Why I Don't Watch The News

I will start off by saying I'm pretty conservative, but I have to say this, I am completely turned off by the attacks on both the right and the left.
I find it rather ironic that people preach tolerance yet have none for fellow human beings. I abhor the word tolerance anyway because it means I put up with you. I would rather have love, kindness and compassion. Does this mean I am perfect, by no means, I fail on a daily basis, but I generally come to my senses and can acknowledge I am being an idiot.
Just in the past few days I have acted like a total idiot. I had to apologize to a friend I consider to be dear to me. As I was walking this morning, which is not just my physical exercise, but also my time to meditate and ponder things within my own heart, a verse came into my head, Love bears all. I did a study on the word bears quite some time ago and from the original Greek it means to cover with silence. Someone once said, silence is golden. Now being someone who likes to know the origin of things I had to google the phrase, this is what I found- As with many proverbs, the origin of this phrase is obscured by the mists of time. There are reports of versions of it dating back to Ancient Egypt. The first example of it in English is from the poet Thomas Carlyle, who translated the phrase from German in Sartor Resartus, 1831, in which a character expounds at length on the virtues of silence. I like what the character says- Speech is too often not, as the Frenchman defined it, the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought, so that there is none to conceal. Or in other words if you talk all the time there is no true thought behind it, it is simply mindless babble.
That is what I think the news is most of the time, mindless babble. Some of it informs, but alot of it is useless, there is no true thought behind it.
 Now being someone of deeply held convictions and passionate beliefs it is hard sometimes to control the tongue. But truly the one who has control of the tongue rules over the circumstances of life. Be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to anger. I find that when I listen, rather than just try to get my point across, I just may learn something.
To all of you who are reading my blog I hope you would open up your mind and your ears, listen to your fellow human beings, if we could all do this we may find we have more in common than we thought.