where does the urge to convert people to ones own view come from?
i grew up a jehovah's witness and jehovah's witnesses are always right. that's where i learned to always be right and it took me years to realize that i could also "agree to disagree", although i still often forget about this. but JWs are by far not the only ones to try to push their own belief system on others (think dogrulz for example).
i wonder where that urge comes from. i tend to think it does not have necessarily have anything to do with religion, although religion might be a root factor to the problem.
did you ever detect that sort of behaviour on yourself? have you found a way to overcome that urge? do you have any suggestions for dogrulz to overcome this urge? (optionally you could apply that to me too)
PS: i want to express my respect to people like PSacramento, Nickolas, steve2 and many more (i know i forgot you, dear reader, please forgive), whose believes or lacks thereof are not reconcilable in any way, still they have a very calm, often humorous way to approach any topic, offering their view very unobstrusively and implicitly leaving everyone the right to disagree, that's what i call tolerance. everyone has a different personality, but that's some thing i admire.