The best form of revenge?
August 3rd, 2014 at 6:50:27 PM permalink | |
Lemieux66 Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 1 Posts: 27 |
This guy is a lot shorter than me and fat. I'm tall, lean, and strong and go for the jugular in fights. I'm the heavy favorite in a battle. |
August 3rd, 2014 at 7:10:27 PM permalink | |
Face Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 61 Posts: 3941 |
Depends upon your definition of "accept". I accept bad things happen. I accept they will happen to me. I know people do fucked up things, and I know I, occasionally, will be the target of said things. Mostly, I do what I can to prevent it. But when it happens, I adjust, get over it, and move on. Some dude banged my girlfriend once. Interestingly, I ended up losing money to him in a card game shortly thereafter. Odder still, I eventually wound up in a position to oversee him in a professional setting. And I still find myself in sporting affairs with him, usually football. When I lost that money to him, I gathered it up, walked over, and paid him personally. Professionally, I ain't never singled him out. And on the field, I haven't taken a single one of the multiple cheap shot opportunities presented. Why? Because he is the dickhead. Him banging my g/f says nothing about me and everything about him. The only thing that matters is what I do, and I'm not letting anyone, especially no dip shit, to turn me into a dickhead. I've had property stolen by "friends", money stolen, good deals turn bad, time wasted, that's life. My response every time is to not allow them to screw me again and move on in the pursuit of awesomeness. And I am much better off because of it. Can you say the same? Perhaps time will tell. Be bold and risk defeat, or be cautious and encourage it. |
August 3rd, 2014 at 7:21:10 PM permalink | |
Lemieux66 Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 1 Posts: 27 |
It depends if there are repercussions to getting revenge. I'm much less apt if there are. |
August 3rd, 2014 at 7:29:08 PM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 | Al Bundy on revenge. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
August 3rd, 2014 at 7:52:04 PM permalink | |
Face Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 61 Posts: 3941 |
There always are. Always. Be bold and risk defeat, or be cautious and encourage it. |
August 3rd, 2014 at 8:19:15 PM permalink | |
Lemieux66 Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 1 Posts: 27 |
Yeah! |
August 3rd, 2014 at 8:36:41 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
Yup. Because you never get away with it. Got a guy once though. He dumped a friend of mine, a girl, and we signed him up for over 300 magazine subscriptions. Went to a Walmart and pulled order forms out of hundreds of mags and filled them all out in his name. He went nut for months trying to straighten it out. We even drove a hundred miles to mail them from another state. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
August 3rd, 2014 at 8:50:42 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | I'm on vacation for a few days so I can't really contribute as I'd like to from my phone, but I like a lot of what the Wizard shared and what Face wrote. St. Paul wrote that being nice to our enemies was like heaping burning coals upon their head, that sounds like pretty good revenge right there. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
August 3rd, 2014 at 9:04:28 PM permalink | |
Lemieux66 Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 1 Posts: 27 |
I can't disagree enough. |
August 4th, 2014 at 4:22:40 AM permalink | |
RonC Member since: Nov 7, 2012 Threads: 8 Posts: 2452 |
That used to work. It used to be the way things were settled. Then the short, fat, under-strength guys decided to even it up with guns. |