Virtually everyone is a hypocrite when it comes to tolerance. Almost everyone...

[LoZoccolo]

...except me.

[northzax]

1. just the type of talk I'd expect from a FIB...

just saying.

[LoZoccolo]

3. What is a FIB? n/t

[Clark2008]

4. A lie?

:rofl:

[northzax]

8. F%$^ing Illinois Ba*%ard, of course (nt)

[MistressOverdone]

2. Truer words have never been spoken

except the "you" part. I don't know you well enough to say!

But all of us ..ALL OF US...are intolerant about some things. It's human.

[Clark2008]

5. I'm intolerant about dirt.

My husband says I'm downright anal about it.

:)

[EFerrari]

7. I have trouble accepting canned beets.

lol

[yella_dawg]

6. Tolerance

like anything, can be taken to extremes. I'm intolerant of extremism.

[MistressOverdone]

12. I sometimes get intolerant about tolerance

[Az]

9. If I could just get the hang of humility

I would be perfect.

Absolute tolerance is the death of judgement. Absolute intolerance is the death of humanity. Somewhere in between is where we all must find a balance.

[kineneb]

10. Ah, the Middle Path!

acknowledge our imperfections and try to change them... neither extreme asceticism or extreme hedonism...neither absolute tolerance or absolute intolerance...but walk the middle path, find balance.

[Bluerthanblue]

11. and the way to change this?

is to not question or point out intolerance where ever we see it.

:sarcasm:

We wouldn't be human if we didn't make some unfair judgements. But we also wouldn't be human if we allowed others to be unfairly judged- :silly: hows that for'double-speak'?

[MistressOverdone]

13. Happily, we usually have a chance

to change our mind about folks. I know as a teacher I sometimes get bad first impressions that turn out to be happily very wrong. Strangely enough, the kids I zero in on at first as "trouble" end up being my favorites...after many, many months and a lot of ironing out of differences.