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SneezingPenis
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fluid perspective
#7931231 - 01/25/08 06:03 PM (16 years, 7 days ago) |
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how fluid is your perspective?
how many times in your life can you honeslty say you have been completely wrong about something? Now, Im sure everyone has a friend that they used to hate until they got to know them.... like that, but on a more grand scale.
how many examples can you come up with regarding times that you did a 180 on something? was it instantaneous, or gradual?
I think product loyalty extends to all facets of our life. Just like how someone likes pepsi over coke, and starts to cheer for teams taht werar blue over teams that wear red and such.... it seems that once we make up our minds about something, it is nearly impossible to go back to being objective or unbiased. and I hope you dont think that "pepsi tastes better than coke" because you have conditioned yourself to like pepsi over coke and actually "chose" to like the taste of pepsi over coke, rather than that being an objective observation. How many times have you been debating in here, not playing devils advocate, and searched for websites and articles that only support your preconceived ideas rather than trying to find an objective or unbiased source? or how many times have you scoured the pages of someone elses source that rebutted yours in hopes that something will stick out that illegitimizes the source?
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Epigallo
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quite often
An effective debate between two perspectives should be like two unfluid concrete blocks which attempt to smash each other. If either one, or both, breaks partly or completely, the chips and dust can be cemented into a third perspective.
If either concrete perspective doesn't dive into the other hard enough, it stays the same and no one learns anything.
But this isn't just a debate forum. Sometimes people come in as wet cement and then someone dives in and splatters them everywhere.
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EternalCowabunga
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Re: fluid perspective [Re: Epigallo]
#7931781 - 01/25/08 07:52 PM (16 years, 7 days ago) |
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i usually don't find out i'm wrong about something until a long time after i had made the mistake, or rather, acted out of ignorance. there is always more ignorance to overcome, and when things come to light i usually am not hard on myself but am rather glad that i've learned something.
also my fluidity is not very consistent or concrete, which is to say, sometimes i am fluid and other times not.
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NiamhNyx
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I change my views quite often. Of course the older I get, the more confident I become in my ability to reason and the more I stick to my guns. Although I am definitly willing to admit to being wrong if I encounter a convincing argument against my stated position. Most of the time I concede wrongheadedness to views I held on impulse rather than on good information.
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