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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (19289)	3/27/1998 10:29:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

When I was at Northwestern I usta take a daily jog to the Bahai temple about 1/2 mile north. Very beautiful and impressive.

To: epicure who wrote (19289)	3/27/1998 3:37:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Although they do think toleration and world peace is right. My religion and beliefs also think world peace is right. "..I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people....And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, and good will toward men." Now about toleration: This is becoming a much thrown about buzz-word, which Christine among others has been using in a negative context, in that intolerance is automatically bad: "intolerance and hatred" is the most often quoted phrase. I have to ask you champions of "tolerance": Do you tolerate everything? All actions, all indulgences? Do you tolerate yourself using dangerous drugs? Do you tolerate yourself being unfaithful to your committed partner, for those who have a committed partner? Do you tolerate yourself driving under the influence of alcohol? Tolerance towards acting out your anger against other people? Would you or do you tolerate your committed partner being sexually unfaithful? Just how tolerant are the Bahais anyway? My religious beliefs teach that we are not to tolerate our every desire to do just anything. Some things are "wrong" (in religious terms, sin). Why is the concept that some things may be wrong so difficult for some people to accept? No, I don't at all go along with the notion that tolerance of any and everything is "right". No way. We see in Jonesboro what happens when humans are tolerant of their every urge, and act on those urges. Four little cherubs have been brutally slain, along with one of their adult protectors. We must be very intolerant of acting out feelings, when those feelings are destructive of others lives and our own life. Those two kids in custody that allegedly did the shooting have not only destroyed other innocent lives, but they have destroyed their own inner peace. They now must grow to adulthood with the realization of what they've done by being tolerant of their anger, and even nurturing it. Tolerance can be fatally dangerous, and when applied without thought for right and wrong, is another manifestation of the evil which is corrupting our society. DK