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==Heading==
===Topic: ''Why Revenge is Wrong''===
===Group: [[11:11 Progress Group]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Prolotheos]]===
===TR: [[Valdir Soares]]===
==Session==
*São Carlos — SP, Brazil
===Lesson===
Prolotheos: “Some [[things]] are easy to [[classify]] as either right or wrong and others are not. When a recognized [[good]], generous public figure, is [[accused]], [[condemned]] and sentenced to [[death]] for a fictitious [[crime]] like [[sedition]], as the [[Sanhedrin|Judaic authorities]] did to [[Jesus]] of Nazareth, it is not [[difficult]] to see the [[injustice]] of such a [[judgment]]. When, the case for example is to classify as wrong an act of [[revenge]] which even agrees with the old commandment — ‘an eye for an eye’ — it is not so easy. However, Jesus, left no [[doubt]] that, revenge, although acceptable in the olden days, is unacceptable in the [[Kingdom of God]]. He taught: ‘do not [[resist]] an [[evil]] person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.’ Therefore, revenge is wrong; but why is it? Revenge has at least three mistaken [[assumptions]]:
*1. '''Mistaken Assumption #1: Anyone is Entitled to Revenge.'''
“If everybody were entitled to hand out [[justice]] of their own accord, you would have returned to [[barbaric]] times, and your civilization wouldn't have [[progressed]] thus far by means of [[Law]] and Order. There is much [[diversity]], [[perversion]] of divine [[values]], and [[ignorance]] of origins in humanity to [[trust]] the sense of justice of each [[individual]]. A time will come (in a distant age yet) when individuals will be trusted to be the law unto themselves, but that time has not yet come. Humans are imperfect [[beings]] and so are their [[institutions]]. Still, even as imperfect as these institutions are, they are the best you have; the [[alternative]] is [[chaos]]. Besides, revenge presumes you own other people’s lives to dispose of them as suits you. Truthfully, you don't even own yourself. No, no one is entitled to [[revenge]].
*2. '''Mistaken Assumption #2: One Evil Cancels Another Evil.'''
“[[Revenge]] is no less [[evil]] than the offense originally committed. [[Malice]], the evil’s [[motivation]], is present at the [[root]] of both of them. Therefore, as in math, two negatives just add to each other and what really cancels a [[negative]] value is to add a positive one to it. Evil only produces more evil. Only when you add [[love]] to the mix can evil really be canceled. As [[violence]] generates more violence, revenge will only bring more revenge to an evil [[cycle]]. Revenge is dull, love is smart; revenge is a [[virus]] (uncontrollably [[destructive]]), love is a life [[seed]] that [[grows]] with order and [[purpose]]. No, evil does not cancel evil; [[love]] does.
*3. '''Mistaken Assumption #3: Justice is About Punishment.'''
“[[Human being]]s by misusing the [[gift]] of [[Personality]] and [[Free Will]], can put themselves beyond [[redemption]]. Human [[justice]] believes [[punishment]] will make things right. In [[fact]], it doesn’t. Punishment, even if [[eternal]] (Hell, if it would exist) can never pay for the [[offense]] or redeem the offender; not even the punishment of an innocent instead of the guilty one can. In God’s perfect Justice, beings who by their own [[choosing]] put themselves beyond God’s [[Mercy]], will unfailingly [[agree]] with their own [[annihilation]], and will be as if they never existed. That makes things right for comparatively few beings who do not want to follow [[the will of God]], and for all others who do. No, punishment doesn't make things right, but [[God’s Justice]] does.
===Closing===
“Therefore, my [[pupil]], revenge is wrong because it is the product of [[malice]] and [[evil]] as much as is the original [[offense]] it tries to make right. Entitlement to revenge presupposes you have a right over others when you are [[injured]] — which no one has. Finally, revenge, by [[punishing]] in return does not make [[justice]], because an offense can’t be undone, but certainly by [[love]] can be [[pardoned]], and in God’s Justice the offender may be [[rehabilitated]] or if rehabilitation is [[rejected]] (by comparatively few), [[annihilation]] [[intervenes]].
I am Prolotheos, your [[teacher]]-[[tutor]] on High. [[Peace]] be with you and with all.”
