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Sun Tzu · 11-05-2003, 12:46 AM

Revenge: To inflict punishment in retaliation for personal injury.

I recently have done something that I now feel bothered about. I?m a person that strives to live by four ideals: to always stay true to my word, to always do my best, not to assume what others are thinking, and not to take thinsg personally. I fall short of those more often than not; or at least a couple. Out of the many lessons I've learned and continue to learn in life; I seem to be having difficulty in establishing knowledge in a particular area. This is acting on behaviors and intentions of revenge. Personally even though I've become skilled in this dark truly self destructive path, it?s not something I've ever felt proud of doing.

I won't go into why I did this, but the recent event mentioned, I have come to realize that I did some real damage. The person (target) did something that I allowed to put me into revenge mode. (in other words they indirectly were still controlling me-or I was allowing that) I made a flyer stating that this person was a child molester and pornographer with a detailed map pointing to their house and address. Afterward I made about 10,000 copies and spread them through that entire neighborhood, including local stores and bulletin boards.

Its short of what I really wanted to do but I'm not in a position where I can have any trouble with assault charges put against me, so this was the choice from my "rolodex of damage".

Even though I was smiling while doing it, now I feel the only person I've really damaged is myself. In any case: I know different situations bring forth different emotions. Such as if anyone physically harmed someone I love I would probably go to jail. Outside of hurting a loved one I wanted to know what anyone else thought about revenge in a general sense. Do you feel that a majority of the time its worth doing? Is there anyone that has never acted on impulses of revenge?

11-05-2003, 12:46 AM	#1 (permalink)
Sun Tzu Conspiracy Realist Location: The Event Horizon	Revenge Revenge: To inflict punishment in retaliation for personal injury. I recently have done something that I now feel bothered about. I?m a person that strives to live by four ideals: to always stay true to my word, to always do my best, not to assume what others are thinking, and not to take thinsg personally. I fall short of those more often than not; or at least a couple. Out of the many lessons I've learned and continue to learn in life; I seem to be having difficulty in establishing knowledge in a particular area. This is acting on behaviors and intentions of revenge. Personally even though I've become skilled in this dark truly self destructive path, it?s not something I've ever felt proud of doing. I won't go into why I did this, but the recent event mentioned, I have come to realize that I did some real damage. The person (target) did something that I allowed to put me into revenge mode. (in other words they indirectly were still controlling me-or I was allowing that) I made a flyer stating that this person was a child molester and pornographer with a detailed map pointing to their house and address. Afterward I made about 10,000 copies and spread them through that entire neighborhood, including local stores and bulletin boards. Its short of what I really wanted to do but I'm not in a position where I can have any trouble with assault charges put against me, so this was the choice from my "rolodex of damage". Even though I was smiling while doing it, now I feel the only person I've really damaged is myself. In any case: I know different situations bring forth different emotions. Such as if anyone physically harmed someone I love I would probably go to jail. Outside of hurting a loved one I wanted to know what anyone else thought about revenge in a general sense. Do you feel that a majority of the time its worth doing? Is there anyone that has never acted on impulses of revenge? __________________ *To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.- Stephen Hawking* Last edited by Sun Tzu; 11-05-2003 at 01:12 AM..