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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2984523, member: 71723&quot;]And that&#039;s as it should be, there IS a heaping&#039; helpin&#039; of angry dissent in my heart. I&#039;m WIRED to be an active dissenter, it&#039;s kind of my <i>raison d&#039;être, </i>if we&#039;re being honest. Example: I once took the entire RCIA course process (Roman Catholic Indoctrination for Adults). The normal process ends with Confirmation. I took the ENTIRE course before announcing to the Bishop that I was reneging because I knew it was inappropriate to be a &quot;from Day One&quot; active doctrinal dissident Catholic. Dissent and status as a dissident is something I admire greatly.</p><p><br /></p><p>But if we&#039;re truly going to have a polite society going forward, it has to be <b><i>every bit as okay</i></b> for me to be an active dissenter, as it is for them to blaze their own trail. See? Tolerance <b><i>cannot</i></b> be a one-way street. Pretending that I&#039;m <b><i>not</i></b> a dissenter to the coming &quot;new wave&quot; of numismatic thought would be intellectually dishonest. It simply <b><i>has to be</i></b> sufficient that I promise to try to understand it without buffaloing anyone I&#039;ll ever accept it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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