Theos-Talk Archives (December 1998 Message tt00194)

Dec 15th

Dear Jerry:

What I had in mind is not the attitude of the victim so much as
the debt that the perpetrator of a wrong owes to his victim and
their dependents whose future may have been impugned.

Dal

> From: Jerry Schueler
> Sent:	Tuesday, December 15, 1998 12:15 PM
> Subject: Re: RE: theos-l digest: December 14, 1998 == Does KARMA play favorites ?

>If we invoke the aspect of mercy and/or forgiveness, then what
>happens to the victims if something has been done to hurt them ?


This is an area in which karma becomes murky and too profound
to really be sure of what is going on. If someone hurts me, I
will
NOT feel better by knowing that that person is suitably punished.
I am not vindictive nor do I insist on "justice" in the sense of
an
eye for an eye.  I would, in fact, forgive the person in the
hopes
that the person would then learn to forgive others.  In a sense,
we are all "victims" in this world--victims of our own ignorance.

Jerry S.


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