminenza, a world wide network of women that I am part of).
How about the forgiveness stance, that you can forgive the person but you can NOT FORGIVE THE ACT. The easy option is to want to see the person wiped off the surface of this planet. It's happened throughout history. Humans are heavily printed with the want for revenge and the inability to forgive.
We all know that cruel or callous people always seem to have a history of having been badly treated in one way or another themselves. But how are they ever to be set free as humans if they will never be forgiven?
No, I am not some better knowing, on my high horse saint... I don't know if I could do it. But I have travelled up that path of forgiveness to some degree and all I can say is that I believe that there's a better way for the future of living in harmony on this planet along that pathway of forgiveness.
(This study of forgiveness comes from a small book called "The Seven Pillars of Forgiveness" and can be bought via Feminenza, a world wide network of women that I am part of).
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Blessings, andrea