However, what do we think is the role Forgiveness can actually play in the Modern World?
Should we take a more forgiving role to our peers and family? Not let small squabbles cause great rifts?
Should we then be more forgiving of criminals...especially when the Death Penalty is involved...
However, this thread also seeks to allow the reader to act on the title and exercise some forgiveness...So, when you post your argument also post...a little note of forgiveness. (You only need to do it once)
It's highly doubtful that such cognitively simple forms of life have anywhere near the levels of consciousness needed to process pain, or even anything resembling negativity as we understand it. It gets dicey once you jump up to, say, rodents and other small animals, but anything at or near the level of a worm in conscious of nothing. I feel no remorse in killing, or not saving, such creatures. I don't go out of my way to kill them, of course, but I also don't fall into the needlessly pacifistic "protect all life" idiom.
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Forgiveness is necessary to function as a species. So long as our forgiveness does not extend to the point where our docile tendencies cause harm to ourselves or others, it should always be the goal, regardless of whether you view it from an altruistic perspective or a survival perspective.
It's true. It's for our well being both physically and emotionally. To let it go and move on frees up your out look on life, moves you on, and contributes to healthy bodily functions.
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Forgiveness is more about releasing grudges and anger that are overshadowing your personal health and wellbeing, than letting someone off the hook for his or her misdeeds.
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Its not a central theme in heathenism...in fact there is quite alot of revenge in Norse lore. However I think that has alot to do with the time period. The Vikings didn't just fight all the time and did have laws, however I don't think even to this day heathens make big deal about forgiveness but im sure they can use common sense and know that sometimes its good to let things lie.
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I think that has something to do with the fact that sometimes forgiveness is an ideal. We know we should forgive, but sometimes we can't bring ourselves to. Vengeance can look very appealing sometimes.
Forgiveness is one of the hardest things to reach in life, but also the most gratifying. If you are able to forgive, nothing can reach you. Jesus was above all man for is capacity to forgive. He died forgiving us.
That is what this world is lacking. There is alot of extremes now. For example, the big entreprises, where one false move could man destitution. When you've lost everything, is it so easy to forgive the one that took that away from you?
That is the main challenge, and I always try to forgive as much as I can. It makes nme feel better, my personal battle against myself and the rest of the world, that has gone so terribly bad in so many moral ways...
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