if a bear ripped off your arm... would you spend the rest of your life hating that bear? after all he's abear.

Question

would you spend your life brooding over in your head about this animal ripping off your precious arm and devouring it? would you devote yourself to tracking down that bear and killing it? if you did would that accomplish anything?

i guess my question was a lot deeper and meatphorical in my own head but...still.... these simple answers are so unsatisfying. they are like pixy sticks when you want a steak.

lol bear. reminds me of my favorite commercials. its so simple a caveman can do it.

well... i think i would hate the bear. the image of it eating my arm. my arm which is sacred to me and which i love.

in the wise words of ben_dover......................... i think id track down that bear and eat his arm.

i was thinking slightly metaphoricly about love. how you love someone and they end up doing great damage to you... but after all.. its love... what do you expect. you can hardly blame the person for hurting you so badly when you are messing around with something so powerful. ...its like juggling with chainsaws and expecting not to get hurt.

...after all, its a bear. and even though i know that.. i think i would still hate the bear.

Answer 1

No. There would be no hate. Hate is a mental illness related to impaired cognitive abilities and inadequate coping skills, usually experienced as an emotional compensatory mechanism when one feels pain and confusion and projects that pain and confusion onto something else. Hate hails from the most primitive stage of human spiritual development.

Answer 2

This is very interesting.
I am a christian, and it took me a long time, but did get over with hating someone who ripped of my life at past. It actually freed me, and I am learning the art of forgiveness, and ask God to guide their spirit.
Now, if we are talking about actual bear, I don't believe that animals have spirit, so, yeah, I think this will be the occasion when I can hate something freely without consider the statue of spirit, but, no, I won't tracking down the bear. After all, it's just a Bear.
So, my feeling will be, "hate with no string attached."

Well, I think the bear in this question is really a human, and if that so, here is easier said then done, yet, possible; "hate the sin, love the sinner."
No, it doesn't mean stick the other arm out, but, forgive.

Answer 3

No. If a man ripped off my arm, I would kill him or at the very least see him rot in jail & spend my life hating him. But a bear, or any animal, is innocent. They act on instinct. I could not be angry with an animal for doing what it feels it needs to do when threatened. Man is the enemy to an animal. I love bears & all animals.

I wouldn't hate the bear but I'd probably be scared of bears from then on & would be much less apt to venture out in the woods!

No I wouldn't kill the bear! That wouldn't bring my arm back & I would feel guilty for destroying a beautiful animal.

Answer 4

lol @ all this, thanks.

There's this ad in my town at a bus stop. Reading the print from afar, it says "Me give up? Never!" or something inanely positive. Then you get closer and see a smiling girl holding a surfboard on a tropical beach. A few steps further -- you see a faux shark bite in the board, and a very real amputated arm.

I would never go in the water again. Not a pool or bathtub. I'd pay 50,000$ to have the shark captured alive (if not a close relative) just so I could torture it to death a la Hostel.

Yes it's a stupid animal, but so am I.

Answer 5

No I would not hate the bear...but I would be very skeptical of bears after that incidence. I`d probably have nightmare for quite awhile then go ahead with my life. No I wouldn`t hunt the bear down and kill it. What would that prove? I guess I would turn the other cheek and go down the lane and live life!!!

Answer 6

I would hate the bear and myself. it would have been my own carelessness to have ended up that way and it would be the bear's fault too. I would go back and hunt that bear down because for some reason I enjoy taking revenge on things that have done damage to me. In love, well, that's another thing. I have been hurt before and even when that person painfully kills me inside I still can't do anything to them, because I am not the one to rule their emotions and if they do something wrong to me it really isn't their fault, unless they did it on purpose to hurt me.

Answer 7

No, because its just an animal, no premeditation etc. I would feel blessed and happy the rest of my life to still be alive. Besides, if it ripped off my left arm, my right arm would be left, right?

Answer 8

No, of course not. I would spend the rest of my very short life bleeding to death thinking 'Oh, ****. This really hurts.'

Let me guess, there is someone in your life who just 'won't let go' of it (whatever 'it' is) and it bugs the daylights out of you. Been There! You will be happier if you A) Learn to ignore it or B) Get him/her/it to go to counseling. Option A is the most viable (personal experience talking).

Good Luck.

Jen

Answer 9

nah... i wouldn't hate the bear. it's just his nature. he prolly bit my arm off cuz i was pissin him off. lol... but yeah- its his natural instinct to do something like that, how could i be mad at an animal for being an animal. if anything, i'd be mad at myself for bein a dumb@$$ and messin with a bear. what the heck was i thinking!!??

Answer 10

If I actually survived............which is highly doubtful, I would not blame the bear. Animals do not attack for no reason, so therefore, there had to be a good reason for the bear to attack.