Paul Amega
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What is tolerance ?
Tolerance
- This page is about "tolerance" as a social concept. For other uses and meanings please see physiological tolerance and tolerance in engineering.
Religion
Historically, religious tolerance has been the most important aspect of tolerance, since religions tend to be intolerant of each other, and religious intolerance has led to innumerable wars, purges and other atrocities. The philosophers and writers of the enlightenment, especially Voltaire and Lessing, promoted religious tolerance, and their influence is strongly felt in Western society (see pluralism). Nonetheless, the lack of religious tolerance causes problems in many regions of the world today. However, the unattributed quote "there's only one thing I can't tolerate - and that's intolerance" illustrates that there are limits to tolerance. In particular, a tolerant society cannot tolerate intolerance, which would destroy it. It is difficult to strike a balance, however, and different societies do not always agree on the details. In some countries, the continuing suppression of Nazism in Germany is considered intolerant, for instance. Issues that may be controversial in various countries might include the separation of church and state, homosexuality, the consumption of tobacco, alcoholic beverages and other drugs, reading disapproved political tracts, and deviant sexual acts as well as the correct reaction to disorderly conduct and misdemeanours (see zero tolerance policy).Tolerance as a virtue
As an Aristotelian virtue, tolerance is a middleground between softheadedness on the one hand (overtolerance) and narrow mindedness on the other (undertolerance).See also
- Autism rights movement
- fat acceptance movement
- freedom of religion
- grey area
- heresy
- inquisition
- Neurodiversity
- penal laws
- prejudice
- religious pluralism
External link
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The Myth of “Hard Work” = Success
By: Brian Kim - November 11, 2006
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We hear all the time that hard work is the key to success. Just work hard on your goal and you’ll achieve it.
Let me make something clear though. You DO need to work hard in order to succeed in whatever goal you are trying to achieve. Hard work is required, but here’s the catch.
It’s all relative.
Hence, the quotes around the phrase “hard work”.
There’s two ways of looking at “hard work”.
Looking at hard work from the outside and looking at hard work from the inside, namely from the point of view of the person that’s actually doing the “hard work”.
Looking at hard work from the outside.
When you look at hard work from the outside, well, it looks just like that. Hard work. Hard, painful, backbreaking, stay up till sunrise hard work. This view is what the majority of people hold and what gets seared into their mind like a red hot poker is the association of pain with hard work. That kind of thinking is dangerous as it prevents people from pursuing their dreams because they want to avoid the pain that they link up to hard work.
But like I said before, it’s all relative.
For example, the majority of people who look at what a student goes through in order to become a doctor construe that journey has “hard work”. He has to study for hours on end, intern at the hospital, make grades, etc. It’s a TON of hard work, when you look at it from the outside.
Look at it from the inside, namely from the student’s point of view.
Sure it’s hard work, but not like the kind of hard work that’s viewed on the outside. That student has something within him that drives him to do the hard work. Maybe it’s a genuine love for helping people. Maybe it’s because he thinks he’s destined to become a doctor or maybe it’s because of family pressure. Whatever the drive is, positive or negative, that drive within him gets him to do the hard work, so that it’s not hard work to him all, just plain old work, and if he loves what he does, then it’s not even work at all to him.
If you stick two people in a room with two totally different jobs, you’ll get the same reaction. Say for example, one is a lawyer and another is a computer programmer. The lawyer will look at the programmer and conclude that what the programmer does is hard work. Why? Because it would be hard work for the lawyer to do what the computer programmer does. Chances are the lawyer has no idea whatsoever on how to write subroutines, modules, functions, etc.
The computer programmer will look at the lawyer and think the same thing. Why? The computer programmer knows nothing about writing briefs, arguing a case, jury selection, etc.
What’s happening is that each person is creating their own meaning of “hard work” based on their own range of knowledge and experience, and since everyone’s knowledge and experience is limited, anything outside of their scope of that is construed as “hard work.”
If the lawyer asks the programmer if his work is hard, the programmer will shrug it off, saying that “It’s just work”. The same thing with the lawyer.
So whenever you hear somebody harping about how “hard work” is the key to success, don’t let that faze you. Yes, you do need to work hard in order to succeed in achieving your goal, but it’s all in the eye of the worker. It’s all relative. If you have that drive within you, you’ll do the things that people on the outside will view as “hard work”, but to you, it’ll just be “work”.
How to find peace?
Welcome to Find Peace of Mind
All living beings have the same basic wish to be happy and avoid suffering, but very few people understand the real causes of happiness and suffering.
All living beings have the same basic wish to be happy and avoid suffering, but very few people understand the real causes of happiness and suffering. We generally believe that external conditions such as food, friends, cars, and money are the real causes of happiness, and as a result we devote nearly all our time and energy to acquiring these. Superficially it seems that these things can make us happy, but if we look more deeply we shall see that they also bring us a lot of suffering and problems.
Happiness and Suffering
Happiness and suffering are opposites, so if something is a real cause of happiness it cannot give rise to suffering. If food, money, and so forth really are causes of happiness, they can never be causes of suffering; yet we know from our own experience that they often do cause suffering. For example, one of our main interests is food, but the food we eat is also the principal cause of most of our ill health and sickness. In the process of producing the things we feel will make us happy we have polluted our environment to such an extent that the very air we breathe and the water we drink now threaten our health and well-being. We love the freedom and independence a car can give us, but the cost in accidents and environmental destruction is enormous. We feel that money is essential for us to enjoy life, but the pursuit of money also causes immense problems and anxiety. Even our family and friends, with whom we enjoy so many happy moments, can also bring us a lot of worry and heartache.
Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.
In recent years our understanding and control of the external world have increased considerably, and as a result we have witnessed remarkable material progress; but there has not been a corresponding increase in human happiness. There is no less suffering in the world today, and there are no fewer problems. Indeed, it could be said that there are now more problems and greater unhappiness than ever before. This shows that the solution to our problems, and to those of society as a whole, does not lie in knowledge or control of the external world.
Why is this? Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind. The real source of happiness is inner peace. If our mind is peaceful, we shall be happy all the time, regardless of external conditions, but if it is disturbed or troubled in any way, we shall never be happy, no matter how good our external con- ditions may be. External conditions can only make us happy if our mind is peaceful.
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