Post Number Twenty.

Dear Haleigh and Taylor,

     So me and my bestfriend are sitting here and some philosophical things came into our conversation. We'd like your opinion/help, along with the comments of others. So here goes nothing....

1) What is true tollerance? In todays society, it is the "right thing to do" to accept all beliefs and thoughts, but yet when certain people choose not to do this, they are criticized and cut down for doing so. Is what they are doing not their belief/thoughts? And intern are not being tolerated for their beliefs? Politically correctness is bs. Sorry for the personal opinion.

2) Is fear just your own personal un-knowing of what there is to come or what there is out there? And also is fear just knowing the truth but not being willing to accept it because you dont want it to be true?We think fear is a mixture, for instance, when you are young as a child, you are afraid of the dark. This is mainly caused because you cant fully see what is out there, and your "fear" is the possibility of it being something harmful and you dont know what is out there due to you not being able to see what there is, or know what there is. Is fear simply ignorance combined with the refusal to accept the harmful truth, is what I'm basically asking?

3) Why does love exist? Why would any sensible human being want to go through all of the hardship and troubles that come with it for one small feeling of joy, that most likely isnt even there all the time? We admittedly do not know how to fully explain this question, but it is prevalent in everyones life and especially one of ours.

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Dear Food for Thought,

  To let you know.. These are the hardest questions we've ever had to answer on this blog.

1) We respectfully disagree with your view on today's society. We feel like society screams at you that the "right thing to do" is to accept the most prominent beliefs or thoughts, though in actuality, we should be able to recognize every ones beliefs or thoughts. In our opinion, it's no ones business if you decide to go against or for the status quo. Who ever gave ANYONE the right to disrespect or not accept what you do? Judgment day will come, and the only person who can reject or accept what you do is God. So to your question, I don't feel as if it's any ones place to "accept beliefs" or not. You can conclude if you agree or disagree according to your own personal beliefs (referencing to the Bible), but never disrespect it. You can hold your own beliefs, while knowing there are contradicting beliefs all over the world, and respectfully disagree with those that contradict your own. Once you reject a belief or thought, one tends to reject all people associated with that belief or thought without ever really knowing them.

2)

fear 

1. a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid.

2. a specific instance of or propensity for such a feeling: an abnormal fear of heights.

3. concern or anxiety; solicitude: a fear for someone's safety.

4. reverential awe, esp. toward god.

5. that which causes a feeling of being afraid; that of which a person is afraid: Cancer is a common fear.

We just used Dictionary.com to give you the "literal meaning" of the word fear. We'll use this as a guideline. In my (Taylor's) personal opinion, fear is the forced acceptance of change. I'm going to use the example of being afraid of the dark. When you were younger and afraid of the dark, were you afraid of shutting your eyes? Hopefully not. When you closed your eyes, essentially the same thing happened. Your vision was taken away, and anything could happen around you and you wouldn't know what it was. But when it's dark, your limited vision is forced upon you, and it's a change that you never initiated. As far as your refusal to believe what's coming/the truth, that's more denial than fear. Maybe even just pure stubbornness.

3) This last one.. Well.. We can't help you much. But from what we know of love, it's not a "small feeling of joy that isn't even there all the time", so your friend should probably stop thinking that he/she is in love and face reality. We don't know why or how people fall in love, and we can't describe love even if we had to. Ask your parents. They may know.

Thank you for these questions, we really loved them. Write us again with even more questions, and let us know if you disagree with us.

Love,
Haleigh and Taylor