tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36130350.post4838785942649302962..comments2024-02-21T05:25:15.214-05:00Comments on Views from Raven's Nest: Signs of Spring and More on an Eye for an EyeRavenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04996538460071167819noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36130350.post-16096717577678011562009-03-07T17:48:00.000-05:002009-03-07T17:48:00.000-05:00I think part of the reason that our thoughts turn ...I think part of the reason that our thoughts turn to vengeance and retribution is because violence is part of nature. Our fight or flight instinct is triggered. <BR/><BR/>When we retreat from danger, a predator senses the fear and pursues. <BR/><BR/>I think that the capacity to be both predator and prey lives in all of us. And so there are times when compassion is difficult to feel and our desire for vengeance takes precedence.Travis Codyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06192526507760146748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36130350.post-82550305035696603442009-03-05T15:41:00.000-05:002009-03-05T15:41:00.000-05:00felosil - I'm so sorry about your husband's sister...felosil - I'm so sorry about your husband's sister. I was always so grateful that by sheer luck, they caught the boy who killed my sister. I can't imagine what is like for people to go through the rest of their lives with no kind of closure - or worse - in your situation, knowing who killed her but being unable to prove it. I sent reiki late last night. Hope it helped.<BR/><BR/>deborah.... so true... I don't understand killing or the idea that killing killers somehow makes things better.Ravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04996538460071167819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36130350.post-163600695027862652009-03-04T20:04:00.000-05:002009-03-04T20:04:00.000-05:00Thanks for this follow-up and additional thoughts....Thanks for this follow-up and additional thoughts. It's a subject that, regretfully, our society will have more opportunity to consider.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36130350.post-3030020873632036462009-03-04T14:27:00.000-05:002009-03-04T14:27:00.000-05:00Dear Raven,You are wrestling with hard stuff, and ...Dear Raven,<BR/>You are wrestling with hard stuff, and also make your readers duck beneath the surface.<BR/>"Vengeance is mine,"says the Lord.<BR/>Nevertheless he gave his people law by which they should live.<BR/>A society is mirroring its value and respect of human life by the its laws.<BR/>Without laws we would all be barbaric villains. <BR/>"Law is for protection of the people", Kris Kristofferson sings bitterly.<BR/><BR/>46 years ago my husband's sister probably was murdered. By her husband, who she wanted to leave.<BR/>Science was not well developed back then, neither was the respect for women. The sister had occasionally epileptic seizures, which finally was said to be the cause of death.<BR/>Not a single family member believe that to be the truth. <BR/>They've had to live with this open wound all these years. The parents are now dead, but the siblings still hurt.<BR/>And the perpetrator still is free.<BR/><BR/>The childhood, youth and adult lives of my in-law family are inflicted.<BR/>That's who deep one murder goes.<BR/>How priceless a life is.<BR/><BR/>That's also why I wonder why raw crime is sent every day on any TV channel for entertainment.<BR/><BR/>Yes, Raven, I'd very much appreciate some Reiki healing.<BR/>When?<BR/>Yours FelisolFelisol https://www.blogger.com/profile/12240191154632603841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36130350.post-17773258801244226822009-03-04T13:34:00.000-05:002009-03-04T13:34:00.000-05:00I have never understood the idea of vengeance... o...I have never understood the idea of vengeance... or I have never craved it. I'm not opposed to punishment. Taking a life is an irrevokable crime, but I like to think I don't have vengeance in my heart. I always feel like killers win when we respond in kind: A true case of "becoming the thing you hate." Killing Walter Anderson would not have brought my sister back, it would just have added to the death toll. If you have never seen the movie DEAD MAN WALKING, I highly recommend it. It is anti death penalty, but in a very balanced (I think) way.Ravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04996538460071167819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36130350.post-54709487376445097352009-03-04T13:25:00.000-05:002009-03-04T13:25:00.000-05:00A much beloved local woman was murdered. A huge o...A much beloved local woman was murdered. A huge outcry arose against the murderer. The woman's husband stepped forward and asked, for the sake of his wife's memory, that everyone set their hate aside. <BR/><BR/>The husband wants the young man punished, but he doesn't want anyone seeking retribution. I think that takes a special kind of love. He is left alone with three young children to raise, without the woman he adored by his side -- yet he forgives because she would want him to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com