Bertrand Russell 3/3

Bertrand Russell was able to provide straight forward and sensible resolutions to complex problems. This is what made him extroadinary and well respected. Thank you for posting this trio.

Any chance of seeing some snatch? translated for you!

And yet I will not doubt that all emotions, values and virtues are of... social nature. They are interdependent and it is impossible to live completely and solely out of yourself. As ling as you don't want to "disappear" the zen-way. ;) And yet the old moral nor ancient concepts of metaphysics, turned into mass-propaganda in the name of the lord by Televangelists, will help us answer the one and only question: what is the value of a human life - also...my life.

It is demanding enough to be a human being - which is actually what I was born as. Very demanding. I do not need a branding of "good, evil, sinner, saint". Concepts - concepts! To control, manipulate, herd, blind, abuse people and turn them into religiously, or ideologicaly addicted people, easily to guide be a certain (morally) higher class. That is the actual misery, that keeps us from living: the imprisonment, the slavery of our own, by natural fact, our own mind.

Oh yeah and "Intolerance" is where we seperate the people into two *piles* "the righteous" (U.S.) and the "evil" people - murderers, rapists, thieves and all the niggers who didn't use rubbers in this place somewhere on the map we call Af-..Afri...oh yeah: Africa. (the fucks) And then send them to the eternal concentration camp (because they WANTED it, 'cause the fucks didn't love - o my god!) we call "hell". Hel no!

Dorothy L Sayers on "Tolerance":

In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair, the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

Rusell, from his lofty and insulated position of elitist influence, makes for a poor compass in matters of the human heart.

"Tolerance" is a key trigger word today. Along with "diversity" it is one of the latest bits of dumbing down jargon from the Fabian Society types and their acolytes. Tolerance is not good nor does it have any benefits whatsoever.

When you get flu your body does not tolerate it. It does not work on the basis that the flu virus has a right to exist and should be "tolerated". It destroys it.

Tolerance is the act of passive submission and not pro-active correction. It is despair.

So I tke it we should maintain hostilities among each other? Tolerance is a key trigger word today perhaps because this age demands such an attribute, if there is to be any semblance of peace on this planet and if we can be dissuaded from destroying each other. We also need to be mindful of the reality of diversity, and within the parameters of civility respect others who may not be like us. Human existence depends on this. Dorothy L.'s words may have resonated in her world, but not in this one.

Individuals cannot maintain hostility toward one another for more than a few minutes. Only Govts do that as part of a smoke screen for scaring their own sheeple into compliance with their plans. Before a Govt makes war on a foreign power, it first makes war on its own people to get them to fight the "new" enemy.

Your response also shows that tolerance is in fact a mind controlling chimera. You do not tolerate the view of Dorothy L. Why should you if you disgree? Tolerance is mind control.

The word tolerance itself implies the company of something unpleasant or disliked - one does not 'tolerate' one's friends.
It is impossible to agree at all times with the views and attidtudes of our fellow man; surely, if friendship is out of the question, tolerance would be preferable to hostility.