Talk:Acceptance

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OLD: Acceptance is a cognitive activity or state that is the opposite of resistance.

It's only the spiritual/psychology sense that's being dealt with here.

I think "activity or state" is good, but it's not much help defining one vague, tricky term as the opposite of another. I feel the antonymic sense of resistance should be noted with reservations.

I deleted the paragraph contrasting acceptance with approval, sympathy, liking , tolerance , and affinity. Of these, I think only tolerance is worth the space, but the deleted text did little to distinguish among these senses. Perhaps also surrender and resignation could be included in a discussion of overlapping terms?

More applications are needed alongside Buddhism. Meditation, Islam, other faiths...?

The note on Buddhists accepting Buddha as a higher being is plain wrong. I'm removing this. 2.18.10 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.224.224.153 (talk) 21:35, 18 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Re Minorities: "on equal terms in all aspects of" adds nothing to "full participation."

WRT the last comment above...

...does anyone else find the last paragraph in this articel suspicious? It sounds strange to me... 68.39.174.238 17:57, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting that no mention of forgiveness as related to acceptance is offered as either an associated emotion, or as an associated meaning. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.201.224.2 (talk) 20:22, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Something seems off about the "grief acceptance" section...

I would not call the last paragraph "suspicious", but it is very badly written. "Acceptance of one's beliefs" seems a little "spiritual/new age" to me... What about acceptance of your acceptance of your beliefs? The part about "A single person..." is meaningless, or at least, adds nothing to the article... we all know it is important to be accepted and that it is good for one's self esteem etc., but stating that does not define the concept. (124.148.131.140 (talk) 13:13, 13 September 2011 (UTC)) In addition to the above... the article is about acceptance as a concept, not what different people around the world accept or believe. Acceptance is not characterised by Christians as "forgiveness"; one does not "forgive" someone for being a child, one accepts children. The section on beliefs should only compare the similarities and differences between the concepts of acceptance and belief. As such I have completely rewritten it. (124.148.131.140 (talk) 13:34, 13 September 2011 (UTC))[reply]

Self acceptance

The section on self acceptance seems to me as having an inappropriate tone, especially the use of the second person (as if lecturing the reader).

Tony0964 (talk) 03:01, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]