I miss ~inquiry and I'm sad that all of his or her posts have been overwritten. He wrote beautiful prose about a variety of topics.
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I miss ~inquiry and I'm sad that all of his or her posts have been overwritten. He wrote beautiful prose about a variety of topics.
I am glad you have said what I failed to put into words. I agree there is a sense of community and yet this community has loads of individuality and that is refreshing. How have you been? I have been busy with life outside my computer that this is the first time in a few weeks I have been able to sit down and come to the Pub to chit chat.
I've been alright. Work is getting busier and I'm an uncle again for the fifth time, but otherwise not much is new.
The wider internet has gotten very toxic the last few years. Feels like community after community is tearing itself apart because they can't extend a shred of generosity toward any other perspective than their own.
I think tolerance is a very misunderstood concept. It's like we've forgotten what it even means. Tolerance does not merely involve accepting those who share your own views and are like ourselves, but also those who have views we don't share.
Anyone who thinks that tolerance comes easy is either doesn't know the meaning of the word, is the actual second coming of Christ, or they're lying.
Very true. I've become quite intolerant after being glued to the internet for many years - sometimes quite proudly so. Now I'm trying to become more tolerant of other peoples views as I try to build relationships with new people - and it is not easy at all. I have developed rather dogmatic black-white good-evil thinking. I don't make an idiot of myself and show it, but when I disagree with people (on issues I find important) I really do hate them. Part of me still doesn't have a problem with this, as it shows my beliefs are sincere and I take them seriously, but it's no way to live. Oh gosh I find it confusinggg!!