Do you hate anyone?

[kenny]

I do.
Only one person who viscously, maliciously hurt and betrayed me beyond description.
I've decided to let karma take care of this person.

Is there anyone you hate?

 

[Irishgrrrl]

Yes. Just one "person."

 

[Arcadian]

Not anymore no. Love and hate are two very strong emotions that take a lot of energy emotionally and sometimes physcially. Once I decided to let it go a 800lb gorilla was lifted from my shoulders, and I''m much happier not caring one way or another about them.

-A

 

[zhuzhu]

Yes. Also just one person.
She does not really deserve to be "hated" but it is a lot of fun to use her as the subject of imagination when you see all sorts of torture methods/device on TV.

 

[kenny]

It's funny, since I turned it over to Karma the 800 pound gorilla is gone.
The hate is there because they did what they did, but the rage is gone.

I am certain that he/she will reap what he/she has sown.

 

[Tuckins1]

No. I used to when I was younger, but I find it very counter productive to being a happy, well centered person. Also, I don''t think anyone has done anything to me that warrants "HATE". Perhaps strong dislike, or even worse, complete apathy... (as if the person just doesn''t exist to me). I find that the universe has a way of punishing these people in ways that are far more effective than I could ever do. Karma really IS a bitch!

 

[dragonfly411]

I hated two girls... they both maliciously attacked me b/c of a guy. I've made peace with both of them actually and we've explained our takes on things... and now we're ok.

editing creepy cerial killer guy out until I know whether 2.0 will actually come

 

[redfaerythinker]

Not really... I hated one particular person once, but I have moved on. I do however get an extreme amount of pleasure when her evilness gets her in trouble.

 

[kama_s]

No, not really. I despise a few people, but I don''t think I hate anyone. Hate is just too strong an emotion. I don''t even like using the word, unless I''m describing broccoli!

 

[brazen_irish_hussy]

Not really, but I used to. Most of them I am simply indiferent to, but haven''t really forgiven either. The few caught up by karma I have forgiven.

The only one I can''t get over I don''t really hate, but I hate seeing his picture on FB. Just because he is pious now doesn''t mean what he did to me didn''t happen. And it might have been 10 years ago after him going through a really bad time and he was drunk, but that doesn''t justify what he did and even though he has a wife and kids, I would still like to see karma get him.

 

[Smurfysmiles]

Yes, 4 people. Although I don''t dwell on it anymore; if you asked me to sit in the same room as them, I would tell you I would rather eat snake poop. Yup. Snake poop.

 

[artdecogirl]

Sad to say yes, Our oldest daughter had a boyfriend when she was 18 that was into meth and was a con artist and a thief, she was with him for 4 months before she realized what he was and it has taken her years to get over the damage he caused and she will never be the same person, there was a time that I think if I saw him on the street I would have run him over with my car, I am not a violent person nor have I held a grudge before but this kid messed with my childs life and while I know she made her own decisions I also know what type of person he is and sometimes I feel I can never forgive.

 

[VRBeauty]

I used to. It took quite a bit of work on my part but I really, truly got over it, and my (interior) life is much better for it.

ETA... I just realized there's one other person I haven't really forgiven, and in fact I'm not even working on it. Oh well... 1) his time will come, and 2) I doubt my feelings towards him make one iota of difference to him at all... They're just poison to me.

***sigh***

 

[loriken214]

Nope, just don''t have it in me.

Lori

 

[lyra]

I don''t have it in me either. There is only one person I absolutely keep out of my life and that is my sister. But I don''t hate her per se. I have hated things she has done, but at some point I just had to let it go.

 

[iluvcarats]

I don''t hate anyone, but there are people who I will never have anything to do with ever again. I don''t hate them or wish bad things on them, but they are not welcome in my life anymore.

 

[dragonfly411]

oK I have to add... and this is justified IMVHO.

I hate my neighbors. The ones that share a courtyard (Though there is a wall in the middle). They have NEVER said hello, smiled, waved...nothing. The past few months have been the worst with them. They have begun to have parties. At first they weren''t horrible... mostly louder video games in the room that shares a wall with our bedroom. I can tune that out. Then it turned into people being loud within their house. Again, understandable... I can deal. Most recently it has turned into loud music with their windows open.... doors slamming (including the front door which is caddy corner to our bedroom window), loud loud loud music, loud people. Mind you we sleep with our window cracked b/c of having had our vehicles vandalized. The worst was one night I was home alone, they had TONS of people over. At 3-4 there were people screaming, running in and out of their house, running up and down the street yelling, and then they started SCREAMING bon jovi at the top of their lungs. They also WATCHED one of my Netflix dvd''s that was accidentally put in their box vs. ours (had our address on it) before giving it back to us. The most recent has been that they allow their friends to park in ALL of the parking in front of our building. There is no reserved parking... but generally out of courtesy others practice not parking in each other''s general spots. SO and I use three... and we keep it the same three. Our neighbors on the other side use two... same two. We LEAVE the bad neighbors'' spots open. There are two they use normally... though recently they''ve had a third. We NEVER allow our guests to take our neighbors'' spots. They park across the way or in excess spots. These neighbors let their guests take our spots regularly.

Tonight they are below my room, shaving someone''s head... raucous..annoying. I ... hate....them.

 

[packrat]

I hated a guy when I was in high school. And then a couple years after graduation he was killed in a car accident. Outside, I shrugged and said whatever. Inside, I smiled.

