I receive several comments and mails urging me to forgive. I have nothing against forgiveness. Forgiveness frees. However I do have a problem and am stuck...so maybe you can help me. How on earth does one forgive when the slight, abuse, humiliation, cruelty, destruction, annihilation is ongoing....Day in, day out. How? Forgiveness necessitates truce, a time out, a moment of peace... Forgiveness necessitates distance from the predator, from the abuser.It also needs a time of healing. It needs amends, corrections, rectifications, for all the damage. How on earth can you expect anyone to forgive when none of the above conditions are there? And moreover, why do you expect me, us, Iraqis to forgive you when there is no intention or change of course on your part? What are we supposed to do with our dead ones, our injured ones, our memories, our lost hopes, our vanished dreams? What are we supposed to do with our exile, our losses, our uprootedness? And even if we suddenly metamorphose into s
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brilliant post.
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A few passions too many we have in common not to be friends, don't you think, Layla dear ? ;-)
Stubborn creature that you are ! :-)
May every single drop of innocent blood spilt on the sacred soil of Iraq and Palestine be changed into a venomous red bright flower whose exhalations of revolutionary pride kill the stupidly destructive hordes of racist and sectarian locusts from West and Persia.
Victory to True Humanism.
Thank you.
I don't like wearing red, except maybe for a red wedding dress (if ever again)- just like they did and still do in China and India...
Red for love, passion and prosperity...
Thanks for the rest...
I don't think the question is who's God rules who and what.....It is man who corrupts the word of god by mis-interpretation or by deliberately mis-leading adherents to 'their' interpretation of god's word.
Quite frankly...any government that uses God as an excuse for hurting someone,no matter their color..as long as their blood is red, is the biggest sinner of them all....
AJB
I only dream of the possible ...
And JR is a new dad.