The eye for an eye law

[Gaetan]

These who makes fault to jews will be jews tomorrow. These who makes fault to palestinians will be palestinians tomorrow. This is the eye for a eye law, to live and die again and again, when to forgive leads to eternal live.

Gaetan

[Hokulele]

Those damn happy millionaires with beautiful families and social consciences! It is all their fault!

[RoboTimbo]

I'm making fault to a happy millionaire.

[Foster Zygote]

He took a dog-doo snow-cone and stuffed it in my right eye

He took a dog-doo snow-cone and stuffed it in my other eye

[~enigma~]

This is the eye for a eye law

Who made this law...Judge Dredd?

I like Lamb Of God's version better though. It says if you hit me and I die, you are forgiven but if you hit me and I don't die...guess you can figure the rest out :)

[Phase Inverter]

...to forgive leads to eternal live [sic]...


Really? How so?

[The Man]

He took a dog-doo snow-cone and stuffed it in my right eye

He took a dog-doo snow-cone and stuffed it in my other eye


Relief, good eats and more to be found....

“At Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast
(Hah! Good God! Get off the bus!)
Where I stole the mar-juh-reen . . .”

[proudnonbbeliever]

is there an actual question asked in the OP?

otherwise it just seems like an anti-semitic judgement of another cultures judicial system.

[proudnonbbeliever]

is there an actual question asked in the OP?

otherwise it just seems like an anti-semitic judgement of another cultures judicial system.

[proudnonbbeliever]

im really confused i reread the op and i think it may be a statement about reincarnation and the israeli-palestinian conflict.

[empeake]

These who makes fault to jews will be jews tomorrow. These who makes fault to palestinians will be palestinians tomorrow. This is the eye for a eye law, to live and die again and again, when to forgive leads to eternal live.


This sounds more like karma and reincarnation than lex talionis...

He took a dog-doo snow-cone and stuffed it in my right eye

He took a dog-doo snow-cone and stuffed it in my other eye


And this sounds like the lyrics to a Country and Western Top 10 song. :D

[Gaetan]

Really? How so?

This might answer your question

In his sermon on the mountain the Christ says that the persecuted go to heaven. The devil never want that you go to heaven, to keep you in the purgatory or in hell he wants to dispense justice to you. He told to Moses, when a offence is done to someone, dispense him justice by doing the same fault he caused. This is the eye for an eye law. This is clear that when you are persecuted, you don’t have the right to go to heaven by persecuting or revenging of the person who have been wrong with you. You can’t have access to heaven and the justice. That is another proof that the father of christian is not God. In hell, everybody demand for justice but in heaven the peoples who claim for justice are few. To go to heaven you have to be infinitely just towards others but not demand justice for yourself. According to the Christ and the true God, you have to forgive and even pray for those who persecute you. This doesn’t mean that you should let injustice happened, on the contrary you have to stop the injustice and this is your duty to do so but the ones who do injustice should’t be punished. Punishing the injustice it is to want to harm others and that keep you from the access to light worlds.

Gaétan

[New Jersey Alex]

Keep in mind, that for the time when "an eye for an eye" sprang up, such a policy was enlightened. It used to be that if someone put out your eye, you could pretty much do whatever you wanted -- kill them, for instance.

So the idea of AEFOE was much more like current law: the idea (eye-dea?) was that yes, plaintiff has a legitimate grievance against defendant and is entitled to relief. He took your eye, so you're entitled to something, but no, you will not get to kill him, rape his wife and dog, sell his children into slavery, burn his house to the ground and salt his fields so that nothing will ever grow there again.

[Harpyja]

Well, I suppose that the "eye for an eye" philosophy had its place at one time where such an injury could be extraordinarily devastating. Nowadays? There are far more delightfully sinister ways to cripple someone.

[kerikiwi]

According to the Christ and the true God, you have to forgive and even pray for those who persecute you.



We also need to hear from the false God before we can agree to this. He might have a much more attractive offer...

[Mashuna]

He took a dog-doo snow-cone and stuffed it in my right eye

He took a dog-doo snow-cone and stuffed it in my other eye


And this sounds like the lyrics to a Country and Western Top 10 song. :D

You know, I'd never though of Frank Zappa as Country and Western, but you could be onto something.