Theos-Talk Archives (May 2008 Message tt00017)

Very well said Anton!
Tolerance leads to sympathy and then to empathy.
However toll must be paid by the ones with the wrong
attitude to Nature...


--- Anton Rozman <anton_rozman@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Tolerance:
> 
> - A fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward
> those whose 
> opinions, practices, race, religion, nationality,
> etc., differ from 
> one's own; freedom from bigotry. 
> 
> - Interest in and concern for ideas, opinions,
> practices, etc., 
> foreign to one's own; a liberal, un-dogmatic
> viewpoint. 
> 
> - The act or capacity of enduring; endurance. 
> 
> - The capacity to endure hardship or pain.
> 
> - The power or capacity of an organism to tolerate
> unfavorable 
> environmental conditions. 
> 
> - A disposition to allow freedom of choice and
> behavior. 
> 
> - Tolerance, in a social, cultural and religious
> sense, is the 
> acceptance of other people who hold different and
> disagreeing 
> beliefs, or otherwise represent ideologies or
> cultures that have a 
> history of being disrespected. More generally the
> term is used with 
> regard to behavior that is not mainstream/normal.
> 
> It seems that in general we understand tolerance as
> a certain kind of 
> behavior we aspect from others and not as a capacity
> we should 
> develop in ourselves; a capacity to face statements,
> views, ideas, 
> behavior which bring us pain and therefore
> instinctive repulsion; 
> actually a capacity to learn. 
> 
> Anton
> 
> 
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, MKR <mkr777@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Here is an interesting comment I found in
> cyberspace. Anyone cares 
> to
> > comment?
> > 
> > "I'm reproducing something I wrote in the
> Theosophical Forum.. 
> which is
> > based on tolerance, respect and goodwill
> (something not frequently 
> found in
> > theos-talk maillist)"
> > 
> > mkr
> > 
> > 
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
> >
> 
> 
> 



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