What wins a person over to your side of thinking?
110031
It is my thinking that if you have factual data, and have sources to back up your side. Honesty and no embellishment of the issue. Be open listen and respond to the question or questions and be ready to answer the concerns.
414803
EDUCATION !!\nThan of course you can judge and think by yourself looking up the religious things..\n(I don't sound educated at the moment..but I'm tired !)
821506
Sorry you are experiancing this. Someone must not be comfortable with you or your views. I'm not really suprised though, it seems some people will do anything to  prevent a person from speaking for themself and presenting a reasonable point of view. If they want to ask silly questions (which can be fun) let them do it for themself.
757495
Want to impress her? Pull out a little Socrates vs. Bush Co.... Tell her that you've learned that the only people capable of being in charge of others are people who are thinkers (and, willing to ponder the ideas and thoughts of others) and are not concerned with the rewards power can bring; those who are more worried about what knowledge can be gained and how their charges can benefit from the knowlege.
179658
I guess it's the kind of people who will push their reasoning all the way to their logical conclusions. \n\nThey believe, as one author put it, that a good conclusion "is the place where you end up, after you have done all the thinking that can possibly be done by an intelligent person, and you can't think anymore."
951886
probably religion & spirituality, people get really fiesty if you don't agree with them
552538
People have given you specific ideas.  The point is to find something controversial.  I find it best if I select something I feel strongly about and then argue from the opposite side of the issue.  I learn more and I have less tendency to allow my emotions to cloud the paper.\n\nGood Luck on your final.
986114
One could only hope others would be openminded enough to consider things from all sides.  If I heard evidence from the other side that actually made sense and shook my own beliefs, it might sway me.  That's never actually happened to this point.
512629
I agree, people who are close minded, will never accept, any thing you might have to say to them.\nBeing open minded will allow you to accept most anything, or at least look at that matter, with an open mind.
550714
based on my own sampling I have noticed that people giving articulate, intelligent answers to questions asked gravitate towards the left in their views and the ones leaving simple sloganistic responses that in no way come close to answering questions seem to have a \n"rightie" bias.  \n\nAn unscientific sampling to be sure.
523013
life is how you think. i brainwash myself into not believing  what people told me in the past. I choose to believe want I want to believe. Your thought energy will actually bring what you want to you. Tell yourself how excited you are to change your life for the better. Over and over daily. Wirte it down. Read it. Put it on tape. It will happen. I have already done this for my finances, letting go of my parents religion, self confidence, and even becoming mentally stable after 16 years of medication. It works! You don't have to believe it, just tell yourself. the subconcious is POWERFUL
1025582
When considering a viewpoint, I want to first know the other side and so I agree  with you on that, what I think happens is that if your opinions are to one sided they may be a symptom of not fully understanding the sociological, cultural and political "peace" \nthat is not found in the extreme poles of the other, I think there is no safe zone or a perfect sense of things only a neutral zone whereby one understands the meaninglessness of controversy.\n\nSimple psychology I think plays a big part in life it is profoundly ironic that few acquire this virtue of none being. This most simple of human trait is the reason ignorants persists in human nature.
471359
Stop worrying about what other people think. Act on things and impulses you feel when they pop up, not after you've thought all the fun out of them. There's a good start.
477833
Cool, I can learn another perspective on life and spirituality.  I think it is always a good thing to be open to at least listening to others ideas and ways of life.  It doesn't mean I have to change or believe their ways and beliefs are right or wrong, maybe just different than mine. And whether I agree with their beliefs or not is no excuse for me to be a rude neighbor.
926541
You'll have to figure it out for yourself, you can't persuade people on a topic you are not 100% convinced of.  You can try picking up a newspaper or magazine and reading stories and thinking about your personal opinion and/or choices on what is going on around the world.
307143
Just think of something you are interested in hearing others opinions about.
223952
To provoke an interesting response, to validate your own point of view, to see other people's points of view that might diverge from your own, to test the validity of a question (like putting a car through a wind tunnel.) Hmm... that's all I can think of.