How does your past come along?

The present is the moment of vital realizations ... the moment of possibilities, and the change.





And I believe in the moment that is now, where the future lingers in our imagination and in our hopes, the past walks along with us and undergoes a constant change.





When I, for instance, I do things I add to the things of the past ... when for instance I am able to realize that it is about the time the nature of some past relations changed, when I learn to forgive, heal and reconcile in the heart.





I think whenever we improve, and get better in life, our past gets better too.





Nothing in life really comes to an end.





Thanks for your thoughts and response!
How does your past come along?
Some times like bad luggage .
How does your past come along?
Everything which happens has a cause.Therefore the past deeds are rewarded in the present. e.g.If you study to become a doctor you cannot become an engineer.The same holds true to life.If we change for the better now we do become better in future.Also our past misdeeds get subdued and we prepare ourselves for good.Best wishes
Reply:Our past is just a memory of our present experiences which can be updated and modified as we learn more about people and our environment. As we mature, as people we look back on memory%26#039;s from a different perspective.
Reply:past comes spontaneously when present is not clear and the future is uncertain.
Reply:It is a stepping stone for the better.
Reply:The immediate present buffer of information of what is happening at the moment lasts about ten seconds. The smallest bit of now we experience is around one thousandth of a second or less. We generally take about 1.5 to 2.0 thousanths of a second to respond to things.





There is also a delay in experience where we think we just thought of something but our brains already have decided what we are about to think. It is possible for example to have someone read or influencce your thoughts and print out what you are thinking before you thought you thought the thoughts.





E.g. If you are asked to calculate a mathematical problem or pick a random number, your brain will have the answer before your mind feels it consciously thinks the answer.





If your brain is being monitored by a machine that prints out a prediction of your decision based on known patterns, the machine will print out your decisions before you consciously make the decision. If you see the printout as it comes out it would feel as if your thoughts were being controlled by the printout. If the part of the brain that lets you know what you are thinking about malfunctions you may suffer schitzoid symptoms where your own thoughts feel as if they are imposed from another mind. E.g. you will hear voices or when you imagine what it is like to be Napolian you will actually believe you are him because you can%26#039;t separate reality from internal imaginations.





Getting back to length of the past.





After you have your ten seconds of short term memory, the brain selects stuff to keep in longer term storage. This process takes a number of hours to write your memories into a more permanent format. This is akin to the writing stuff on a hard disk or backup media, which is stored in temporary RAM. If your computer reboots you loose your shortterm RAM, but keep stuff stored on the hard disk.





If a human is in a car accident or other trauma that bashes the head causing a reboot, the long term memories in the process of being chemically stored are lost. This usually causes loss of events of a few hours around the time of a major accident.





In the case of mental trauma memories that are painful may be masked with similar observable effects.





As mentioned there is a short term memory cycle of a few hours relating to permanent memories and a response cycle arouns 1.75 thousandths of a second. There is also a long term memory cycle where memories may be rewritten when we recall events. This cycle varies depending on how often a memory is accessed but my impression is it usually cycles around a month or so.





It is possible to completely rewrite memories by making small ammendments in each recall. basically our long term memories older than a few days could be memories of memories, and may be as reliable as Chinese Wispers.
Reply:A moment in time of complete clarity, light and ineffable love... is but momentary but paints its memory upon our minds canvas for an eternity in a lifetime to warm, inspire, shield and comfort in our darkest hour and coldest climes. Simply an instant in time...





Life changes pace and its radiant colours are vibrant and sepia in turn and beautiful in its entire myriad kaleidoscope. Yes life remains constant as the ongoing need of man for stability and peace, hung in limbo from the great heights of our aspirations precariously threatened with the realisation of our dreams and worst nightmares.





Life changes when man and his expectation of life change. Life, the world then is our needs, desires and dreams met or wanting.. and is as therefore satisfactory or bereft in direct correlation.





Circumstance ends when our needs have been attained and remains fragmentary as an isolated particle of an incomplete tapestry of our life and fulfilment...





Such is the nature of life the world and man.
Reply:All our mistakes in life progression are stored in a receptacle called the past. We don%26#039;t usually do something new today without harking back to that past where we compare so that the things we do today will not be an error repeated.





