Casting the first stone & 20k
 

Each night I make a wish, a wish that is nearly always the same. I ask that some how some way we as a species could go through a global enlightenment of sorts. Just wake up and things would start to change. A tolerance of others beliefs, traditions, thoughts, preferences, and differences would begin. A child's wish I suppose, spawned from innocence and the desire for tolerance of others.

Why must we be so quick to judge what is different, even if it is uncomfortable or possibly unthinkable to one of us? Why does it bother us so what others do amongst themselves?

Is it that we may have to bare witness to it through visual or other means, is it because we may feel uncomfortable with what others hold dear. Do we desire conformity so much that no one person should be allowed to express something that the rest of us feel is out of our personal realm of what it normal?

Do you prejudge a person due to them having body alteration while the majority does not, is it aborrhent that one may eat cat instead of cow, is it more acceptable if one eats and drinks symbolic flesh and blood of a human than if one sacrifices farm animals, do you feel that if ones belief in science is superior compared to one believes in something else that has no effect on you, is dieing by choice instead of time wrong, is it more tolerable to you to have a child pawned off to nannies and schools for its raising or can tradition allow to have the child's face scarred after nursing?

I have seen more and more of a lack of tolerance and intervention into what others do. It seems everyone feels they know what is best for everyone else as long as nobody turns the mirror on what they themselves are doing.

I can understand and appreciate if someone takes a moral stance on their own. If and only if it effects them and not others. Who are any of us to set what is right and what is wrong for others?

There you have it, my 20,000th post on this board. Now feel free to ignore and not read everything I just have wrote and quickly post your obligatory congrats and signature view posts.

congrats...see sig :)

you asked for it!

The main reasons for intolerance, IMHO,: FEAR and LAZINESS

congratz to your 20k! :thumbsup :)

congrats
 

i did read it but you told me so just post congrats............please tell me what you want me to write so i can help make your 20,000th post all that you dreamed it would be........

If everyone, at once, immediately tolerated everyone else and their beliefs, then you have a really nice point. However, tolerating someone else's belief when they don't tolerate my tolerance is retarded, in my opinion.

But if I wake up one day to a world full of tolerance, I'll bump this post for you :)

preach on brutha ASM

bump for more reads, this doesnt have enough...

Congrats on the 20k

Who says intolerance is a bad thing.

Should we tolerate female circumcision, jihad, Islamic supremacism?

You can't tolerate the intolerable.

You should be 'wishing' (lol) that the idiots in the world get a brain and stop praying to Allah/ Jehovah/ whoever the fuck. And that all the socialists and communists die so that we can all live in peace.

It's strange, because I never really see you post more than a few words in any of your replies. You're a bigger sigwhore than those idiots squishypimp and scottybuzz.

Intolerence against many beliefs, rituals, religions and preferences that do not hurt anyone does burn me. In a utopic world, your wish wold come true. Then, as Lazonby mentions, there are always exceptions to any circumstance or situation. There are sick people in this world who derive joy from hurting others. In those instances, tolerence doesn't apply.

20k, keep it going! :) im reading it btw...

congrats on the post count:)

BTW, I quit eating dairy a few months ago?my sinus problems and the puffy eyes disappeared within a couple of weeks. People are telling me I look ten years younger, should I tell them what I did or just say thank you?

:upsidedow

good job man :thumbsup

like a MATRIX
Anyway congrats on a 20k

congrats on 20k

If i read the last paragraph about posting sig and congrats, then i read the text. Logical.:)

congrats on the 20k

Congrats... I think ;-)

Isn;t what you wrote the basis for that new age book of a while back which the name of escapes me right this minute ... ahh.. Celestine Prophecy ?

2c

Wouldn't know, never read it. I am not the religious sort. I just do my best not to judge people on crap that does not bother me personally. I will however call someone out when they are slinging shit themselves which often is in judgement of others without any merit. I am just very anti hypocritical.

Just so many of societies wrongs and taboos are just beyond pointless.

Also in no way was I dismissing people from posting congradulation posts and what not. I just know I have a tendancy to ramble on and type a lot. Which often goes unread.

hmmm, an error?

my bad, that is for 10k . . . congrats

Congrats on the 20 k buddy! Have a nice day ahead! :)

congrats.

I love you ASM ;]

holy fuck dude, do you eat cats?