Devil's Trap
Once I've formed an opinion about something, in an attempt to not live in a vacuum of self-importance, I always ask myself, "What if I'm wrong?" Then I argue with myself about both sides. Of course its better to have this actual conversation with someone who has a different opinion - I can't think of everything - but the problem, the real problem ( Read more... )
Actually, I can and I did. Its only recently I've become aware that there are other avenues to the same end. Live and learn. I'm not saying one is right and the other wrong, only that the one I am not familiar with is entirely foreign to me.
"Does this make her close-minded for having them or open minded for having them, yet acknowledging them?"
WOW! An actual test subject! Well, knowing your mother, and her ability to have a rational discussion on hot-button topics on which we sit on opposite sides of the fence, I would have to say open-minded for being aware of them and acknowledging that they modify her behavior where those issues are concerned. Hell, I probably have some to. I just don't know what they are. But I'm always willing to find out!
I wish I could remember which blog it was.
I remember. Brilliant man that. And thanks for the reminder. Of course that's why. A whole planet of you and I? WE WOULD EAT OUR YOUNG. Let's hear it for the status quo.
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Hmmm..., tasty? LOL! Seriously, I don't think we would eat our young per se, but we might try to get them to grow wings, implant direct computer access into their brains, or see if we could teleport them into the future. Yeah, it might be a rather strange world.
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