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August 18, 2020, 10:11 PM
chbibc
Yes, I am.
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August 18, 2020, 10:13 PM
YooperSigs
Hatred is settled anger. There have been a few people I have hated and still do. The trick is not to let it rule your life.
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August 18, 2020, 10:15 PM
erj_pilot
I don't know if it's a fine line, but I can say I honestly despise, detest, and loathe a few people...most from past government administrations, a couple of ass-hats in the aviation industry that have done some heinous things to destroy the profession, and a couple of people with whom I've worked in past careers. HATE them? No, but the emotions stated may be pretty close...
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
August 18, 2020, 10:16 PM
kimber1911
God, Family, Freedom, & Country You try and take those from me and you would be right in the ball park of hate.
Edited to add, I agree with TigerDore, but it’s tough, the Democrat/Socialist/Liberals/Antifa/BLM crowd is really pissing me off with the way they want to destroy our country.
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Originally posted by TigerDore: While I am capable of hating someone, it is a natural human emotion, as a follower of Christ, I am called not to hate any person; it is equivalent to murder.
I may hate their actions and condemn the same, but I don't hate the person, as much as they might seek to drive me down into that morass.
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August 18, 2020, 10:22 PM
sigmonkey
Yes.
I had one one my list for over half a century, but Mr. Death took care of that one. Another came up and took that spot.
So, I am thankful of a short list, but prefer the empty list, and hope the second quick steps off the planet and waves at the turtles...
"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב!
August 18, 2020, 10:32 PM
craglawnmanor
Yes, but I will not elaborate.
_______________________________________ Flammable, Inflammable, or Nonflammable....... Hell, either it Flams or it doesn't!! (George Carlin)
August 18, 2020, 10:42 PM
83v45magna
I have found what works for me personally is to 'not be powerless'. In other words, if I feel someone is touchable, I then have a choice, even if it is something stupid. Then, I am no longer powerless and once that is established, I have found I can then easily move on from it and even forget about it.
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. -Ecclesiastes 9:11
...But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by Him shall glory, but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. - Psalm 63:11 [excerpted]
August 18, 2020, 11:39 PM
phydough
Yes and if murder was merely a social faux pas instead of a crime, I’d go to sleep with a warm fuzzy feeling.
August 19, 2020, 12:51 AM
spunk639
Anger, yes, contempt and disdain, hate takes a lot of work and is wasted energy, if I reach the point of hate I've failed myself.
August 19, 2020, 01:02 AM
46and2
Capable: Certainly.
Willing: No.
Hate, real hate, requires too much effort.
No less than three people in my life deserve the deepest, darkest, most unrelenting hate, but what the fuck for? It just eats at you, wastes time and energy, increases stress, and harshes my mellow, mann.
August 19, 2020, 05:46 AM
Micropterus
Yes. And I do.
We all are capable. If you're capable of love, you are equally capable of hate. There's no love without hate.
Even God. God loves. God hates.
Psalm 11:5 The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.
And there are many, many more.
The hated are redeemable. But until they are redeemed, hate is justifiable.
_____________ "I enter a swamp as a sacred place—a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength—the marrow of Nature." - Henry David Thoreau
August 19, 2020, 06:09 AM
nasig
under the right circumstances I think I'm capable of any feeling or act.
August 19, 2020, 06:17 AM
bigwagon
Yes. Not many, but there is at least one.
August 19, 2020, 06:23 AM
Woodman
You must love your brother, says the Bible. But you certainly do not have to like him.
Yes, there are individuals known personally to me who will make the world a better place when they cease consuming oxygen.
August 19, 2020, 06:59 AM
Lt CHEG
I wish I wasn’t capable but unfortunately I am. There are a few select individuals that fit into that category for me unfortunately. Also unfortunate is that one of the people that I truly hate is someone that I have to deal with every day at work.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
August 19, 2020, 07:39 AM
Fredward
Yup.
August 19, 2020, 08:08 AM
Doc H.
If you have no enemies, you have no principles.
"And gentlemen in England now abed, shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's Day"
August 19, 2020, 08:10 AM
Sig2340
I knew a woman professed to hate no one, but she kept a list of people she planned to bite if she ever contracted rabies.
Nice is overrated
"It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018
August 19, 2020, 08:26 AM
Rigby470
quote:
Originally posted by spunk639: Anger, yes, contempt and disdain, hate takes a lot of work and is wasted energy, if I reach the point of hate I've failed myself.
^^This. Hate and unforgiveness is a cancer that affects only the one who holds onto it. Let it go and live in peace.
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