Philosophical Riddle

[dizzydoll]

If someone offers you a gift, to whom does the gift belong?
If someone offers a gift of hostility and you do not accept it, to whom does the gift belong?

--A Buddhist Ideal--
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[dizzydoll]

Oh a dead thread, what a shame... I would have loved to get your answer to this riddle.

:D

[Michael T]

Oh a dead thread, what a shame... I would have loved to get your answer to this riddle.

:D

I'll play, although it's hardly a riddle!

The legal definition of a gift is a transfer of property with nothing given in return. The dictionary definition is much the same …a thing given willingly to someone without payment; a present. There is no obligation to accept the gift in either case.

1) If you willingly accept the gift, then it belongs to you.

2) As you are under no obligation, nor likely to willingly accept a person’s hostility toward you - their hostility remains their own.

[dizzydoll]

their hostility remains their own

Exactly Michael ... :hurray: I posed the same on another forum and you would be amazed, most people didnt get it :rolleyes5:


I love these New smilies too :driving::auto: