Intolerance - Page 2

Originally posted by: Beyond_the_Veil

First off, to all the matured and rational members I have ended up offending and demeaning in the last ten pages of the recent WW3 thread that got locked up, let me apologize. I took a more rational and inoffensive approach in the first 26 or so pages when a proper discussion was going, but then lost my head once it took the U-turn. This is not a justification of my behavior, but I'd still like to acknowledge my mistake. If I had the editing option open, I'd edit some of my insulting and irrational posts in the last ten pages. Oh and if anyone who is not worthy of my apology is deluded into believing it's for him/her too, then read my first statement again. 😆

LOL so the apology is not directed at anyone since matured and rational people would not be expected to feel offended 😆

Now to the topic at hand. I am a highly intolerant and hotheaded person in real life. In fact, it is DM that somewhat calmed me down to an extent. Before, I couldn't take opposing viewpoints without crying foul, could not rationally argue with people without attacking them personally or loosing my head, could not even distinguish between bashing and argument, debate and fight, etc.

I didnt know that there was a difference 😲

After joining here, I got to see the other side of the coin, found out that my side could be wrong too, and my opposition might have a point as well that I am missing out. I can still get very intolerable and irrational when blood rushes to my head and the rational faculties of my brain stop working temporarily. 😆

So put the blame on the blood 😃

Originally posted by: zorrro

LOL so the apology is not directed at anyone since matured and rational people would not be expected to feel offended 😆

I like your post and have wondered about it myself and this is what I have come up with:

All of us are born with a firm beleif in something or the other and when that beleif is shaken or is at stake, we become intolerant. It isn't why some people are intolerant, it is what makes one intolerant. It could be anything ranging from religion, sex, role of women in the society or just about anything under the sun.

One may say, "I'm very rational and that I'm not intolarant towards anything". That necessarily may not be the truth. It could just be that one may not have come across a reason to be intolerant.

The exhibition of intolerance or the way one deals with it varies from person to person.. Some may take the extreme measure and decide on murdering the person(s) responsible. That could be due to various reasons, psychology of the individual being the most important. Looking at how one's parents and siblings cope up with it could be one of the many reasons and ofcourse education and religion and a hundred other things.

Originally posted by: Petrouska

I like your post and have wondered about it myself and this is what I have come up with:

All of us are born with a firm beleif in something or the other and when that beleif is shaken or is at stake, we become intolerant. It isn't why some people are intolerant, it is what makes one intolerant. It could be anything ranging from religion, sex, role of women in the society or just about anything under the sun.

When I say beleif, I don't mean just the beleif in God or religion or a certain way a government must function, though these seem to be the popular ones. It's that innermost feeling or thought on which your whole life is based. An identity without which you would feel incomplete or at a loss. When that is shaken, one feels insecure about one's life and the way they have lived it. Which is probably why the older people seem to be more intolerant than the young.

I may show intolerence towards something to which you may be totally cool about. It all depends on one's way of life and one's upbringing.

One may say, "I'm very rational and that I'm not intolarant towards anything". That necessarily may not be the truth. It could just be that one may not have come across a reason to be intolerant.

The exhibition of intolerance or the way one deals with it varies from person to person.. Some may take the extreme measure and decide on murdering the person(s) responsible. That could be due to various reasons, psychology of the individual being the most important. Looking at how one's parents and siblings cope up with it could be one of the many reasons and ofcourse education and religion and a hundred other things.

Hope I made sense 😆😆

A small Kentucky church has chosen to ban marriages and even some worship services for interracial couples. The Gulnare Freewill Baptist Church, located in Pike County, made the vote in response to a longtime member who is engaged to a man whose birthplace is in Zimbabwe.

Other pastoral leaders in the area were quick to denounce the church's vote. "It's not the spirit of the community in any way, shape or form," Randy Johnson, president of the Pike County Ministerial Association, told the Lexington Herald-Leader.

The small congregation, which usually hosts about 40 members each Sunday, held the vote after longtime member Stella Harville, brought her fianc Ticha Chikuni to church with her in June. The couple performed a song together at the church in which Chikuni sang "I Surrender All," while Harville played the piano.

Chikuni, 29, who works at Georgetown College, is black--and Harville, who was baptized at the church but is not an active member, is white. Dean Harville, Stella's father, said he was told by the church's former pastor Melvin Thompson that his daughter and her fianc were not allowed to sing at the church again. However, Thompson recently stepped down and the church's new pastor, Stacy Stepp, said the couple was once again welcome to sing.

Stepp's decision prompted Thompson to put forth a recommendation saying that while all members are welcome at the church, it does not "condone" interracial marriage, and that any interracial couples would not be received as members or allowed to participate in worship services. The only exception? Funerals.

The Harville family has formally requested the congregation to reconsider the interracial ban, and Thompson has also said he would like to resolve the issue, the area CBS affiliate WYMT has reported.

A copy of the recommendation, obtained by WYMT, reads in part:

That the Gulnare Freewill Baptist Church does not condone interracial marriage. Parties of such marriages will not be received as members, nor will they be used in worship services and other church functions, with the exception being funerals. All are welcome to our public worship services. This recommendation is not intended to judge the salvation of anyone, but is intended to promote greater unity among the church body and the community we serve.

Members of the church held a vote on Thompson's proposed language, with nine voting in favor and six voting against. The other members in attendance chose not to vote.

Gawker notes that Pike County is 98 percent white and home to the infamous Hatfield-McCoy feud.

The Harville family doesn't see Gulnare's new policy promoting anything like unity or civil peace. "They're the people who are supposed to comfort me in times like these," Stella Harville said.

And Stella's father was much more forceful in his denunciation of the interracial ban. "It sure ain't Christian," Dean Harville said. "It ain't nothing but the old devil working."

Originally posted by: zorrro

</div>I could come up with a lot more than 20 but should that be cause to turn violent is
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Originally posted by: angie.4u

The threshold for feeling offended varies amongst individuals. It need not always be issue specific. Several factors contribute towards it. If handled in a sensitive manner most contentious issues can be discussed amicably. A mocking tone is bound to make the opponent retaliate likewise. Those who know their subject well are usually able to argue in an intelligent and informative manner without feeling offended. Some do welcome the opportunity to set right some misunderstandings or misconceptions that may have existed. Then there are some who take offense from the word go as they have no answers whatsoever nor do they wish to find them out. They are quite comfortable with their status quo and would resist all attempts to disturb it.

Originally posted by: Summer3

If we can progress in our own chosen path we have no time for disagreements. The imperfections we see could very well be in our own minds.