Archive for : May, 2010

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What is “tolerance” anyway?

Posted on: May 15, 2010 /
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I’ve been thinking recently about the subject of “tolerance”. Tolerance has become one of the buzzwords of our day. It has taken a few years but tolerance has morphed into a “whole new animal” from what it once meant.

In its original meaning, “tolerance” meant putting up with things that you didn’t deem to be correct. In actuality, tolerance – by definition – requires that there be dissonance between the individual’s preference and what is being “tolerated”.

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…been thinking about humility…

Posted on: May 2, 2010 /
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I’ve spent a lot of time lately thinking about humility. Humility doesn’t get a lot of press these days. It is a hidden attribute and definitely not something you see displayed very often.

I had an interesting interchange recently with one of the most arrogant people I’ve ever come across – or at least he used language to seem that way. After a couple of rounds of interaction in which he did all in his power to humiliate me and never answered a simple question I asked, I’d had enough. I wrote a couple of paragraphs in which I took a few sarcastic jabs and then proceeded to point out how juvenile he seemed in his use of words. I really wanted to help this guys see how he was coming across.

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