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I was pondering the Lord's prayer this am and the line struck me as it often does "forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us".
Often my mind screams how can I forgive those evil doers! The best I come up with is give my angst over to God. Give the evil doers over to God. Love the spark of life within all. Give the evil actions over to God's justice.
How do you all deal with this dichotomy?
I think the word "May" has been omitted from the prayer. I'm completely assuming it may have been an obvious connotation at the time/era.
"Our Creator who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name, (May) Thy Kingdom come, (May) Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. (May You) Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. (May You) Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, For Thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, Forever and ever, Amen."
I struggle with this as well, recite it several times a day. For now I replace “as we forgive” with “as we would like to be able to forgive” as I don’t actually want the Lord to treat me like I treat those who trespass against me. The reason? I’m real good at forgiveness, yes. I understand there are people and there are their nasty demons, separate entities though intertwined until they (and we) can find the inner strength to cast out our demons.
So I forgive, but I don’t forget - and that causes me to turn my back on people who have trespassed against me. I pray for them, in my heart wishing them good health and safety, but don’t want them in my life at all. In many cases I’ve cut off all communication from them. Granted, if I were to get an actual apology (repentance) from them I’d consider having them back in my life in a diminished capacity, but when I lose trust in someone it tends to remain that way.
As far as evil people I’m with you. Yes, it’s their demons who are loathsome, but I can’t find it in my heart to even forgive those who, for example, harm children. There are lines you just don’t cross in life. On an intellectual level one can understand that there are current day beasts who were spawned and brought up in an environment that has taught them to hate good, decent human beings and especially Christians. Or consider the mkultra victims - tortured to a point where their minds have broken and now enslaved to the DS beasts to engage in evil and violence. They never stood a chance to become decent human beings. As I said, I struggle with this daily. Like you, I try, but ultimately leave it in God’s hands.
I can't speak for forgiving people I don't know only because I haven't thought about it. Decades ago I made a conscious decision to forgive some very close family members. Living with hate and other negative feelings only hurts yourself. A good example: sometimes a few times a year I have to see a family member and the wife. I speak and am polite. That's as far as I go, I won't interact with anyone I don't respect. Looking for the answers. Great question.
Maybe we can think of this differently. Pay attention to the Holy WORDS. "those who trespass against us"
Do we forgive equally those who trespass against the BABIES? Against the little children? No. God wants us to hate sin.
The exact same way you do. 😊
The hardest part for me is remembering to do so.
God Bless
https://www.nps.gov/appa/planyourvisit/maps.htm
The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if men my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires. But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
Heavy duty stuff. I had to look it up. 😊
My Shakespeare game is marginal, I really need to brush up.
Bill is good but Rudyard is my go-to.
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
Anyone have any suggestions on B-17? I've been collecting apricot seeds, do I grind them up? Anyone know an extraction method for Laetrile? I'm not particularly fond of apricots so any suggestions on jams, cobblers etc. would be most welcome too.
Been a long while but I looked into and bought a bag of apricot seeds (kernels) fr amazon. At the time, I didn’t know what was used (for laetrile) was the inside kernel of the apricot seed…not the outer shell. If I remember right, you can throw a couple in the blender with your smoothie. And that you are only sposed to eat a couple a day.
But that was a long time ago and maybe things have changed…like dosages for maintenance or specific problems. Maybe one of our GAW naturopaths can chime in.
Just cracked one open, sure enough there's a seed as soft and shaped like a pumpkin seed. Just ate one, bitter little thing. I'll try a couple a day and see how I feel. The whole cyanide thing is a joke, I've accidentally ate enough apple seeds over the years to know the levels are so low there's nothing to worry about. I'm sure you may have a problem if you ate a thousand at a time but it would take a special kinda stupid for that.
Many fruit seeds contain cyanide. This is why there is opposition to laetrile. So, do some research and see what a couple of seeds contains. All medicine is poison. It's the dose......
In my research years ago, the “don’t take apricot seeds cuz cyanide…” was debunked. Can’t remember exactly why or how now. Something about chemical structure and how the body processes.
