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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Thank you for this OP. I've been thinking on this for a couple weeks now wondering what our point of difference is and how we've achieved it in the past.
I'm not sure that it is humility that we're looking for, maybe it is. The converse is that the youth don't claim agism as a reason for not engaging in the discussion at critical thinking levels, or maybe for them it is also humility in putting aside different preconcieved notions.
I know that I carry them from time to time, but I find this place most satisfying when I realize like training wheels on a bike, I didn't need them at all, as someone just opened my mind into something of a different point of view.
Kumbaya around the campfire
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Kumbaya seems to be a bit pervasive and I'm not sure just how to get out of the rut.
Tolerance doesn't mean that anyone has to accept your statement nor does it mean that they cannot disagree respectfully from your point of view. Respectfully is a broad word, but in no way did I see any of these situations as disrespectful. It mabe be rough, but that's what a accepting a different opinion just may be.
Yet it seems to me that the blades are dull, maybe rusted even, not been drawn for battle in some time.
What seems to be missing from the mix is critical thinking, a moment of actually thinking about why someone's difference of opinion acutally affects you in such a way to gain such an adverse reaction? A little introspection as to why one feels persecuted and put out because someone has a different opinion.
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