Are you open minded?

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I’m fairly certain most people believe that they are open minded, but there is a simple test to know for sure. Right here, right now share a thought or idea that you hold tightly. Then express an OPPOSING thought or idea that YOU recognize and agree could be equally valid to your own conviction. Let’s see how many people are willing and able to hang a question mark on their own ideals. This is the true test of open-mindedness. Will you pass, or fail?

Rosexøxø · Accepted Answer

I thought god was real for the longest time

Now I know he isn’t.

I denied your question, but I basically said how *I changed my mind.* That’s being broad minded. It required open mindedness to consider the direct opposite.

If I give an exact example as this question demands, I would be giving away my *character* to be swayed.

I say my beliefs and NEVER disown it. I consider what others say to me, even if I go as far as to HATE it.

For me to say it’s possible I’m wrong is not being open minded, but unsure

thats Uncertainty. That’s low confidence.

Thats a person changing their mind in a second or lying to who they are, for the sake of this question excerpt (no offense to you; I merely address the words and the image).

I am not changing my mind about the things I feel strongly about because I’ve already considered them.

I am the perfect balance of hard headed and open minded.

I would tell you to feel free to disagree about my last statement, and I’d disagree with any opposing statements, only until I saw one with reason and logic- then I’d consider it as an open minded person.

There are many instances where I tell people I care for what I think the logic is to their situations and topics in life- “I think this, but I may be wrong, so don’t take my word for it.”

Or

“I think this, but it applies to me, so it may be different for you.”

Now that I’ve considered what I have said above, I WILL provide another example to better fit the question.

I think oxygen is actually what ages us and kills us, but I could be wrong.

I wouldn’t mind it either, but I really do believe that.

Telekinetic-Potato · Accepted Answer

That's just a test for whether or not you've made up your mind on something 😂

But it is a pretty interesting way to talk about spirituality and how science might come full circle from its roots in philosophy and accidentally prove there is something greater than us.

Like how the Bible predicted many scientific discoveries but some of the stories are borrowed from other religions but kosher eating to this day is proving to be a pretty good hard and fast set of rules to eating healthy as possible but the Bible says God is everything and everywhere and when scientists wanted to find out what atoms are made of, they found out that everything is just made up of vibrating energy and so it's not wrong at all to say that everything is one and may be connected at any given moment but there's also good reasons to believe we're in a simulation like how certain aspects of our models for how physics work are still incomplete, we don't really know what gravity is or why so many dead ends in physics lead back to the cosmological constant.

You could argue that these dead ends which lead back to certain numbers which show up in nature all the time are like the settings which the simulation had to be set to or the conditions that God had to make or that nature had to just happen to fall on for the exact amount of matter to be in our universe so that chemicals could interact in such a way that our bodies function and atoms function the way they do.

There is equal room for all points to be made.

WindAtMyBack · Accepted Answer

I consider myself to be open minded, but I obviously have a different definition of open minded than you do. Having a view, even a strong unwavering view, does not mean you are closed minded.

"Then express an OPPOSING thought or idea that YOU recognize and agree could be equally valid to your own conviction."

Already been there and done that. It's rare for me to hear new arguments. So there's not much new to consider. It's not closed minded to reject something that you've already considered a thousand times.

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

Yes. You have to be about almost everything.

Being closed minded in life leads you to being stuck and in a position of not wanting to be corrected or learn from others.

No one here is God nor does anyone have all the correct answers to life's complexities.

grega239 · Answer

Do as you wish, leave me out of it.  Like that?

PainusNdeeAnus · Answer

You know my first girlfriend used to use that word a lot  Open minded or say stuff like the most powerful sexual organ is your brain  it was like her way of building up to asking to play with my butt

MCheetah · Answer

I am towards most things, but not everything.

Hanrej · Answer

I used to be open minded. Now I'm too old and experianced to keep it open. My intellect has allready discerened certain patterns in order to avoid previous trauma and so I became judgmental.

TheAverageGAGer · Answer

No it's a sin to be open minded. That's how you get liberalism and depravity.

JustiReno · Answer

That’s no life for me and you after death,

exitseven · Answer

It is not one of my attributes.

Dinosaursandanime65 · Answer

…. meh

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