But, of course, change will always bring in something new, in which case we grope about in the dark where, again, mistakes lurk. Viewed from tomorrow, today is again the past and here we leave the mistakes we%26#039;ve learned, and so on.





In other words, the past is not necessarily an improvement when we improve, i.e. learn but a wasteland from which we gauge our self-improvement in our life journey.
Reply:If you spend your life in photos, and therefore can%26#039;t progress, you really can%26#039;t blame missing all the good moments, but if you life for the optimal progress then everyone is good and everyone is equal, you will have no enemies. The past has happened and the future is considdering the bright sunrise of tomorrow and all the hopes that it brings. People who live for the future ensure that they will have a good day tomorrow, but they may have not been so fortunate yesterday.

Is there a book about 'when humans die out/ disappear'?

It sounds depressing I know but it is all about what would happen to the planet if we were to suddenly disappear.
Is there a book about %26#039;when humans die out/ disappear%26#039;?
revelation??? only thing i can think of... but there is books on everything so probably
Is there a book about %26#039;when humans die out/ disappear%26#039;?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Abide...





Great book.
Reply:Doctor Who annual 2007
Reply:The Tibetan Book of The Dead would make interesting and informative reading.
Reply:There is a movie out at the moment looking at what would happen if humans suddenly vanished, and how nature would adapt.
Reply:Probably - there was a programme on recently (channel 4?) about what the Earth would be like without people, so no doubt there is an accompanying book somewhere!


I don%26#039;t think it%26#039;s depressing, I think it%26#039;s fascinating to wonder what it%26#039;d be like; we%26#039;re all going to die anyway and the human race can%26#039;t last forever any more than any other species.
Reply:People can only speculate on this subject, it could be in the next 6 hours with total nuclear destruction, it could be 100,000 years when mankind %26quot;homo sapian%26quot; has mutated into different forms. Don%26#039;t worry about it, get out and enjoy the sun )
Reply:This question is that of a more complex nature as it is not about the pessimistic view of a desolate and abandoned world, it is about the present state of human race, its mind, and its relation to its environment. It is attempts to explore indirectly as what impact human civilization has had on the planet, as this is what basically matter most to the inquiring and inquisitive minds, to find out and to know better as what it is and what is its impact upon the environment it inhibits.





The question 鈥榳hat will happen after humans die out鈥?therefore is based upon an active sense of wonder and bewilderment upon the catastrophic ecological changes that, according to scientists on media, are taking place globally. It is a matter much worrying that the rise in temperature would eventually cause meltdown of polar ice, permafrost, there will be floods, shortage of food and then another other ice age might usher us to last for about ten thousand years, however all this might not happen overnight or even in decades.





I think the planet earth is far too sturdier to be permanently effected by any superficial changes upon its surface. It will restore to its natural balance in couple of thousand years, as the volcanoes round the globe keep recycling its atmosphere, the most dynamic factor in for terra maintenance, then earthquakes and flood has power to level the ground to its natural normality, natural growth of plants can takeover artificial constructs of buildings, where the elements: air, water and the sun, own their own can cause things to rust, to crumble and to decay overtime. I think if humans are gone, then in twenty or so thousands years, all traces of them will disappear too. We have not built anything half as durable as the pyramids to withstand the elements of natural and natural events.





According to my personal viewpoint on life, however, I believe that emergence of life is an integral aspect of physical evolutions, that life might disappear now but it can reappear again soon as right balance is struck among the factors responsible for creating life. It could also be most probable for life to re-emerge in human form in couple of million or so years as the logical consequence of natural evolution, as after all, all the elements, and the factors of change in the physical state of things would still be the same.





[edit] ... and then there will always be people!!

ALLAH SIGN ON THE WAY: HUMAN EMBRYO CLONE WITH ANIMAL EMBRYO : SPEAKING BEAST iN PROCESS?

Believe me this is the dijjal era and end of this earth will soon any time











Allah Sign on the way: Human embryos clone with animal embryos











Reference in Quran about speaking beast before Qiamat.





http://www.tanzeem.org/resources/quranon...





