Intolerance stems from insecurity. |
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Why do humans have to be so one-sided when it comes to various topics like politics, art, music, love, religion, and etc etc...? Is this just some primal instict embedded deep within our subconcience that "we know the best for us so we know the best for everyone else" |
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Intolerance stems from insecurity. |
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Well there are times when the proper thing to be, is really pissed off at people. For example in politics, when people try to remove the bill of rights. Bans on guns, or restriction on free speech, deserve the utmost anger. Of course, it is proper to first be civil and talk things out in a calm manner, but if the person insists that you have no rights and your freedoms should be restrict it is only normal to get mad. |
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That would be stupid. There are incontrovertible facts though, are there not? If people make political decisions based on incorrect facts, then we all suffer. |
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Last edited by PhilosopherStoned; 09-14-2009 at 06:16 AM.
Previously PhilosopherStoned
First of all, great avatar markman :] |
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This is a worthy post. I SOOO know what you mean. On YouTube, I PM an atheist, and we debate. It began when I commented on some Atheist video that did nothing but put down Creationists. The guy responded to me, and we went back and forth for awhile. Eventually, he apologized (much to my embarrassment) and we became pals. Since then, I've TRIED to make it a personal policy to respect beliefs, even if I believe they are false. Of course, I'm human, and my emotions have gotten the best of me in the past (PhilosopherStoned, UM, you should know.) |
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Last edited by Noogah; 09-15-2009 at 08:51 PM. Reason: Corected the spelling of beliefs
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
I was just saying that that is how I felt on the subject. I didn't really say it becuase that would only further agitate the situation. If merely recounting a feeling in a post is one-sided or intolerent, I guess I am , even though I'm not being intolerant of anyone's views or beliefs, only thinking my own. |
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In the midst of child molesters, spouse beaters, racists, etc, is one supposed |
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I just seemed from your first post that global warming and democrats were basically the same issue. |
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In some cases, a person's image and political ideology are the same thing. When you challenge something that sacred to somebody, you have a major fight on your hands. |
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How do you know you are not dreaming right now?
They are onto something actually. There are two climate change effects occurring. One warms the atmosphere, the other cools it. There is a video about it, just google global cooling. It says while both are happening, the warming force is stronger. |
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Every thought is for or against something. |
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You merely have to change your point of view slightly, and then that glass will sparkle when it reflects the light.
We've evolved to fear the unfamiliar, because there was a time when unfamiliar things often meant death. |
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Was? |
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pride? ego? |
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I've been starting to get the idea that some intolerance could stem from (any) languages limited ability to communicate the vast and intricate thoughts of the human mind in a proper manner......everybody has a perspective on something, their mind conjures up memories, minute and major for every little piece of information we get, touch, taste, smell , feel, etc., and everybody has different ones, although people of similar backgrounds, cultures, societies, etc. have more similar experiences then those of alien lifestyles....therefore, even though we may be thinking the same basic, core, ideal, value, belief or what not......it gets lost in translation, and sadly , people tend to fear the unknown, although it's starting to look like that may be changing.....maybe there's hope after all |
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"There's no certainty, Only Opportunity"
Intolerance is absolutely 100% necessary. We shouldn't tolerate murderers, peadophiles, rapists, people with 2000 year old idiotic beliefs that support genocide, homophobia, slavery and inhibit the progression of humankind. Obviously tolerance is also a good thing, but like most things, we ought to find a comfortable middle ground. |
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Last edited by Indecent Exposure; 10-22-2009 at 01:29 PM.
"...You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world..." - Terence McKenna
Previously known as imran_p
I don't see that as intolerance. I see it as voicing a certain opinion. Of course its ridiculous to make comments about Al Gore's father-ship. It is a straw man, a mischaracterization of the argument. You are in high school, rational debate concerning politics is almost an impossibility at that age. |
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'What is war?...In a short sentence it may be summed up to be the combination and concentration of all the horrors, atrocities, crimes, and sufferings of which human nature on this globe is capable' - John Bright
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