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No, I find it stupidhave you tried?
It has limitations. There are just two cheeks.have you tried?
yeah...How about you, @Thief ?
What a wonderful neighborhood.yeah...
in my old neighborhood opportunity is all around you
picture this.....no doubt you can
someone you have never met walks directly up to you
and slams a fist in your eye......just to say....
hi there
but no words are actually spoken
as your eye begins to swell shut
you stand ground
and use the uninjured eye
to look him in the face
if he makes no further move
you walk away
if he flinches …..you kick his ***
this happened on many occasion
and there are variables
caution is advised
such as.....do not turn your back altogether
as you step away
more than that....If this was meant literally Jusus would also turn the other cheek when a man hit him (on the trial). But he didn't. He defended himself.
Jesus answered him, “If what I said is wrong, bear witness about the wrong; but if what I said is right, why do you strike me?” (John 18:23)
Depends upon the circumstances.have you tried?
I know some technique of which the pain is not bearableYes. Ironically, it takes most of the sting out of the attacks.
Physical pain is bearable, but the mental anguish you cause yourself from being angry at your attackers is a chronic suffering that doesn't heal on its own. I'll take the lashes over that any day.
That's not me advocating passivity or being a doormat. It takes real courage to choose peace in the face of hostility, and it's often a defiant act. I think humans have generally evolved in a way that it's harder to die for a cause than to kill for one, but I know which one I would prefer.
Really? What dan?I happen to be a black belt
I do understand
just firstReally? What dan?
No, I find it stupid
Its sort of like love thy enemy, absolutely nonsense.
I know some technique of which the pain is not bearable
and you would need a surgeon to put it back
you post as if to take the fault unto yourself......taking the lashing
would be better to study a martial art
that hurts too
but maybe the next opportunity will be different
to refrain from knee jerk return of a bruised cheek
oh...btw....that act of defiance you mentioned
OFFERING the other cheek is an insult and a dare
you need to be sure of yourself
Yep, as there's a lot of things I don't respond to or don't respond to negatively. But there's also been many times I've "caved", thus I'm a looooooooooooong way from perfection.have you tried?
that is quite the leap.....3 years ago, I was taken and they poured acid on me, plucking me with blades. For hours, I could do nothing but scream as I burned. And then they would come back and do it again. Eventually, I was found by EMTs, and I did have to take me to surgery. I'm still healing from the ordeal to this day, and I might be permanently disfigured, but it's barely noticeable and mostly in places my clothes cover. Those wounds still sometimes bleed, and they ache.
When you're being tortured, the pain isn't what's unbearable. I felt the pain shooting through my body, so much so that I couldn't think or focus on anything other than the pain. As they knicked me and insulted me, I barely noticed. The hard part is being left alone with your anger for them, or your sense of powerlessness where you're still trying to control a situation that gives you a significant advantage. It's not the pain, it's when you're left alone. The pain, no matter how bad it is, is bearable. It's your mind that turns it into torture.
Do you believe that Martin Luther King, Jr. offered the other cheek in his protests as an insult and a dare?