Surah An-Naml 27:82. And when the Word (of torment) is fulfilled against them, We shall bring out from the earth a beast to them, which will speak to them because mankind believed not with certainty in Our Ay芒t (Verses of the Qur%26#039;芒n and Prophet Muhammad





Reference news the speaking beast in process:











http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/a...











http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/...











http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/...











http://www.scienceray.com/Biology/Human-...
ALLAH SIGN ON THE WAY: HUMAN EMBRYO CLONE WITH ANIMAL EMBRYO : SPEAKING BEAST iN PROCESS?
Sorry if I missed something, but is this a question or a polemic? Frankly I don%26#039;t care what your (or anyone else%26#039;s ) Holy Book says about anything - particularly if it%26#039;s a prophecy. Just to help you put things in context, recorded predictions about the end of the Earth go back way before your Prophet (peace and blessings be to Him, etc.) and we are stll here. Perhaps you could apply your undoubted sincerity and wish to communicate to dealing with some of the more pressing problems we face here and now - poverty, war, disease, religious intolerance etc., and leave the Creator to get on with the business of deciding when enough is enough.
ALLAH SIGN ON THE WAY: HUMAN EMBRYO CLONE WITH ANIMAL EMBRYO : SPEAKING BEAST iN PROCESS?
So sorry, but this rant/preaching of a failed %26quot;reward/punishment%26quot; faith system and %26quot;prophet worship is not a question.


Further, many animals speak. Have you never heard of a myna bird or a parrot? Have you never heard of those gorillas that have learned to employ sign language so as to accurately communicate with humans?





Irrational extremism seldom seems wise just as it seems unwise to seek ones own answers from any other source than from within ones self.
Reply:There is nothing about chimeras or cloning in the quote you supplied. Many humans act like beasts anyway.

Matryoshka metaphor?

Which shape of someone would you like to embrace?


What is a soulmate in the below context?





http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind...

Atheists : Where does all the matter in the universe come from?

UNDER WORLD HELL?I DONT KNOW?WHY ARE YOU ASKING ME?????
Atheists : Where does all the matter in the universe come from?
To be perfectly honest, I don%26#039;t really care where it all comes from, I just get on with the business of living my life as a useful member of society and as nice a person as possible.
Atheists : Where does all the matter in the universe come from?
I guess they were all created by an unknown scientist God. Before He creates the world He must have failed several times. Those objects you find in the universe are the remains of His several attempts made by God to create a fine world. At last He had succeeded in creating the world and all creatures. Now, I think, He is watching.
Reply:Is this something that Atheists ought to know? I thought that being an Atheist meant holding a belief in the non-existence of a Creator, not having a unique knowledge of the universe and its constituent parts. Perhaps you meant to write %26#039;Physicists%26#039; instead? Or are you one of those religious believers who curiously think that Atheists are wrong because they can%26#039;t answer all the difficult questions that you fudge by saying %26#039;it%26#039;s all because of God%26#039; ?
Reply:you dont know, and i dont know. simple as that.
Reply:An atheist would say %26#039;by magic%26#039;, reality holds that the nucleus of every matter in the atom stage is same be it gold/iron and the origin of this is same and one only which is God.
Reply:I agree with Davy J. And I have question for all believers, where does God come from?
Reply:The origin is energy.





%26quot;...the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep...%26quot; (Genesis 1:2)





It clearly described the origin was without form and void; it may be a plasma state or just energy. %26quot;darkness was upon the face of deep%26quot; indicated that it should be energy because plasma is still bright inside.





Of course, you can go to verse one to say God created that energy. If it was created, then God did created darkness which can only serve alienation to God. Hence, our alienation against God is in God%26#039;s will.
Reply:I do not see any intelligent atheist answerer here on this question.





First law of thermodynamic states that energy cannot be created nor destroyed.





I believe many people have hard time understand the concept of infinity, all i can say is that the concept negates the starting point, meaning the %26quot;start%26quot; doesnt exist.





Often atheist say this when faced with this question, if god always existed why cant energy. This is a legitimate counter argument, i did not find any theists who were smart enough to counter this. All they said was some super complex being was just always there.





