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ah yes....that BEAUTIFUL WORD, TOLERANCE. We have all been thought a mere fragment of it... In society , keep a good front, and don't offend anyone...but when your back home, or in a comfortable space....yidl'umcoco ngalendzaba... The other day i had a great spraakie with a guy who read this blog.... guy felt that to some extent i was forcing my views on people....deep stuff hey....
I then again explained to him, that i love learning, whether its about life, freedom, diversity, cars and nature.... anything, i absolutely love learning... and i have realised that when you say you love your neighbour, you share with them.... and thus i share what i learnt.... my point of view about it... i share what has helped and still motivates me... So the choice to read really is up to any individual.... I don't believe in force in such cases....
Guy said i was being all smart... i laughed but realised something.... it is his opinion... and he is fully in titled to have it.... i may not like the fact that it was meant to offend me, but this was no debate....i wasn't gonna sway his opinion.... i was gonna let him have it....pun unintended...
See betunana.... i typa realised that as people, we like to be right....I often say to those around me that i don't like rulers.... its a strange old thing.... i honestly don't mean to not like it.... but it is solely because it has this uncanny way of just showing up your line, which you envisioned as perfect and straight....to an old crocked line, that shouldn't even be called a line......
I should like it because it corrects my line but hey.... i preferred my line anyway.... mainly because it was of my own doing, something to be proud of....( i know, all this fuss about a line....)...but nonetheless...it was my own...i liked it phela i drew it free hand awa...but with the stepping in of this wretched ruler....i start to see mistakes, curves and skewness within what i deemed as perfect....and guess what...so do people...
what you thought was right...your perfect line...will be introduced to what is right....the ruler...and it will annoy you... peeve you... but its for your benefit.....LINE UP.... Correction has always been about care....it hurts yes but it has....BUT before being corrected....you deemed your line as straight and thus a ruler to show up other peoples 'straight line's'.....not knowing the full length of the facts....
Our straight lines are our opinions....and growth is our ruler...it chisels us to perfection...ad thus it is essential to be humble and accepting of people and their opinions....We all have different beliefs and values, we are all driven by different things and thus the discrimination of ones thought processes and perspective is illiterate and wrong..
sure, Sophie asimvisisi but asingamvaleli ngephandle.... sure unelitinyo lelisnaaks but xola sha....akakatenti.....loosely translated, 'sure Sophie is a puzzle but lets not exclude her for such, even if that one front tooth is abit weird and funny, she didn't put it on herself'......the way of tolerances says;" I DON'T LIKE IT BUT I WON'T DISRESPECT, DEGRADE OR HURT THIS PERSON BECAUSE OF IT"...
What I'm initially saying is, we need to learn to tolerate that people see differently from us.... that's why we are individuals, don't make someone feel as though they are uneducated or lesser of a human being because of their point of view....it may look/sound foolish to you.... but you yourself have yet to measure up to the ruler.... nobody in this world has an opinion that is fully correct or fully verkeerd..... we are all still living so we are all still learning.....
as a person, open up an environment of tolerance.... i mean people in Musina tolerate the heat, people in Mpumalanga tolerate the mango tree and those in Durban tolerate the mobs that come over in the Festive season....vele, iholide iseDeben... They don't have to like it... but it is tolerated just the same....In a certain degree it is the acceptance of the fact that we are diverse, and the respect of that factor all together....the only way you will ever learn is to tolerate....
Don't mistake this for acceptance, that in itself is another thing for another day....but they do interlock somewhere in there....but as a person....rather agree to disagree...accept that people are different and that their opinions are formed through their experiences and the information that has been opened up to them, Jonga Mfo... nawe ezi Experiences in which you formed your opinion on happened to you.... i may detest your opinion....absolutely think it is absurd but i must respect the fact that it is your own... it is personal and that your full heart is vested in believing it...
Respect people enough to respect their opinions... Bishop D. J Comfort once said;" if you don't know it or agree with it, don't critisize it....God hasn't given that revelation to you yet..it has not yet applied to you...so shut your mouth about it".....
I MAY NOT LIKE NOR AGREE WITH WHAT YOU ARE SAYING BUT FOR THE PURPOSE OF TOLERANCE I WILL MAKE SURE YOUR VOICE IS HEARD AND THAT YOUR THOUGHT PROCESSES ARE RESPECTED, I WILL NOT FIGHT YOU ON OUR OPINION BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN TAUGHT BETTER.... MFO I TOLERATE YOU.....AND....
I consider it Pure Joy....
what you thought was right...your perfect line...will be introduced to what is right....the ruler...and it will annoy you... peeve you... but its for your benefit.....LINE UP.... Correction has always been about care....it hurts yes but it has....BUT before being corrected....you deemed your line as straight and thus a ruler to show up other peoples 'straight line's'.....not knowing the full length of the facts....
Our straight lines are our opinions....and growth is our ruler...it chisels us to perfection...ad thus it is essential to be humble and accepting of people and their opinions....We all have different beliefs and values, we are all driven by different things and thus the discrimination of ones thought processes and perspective is illiterate and wrong..
sure, Sophie asimvisisi but asingamvaleli ngephandle.... sure unelitinyo lelisnaaks but xola sha....akakatenti.....loosely translated, 'sure Sophie is a puzzle but lets not exclude her for such, even if that one front tooth is abit weird and funny, she didn't put it on herself'......the way of tolerances says;" I DON'T LIKE IT BUT I WON'T DISRESPECT, DEGRADE OR HURT THIS PERSON BECAUSE OF IT"...
What I'm initially saying is, we need to learn to tolerate that people see differently from us.... that's why we are individuals, don't make someone feel as though they are uneducated or lesser of a human being because of their point of view....it may look/sound foolish to you.... but you yourself have yet to measure up to the ruler.... nobody in this world has an opinion that is fully correct or fully verkeerd..... we are all still living so we are all still learning.....
as a person, open up an environment of tolerance.... i mean people in Musina tolerate the heat, people in Mpumalanga tolerate the mango tree and those in Durban tolerate the mobs that come over in the Festive season....vele, iholide iseDeben... They don't have to like it... but it is tolerated just the same....In a certain degree it is the acceptance of the fact that we are diverse, and the respect of that factor all together....the only way you will ever learn is to tolerate....
Don't mistake this for acceptance, that in itself is another thing for another day....but they do interlock somewhere in there....but as a person....rather agree to disagree...accept that people are different and that their opinions are formed through their experiences and the information that has been opened up to them, Jonga Mfo... nawe ezi Experiences in which you formed your opinion on happened to you.... i may detest your opinion....absolutely think it is absurd but i must respect the fact that it is your own... it is personal and that your full heart is vested in believing it...
Respect people enough to respect their opinions... Bishop D. J Comfort once said;" if you don't know it or agree with it, don't critisize it....God hasn't given that revelation to you yet..it has not yet applied to you...so shut your mouth about it".....
I MAY NOT LIKE NOR AGREE WITH WHAT YOU ARE SAYING BUT FOR THE PURPOSE OF TOLERANCE I WILL MAKE SURE YOUR VOICE IS HEARD AND THAT YOUR THOUGHT PROCESSES ARE RESPECTED, I WILL NOT FIGHT YOU ON OUR OPINION BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN TAUGHT BETTER.... MFO I TOLERATE YOU.....AND....
I consider it Pure Joy....
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