FROGIVENESS TEST
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Do you want to test your forgiveness?
Can you let go of hurt, and restore your faith in the essential goodness of life?
Click 'here to take the quiz.
This is a part of a book called, "Why good things happen to good people", written by Dr.Stephen Post & Jill Neimark. My score was 80, apparently I am a moderate "giver". What is yours?Here is a quote from the Author:
"Love can be expressed in a great many ways. So, in the book there's a chapter on attentive listening. You know some people are really good at attentive listening and they do such beautiful job. Others express love through creativity, they are just able to create beautiful works of music – Beethoven's Ode to Joy – or literary people. Some people express love through forgiveness, or through the courage to confront self-destructive behaviors. Sometimes love is expressed through humor! For my father it was loyalty. He was the most loyal person I ever met."– Stephen Post
ABF, for the promotion of human rights and democracy in Iran
13 comments:
Does this mean I'm just a whimp? YOUR FORGIVENESS SCORE is 98. You are a High Giver (80th percentile).
No Roxie. It means you're highly evolved spiritually. My score was 88. I have a long way to go.
can I easily let go of hurt ? I can only give an exact answer to this question when I am really hurt, not sometime after. on the other side, when I really feel bad I don't like to sit by the computer and try to answer these kind of questions, so my score is definitley zero !!
Roxie, don't listen to Serendip!and stop being a hight giver. Being highly evolved spiritually is not that good on this planet!
My God, then I am worse than you, mine was 80!!! :-)
btw: check Judy's site:
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/41419.html
LOL anonynous. I guess if I lived in Iran, I would not be so inclined to forgive either. We need to get you out of that place, my friend. If I was a billionaire, I would have helped all those non-muslim Iranians to get out.
Thank you Frieda. She highlighted exactly the parts I was hoping she would.
Serendip, you big dictator! would you really try to take all thoes non-Moslem Iranians out by force? what if they didn't want to leave? what if they loved where they were in spite of having to live with the most stupid and arrogant people but still the nicest and lovliest people in the world?! by the way I wasted some time on that quiz and my score was 101 which means I'm a born loser! LOL
You're too funny. You're not a loser at all. The environment in which you live in necessitate you to be exactly the way you are. You will change once your environment changes. Your visits to my blog are such an inspiration for me and I always learn so much from you. Thank you my friend for being you.
Serendip Jan Salam. I'm pathetic. 107, High Giver--read Sucker! It's a good thing I'm not in charge of any country, I guess, as there will be nothing left of it by the time I leave office. You know, quizzes like this cannot be very accurate. Who knows how we answer those questions--is it really how we are or how we want to be? I know one thing, though. I have very little material wealth after years of working hard! I must have given it all away when I wasn't thinking! Be good azizam.
They switched the test to "Test your Courage Quotient" before I got to take the forgiveness one!
I got:
YOUR COURAGE SCORE is 101. You are a High Giver (80th percentile).
But I don't think that's accurate because I am a confrontational type person and that naturally gives me a high score.
I really wanted to take the forgiveness test. I need a lot of help in that area. I really do. I would have been interested to at least be able to see what kind of questions they asked.
PC: I'm sorry you weren't able to take the quiz. Forgiveness has been and will be a defining issue in my life for years to come. It is not easy and I have to work at it every minute of the day. I have no other choice. I have to do it to save my soul and the quality of my life.
There is a Chinese proverb, which I keep in mind when I get carried away with thoughts of revenge: He who seeks revenge should dig two graves.
In the final analysis we need to forgive those who have harmed us gravely for us not for them. That is the only way, we will heal our torn-asundered hearts and minds.
What you say makes a lot of sense, Serendip. I've come to the same conclusions too, but I still don't do very well with it. I always seem to find reasons to justify harboring a grudge, anyway. My favorite seems to be the idea of justice. It's a fine line between justice and revenge, and I don't seem to know where that line is :(
PC: Sounds like you and I are trying to overcome the same battle. I have to do it literally everyday. I hear your pain my friend. Will the pain always endure and hurt so deeply until we see justice done? I'm afraid so...
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