How To Help Dissipate Religious Bigotry and End Conflicts

[forester]

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@Brown:
Mas makalingaw ning "ignorancia" brown. Our remedy is to listen to their thesis and smile to the real comedies of life which is ignorance.

[Sinyalan]

hmmm..


but guys remember...God TOLD them to SPEAK the truth. How can we remedy that?

Let them speak but DO NOT PREACH!

[junn]

for ages religion has been the cause of conflicts and wars.

i believe that God is so great for one to claim that he knows every aspect of the truth about God.

God is so great for one religion to claim that they alone hold the truth.

we need to learn from each other...

[junn]

Once upon a time, there lived six blind men in a village. One day the villagers told them, "Hey, there is an elephant in the village today."

They had no idea what an elephant is. They decided, "Even though we would not be able to see it, let us go and feel it anyway." All of them went where the elephant was. Everyone of them touched the elephant.

"Hey, the elephant is a pillar," said the first man who touched his leg.

"Oh, no! it is like a rope," said the second man who touched the tail.

"Oh, no! it is like a thick branch of a tree," said the third man who touched the trunk of the elephant.

"It is like a big hand fan" said the fourth man who touched the ear of the elephant.

"It is like a huge wall," said the fifth man who touched the belly of the elephant.

"It is like a solid pipe," Said the sixth man who touched the tusk of the elephant.

They began to argue about the elephant and everyone of them insisted that he was right. It looked like they were getting agitated. A wise man was passing by and he saw this. He stopped and asked them, "What is the matter?" They said, "We cannot agree to what the elephant is like." Each one of them told what he thought the elephant was like. The wise man calmly explained to them, "All of you are right. The reason every one of you is telling it differently because each one of you touched the different part of the elephant. So, actually the elephant has all those features what you all said."

"Oh!" everyone said. There was no more fight. They felt happy that they were all right.

The moral of the story is that there may be some truth to what someone says. Sometimes we can see that truth and sometimes not because they may have different perspective which we may not agree too. So, rather than arguing like the blind men, we should say, "Maybe you have your reasons." This way we don’t get in arguments.

[lhyz]

agree

[Existanz]

Once upon a time, there lived six blind men in a village. One day the villagers told them, "Hey, there is an elephant in the village today."

They had no idea what an elephant is. They decided, "Even though we would not be able to see it, let us go and feel it anyway." All of them went where the elephant was. Everyone of them touched the elephant.

"Hey, the elephant is a pillar," said the first man who touched his leg.

"Oh, no! it is like a rope," said the second man who touched the tail.

"Oh, no! it is like a thick branch of a tree," said the third man who touched the trunk of the elephant.

"It is like a big hand fan" said the fourth man who touched the ear of the elephant.

"It is like a huge wall," said the fifth man who touched the belly of the elephant.

"It is like a solid pipe," Said the sixth man who touched the tusk of the elephant.

They began to argue about the elephant and everyone of them insisted that he was right. It looked like they were getting agitated. A wise man was passing by and he saw this. He stopped and asked them, "What is the matter?" They said, "We cannot agree to what the elephant is like." Each one of them told what he thought the elephant was like. The wise man calmly explained to them, "All of you are right. The reason every one of you is telling it differently because each one of you touched the different part of the elephant. So, actually the elephant has all those features what you all said."

"Oh!" everyone said. There was no more fight. They felt happy that they were all right.

The moral of the story is that there may be some truth to what someone says. Sometimes we can see that truth and sometimes not because they may have different perspective which we may not agree too. So, rather than arguing like the blind men, we should say, "Maybe you have your reasons." This way we don’t get in arguments.

"Truth is stranger than fiction"..

[brownprose]

@Brown:
Mas makalingaw ning "ignorancia" brown. Our remedy is to listen to their thesis and smile to the real comedies of life which is ignorance.

hahaha...or they can also laugh at the comedy of wisdom hahahaha ...

kdding aside, everyone must overcome or transcend the slavery of an elitist doctrine inherent in most religions.

[rcruman]

Let them speak but DO NOT PREACH!

whats the difference between speak and preach?

Peace!

[mordecai_327]

Each operates in Freedom: The Freedom to tell and persuade; each also has the freedom to reject or accept.

[Sinyalan]

Quote from: Sinyalan on February 28, 2008, 12:00:56
Let them speak but DO NOT PREACH!___________________________________________ ______

whats the difference between speak and preach?

Peace!____________________________________________ _____

I think you're genius enough to know this....