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Indeed people who speak cryptically, or hint at a deeper meaning to something common sense-ish, are twunts.

There are many reason why one would read journals ranging from boredom to just find them interesting

Exactly. I started reading them because I was bored then found them to be interesting. LOL.

I love to look through journals OMG the things you can learn,cooking,pet stuff and so on.

I hazard a bet that those who say they don't read journals have no redeemable social character what so ever.

"There shall be no slavery of the mind." --- Victor Hugo

Church / meeting house

As the number of new religious movements continue to increase in membership, the necessity to defend the right of people to worship as they please, as long as they do not harm others, is also increasing. Religious bigotry stems mostly from ignorance, fear, and spiritual competition. None of these need be reasons for engaging in religious intolerance and bigotry. I'll address why this is so here. But first, I would like to write about "tolerance" itself. The word is defined here as follows:



TOL·ER·ANCE (n.)



1. The capacity for or the practice of recognizing and respecting the beliefs or practices of others.



2.a. Leeway for variation from a standard. b. The permissible deviation from a specified value of a structural dimension, often expressed as a percent.



As Robert Green Ingersoll pointed out, to "tolerate" someone is to make an "assumption of authority" and it is therefore invalid to say to another "I tolerate you" or "I tolerate your religion / beliefs." One does not have the authority to "tolerate" someone else's religious beliefs: that is the default condition, and requires no act or largesse on anyone's part. Therefore when I write about religious tolerance, I am speaking about the fact that one has no right to perform any wrongful act against a person or group based only upon that person's or group's religion, religious beliefs, or lack of religious beliefs. The default is if they cause no harm, leave them alone.



Note that harmful actions caused in the name of a church, religion, or religious belief are certainly open to criticism: it is not being intolerant or bigoted to castigate criminal, unethical, and immoral behavior. Indeed, it is a human being's duty to oppose criminal acts regardless of who commits them. Crimes committed in the name of religion are still crimes, and must therefore be denounced.



for the rest of the article.



http://www.holysmoke.org/tolerate.htm

This entry was more about acceptance of your place in life not about being accepting of others.