Letting go of feeling of revenge is easier said than done. As I looked up forgiveness on the internet I found over 56,100,100 results. Most of the result that appeared consisted of religious websites and quotes from the bible. I feel that forgiveness is one of the main teachings in all religions. The religious websites contained ways on how and why to forgive others. Forgiveness and reconciliation go hand and hand. When one forgives, one is able to reconcile a relationship from the past. The search result for reconciliation also featured beliefs from all religions. Catholic and Buddhism are the two main religions that appeared when reconciliation was searched. When I searched revenge, it was a completely different story. There were thousands of television shows and movie clips that resulted. Facebook was advertised as revenge as well. I believe that revenge plays a role in drama. Drama catches the eyes of many people therefore, movies and television shows are called revenge. I was quite surprised to see Facebook advertised as a part of drama. It does make perfects sense. Facebook is drama and sometimes people do get revenge as he or she use social networking.
I found mine to be the same results as thought, we really do see the connection between forgiveness and reconciliation and how they tie into religion. I think that revenge though is so much more of a dark dark word, that can really. I found it really interesting how you tied in facebook and how basically they promote drama and revenge. Many people on facebook, use it as and outlet to get back or torment people because something has happened between them. I never really noticed how facebook did this until now. Good Post!
ReplyDeleteI found some of the same results that you found while conducting your search using the words forgiveness, reconciliation, and revenge. Religion seemed to be the main theme when searching the words forgiveness and reconciliation. It is true that they are pretty prominent within most religions. Religions teach us to forgive people when they make mistakes, even devastating ones. I always find it interesting when people say they will forgive a murderer. I know that for many religious people they find comfort in forgiving people no matter what they did. I think it is commendable. I don't know if I could be a big enough person to do that.
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