Agree with “It’s the dose.” Always is. I’d check with the Bolangers (The Truth About Cancer) re: apricot pits.
Again, need a naturopath to comment.
oh yes! Tonkatsu! I have been making homemade pickles, Roofie. Have you ever tried making homemade pickles?
Use a mason jar for pickles. If you get the small cukes, you can really jam them in there. Add salt, water, garlic and fresh dill. A few days:Pickles!!
Are you talking about a ceramic vessel that started getting mold inside it?
Ah, that makes sense! Best you could do is bake the heck out of it I think...
I do it in Mason jars. And groceries are wildly expensive, you are right!
I knew it. You're one of them freemasons, using your freemason jars.
I would never use those, unless of course they came in a box of 33, and I got to wear a cool hat while using them.
But seriously. Stay away from that stuff. Just use regular anon jars, like the rest of us.
ok. It's clearly time for me to go to bed...
hahahahaha YOU CAUGHT ME
Well here we are. The chats been up for eight minutes and there’s clearly no discussion going on here. What’s up with this place? It’s a little bit disappointing 😔🤪
I come here for the disappointment, and I'm never disappointed
Positive - Negative = Perfect Anon Perspective. 😁
You're all amateurs, I was disappointed before the thread even went up so I didn't even bother trying to be first. Future proves past bitches!
Yep that sums it up. I kept looking about 9-10 PM eastern time. I'm trying to not be on a screen after that. I'll get another sleepless night soon and be here, maybe first or last🤣
😄🤣😂 I gave me a full belly laugh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !
Thank you! 🐸
What continually disappoints me is that you are always the first one to be disappointed. COME ON PEOPLE, GET WITH IT! We can't just have one Qanon who is disappointed! WE ARE ALL DISAPPOINTED! It's RAYCISS that not everyone is reporting their disappointment! It's creating climate change! Three polar bears will die! Now, let's get with it and represent GAW with our collective disappointment! LET'S GOOOOO!
Polar bears… 🐻❄️
😂🤣😂🤣
Or the great barrier reef! 🐠🪸🐋🐬
Im horribly disappointed that i was 43 minutes late to being the first person who is disappointed :(
Step up your game, please. u/ThisIsHowItStarts is getting all of the internet karma points by always being first, and we all know that internet points are the most important thing in life. Please compete for disappointing upvotes.
I think at this juncture that it is morally incumbent upon the Aloof, Majestic and Unknown operators of the .WIN platform (Who are they? Where are they? Are they the droids we are looking for?) to create a new karma system wherein disappointment ratings are generated and then assigned.
They could call them ... wait for it .... "Disa-points"
As in, "wow, I've been posting here for 2 months now and I have accumulated 21,034 disappoints."
However, they would obviously (I mean, it's obvious, isn't it?) have to create them with a code structure so that the more disappoints you generate, the less effective they are, so that you can never quite reach the Super Karma Disappoint level of 100,000 disappoints.
At 100,000 disappoints, you essentially are crowned King (or Queen) of Disappointment at your respective .win forum. But because of the coding, your disappoint efforts would accumulate less and less actual disappoints, so that you would always get closer to, but never arrive at, 100,000, even if you disappointed for 100 years.
Ultimately, the whole system would be very disappointing, and probably have to be scratched until the second coming of HeartofStone2, whereupon the system would be renewed, and things would be brought back to original, sane state.
I know, I know. You had such high hopes for this comment when it started out, and now you're just disappointed.
Hey, I do what I can.
yw
Bro 😂
hahahahaha
I was truly disappointed to be the first disappointed one. I really wanted somebody else to be the first. It’s all a fluke, really, because I’m doing this pet sitting thing, and around that time of night I’m busy taking care of the animals, feeding them, taking them out to poop, cleaning up poop. Then when that’s all done, I get my phone out and here I am again first.
It’s quite a disappointment. 🤣😂
Lol! 🤣😂🤣👏👏👏
I agree! I don’t like stuff on my hands, so I have boxes of nitrile gloves. I use them for everything, but especially when dealing with dog poop. Those tiny little bags they give you to pick up dog poop…
-I don’t trust them!-