Need of the day.

Yes the Jews need to apologize to the Palestinians for taking their land and the Palestinians should apologize for following a religion which says lots of bad things about Jews. That sounds simple enough doesn't it?

Yea, may be that is the why to do, but it is no that easy we might think and say here, all we say is our preception of what might have caused these people to argue and go the way they are going today.

jak2010, I think you failed to detect the sarcastic tone of my writing.

DoctorDidi, what if the person pressurizing you is willing to use violence or perhaps does something that doesn't leave you a non-violent option (perhaps coming into your house with their friends and refusing to leave)?

Tolerance never means to yield to any sort of pressure.

ya thats what i tried to say and thats the reason for war and cause of some lives

Tolerance and non-violence are the two main key factors for bringing peace on the world. So we should all try for them.

Peace would certainly make it a nicer world to live in, how I long for it on a daily basis.

Surely to have peace you can't tolerate anything that promotes violence. Therefore is tolerance really the way to obtain peace or do you have to be selective in what you tolerate?

Now let's see your plan to get rid of violence and terrorism!

I suspect that understanding of Islam is increasing with the result that tolerance of Islam is decreasing.

I think lack of understanding is mainly due to lack of faith and also due to lack of tolerance.

Doctor, I think it is the other way around. Lack of faith leads to lack of understanding. Faith in Islamic Good, for instancem should produce understand and allow tolerance. Mistanding of their faith leads them in all sorts of problem. The religion does not teach kill, destruction, and hatred etc.

The full quotation is, "Blessed are the Peacemaker because they will be called children of God." This means ... Well, um ... Perhaps we should look at the context. "Blessed are the poor in spirit because their's in the kingdom of heaven." Well that's nice ... Just a minute, shouldn't that mean "poor", not "poor in spirit", shouldn't those who are financially poor or strong in spirit have the kingdom of heaven. "Blessed are those who morn for they will be comforted." Why are they morning, did the poor in spirit die? Quiet frankly this isn't the clearest part of the Bible, it sounds kind of nice but when you try analyaing it (which almost nobody does) it gets rather weird. Then you can argue about who's a moderate. One man's moderate may be another man's heretic. Sometimes the moderates are very intolerant of the fundamentalists (not necessarily violent ones). I think you make a good point. The peaceful have got to be willing to take up the sword to obtain and maintain peace.

I wasn't worried about context, but rather to encourage thought. Tolerance doesn't mean allowing anything and everything, but it does mean to take into consideration and to give conscious thought to...to see the other side and seek a mutual understanding. It's not just one 'side' of any conflict that has it's moderates and those who would seek mutual solutions, but those who would do so are too often shouted down by those who seek more active and sometimes violent solutions. Sometimes violence must be met with violence, yet there are times when accepting that tolerance can avoid such violence, those who are fearful are oft times victimized those who are not fearful can not be victimized because there is no fear to use against them. Moderate: In the middle, choosing no side, moderating, seeking a middle...there are many ways of defining moderate these are but a few. Myself, I am moderate, I choose no side and I seek a middle.

You make a lot of sense, but those cause trouble in minority, and their voice will not be heard if they want people to hear through violence, And violence is seen as illegal, inhmane, primitive, so forth. YOu need to work with the majority. If the behaviour of the majority change, may be we will have a good

The trouble is that you've got to persuade the people who are prepared to use violence for what they want, to be peaceful. Go to Gaza, tell them to stop firing missiles into Israel. Tell the Muslims to stop hating people of other religions. Tell the white supremists to stop hating dark skinned people. Tell the black racists to stop hating white people. Tell the anti-Semites to stop hating Jews. Tell the sexists to stop hating women. Tell the homophobes to stop hating gays. Tell the homosexuals to stop hating Christians. Anybody else? Persuading nice people to be peaceful is easy but the difficult bit is persuading the not so nice people to be peaceful. Perhaps the world would be better if the nice people were more prepared to fight the not so nice people.

Yes, I agree there is none to listen to me. But if all of us raise our voice, then a few may listen and I think that would be a great achievement for us.

You report anything that happens. You show them you won't put up with their crap. You protect yourselves and your property. You stand for the law and don't let them get away with things.

So how do you deal with these gangs, tolerate them?

I wonder why when anyone brings up the subject of tolerance there is always at least three things brought into the debate...Pedophilia, homosexuality, and naturally religion. I note you placed psychopathy, Nazis, and Murderers in the mix...psychopathy isn't a condition that is chosen, it is a mental aberration that is a chemical imbalance in the brain, I am not hinting that it is curable, just that it is a disease. Murder is a choice, most societies agree that murder is a bad choice and should not be encouraged, Nazi is a political party with it's own agenda, although most of us agree as a political choice it is a poor one. Every group has it's militants, those who seek attention either for self or for what they consider the plight of others like them. I agree that there are a great many persons who are not tolerant of those not like them and I agree that they most likely would refuse to become tolerant of anyone or anything they did not agree with or conceive as an ideal themselves. Yet there is always a chance, however slim, that by exhibiting tolerance it can be taught. It would be a long slow process and a thankless one. Each group has it's agenda, often within a group each individual has his or her agenda. Nothing is easy, if it was, it would already be done. The world isn't in a mess, although we people are doing a fine job of trying to make it so...it's people that are in a mess...and there in lies the rub.

It would absolutely be such a difference if more and more people actually understood that family is so precious and accept the values of having family. Sadly so much crime today is occurring. Even sadder to hear that violence within a home is on the rise. How precious and wonderful if family value was appreciated.

Now take that message to the Mafia, Al-Quaida, Hamas etc.