Where do you find your patience?
posted on December 21, 2012 01:45AM GMT
Hello all,
I am amazed at the level of patience that Prof Dawkins or Daniel Dennett or Sam Harris have when dealing with superstition & ignorance. I live in England and I am fortunate enough to not run into irrational people that often. But it is a completely different story when I visit my home country, India. I seem to lose my patience more & snap at people lot more. That too, in a country that has incomparable levels of poverty, subjugation & injustice. The last census put the percentage of rationalist/atheists in India at 7%. So one comes across a lot more morons in everyday life on an average in India than, say in Europe or US.
As I am getting older, I am getting grumpier and impatient. I cant seem to tolerate irrational statements or attitudes. I am getting more confrontational about traditional & religious beliefs of others.
How do you deal with this issue? Or is it not an issue for you? Where do you find your patience?
I am amazed at the level of patience that Prof Dawkins or Daniel Dennett or Sam Harris have when dealing with superstition & ignorance. I live in England and I am fortunate enough to not run into irrational people that often. But it is a completely different story when I visit my home country, India. I seem to lose my patience more & snap at people lot more. That too, in a country that has incomparable levels of poverty, subjugation & injustice. The last census put the percentage of rationalist/atheists in India at 7%. So one comes across a lot more morons in everyday life on an average in India than, say in Europe or US.
As I am getting older, I am getting grumpier and impatient. I cant seem to tolerate irrational statements or attitudes. I am getting more confrontational about traditional & religious beliefs of others.
How do you deal with this issue? Or is it not an issue for you? Where do you find your patience?
