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To: coug who wrote (2308)	9/15/2001 2:12:49 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 51706

On toleration: For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate error so long as reason is free to combat it. - Thomas Jefferson Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. --- Thomas Jefferson 1743 My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. --- Dalai Lama 1935 The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers, and dreads nothing so much as their charity and patience. - Russell Lowell Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them. - Joshua Liebman I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian. -- Mohandas Gandhi All religions must be tolerated, for every man must get to heaven his own way. -- Frederick the Great Toleration . . . is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. - Helen Keller Be tolerant to others, respect the religious views of others if you would have your own respected. - K.H. Once unfettered and delivered from their deadweight of dogmatic interpretations, personal names, anthropomorphic conceptions and salaried priests, the fundamental doctrines of all religions will be proved to be identical in their esoteric meaning. Osiris, Chrisna, Buddha, Christ, will be shown as different names for one and the same royal highway to final bliss, Nirvana. - The Maha Chohan St. Paul: For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before god, but the doers of the law who will be justified. When Gentiles who have not the law do by nature what the law requires, they are a law unto themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts. (Romans 2: 13-15) Pope John Paul II: The individual person, despite human frailty, has the ability to seek and freely know what is good, to recognize and reject evil, to choose truth and to oppose error. In creating the person, God wrote on the human heart a law which everyone can discover (cf. Rom 2:15). Conscience for its part is the ability to judge and act according to that law: to obey is the very dignity of man. No human authority has the right to interfere with a person's conscience. Conscience bears witness to the transcendence of the person. [This is the view of Jose Rizal as to human conscience, cf. Letter with Fr. Pastell] I believe it was Thomas Merton who said that the mysticisms of Christianity is closer to the mysticism of Hinduism and Buddhism than to the external belief systems of Christianity itself. This I submit is the basis of genuine religious appreciation. It is not negative tolerance, but sincerely seeing the validity and truth of the other person's tradition, but at the same time recognizing the inevitable errors and narrow sectarian viewpoints of every tradition including one's own. One is not bothered by those outer disagreements because one sees the more important essential agreement. (vhc) And something else I like: "I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything. But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."5 ........................... Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909)

To: coug who wrote (2308)	9/15/2001 10:08:31 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51706

MOrning, Coug, It is a precarious time for all the airlines- and it's in our country's best interests to help them stabilize as quickly as possible. Security is basically the same for all of them, and what happened could have happened to any one of them and they are all very aware of that. As one Delta person said to us, We are brothers, family. What was done was done to all of us. The outpouring of support and caring for the airline has been overwhelming, according to my husband. People understand that this goes far beyond normal safety precautions. The opinions running rampant on SI are usually based on either partial or no knowledge-and are exactly that- opinions. People have every right to them, and to guess and critique and vent, but because I am so closely related to the airline side, I can't read them without bias and occasionally pain. I make no apologies for that. They are upsetting to me so I am trying now to avoid them. I am finding that I have to walk a fine line here because of my husband's job, so I'd probably best stop talking at all about the subject. We could talk about religion maybe-- you know, something less controversial. :)