You can find rough conclusion from these two premises, either god always existed or energy always existed, meaning something do not need start. If you have to bet, will you go for god, which you cannot see or sense or energy which you are surrounded with right now?
Reply:Since %26quot;existence exists%26quot; (you would not argue that, would you?) to argue that at one time existence did NOT exist would be to contradict the meaning of the word. Therefore, it must always have existed, never not existed, always to exist in the future.





%26quot;Existence is a self-sufficient primary. It is not a product of a supernatural dimension, or of anything else. There is nothing antecedent to existence, nothing apart from it—and no alternative to it. Existence exists—and only existence exists. Its existence and its nature are irreducible and unalterable.%26quot;


Leonard Peikoff “The Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy,” in the book %26quot;Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology%26quot;; Ayn Rand





%26quot;Naturalism, challenging the cogency of the cosmological, teleological, and moral arguments, holds that the universe requires no supernatural cause and government, but is self-existent, self-explanatory, self-operating, and self-directing, that the world-process is not teleological and anthropocentric, but purposeless, %26quot;


http://www.ditext.com/runes/n.html





Existence is the given. If all matter were to disappear, or to have been at one time non-existent, then by definition existence itself would not and could not ever come into being. %26quot;Ex nihilo%26quot; is an impossiblity.





%26quot;Existence and identity are not attributes of existents, they are the existents . . . . The units of the concepts “existence” and “identity” are every entity, attribute, action, event or phenomenon (including consciousness) that exists, has ever existed or will ever exist.%26quot;


%26quot;Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology%26quot;; Ayn Rand





Asking where matter came from commits the fallacy of the Reification of the Zero, turning a %26quot;nothing%26quot; into a %26quot;something%26quot; without cause. Energy has always existed because that is the nature, the definition, and the denotation of existence.
Reply:The Egyptians brought it in their starships.

Where does all of the incredibly complex information come from that is stored within DNA?

Information doesn鈥檛 just appear by itself. Someone has to put it there.
Where does all of the incredibly complex information come from that is stored within DNA?
It can be from Adam and Eve.





However, in the evolution process, the DNA code must be changing in step with the evolution; otherwise, man is just man body with alps mind. If DNA code can be grew in response to external stimulation, problem solved.





Your assumption may not be right. Growing is an extension from existing. The world and lives are more dynamic than your imagination.
Where does all of the incredibly complex information come from that is stored within DNA?
A big bang - and you can interpret that whichever way you want.
Reply:Amazing isn%26#039;t it?





Do I dare say that an intelligent being, perhaps even God, created us in such an unexplicably perfect way down to the microscopic hair cells in our ears that allow us to hear.





This is one of my favorite verses about being created in the womb.





Psalm 139:13-18





13 For you created my inmost being;


you knit me together IN MY MOTHER%26#039;S WOMB.





14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;


your works are wonderful,


I know that full well.





15 My frame was not hidden from you


when I was made in the secret place.


When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,





16 your eyes saw my unformed body.


All the days ordained for me


were written in your book


before one of them came to be.





17 How precious to [b] me are your thoughts, O God!


How vast is the sum of them!





18 Were I to count them,


they would outnumber the grains of sand.


When I awake,


I am still with you.





To even suggest that we were created by %26quot;chance%26quot; takes much more faith.





Edited:





I just love those thumbs down as soon as you try to say that we were created. It%26#039;s so much easier to think that it took a million years for a blob in the middle of a pond just by complete chance decided (oh, it must%26#039;ve had a brain if it could decide)(how did it get that?) to evolve into the inexplicably complex dna that we carry around with us and that is uniquely our own.





How could anyone with any intelligence at all believe that chance could produce that. Chance never produced anything, it%26#039;s just another word for luck!
Reply:It is mathematically possible for order to arise out of chaos. The simplest example is the %26quot;Game of Life%26quot; which uses rules of 2d shape interactions.





Much of our physical sciences are based on chaos at the micro level such as random or unwritten quantum states interacting to form observable objects following predictable laws at the macro level that we observe.





