I have been thinking about the comment I put in my fellow blogger's entry on July 31st at http://gszeli1.blogspot.com/ and the responses I see. The story I bring to my mind is this story in the Aesop's Fables and I will transcribe from this classic:
Pursued by an eagle, a hare took refuge in the nest of a beetle, whom he begged to save him. The beetle felt compassion for the hare and pleaded with the eagle not to kill the poor creature. In the name of mighty Jupiter, the beetle requested that the eagle respect his intercession and the laws of hospitality even though he was nothing but a tiny insect. However, the eagle became furious and gave the beetle a flap with his wing. In cold blood he seized the hare with his enormous talons and devoured him right on the spot.
When the eagle flew away, the beetle followed him to find out where his nest was. Then he crawled in and rolled hte eagle's eggs out, one by one, breaking them in the process. Grieved and enraged to think that anyone would do such an audacious thing, the eagle built his next nest in a higher place. But there too, the beetle managed to get it and destroyed the eggs as he had done before.
The eagle was now at a loss as to what to do. So he flew up to Jupiter, his lord and king, and placed the third brood of eggs as a sacred deposit in his lap, begging him to guard them for him. However, the beetle made a little ball of dirt and flew up with it to Jupiter and dropped it on his lap. When Jupiter saw the dirt, he stood up right away to shake it off, forgetting the eggs, which were again broken as they rolled off his lap. The beetle now informed Jupiter that he has done this to gain revenge on the eagle, who had not only wronged him but has acted with impiety toward Jove himself. Therefore, when the eagle returned, Jupiter told him that the beetle was the wronged party and that his complaint was not without justification. Nevertheless, Jupiter did not want the race of eagles to be humiliated, so he advised the beetle to arrange a peaceful settlement with him. But the beetle would not agree to this, and Jupiter was compelled to change the eagle's breeding time to another season when there are no beetles to be seen.
No matter how powerful one's position may be, there is nothing that can protect the oppressor in the end from the vengeance of the oppressed.
2 comments:
Religion conflicts has went on for thousands of years. Do you think it will stop in this century?
According to Losang Rampa, the "Tibetan Monk", there will be peace on earth in this century under the stimulus of greater power from space. In one of his books he says that Israel will be punished by God for their actions.
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