What exactly do you mean by close-mindedness?  Please explain yourselves in detail.?
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Or, it could be something you know without a doubt is true and you refuse to compromise your beliefs. Close-mindedness isn't always a bad thing. Think about a situation where your friends try to talk you into doing something you know is wrong. Refusing to consider it is then a good thing. Or when someone tries to get you to believe the devil's lies, like truth is reletive, all religions are the same, or a loving God would never let anyone go to Hell.
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I think that as we become more open-minded to other ideas, etc. we're more willing to accept others' ways of life. We eventually see these everyday things as "not so bad" because we finally took time to examine them, and probably learned that others look at our everyday happenings in a similar light.\n\nFor instance, look at the "holiday season." I celebrate Christmas but not Kwanzaa nor Hanukkah, but I have absolutely no problem with those who celebrate one or more of the other late-year holidays. Why should I have an issue with it? They're not hurting me in any way, and I'm not hurting them. "Live and let live."
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Well, it is kind of. The thing is, it´s a blanket refusal. You´re not saying "No thanks, I don´t like cheese" or something like that, you are simply refusing to take the food without any consideration for what is being offered. The key fact about closed mindedness is a lack of consideration about the specifics of the situation, an open minded person looks at each case as it comes, thinks about it and then refuses for a specific reason. A close minded person knows the answer to the question as soon as they hear it, an open minded person is willing to hear arguments and extra information and is open to the possibility that they may be wrong or may change their minds.\n\nAlso, you need to consider the fact that your behaviour implies a lack of trust in your friends. Like you´re saying "I don´t trust that you´ll give me something nice/safe/suitable", I understand you´re probably not thinking that, but that doesn´t change the fact that that is the impression that you´re giving. People are going to feel offended by you acting in that way and will respond in the way that you describe. Think about it, they like the food and they think you might like it to. Essentially they´re trying to share with you something enjoyable, which is what friends do. Your response is simply that you aren´t interested, you´re rebuffing their friendly gesture and that upsets people.\n\nLook at it this way, you say "I like what I like" this is obviously true, but it is not the same as "I only like the things that I know I like", which is probably untrue by definition. Assuming you aren´t some kind of wise, old international food lover, the chances are that there is alot of food out there that you would like if you were to actually be open to the idea of trying it.
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It's imperative! How do you gain knowledge if you don't listen and learn from others? To stop and open your mind to all that others are saying, writing and doing is showing your thirst for knowledge.........your willingness to grow yourself. The most ignorant people I seem to encounter are the ones that seem to interrupt me mid sentence to give their take on a situation.......their opinion being the primary message they want to convey to me. Instead they show me they can't listen and therefor have not considered all sides of an issue and as a result do not have the knowledge it takes to form a rational opinion. Thank you for asking this. I enjoyed the thoughts!
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I understand what you mean...\n\nAt first glance it appears as if they were trying to be politically correct. I personally would appreciate that openness of mind.\n\nHowever, we can only guess their intentions. We don't know these people, and if they are really open minded or were just being plain unpleasant. \n\nIs this openness of mind unlike them?
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It would be very self centered of us not to mention closed minded, to believe that we are the ONLY intelligence in the universe..there is so much that we don't even know of this our own planet...we are very very young...chances are our imagination cannot even comprehend what awaits in the vastness of space..we are still too primitive...Yep they are real..as real as you and I.
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At times I really start to question the human race & the concept of intelligence. Not to accept that there are possibilities outside one's inherent beliefs makes your mind closed therefore ignorant.\n\nPeople aren't meant to know everything. We aren't animals acting on instinct. If you believe anything at all you are closing your mind to possiblities in a world of uncertainties.
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Depend where do u live ! and how u think if u live in poor country in war place in disease u ll be close minded when u reach 5 years if u live in country where all people are stupid and all what the care about to eat and sleeep ! u ll be born close minded .. Studying and reading help u to be openminded for longer time ..
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I agree with those who say radical thinkers are close minded.  They can't listen to anything but their own voice.  Moderate thinkers are more interesting as their viewpoints vary.  And remember, "Nothing lasts forever even cold November rain."
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I know what you mean. In the bible though it says our knowledge is just a fraction of God's knowledge...there are some things the human mind is not ever going to comprehend, which is why science was invented (the big bang theory..Please). I know someone who is extremely atheist/agnostic and its really sad that he's so closedminded. I mean, people say christians are closed minded but then atheists are too, because they won't even open up to the possibility that there is a god. I don't know...they greatest of the commandments is love so I guess thats all we can do.
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well.........\ni've a relative who seems to think he is.\nthis what he does.\nlies \ncheats\nsteals \nkisses up\nbe vendictictive in your dealings with others\nremember to retain little bits of personal information that have the potential to destroy. (then let them know.)\nforget what it means to care about other people\ngive up the set of rules and morales that you'd had\ntreat people as indespensbale\nonly tolerate others if they can aggree with your agenda.\nnever tolerate otheres who you cannot use to further you cause.\nin a whole sell your soul to the devil to succeed.\nthe sad fact is, \nno matter how much you want to be liked by everyone and there is no way you ever will be.\nsometimes it seems that there is a consistant trade off,\nmoney-popularity, or the other way around.\nin you own mind find examples of people who have been"popular".\njust because of their hearts or spirits,\nthen the ones you know that are rich.\nthose who are liked for their knack of caring about people, always have enemies because others feel threatened as to why they care.\nhow do you know to what extent those you see as more affluent that your self do not use that money to inffluence or buy out their "friends"?\ndo your best with what you have and relax in that fact.\nif what your doing is the field you realy want to work in, further your self through education.\nuntill then,rest.\nyou can't change people,their minds , or even their set agendas.\ndo not allow yourself to be used\ndecieved or\ncorrupted by others.\nthen place a goal ahead of you and seek out the means to fulfill it.\nto do things honestly may seem the harest way at first, but if you can not be established  in your carreer and in your own heart,\nyou wiill always have this question.
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Do you mean "peace of mind" or a "piece of someones mind"?\nEither way, we are kind of stuck in this human dance of disagreeing and agreeing, testing and contesting.  But we usually move forward anyway.  Nice, that way.
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People who have such closed minds never read beyond what they believe to be true, therefore they just make up arrogant assumptions about others. Rather like that dumb cow who thought she should pray for me and my wife because she 'assumed' our marriage was weak! \n\nAssumptions are the mother of all f**k-ups!
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Hah! That's funny...whew independent thinking. \n\nWell, that is really the meaning and idea of being a conservative. Adopting set ideas that don't change and are not open for debate. It comes natural to them.\n\nAny intellectual capacity they do have is not used for discovery and introspection but to establish an arguable defense for their staid ideas.
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honesty\nopen-mindedness\nwillingness
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I am a true believer as you are, the way I see it;\nWhen we are first born there are things that we do know, as we grow we lose certain abilities, example:  Have you ever notice how little babies look at things, we as adults can't see them, that's because we have closed our eyes & minds to them, and how children seem to have talks with people who are not there?\nWho's to say that there isn't no one there?\nWhen we adults hear our children talking to them selfves we tell them to stop, so they grow out of it, we close their minds off from it, because that is what we are taught as children becoming adults.\nThere is something bigger than us it's there all around us everyday, all the time, it's just that we are so closed minded that we think that this is it.\nWhat we can't explain we either ignore, or destory that is human nature, I agree with you in the future the people will look back on our time and see how shallow, self serving and closed minded we were as a people.\nHopefully by then someone will have figured out how to make those changes right.
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if you are not willing to listen to Christ then are you not also close minded? it is quite intersting that the most close minded people are the ones that are "open" minded.