Just askin'...

[sexybme]

If we could 4get when we wanted 2 / needed 2 would forgiveness have a purpose?... Y?...

[Kharmah]

huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh.

you can always forgive, if you truly want to but one can never forget. Especially if it was a huge impact.

[sexybme]

I agree... but the question is still unanswered....

[Patricia]

Forgiveness is a word out of my league, my nature seems to be somehow pessimistic, I have been forgiven from terrible things in the past, and I am deeply grateful and that has taught me to forgive too. When there's been an offense and ppl talk about it and work everything out, the feeling of comfort and ease are beyond pacifying.

[sexybme]

I feel the same way... But let's say sum1, God forbid, did sumthin' horrible to u - If u had the ability to totally 4get the second after it hppns (the situation is not going to resurface in anyway) would there be a need 4 4giveness?...

[Patricia]

Yes, because otherwise your brain would be locking it up by 'hiding' it from your short-term memory for your own protection. Suppose though that this ability to forget were real, one thing is forgetting the action and another is forgiving, you forgive the horrible offense when you ponder the person's actions and see which ones are 'heavier' the good or the bad ones.

[Mercury Bird]

Thats a good question..hmm..
I think it would, because for a lot of people... there would be huge chunks of their life "forgotten" which would make our lives shallow and much shorter and I imagine you'd start to become bitter. (Why get involved because I'll just have to forget it), or would you even remember that you forgot something? I'm thinking about childhood memories that you can't remember- but you know that something still happened. I think there would be a scar left behind but you'd always wonder why/what put a scar there. I think without that ability we'd become somewhat like robots. SO yes I think it would have a purpose.

[Suhayl Rajan]

To forget is easy. Simply move on with life pretending it never happened. But what kind of life would that be? Peaceful yes but also an incomplete reality. It takes a lot more to forgive than forget. To forgive we must accept that it happened and understand that we are all humans so we make mistakes. To forgive is to understand and acknowledge the deed is done and still decide to look past it and keep moving forward. If everyone in the world could learn to truly forgive, we may not yet achive peace but this would bring us one step closer. The only way we will ever atain peace is by taking one step at a time. "To err is human, to forgive is divine."