The information in our DNA was (at least partialy) selected by evolution. The same is also true of the information contained in the seed conditions of the Big Bang, which made the evolved organism we call our Cosmos. Out in the Mega or Multi-verse we have a string of evolutionary choices that we might follow back to the very first form, or thought, which arose out of chaos.





The mechainsms of how our universe was chosen are fairly clear but encompas a multitude of areas of science and psychology.





If you choose to call the initial mind God, then it is likely that God or God%26#039;s thoughts evolved with the evolution of creation.





If you choose to stay within our space-time and call our universe or our universes creators or parents God, then we may have a God before human time which exists beyond or before time existed in our space-time continuum.





all of our modern physics is based on the assumption of something like quantum mechanics that allows things to pop ina nad out of existence for no reason or from the whim of observers like ourselves.





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As to your idea that someone has to be behind information, you may be correct, but it may be that every sub atomic particle has a sepaeate mind behind it or the decisions that make our universe may be ultimately completely sensless or arbuitrary.





If we leave our focus on decisions that impact human existance, then much of what happens is at least partially orchestrated by decisions of minds beyond human limitations.





there is cosmic purposes in many aspects of human history and influences on our evolution from beyond our sphere of knowledge. Our physical; evolution for example is fine tuned by DNa floating in the dust clouds of intergalactic space and more closely from DNA and more generic chemicals shared within our solar system.





Our planet also acts like a living organism with its own countermeasures to avoid ill health.





Many people look to the laws of thermodynamics and the tendency of things in our macro world to break down as proof that order requires external assistance. The logical laws of physics at our macro level are underpinned by crazy chaos at lower levels. Even gas pressure arises out of numerous random movements of individual gas particles.





Likewise chaotic interactions at the Plank scale combime to form stable structures starting from Quarks to Electrons, Atoms, Molecules, Cels, Organs and Bio-Organisms.





There still jowever are many mysteries, the least of which is why building blocks such as the underlying chaos or the minds that perceive the order of the universe should have existed in the first place.





No matter what questions we find answers to we can always ask another %26quot;Why is it so?%26quot; question to our latest answers.





But as to the origin of information it is possible and inevitable for Chaos to lead to order, but as to where the observers or creative agents fit into the picture you may be close to being on the right track.





Because of evolution Chaos almost invariably leads to order. Likewise order almost inavriably breaks down without external assistance.





Do a search on %26quot;Quantum Mind%26quot; for ideas f how chaos and mind interact. There is much to investigate, but it is clear that information can just apppear by itself but it is also clear that without a mind to think or observe information, no one gets informed.
Reply:The information contained in the genetic code of each organism on this planet evolved over many eons through natural selection and adaptation.


It began very simply and progressed from that point on.





So sorry, but a %26quot;magical god%26quot; who, presto change-o makes life appear with nothing up his sleeve, etc. is not necessary.
Reply:Polar molecules self assemble. Over Billions of years, at the reaction rate of 10^-15 seconds, yo can see that even the Chimps can come up with questions like this one.
Reply:this is one of those questions that seems to attract the loooooooooooooooooooooooooong cut and paste answers eh? I%26#039;ll say that most of the information comes from the N, although the D and A are still important.
Reply:Yes this whole universe is way too complex and ordered for it to have occured that way by chance. And to anyone who would say order came out of chaos: it was that order was there at the start. Order has always been there and always will be for the source of order is eternal.....He is God and He is One..........His attributes:


http://www.noblesanctuary.com/ghazali.ht...





Look at the Universe and consider String Theory:


%26quot;According to string theory, absolutely everything in the universe鈥攁ll of the particles that make up matter and forces鈥攊s comprised of tiny vibrating fundamental strings. Moreover, every one of these strings is identical. The only difference between one string and another, whether it%26#039;s a heavy particle that is part of an atom or a massless particle that carries light, is its resonant pattern, or how it vibrates.%26quot; --- as quoted from The Elegant Universe website and the article


Resonance in Strings:


http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/res...





The video: Strings The Thing:


http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/pro...