[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: 11:11 Progress Group]]
[[Category: Prolotheos]]
[[Category: Valdir Soares]]
[[Category: 2018]]
[[File:Teaching_buddha_small.jpg|right|frame]]
==Heading==
===Topic: ''Why Revenge is Wrong''===
===Group: [[11:11 Progress Group]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Prolotheos]]===
===TR: [[Valdir Soares]]===
==Session==
*São Carlos — SP, Brazil
===Lesson===
Prolotheos: “Some [[things]] are easy to [[classify]] as either right or wrong and others are not. When a recognized [[good]], generous public figure, is [[accused]], [[condemned]] and sentenced to [[death]] for a fictitious [[crime]] like [[sedition]], as the [[Sanhedrin|Judaic authorities]] did to [[Jesus]] of Nazareth, it is not [[difficult]] to see the [[injustice]] of such a [[judgment]]. When, the case for example is to classify as wrong an act of [[revenge]] which even agrees with the old commandment — ‘an eye for an eye’ — it is not so easy. However, Jesus, left no [[doubt]] that, revenge, although acceptable in the olden days, is unacceptable in the [[Kingdom of God]]. He taught: ‘do not [[resist]] an [[evil]] person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.’ Therefore, revenge is wrong; but why is it? Revenge has at least three mistaken [[assumptions]]:
*1. '''Mistaken Assumption #1: Anyone is Entitled to Revenge.'''
“If everybody were entitled to hand out [[justice]] of their own accord, you would have returned to [[barbaric]] times, and your civilization wouldn't have [[progressed]] thus far by means of [[Law]] and Order. There is much [[diversity]], [[perversion]] of divine [[values]], and [[ignorance]] of origins in humanity to [[trust]] the sense of justice of each [[individual]]. A time will come (in a distant age yet) when individuals will be trusted to be the law unto themselves, but that time has not yet come. Humans are imperfect [[beings]] and so are their [[institutions]]. Still, even as imperfect as these institutions are, they are the best you have; the [[alternative]] is [[chaos]]. Besides, revenge presumes you own other people’s lives to dispose of them as suits you. Truthfully, you don't even own yourself. No, no one is entitled to [[revenge]].
*2. '''Mistaken Assumption #2: One Evil Cancels Another Evil.'''
“[[Revenge]] is no less [[evil]] than the offense originally committed. [[Malice]], the evil’s [[motivation]], is present at the [[root]] of both of them. Therefore, as in math, two negatives just add to each other and what really cancels a [[negative]] value is to add a positive one to it. Evil only produces more evil. Only when you add [[love]] to the mix can evil really be canceled. As [[violence]] generates more violence, revenge will only bring more revenge to an evil [[cycle]]. Revenge is dull, love is smart; revenge is a [[virus]] (uncontrollably [[destructive]]), love is a life [[seed]] that [[grows]] with order and [[purpose]]. No, evil does not cancel evil; [[love]] does.
*3. '''Mistaken Assumption #3: Justice is About Punishment.'''
“[[Human being]]s by misusing the [[gift]] of [[Personality]] and [[Free Will]], can put themselves beyond [[redemption]]. Human [[justice]] believes [[punishment]] will make things right. In [[fact]], it doesn’t. Punishment, even if [[eternal]] (Hell, if it would exist) can never pay for the [[offense]] or redeem the offender; not even the punishment of an innocent instead of the guilty one can. In God’s perfect Justice, beings who by their own [[choosing]] put themselves beyond God’s [[Mercy]], will unfailingly [[agree]] with their own [[annihilation]], and will be as if they never existed. That makes things right for comparatively few beings who do not want to follow [[the will of God]], and for all others who do. No, punishment doesn't make things right, but [[God’s Justice]] does.
===Closing===
“Therefore, my [[pupil]], revenge is wrong because it is the product of [[malice]] and [[evil]] as much as is the original [[offense]] it tries to make right. Entitlement to revenge presupposes you have a right over others when you are [[injured]] — which no one has. Finally, revenge, by [[punishing]] in return does not make [[justice]], because an offense can’t be undone, but certainly by [[love]] can be [[pardoned]], and in God’s Justice the offender may be [[rehabilitated]] or if rehabilitation is [[rejected]] (by comparatively few), [[annihilation]] [[intervenes]].
I am Prolotheos, your [[teacher]]-[[tutor]] on High. [[Peace]] be with you and with all.”
[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: 11:11 Progress Group]]
[[Category: Prolotheos]]
[[Category: Valdir Soares]]
[[Category: 2018]]
