no-body
Well-Known Member
This thread is to discuss the concept of "the others" in mystic based beliefs.
Especially in the conservative black and white beliefs I have found this straw man immediately builds in peoples minds when you tell them you must forgive everyone and that we are all one. Most of them think of some touchy feely pc world where we coddle criminals and reward them for their crimes.
I'm not sure why people associate forgiveness with not expecting people to face the consequence of their actions.
This is especially hard to reconcile with if you have a strong ego and really have had terrible unjust things happen to you. The ego desperately wants to believe in some form of cosmic justice, that all the suffering you have gone through is for some larger meaningful plan and that those who hurt you will face retribution.
I could go into a hundred more facets into the concept of "the other" but I will leave it at this for now and see what others say (if anything at all anyway, the more I get into pantheism/mysticism the more I see the uselessness of these questions and that very little needs to be discussed at all)
Especially in the conservative black and white beliefs I have found this straw man immediately builds in peoples minds when you tell them you must forgive everyone and that we are all one. Most of them think of some touchy feely pc world where we coddle criminals and reward them for their crimes.
I'm not sure why people associate forgiveness with not expecting people to face the consequence of their actions.
This is especially hard to reconcile with if you have a strong ego and really have had terrible unjust things happen to you. The ego desperately wants to believe in some form of cosmic justice, that all the suffering you have gone through is for some larger meaningful plan and that those who hurt you will face retribution.
I could go into a hundred more facets into the concept of "the other" but I will leave it at this for now and see what others say (if anything at all anyway, the more I get into pantheism/mysticism the more I see the uselessness of these questions and that very little needs to be discussed at all)