Otherwise, I can''t say as I hate anyone, besides like, child killers/molesters.

 

[yssie]

Yes.


I lost a friend to a drunk driver. I can't begin to describe the rage and loathing I feel when I think about him.

 

[Diamond*Dana]

Yes, the SOB who murdered my cousin.

 

[Indylady]

Nope.

There are a few that I dislike immensely; one or two make my blood boil, but I don''t think its hate.

 

[kenny]

Date: 5/28/2010 10:57:09 PM
Author: loriken214
Nope, just don't have it in me.
Lori

Or perhaps nobody has ever done something bad enough to you.

I'm not focusing on you personally Lori, just suggesting that possibility in a hypothetical non-personal way.

I never thought I was capable of hate either - until X happened.
Before that I just didn't have in me either.
I was above that.

 

[4ever]

One person.

If I was to meet her again and she insisted in having a conversation I would really REALLY want to hit her.

When ever I think about her a secretly hope karma will come back to bite her on the ass and then feel guilty for wishing bad things would happen to her. I have dreams about her often, in some of them she apologizes and I am so happy we are friends again, in the other ones I scream at her at the top of my lungs in public places because I am so furious.

I don''t like hating some one and never have before. I hope in time I will not be so angrey and will no longer care about her one way or another.

 

[zoebartlett]

I wish I could say that I don''t have it in me to have such strong emotions towards someone but I do. There are different levels for me though. There are a few people I can''t stand beacause of how they treated me in the past (not boyfriends or anyone like that, but I won''t mention who). Then there are a few peopleI''ve never met personally but whom I despise because of something horrific they did to others I know/knew and care about. People very close to me do know these people though, and I know they feel the same way.

 

[Circe]

Date: 5/28/2010 11:10:45 PM
Author: iluvcarats
I don''t hate anyone, but there are people who I will never have anything to do with ever again. I don''t hate them or wish bad things on them, but they are not welcome in my life anymore.

Very well said. This goes for me, too, on the one-on-one level.

As an example ... after my miscarriage, one of my closest friends just stopped talking to me. She wasn''t there for me when I needed her, and now I don''t need her. If she''d told me it was too heavy, it triggered her personal issues, anything, I could have let it go. As it is, while I don''t wish her poorly, I don''t ever want to hear anything from or about her again.

Of course, when we get onto people who are actively malicious, malignant, and evil - Fred Phelps and the like? For them, I have enough hate to go around.

 

[Tuckins1]

I can absolutely understand all of you who have lost somebody to a murder, or been abused, or had a child be abused... I think that something like that could push me to actually HATE somebody. (Like pedophiles/rapists/murderers)

 

[Irishgrrrl]

I have to say, I really admire those of you who were able to forgive the person and move on. I wish I were able to do that too, but I just don''t think I can. In fact, I''m not even sure I want to. It just feels right to hate this individual, due to how he treated me and my family. (You may have noticed that it''s very hard for me to refer to him as a "person" . . . I don''t think he deserves that title. He''s really more of a monster.) I''ve hated him for most of my life, and I don''t think I''ll ever be able to get past it.

And please understand that I don''t take the word "hate" lightly, by any means! There are several people who have been in my life over the years who most people would fully expect me to hate, but I don''t hate them . . . it''s more like I just don''t feel anything for them at all. I wish them well, in the same way I''d wish a complete stranger well, but I honestly don''t feel anything more than that for them. But this one individual, I truly do hate with everything I have in me. And I probably always will.

 

[diamondringlover]

Yes, there are 3 people in this world that I hate. Hate is such a strong emotion, but the emotional and financial toll they have caused me and my family they deserve every bit of my anger and hate. I will never forgive or forget!

 

[Maisie]

Hate (Hate) (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hated; p. pr. & pr. & vb. n. Hating.]
[OE. haten, hatien, AS. hatian; akin to OS. hatan, hat¿n to be hostile to, D. haten to hate, OHG. hazz¿n, hazz¿n, G. hassen, Icel. & Sw. hata, Dan. hade, Goth. hatan, hatian. ¿¿¿. Cf. Hate, n., Heinous.]

To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to detest

Well going by that definition I don''t hate anyone. There are a couple of people I really don''t like, but I wouldn''t wish anything evil on anyone.

 

[Steel]

Date: 5/29/2010 8:45:30 AM
Author: Maisie
Hate (Hate) (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Hated; p. pr. & pr. & vb. n. Hating.]
[OE. haten, hatien, AS. hatian; akin to OS. hatan, hat¿n to be hostile to, D. haten to hate, OHG. hazz¿n, hazz¿n, G. hassen, Icel. & Sw. hata, Dan. hade, Goth. hatan, hatian. ¿¿¿. Cf. Hate, n., Heinous.]

To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to detest

Well going by that definition I don''t hate anyone. There are a couple of people I really don''t like, but I wouldn''t wish anything evil on anyone.

Yes based on that definition I hate many people; only a couple actively but there are many who I strongly wish would have constant misfortune and death. But, before you judge me, live in my shoes.

DF: So sorry about your neighbours, really I know how badly neighbours can impact your home life. The respect you show your neighbours is your downfall. There will always be bullies and you have 2 options. You can continue and live and let live, be respectful and hold your head high. Or, an eye for an eye.