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Re: Theos-World Re: Tolerance, respect and goodwill

May 01, 2008 09:21 AM
by Martin


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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