Now read:


%26quot;He created the heavens without any pillars that ye can see; He set on the earth mountains standing firm, lest it should shake with you; and He scattered through it beasts of all kinds. We send down rain from the sky, and produce on the earth every kind of noble creature, in pairs. %26quot; [Quran 31:10]





to: Lynnie ---- Yes it is amazing ....subhana Allah [God us pure and mighty]) :)

Is it noble to forgive all people?

whatever they did ?
Is it noble to forgive all people?
it may be noble but not always wise...some people just dont change
Is it noble to forgive all people?
Try using Hitler as an example and see how noble yoy really are. And is nobility really neccessary all the time?
Reply:Depends on what reason.
Reply:some yes.some no.It is gods words that says we should forgive others like he forgives us... no matter what the case is we should all forgive.
Reply:It is a very noble thing to forgive some one for what he did,and given an other chance.,the person could have remorse and feel that he should repent .
Reply:nope, it might lead you into the same bad situation you were in before. I think a little unforgiveness remains to remind us not to make the same mistakes and to not trust those same people. But it is noble to forgive when the offenses are something we could see ourselves doing if we were upset or thoughtless. But when it comes to abuse and lack of remourse for the pain that was caused I think that is unforgivable.
Reply:well....it does depend on what the person has done.we shud all remember anyhow that what ever a person does to hurt any other person cud be cos of the situation they r in.if you cud put urself in that situation and work it out its good.and also if you think they did it just to hurt you its good you forgive that person.cos if you r going to hold a grudge against everyone and everything then you are going no where in life.i believe if you dont hurt anyone no one is going to hurt you and also if they do, you can be the bigger person and forgive them cos that is very noble and only a person who is big at heart can fogive someone for something they have done and forget abt it also.its very imp u forget abt it.cos only forgiveness doesnt work unless its forgotten.
Reply:Forgiveness releases both the forgiven and the forgiver from the chains that bind two angered opposing forces as one. It is wise and noble then to forgive for the sake of one’s own peace of mind and the shedding of unnecessary and harmful emotional baggage.





Forgiveness of other should only be proffered if the person has made amends, righted their wrongs, admitted their misdeeds and actively and sincerely seeks forgiveness.
Reply:Yes ALL PEOPLE. By holding grudges you first burn yourself inside and harm your own person more than the person against whom you are holding it.Possible that the person may not be even aware of it + you dont damage the other person, you damage yourself.
Reply:Can you allow a poisonous snake in your house and allow it to stay in? You will fear that it will bite someone and try to search it and kill it. You can forgive anything but see that that forgiveness not bringing any bad result. In certain cases you can forgive but you must fly away from the spot at once. Remember and be careful.
Reply:Are these people asking for forgiveness? Are they sorry? Forgive them.





If they are not sorry and you come to understand that they are impaired and can%26#039;t, for your own sake, work through your feelings and forgive them if you can.





Adolf Hitler, Charles Manson, Mohammed Atta? Atilla the Hun? God knows. I do not.





To forgive is not to forget, but it is to forgive as much as you are able.





True and appropriate forgiveness with wise remembering is noble.
Reply:If there is no discrimination faculty,then only we forgive all,which is not an outcome of intelligence.
Reply:Forgiving is optional depending on your beliefs.





I used to believe in loving my enemy, but if I had a choice between offering my last coin to a good person (in equal need) who worked hard or a thief, I believe the good should be rewarded before the bad.
Reply:To err is human, to forgive, divine.


Get back to you on where that came from.
Reply:forgiving doesnt mean forgetting, one can forgive but still remember.





to forgive someone is not about what the other person did, but its if your strong and confident enough to face him again.


forgiveness is not about the sinner, its about you.





%26quot;to err is human, to forgive is divine%26quot;
Reply:it is easy to teach people... forgiving... but difficult when we have to forgive others....basically we forgive others not for them but to our own self....by forgiving... I can let go of my anger and my desire to punish..... It frees me to think about ways to make a difference... possibly allowing me to let go of past hurts and resentments.
Reply:Perhaps not %26quot;noble,%26quot; but... it would be right. To forgive someone lovingly, even if they don%26#039;t deserve it... That is a noble thing indeed. It doesn%26#039;t matter what they did, or if they even ask for forgiveness, we should forgive them. They may not change, but that is up to them.
Reply:It%26#039;s just smarter to move on and resolve to become less susceptible.
Reply:Do You Forgive as Jehovah Does?





