gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards"

This is the quote immortalizes you.

I read your site often and I always admire the way you put words and images together, but I have to say that this one really struck me. Very interesting and thought provoking. Thank you.

Here from Loup's blog for C&C Monday. Like your drawings. Do not always know what you are drawing, but then I am no artist.

Have a great day.

wow
when I get rich enough to buy your cards, this is the one I want.

I've been thinking about this one all day. A former customer showed up on our doorstep last week. He'd been one of our best customers for nearly a decade but he left us with a bang a few years ago - hate-filled letters, lawsuit, the works. Now he's back as if none of that ever happened. For whatever reason, he believes in us again. Whether we're going to take him back or not, that's another story.

I thought about every case of someone who I am no longer friends with or no longer have in my life for some reason or another...and you are right! Even though they have done some rotten things it is true...on some level I still care about (love?) them but I no longer believe in them. I don't 'hate' anyone though. Hate seems like you want to go out and seek revenge and do something rotten back. Which I have no desire to do..so...Very aptly put.

So if love is the opposite of hate, then to love someone is to believe in them?

This one makes no sense to me, Hugh, and you usually make WONDERFUL sense.

First of all, grammatically, "hate" isn't a synonym for a person, as in, "You are my hate." Just isn't ever used that way.

Second, there are many people I love but don't believe in--for instance, family and friends who continually and consistently let me down--and I certainly don't hate them.

It seems to me that hate has more to do with fear and perceived intent than with believing in someone. We hate people who we fear may do us harm or at least intend to do us harm.

Look at the Pennsylvania Amish families who instantly forgave the man who killed their little daughters. Their lack of hate had nothing to do with "believing in" the killer. It had everything to do with their trust in God and belief that following God's word is the only thing that matters and that if they do that, NOTHING CAN HURT THEM (says a lot about their attitude about death) and they have nothing to fear, thus no one to hate.

Just my two cents' worth.

Hate happens. It happens when there is too much worrying about losses or too much caring about gains depending on which side of the fence.

There is natural freedom in loving. A small example: You guys in London have the most unique sycamore trees I have ever seen. You do not have to become a tree hugger to feel their beauty. Some, who might extremely worry about their loss, may learn to hate the other side of the development fence. I just know Londoners are too smart or too much in love (naturally) to ever give up their beauty, even if they are not consciously making that decision everyday.

Jane,

Maybe they believed in the imago dei--the image or likeness of God--within the killer.

dydimustk,

Could be. Still, I think we're all working with a whole bunch of different definitions of "believe" here. I, too "believe" that we're all made in God's image, period, but there are individuals whom I don't "believe in" because they have taught me not to. However, my not "believing in" them does not mean that I hate them.

i believe this sums up my the "fabulous" relationship that my ex-husband and i share. e-ghads.

Wow, this cartoon has generated a lot of debate. Thanks, Everybody =)

The best part about losing faith
Is that you never have to worry about it coming back.

I don't know Jane. There are days when 'I am the hate' of several technical things I have to deal with. And that is exactly how I verbalize it, too!

yup.

I have had much happen to me in my short (soon-to-be) 33 years on this planet. Much good & much bad. Some things are what people would & have killed over. I do not hate. I have hated but when it came down to it, I always found I was hating myself in those moments. I hated the fact that I "let" those things happen. I now realize, it was not all me & especially the things that happened when I was not able to see. Like what happened when I was a child, for example.

Hate is fear & plain anger. But I do not hate.

And I have never hated anyone I have ever loved... even those who some would say deserve it.

AMAZING how SIMPLE it is.

I like the comment about how loving someone is to believe in them. When I hate someone I feel inadequate to change their behaviour. If I feel that there is room for change, or even want for change, I don't hate them. I 'belive' in them to be better. When someone has no effort to be better or kind or cannot even see what they may be doing wrong, then I can begin to hate them because they completely love themselves more than they are worried about anyone else. In the play ''sound of music'', love is defined as putting someone else first. when you put someone else first, you believe in them, you say 'go ahead, I know you can do it. I trust you to use this [oppurtunity, whatever] well'.

Hate is the absence of belief in that person or group. When we say 'I do not believe in you' you say 'you are not worth my time, energy, love or even appreciation, because nothing good can come of you'. That is hate.

To love is to let go. To love is to believe in someone to love you back.

[[Which, Justin, I believe in you]]

I like the comment about how loving someone is to believe in them. When I hate someone I feel inadequate to change their behaviour. If I feel that there is room for change, or even want for change, I don't hate them. I 'belive' in them to be better. When someone has no effort to be better or kind or cannot even see what they may be doing wrong, then I can begin to hate them because they completely love themselves more than they are worried about anyone else. In the play ''sound of music'', love is defined as putting someone else first. when you put someone else first, you believe in them, you say 'go ahead, I know you can do it. I trust you to use this [oppurtunity, whatever] well'.

Hate is the absence of belief in that person or group. When we say 'I do not believe in you' you say 'you are not worth my time, energy, love or even appreciation, because nothing good can come of you'. That is hate.

To love is to let go. To love is to believe in someone to love you back.

[[Which, Justin, I believe in you]]