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  • Excellent question! Here are a few excerpts from one of MLK's sermons. I think he had the right idea: "Now first let us deal with this question, which is the practical question: How do you go about loving your enemies? I think the first thing is this: In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self. And I’m sure that seems strange to you, that I start out telling you this morning that you love your enemies by beginning with a look at self. It seems to me that that is the first and foremost way to come to an adequate discovery to the how of this situation.... we must face the fact that an individual might dislike us because of something that we’ve done deep down in the past, some personality attribute that we possess, something that we’ve done deep down in the past and we’ve forgotten about it; but it was that something that aroused the hate response within the individual. That is why I say, begin with yourself. There might be something within you that arouses the tragic hate response in the other individual." "A second thing that an individual must do in seeking to love his enemy is to discover the element of good in his enemy, and everytime you begin to hate that person and think of hating that person, realize that there is some good there and look at those good points which will over-balance the bad points.... And this simply means this: That within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals. The person who hates you most has some good in him; even the nation that hates you most has some good in it; even the race that hates you most has some good in it. And when you come to the point that you look in the face of every man and see deep down within him what religion calls "the image of God," you begin to love him in spite of. No matter what he does, you see God’s image there. There is an element of goodness that he can never sluff off. Discover the element of good in your enemy. And as you seek to hate him, find the center of goodness and place your attention there and you will take a new attitude." "Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it. There will come a time, in many instances, when the person who hates you most, the person who has misused you most, the person who has gossiped about you most, the person who has spread false rumors about you most, there will come a time when you will have an opportunity to defeat that person. It might be in terms of a recommendation for a job; it might be in terms of helping that person to make some move in life. That’s the time you must do it. That is the meaning of love. In the final analysis, love is not this sentimental something that we talk about. It’s not merely an emotional something. Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system." http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/sermons/571117.002_Loving_Your_Enemies.html
  • With the gift of pain.
  • Love every single one of God's creations with ALL of your heart. There's no work involved loving only those easy to love. It takes effort to love the ones you wish to hate. When someone is hard to love, it means they need love the most. We all make mistakes...and all of us will continue to make them throughout our lives--why waste time hating someone for their transgressions when we have a laundry list of our own?
  • your enemy shows your weakness point by attacking it, you can finde ur weaknesses with enemys
  • You look for something you have in common and you hyper focus on that one thing. We all have at least one thing in common.
  • I will never understand why people have enemies. If you don't like me, that is your problem. It is only mine if I choose to make it so. You cannot become my enemy without my permission.
  • I don't have ennemies, but if I had, I wouldn't waste my love on persons that don't deserve it. I wouldn't waste my time hating neither, as it's a feeling I don't believe in and can only bring you bad waves.
  • I don't actually love them, but I always go to their funerals...as a matter of fact I'm almost always the first one to see the dead body... ;-D
  • By being respect to them, helping them, being polite and kind, displaying them love and showing concern for them. By being everything that they should be to you.
  • The same way you love anyone else: you treat them the way that you want to be treated. How they respond is their prerogative.
  • I don't love anyone who is trying to harm me, except in the sense of hoping they will get straightened out.
  • I dont have enemies, just people that like to try and break me, but if I didnt have reprucussions I would like to love them in a choke hold as I used a blade to dance in and out of their flesh while their loved ones look on... sorry I blacked out, what was the question?
  • With cold, unanswerable revenge.
  • Pre-emptively
  • Generally with a 12 guage slug to the chest.
  • by kicking their butts!

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