I read an interesting thing about President Abraham Lincoln who was once embroiled with a dispute with a colleague and unable to get his opponent to see the air of his thinking Lincoln said,

Hey, let me ask you a question. How many legs does a cow have? Well, a four of course.

Okay, well now suppose, continue the president, what if you call the cow's tail a leg?

Well then how many legs does a cow have? What if you call the cow's tail a leg?

Well, then how many legs does a cow have?

Well, five, replied the man.

See, that's where you're wrong, replied Lincoln.

Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.

Wow.

That's quite a tail.

See, the world we live in seems obsessed with calling a cow's tail a leg

for fear of offending the cow who insists that he has five legs. Tolerance has become a virtual idol and the number of its worshippers seems to grow

daily and faced with so many differing claims to what is true or what is the proper way

to live one's life.

And tolerance has become the only acceptable response.

A person who believes in transcendent truth

is regarded by the world with suspicion and paradoxically intolerant.

If I could turn back time. Tony, can you mute my headphones?

If I could find a way,

I would take back the things that hurt you

and you and you stare.

A.

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