“If you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; whereas if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”—MATTHEW 6:14, 15.





“JEHOVAH is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abundant in loving-kindness. He will not for all time keep finding fault, neither will he to time indefinite keep resentful. He has not done to us even according to our sins; nor according to our errors has he brought upon us what we deserve. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, his loving-kindness is superior toward those fearing him. As far off as the sunrise is from the sunset, so far off from us he has put our transgressions. As a father shows mercy to his sons, Jehovah has shown mercy to those fearing him. For he himself well knows the formation of us, remembering that we are dust.”—Psalm 103:8-14.





2 Conceived in sin and brought forth with error, with inherited imperfections always trying to lead us captive to sin’s law, we sorely need a God who ‘remembers that we are made of dust.’ Three hundred years after David described Jehovah so beautifully in the 103rd Psalm, another Bible writer, Micah, extolled this same God in much the same way for his gracious forgiving of sins once committed: “What god can compare with you: taking fault away, pardoning crime, not cherishing anger for ever but delighting in showing mercy? Once more have pity on us, tread down our faults, to the bottom of the sea throw all our sins.”—Micah 7:18, 19, The Jerusalem Bible.





3 In the Greek Scriptures, the word for “forgive” means to “let go off.” Note that David and Micah, quoted above, convey the same meaning in winsome, descriptive words. To appreciate fully the amazing extent of Jehovah’s forgiveness, let us review a few of the many examples of it in action. The first one shows that Jehovah’s mind can be turned from destruction to forgiveness.
Reply:I think so, but it%26#039;s not so simple. Let me explain.





For starters, I need to know what you mean here. It%26#039;s easy to take %26quot;all people%26quot; as an abstract concept, and you can%26#039;t forgive an abstraction - that%26#039;s just pretty thinking. But if you mean everyone who%26#039;s done wrong - especially who%26#039;s burned *you* - then we%26#039;re getting closer to the mark.





Another thing: I wouldn%26#039;t forgive simply because it%26#039;s the noble thing to do. That%26#039;s focusing on %26quot;Oh, how noble I am for having mercy.%26quot; It%26#039;s not about you, it%26#039;s about the other person.





Also, I%26#039;m not sure *when* the forgiveness ought to come. My inclination is, the sooner the better. And it should feel right - if you still feel pissed off at someone, and you say, %26quot;I forgive you%26quot;, you haven%26#039;t really forgiven that person. (Remember when you were a kid, and you had to say sorry - but you didn%26#039;t feel sorry? Same thing.) If you can really get over the rage and say the words, with the intent of granting them another chance, you%26#039;re a lot stronger than me.





To those who brought up Hitler: not a good case. Hitler%26#039;s too remote to register on the emotional scale. Make it the a**h*** who just ripped you off, burned you, raped you, whatever. Make it family, that%26#039;s even tougher.





As for telling us to use judgment: forgiveness isn%26#039;t about judging who deserves it. None of us deserves it. That%26#039;s the point. It%26#039;s not about discrimination, and it%26#039;s not about you. That%26#039;s what makes it so damn amazing - and so hard, and so rare.
Reply:Honey it may be noble. You are really a much better person than I am. I put out %26quot;I%26#039;m over you%26quot;, but if someone pusher the right keys, I%26#039;m buzzing in my head with a smile on my face. One of my many weaknesses.
Reply:Forgiveness does not imply you become a door mat for future abuse. Forgiveness is often misunderstood. I have forgiven, wished the other well %26amp; meant it, yet did not continue to put myself in the line of fire. Forgiveness means I hold no ill will, I refuse to judge your reality by your error %26amp; see you perfectly as you were created, but I do realize that you have not wakened to your reality yet %26amp; will no longer be an instrument in your self sabotage. Sometimes I help others more sitting on my sofa praying for them or sending them Love than I do with face to face contact. I can not be of service to anyone if I allow myself to be pulled under water with them.


Many Blessings!
Reply:yeah..it%26#039;s noble to forgive and wise to never forget.