2007-11-07 04:37:51 · 28 answers · asked by MR TT, VT enthusiast 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
your bum is the other cheek.when someone hit you on the cheek.you turn around and walk away.so showing him the other cheek
2007-11-07 04:42:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We have a lot of otters down here in Florida . They're hard to photograph , they'll never turn the other cheek so I can get a shot of the other side .
2007-11-07 12:45:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sometimes it's not worth a fight or overreacting. So, you ignore it instead. Hence "turn the other cheek". However, if the other cheek is struck too, ahem... it becomes an eye for an eye!
Ed: I will turn the "otter" cheek to a thumbs down, then it's thumbs down back at ya!
2007-11-07 12:47:20 · answer #3 · answered by Mr. Len 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Turn the otter this way ,peel the hide, turn the otter that way, peel the hide.
What never skinned an animal before.
So much for the civilized world.
2007-11-07 12:42:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turning the other cheek is an example of a general principle that Jesus lays out - do not resist he that does evil (Matthew 5:39). Leo Tolstoy wrote at length about how this is an absolute commandment and Christians are to be pacifist at all times. However, I would argue that Jesus does not make this statement exclusive with all other ways of dealing with evil.
Take the case of Hitler. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was an ardent Christian pacifist who was jailed by Hitler for his beliefs and later was caught and executed for being involved in an assassination conspiracy against him. Wakter Wink has argued that this was wrong of Bonhoeffer and that the man himself regarded it as a sin that he was trying to kill Hitler.
Not me. Not coming to the aid of a victim implicitly affirms the violence being done to them, we have chosen a non-peaceful worldview in doing so. Additionally, we have allowed the violent person to go on being consumed by hate and hating others with very heinous and injurious actions. I think we're obligated to love our neighbors and that this most loving thing we can do sometimes is use the least amount of force necessary to restore peace and protect the victim of violence. Jesus stopped peter from slaying the Romans who came to arrest him, after all. And killing Hitler would have been a good thing.
But sometimes the best way to deal with violence is to stop the cycle - not repay it with violence of our own. And I think this is what Jesus is getting at because it is in a section refuting an eye for an eye, the proscription of Moses for how to deal with violence. Jesus is saying and eye for an eye can make the whole world blind. Sometimes that means taking the violence of others into ourselves and through empathy with ourselves and the violent person we can absorb the hate and wound their soul in a way that requires them to drop the Ego and let it hurt and heal.
That's my perspective, anyway....
2007-11-07 12:51:22 · answer #5 · answered by ledbetter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turn the other cheek is a famous phrase taken from the Sermon on the Mount in the Christian New Testament. In Jesus' Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus says:
"You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you." (Matthew 5:38-42, NIV)
A parallel version is offered in the Sermon on the Plain in the Gospel of Luke:
"But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you." (Luke 6:27-31. NIV)
2007-11-07 12:42:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How cute!... an otter with a cheek!!!
2007-11-07 12:43:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means you have twisted the neck of the otter.
2007-11-07 12:41:13 · answer #8 · answered by Que bella 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, it's very important that, in this instance, the otter is a consenting adult. After that, it's a private matter.
2007-11-07 12:46:48 · answer #9 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you can catch one, but I think it's against Federal law to hunt otters now.
2007-11-07 12:40:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Turn the other cheek DOES NOT mean walk away!.....it means showing your other cheek as in giving your opponent another shot. Asking him to hit you again.
I can't beleive firefly and you bunch don't even know that. Now how ignorant does that make you?????
2007-11-07 12:44:18 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