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| Part of the rule of God is to love thy neighbor. What if your neighbor doesn’t do you good, like gossiping about your life despite they don’t know the truth. You are their perfect topic when they are in circles, early in the morning. It seems they are more busy with your life that their lives. Your weakness is their favorite topic because they know they will able to make fun of your and your shortcomings. I need to understand that there are people who are like that but I don’t need to love them. What is your view on this?
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| I don’t know how to deal with this type of neighbors. Although I have some really bad neighbors before, including gossips! I pray a lot, “Forgive those trespass against us” was my favorite part of Our Father. We don’t have to love them, but we are not bringing harm to them either, and I think this is what Jesus taught us. I only had to call the police once and let the law handled them! | |
| I would love to call the police but police are useless in my country. They only know people if they will be willing to pay them under the table. Some people are handling bad people with their own hands in here. | |
| Its good to keep good relation and understanding with the neighbor as we always get them first in our good and bad days. | |
| But not all are having good experience with neighbors. I tend to avoid them than to clash with them because it is quite useless to make friends with them anyway. They look down on you and whatever positive that happens to you looks ridiculous on them because of bitterness. | |
| I live by the motto “Do unto others as you would like them to do unto you.” With this being said, even if a neighbor is rude, mean or negative, I still treat them as I would want to be treated. Some times it’s hard, but I know God is watching over and knows that I am the better person!! | |
 Anonymous Topics: 48 Replies: 145 Rank: Newbie | well, neighbor for me in this sense don’t always mean neighbor or the one living next your house, right? I mean people apart from yourself. Anyway, It’s difficult actually to do since I’m human and only part time artificial intelligence but I still try my best to be nice to most people. However, if I don’t like a certain individual I just ignore them or be casual. I don’t want to waste effort and time to really get to know them or be close. is that bad? |
| I agree that not all neighbors are “mind your own business” type. Majority are auntie gossipers. What we could do is ignore them and keep yourself under low profile. Sooner or later, they will get fed up with your “boring” lifestyle, they would not be bothering about you anymore | |
| I had to call the police on this 8 years old girl who was sent by her family to harass me when I was out working in the garden. She would come onto my driveway and saying things like “hey, you old ugly woman, why don’t go eat something. etc” the entire morning. I warned the girl to go home, but they sent her back right away, so I had to call the police to straight them out. I had peace after that 🙂 | |
| we do help our neighbors. one of them we suspect dosed our dog and we lost it and its unpardonable but we do not have evidence and hence could not question them about it. Neighbors are more useful than far off relatives | |
| I think that’s what happens when we misunderstand the religion. Religions will always teach good things. In some Eastern cultures, people say – entire world is a family. It is our job to decide what to follow There has to be a limit on tolerance. But loving is a different topic. When Jesus said – love thy neighbor – he was in accordance with the 10 commandments which made bearing false witness forbidden. Coming to your case. Requoting you: // What if your neighbor doesn’t do you good, like gossiping about your life despite they don’t know the truth. You are their perfect topic when they are in circles, early in the morning. It seems they are more busy with your life that their lives. Your weakness is their favorite topic because they know they will able to make fun of your and your shortcomings. // If they are your neighbors, so are you to them. So, they have violated GOD’s commandment. That’s a narrow line of difference between love and delusion. Hiding the mistakes of others is not love, that is delusion. If you love, you must help them correct their mistakes. You are not violating any commandment by making them realize what’s wrong. In 80% of the cases, this will help. In other 20% cases, there are other solutions but they vary from case to case. Hope this helps.
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| I agree, there are neighbors that are very helpful. In some areas of our place, there are members who are my friends, but I am talking those who are close to our house, they are not to be trusted. | |
| @dancing.baby thanks for detailed explanation. I thought I violating the 10 commandments. I am scared too but it is just that I can’t really trust my neighbors anymore. Just the one who are close to our house. | |
| Anonymous Topics: 120 Replies: 853 Rank: Newbie | It is the commandment of God. But I hate my neighbor. I don’t contradict the basic rule of God. I love them as my neighbor, but I hate the attitudes or bad behaviors. I may commit a sin but I know God’s love is unconditional. He will understand what’s the reason and in time, I will be close my neighbor. The best thing is to stay away from them to refrain from committing a sin. |
| So far, I do not have problems with my neighbors here.they are so friendly to me and to my family.In fact, some came to our house and asked for used clothing and solicit some which I cannot refuse. One time, our neighbors chased the supposed ” akyat bahay” gang and they were caught and landed in jail. |
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