Comments on: Tolerance

By: Wringham

Wringham — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:53:45 +0000

I did! Sorry I am yet to reply. I hope to do so tonight.

I like the new site very much. Only minor suggestions. Nothing major or task-heavy. It looks ace.

By: Neil Scott

Neil Scott — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:30:59 +0000

That looks like evidence to me. It is the same curve, although not sure how well it applies over long periods of time.

Did you get my email?

By: Wringham

Wringham — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:06:25 +0000

Ooh. See also the Yerkes Dodson law, which discusses arousal. I suppose it sort of implies tolerance too.

By: Neil Scott

Neil Scott — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:16:42 +0000

Tea allergy?!!!

By: Kellie

Kellie — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:14:41 +0000

Leaving aside physical tolerances (says the woman once addicted to Findus Crispy Pancakes) and concentrating on mental tolerance, you just have to remember that what you love can be taken away; death, tea allergies, the cancellation of whimsical TV show Pushing Daisies, being left for a younger model, good David Bowie albums, snow, most anything. None of us live in hell.

By: Neil Scott

Neil Scott — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:51:43 +0000

Ah, perfectly summed up.

By: Daniel Mapp

Daniel Mapp — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:23:49 +0000

“Enduring habits, I hate, and feel as if a tyrant has come near me and the air around me thickening when events take a shape that seem inevitably to produce enduring habits – for instance, owing to an official position, constant relations with the same people, a permanent residence, or uniquely good health. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I am grateful to all my misery and illnesses and whatever is imperfect in me because they provide a hundred back doors through which I can escape enduring habits. To me the most intolerable, the terrible, would of course be a life entirely without habits, a life that continually demanded improvisation – that would be my exile and Siberia.”

So says Nietzsche, anyway.