Open-Mindedness.

I have found a video that should clear up a few things. I have been seening a few people posting rather silly things, so I decided to post this.

Here it is.

Anyone who disagrees with me is not being open minded!

That was very much worth watching, thank you for posting.

You make a good argument, but that video is boring. 10 minutes of repeatedly saying that accepting things without proof isn't being open-minded and those that just characterize events as supernatural because they can't explain it are close-minded. Blah blah blah blah blah.

Btw, those blah's need to be read in the keys of A D E E D to get the full effect of the blahness.

The video makes it seem like only people who believe in supernatural events are close minded, where in actuality, this can apply to both sides of the argumentswoovel

I didn't get that at all and I believe in the supernatural.

Personally I have to deal with being open-minded without evidence, (The whole thing he was talking about with the judge)

Nice video, thanks for sharing. :)

[QUOTE="swoovel"]The video makes it seem like only people who believe in supernatural events are close minded, where in actuality, this can apply to both sides of the argumentFallofAthens

I didn't get that at all and I believe in the supernatural.

Personally I have to deal with being open-minded without evidence, (The whole thing he was talking about with the judge)

Nice video, thanks for sharing. :)

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[QUOTE="swoovel"]The video makes it seem like only people who believe in supernatural events are close minded, where in actuality, this can apply to both sides of the argumentswoovel

I didn't get that at all and I believe in the supernatural.

Personally I have to deal with being open-minded without evidence, (The whole thing he was talking about with the judge)

Nice video, thanks for sharing. :)

Understandable. We don't always look at things the same way. By no means am I saying your right or I'm right, just expressing my viewpoint. ;)

Anyone who disagrees with me is not being open minded!

duxup

Could be just me then, but that's the impression that I got :)swoovel

The video is saying those who believe in the supernatural tend to lump what can be a perfectly reasonable situation into the category of supernatural without any sort of evidence that something supernatural has actually occured, other than, "That's my story and I'm sticking to it." Which, in reality, makes the one who jumped to the conclusion of supernatural close-minded because they were not openminded enough to look around and investigate what might have ACTUALLY occured, instead of making a blind assumption. Even after no explanation is found, it is simply an unexplained event, the lack of a logical explanation is not necessarily supporting evidence for your supernatural claim, as there is no testable, concrete way of proving that your theory has occured. You're still just assuming that it has without any sort of valid reason.

What i thought was interesting was the assumption that when You say You believe x isn't true, that x can't be true. It does hold some truth, but only behind our experience. Always makes me wonder, is that a part of us knowing what's really going on behind our experience (world = mind)? Or is it one step short of understanding our experience?
Funny how hard it is to tell, whether someone didn't think things through or is further ahead than most.

I used to be open minded, but my brain kept falling out :cry:

Anyone who disagrees with me is not being open minded!

duxup