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injest:
but Truman...if you only forgive people and never hold them accountable for their actions how will things ever change? It is anger and hate of injustice that brought us the Civil Rights Act, women's suffrage, what rights gays do have these days.

Shakesthecoffecan:
Well I guess that is the difference betwixt forgiving and forgetting. People should be accountable for their actions, and sometimes we have to hold them acountable when their actions have caused problems. All the screaming that was done against Women's Suffarage, it was for naught in the long run, but it did damage I am sure to people who had to listen to it. 

injest:

--- Quote from: shakestheground on July 09, 2008, 08:09:11 am ---Well I guess that is the difference betwixt forgiving and forgetting. People should be accountable for their actions, and sometimes we have to hold them acountable when their actions have caused problems. All the screaming that was done against Women's Suffarage, it was for naught in the long run, but it did damage I am sure to people who had to listen to it. 

--- End quote ---

well there is my problem....I find it hard to let go of the anger while holding onto the memory.

Shakesthecoffecan:
Well try this: (like I am Oprah or something) Pick one situation and pratice the forgiveness and then turn your attention away from it to something better and don't put yourself in a position of remembering. Then when it comes around again just remember you have already frogiven that person or situation and be prepared for them/it.

An idea anyway.....

Brokeback_Dev:

--- Quote from: injest on July 09, 2008, 08:27:35 am ---well there is my problem....I find it hard to let go of the anger while holding onto the memory.

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"First I would like to say I am mostly Irish and I voluntarily reinforce the stereotype that we can hold grudge unlike anyone else."

I like that Truman.

My mom always told me when I was little to forgive and forget.. The forgiving is not so hard, but the forgetting?! Not so easy.  She had flaming red hair and freckles.  The opitome of a good? Irish Protestant girl!  Now I know why i find easy to forgive, no problem right? But forgetting,  not so easy.  

Now I know thanks to you Truman that its in my blood.

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