2007-12-01 12:30:59 · 17 answers · asked by genaddt 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes. However, it hinges on how well one knows oneself, both shadow and light; and how aware one is of stereotypes and influences outside of ourselves. Perhaps self-acceptance allows one to accept others and see behind the mask and into the heart that is human in all of us.
2007-12-01 12:38:45 · answer #1 · answered by blondemoment12000 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
i think that people CAN look beyond a person's label... but how the world goes around now, the label INFLUENCES a person's way of thinking.. i know that it's wrong.. but that's just reality.. but there are still some nice people in this world.. for example, like the ones who go for personality first, rather than looks... and with that example, people say that they go for personality first, but they really look at the person first then go to personality, right?
2007-12-01 20:37:16 · answer #2 · answered by VIda P 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
People are not soley atheists, agnostics, Christians, buddhists, homosexuals, heterosexuals etc. They are first and foremost sons and daughters of Heavenly Father. I find fulfillment in the many other facets of peoples character and personality and nature that extend beyond that favorite label of theirs they like to apply to themselves.
I think it is an accurate statement to say that some people consider feelings of same-gender attraction to be the defining fact of their existence. There are also people who consider the defining fact of their existence that they are from Texas or that they were in the United States Marines. Or they are red-headed, or they are the best basketball player that ever played for such-and-such a high school. People can adopt a characteristic as the defining example of their existence and often those characteristics are physical.
We have the agency to choose which characteristics will define us; those choices are not thrust upon us.
The ultimate defining fact for all of us is that we are children of Heavenly Parents, born on this earth for a purpose, and born with a divine destiny. Whenever any of those other notions, whatever they may be, gets in the way of that ultimate defining fact, then it is destructive and it leads us down the wrong path.
2007-12-01 20:37:32 · answer #3 · answered by Arthurpod 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
In a way my mind automatically associates the label to the archetypes I have acquired related to it. That's how prejudice works psychologically. Yet, we should not let conventional archetypes bias our judgment. We should try to individuate the person behind the label - that is disregarding all the former archetypes and just knowing him as he is individually.
2007-12-02 02:28:47 · answer #4 · answered by hufflepuff_headboy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There has to be a reason the label applies to them. But I do try to look beyond it.
2007-12-01 20:34:20 · answer #5 · answered by An Independent 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the Label and how tightly the person with the label clings to it.
2007-12-01 20:35:16 · answer #6 · answered by LDS~Tenshi~ 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I hate labels! It is the most inaccurate way to determine what a fellow human being is like.
2007-12-01 20:34:15 · answer #7 · answered by PROBLEM 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I don't judge people, that is up to God. I try to Love everybody like I love myself. Do onto others as you would want them to do onto you. Can't judge a book by it's cover. I Love everybody, some I might not like, but that is something that I have to deal with
2007-12-01 20:50:58 · answer #8 · answered by Believer In God 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the label.
I admit, dear friend, if I met a person who told me they were a Pentecostal pastor, I would think they are a hate filled bigot.
I have seen the Pentecostals in action.
Is that wrong of me? Perhaps.
2007-12-01 20:34:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
There are more times I look beyond a label.
There are other times that people just beg to be labled.
Dahmer was a nice guy too!!
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2007-12-01 20:42:16 · answer #10 · answered by Shmooks 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