It's weird, but I don't generally find that others' viewpoints irritate me too much, even when they are completely opposite to my own. Especially when they are opposite of my own. I LOVE being challenged in general. I think there are times when I might get annoyed or bothered, like if someone's opinion happened to affect an outcome I was trying to achieve. But I think overall, over time, it's just fewer and further between that I actually get annoyed or bothered.

And for me, at least, I honestly believe that it has come from the very basic understanding that I really actually know nothing, in the end. And truth tends to change form over time. And that has only come from discovering that what I used to know, or think I knew, ended up being rather incomplete and incorrect after all. So, the lesson from that is: what I think I know now, could very well be something I discover later that I was quite incorrect about it, or incomplete about it. It has happened enough in the past, where I was quite sold on an idea, only to discover that the idea itself was ultimately incomplete or flawed in some way. Religion being the first of many flawed belief systems I subscribed to, where the power to obtain and achieve and manifest somehow existed OUTSIDE of myself, rather than within.

So the lesson is, if I fully throw myself at something I fully believe in, it does not make that thing intrinsically more true. It just makes my feeling about it stronger. And perhaps I might then manifest a reality around it to make it more true for me. But with more evolution, even that truth might find itself slightly obsolete over time.