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I Am the Queen of Judgment and I Am the Queen of Tolerance

Intolerable people in my mind are the kinds of people with dark, narrow-minded, condemning, greedy, selfish interests. I have so often railed against these "intolerable people".... judging them, standing on my soap box from up above and pointing my righteous finger. I feel justified. I squint my eyes and smack my lips, toss my nose up in the air and think negative things about them.  Like most of us, I have developed my own moral code. I have this way in my head how things should be and how others should be treated; what seems right and wrong. Things like equality, mutual respect, open-mindedness, compassion, acceptance and justice. No one elected me to be the queen of discernment in this area, but I assume this role nonetheless. Based on my description of the "intolerable," one would imagine that I am referring to the those in society cast out...the evil, criminal or the crazy; yet nothing could be farther from the truth. Upon further reflection of myself, I re...