5/10/2005: Dinosaur tracks

[lookout123]

Just wanted to know if there was any hope for the open and rational among us, or if we should just shut up, stop wasting time and accept we aren't going to get through to a large segment of the population.

in your phrasing you've pointed to the problem more clearly than you know. if your mind (and mine) isn't somewhat open to the idea thatYOU might be the wrong one, why would you expect anyone else to either?

too often people mistake their beliefs and ideas for themselves. there is a very fine line between believing your ideas to be superior, and believing you are superior. once your self-image is wrapped up in your ideas, admitting your idea might not be superior means you might be somehow inferior.

er, something.

[Lady Sidhe]

Lots of sense in that post, Lookout.

We all hold our opinions, and we all think we're right...almost as if admitting that there may be other possibilities or opinions (whether we agree with them or not), would somehow diminish us, or something.

And so, in response, I will pledge to try as hard as I can to be more diplomatic in the future, and to make more of an effort to understand opinions that wildly differ from my own.



**Disclaimer: this does not mean I will suddenly become a bleeding-heart, or agree with said opinions; merely that I will make more of an effort to understand where the other person is coming from and WHY they believe so strongly in what they're saying, and I will try to reply in such a way that my differing opinion, if it differs, will not sound like a personal attack.



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Sidhe