Close minded versus open minded?
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Close minded people are those that aren't willing to consider that other people have differing beliefs and they may be correct sadly many of them seem to be religious fanatics that are unwilling to even think logically about certain issues. \nOpen minded people are willing to consider all possible ideologies or beliefs without judgement. They are generally more secure in themselves.\nI happen to believe in god and Jesus, but i willing consider the ideas of all faiths, and i would advise everyone to try that. It helps you to see life through the eyes of others, and that is all i meant in my definition of closed minded. I just hate seeing christians being so unchristian in jumping on people with different beliefs. I thought generally having a christian ideal would endow a sense of kindness in most, but hardliners seem to never understand that. I hope personally i didn't insult anyone, because i personally feel that whatever makes you feel closer to god or whatever you believe in that you should go for it and let others do the same.
552835
if you are down to earth you are open minded.  you are not uptight and you pass with the time.  down to earth people are the ones that make friends easily and can pretty much talk about anything.  that would be my definition.
980333
actually the spiritual eye and being mindful do not seem to me in my experience to be the same somehow.  Being mindful one thought tricles into another,  the spiritual eye flashes information like a flashbulb without pertianace to whatever the mind is doing at that moment.  Thought does not play a part until the spiritual eye once again becomes dormant.\n\nWhat I see is many differant things often truth I would prefer not to know.  Sometimes states of being that are preferable yet at this time not available full time.  Sometimes warnings, Sometimes valuable insights.  The Spiritual eye sees what it wants not what I decide to look into.  Sometimes it shows evil where I would rather there not be evil.  One thing for certain over the years the one thing it always shows is truth.
570551
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."
943908
You are enlightened, don't let them pull you back down.\n\nI always love how we are closed-minded after we examine various world religions, philosophies, etc... but they have one book that they have read and they are open-minded.
862541
You really answered your own question. To me being a moderate means keeping an open mind. It means being able to see more than one point of view on any issue. It means not holding any extreme position on any issue: not too far to the left and not too far to the right. To me it also means being tolerant of other peoples' opinions even when they don't agree with your own.
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Open mindedness is a very personal thing. One person decides how much he/she will accept/tolerate from others. I call myself open minded because i live by my motto, basically live and let live! You mention people drinking their own urine ... Well they can well do it as much as they like just as long as they don't expect me to follow suit! You mention peadophiles and have to realise that some people may well have been abused or their children have in which case such people would never accept peadophiles, let alone tolerate them! \n\nI think you'll find that most people's degrees of tolerance/acceptance vary depending on their upbringing, primary socialisation, life circumstances. Picture yourself coming home after a bad at work, a really sore head to hear your kids playing rave music on full blast ... You wouldn't tolerate it if, at other times, you might actually enjoy it!\n\nI am a registered mental health nurse and have worked with categories of people the vast majority of us would never wish to associate with under normal circumstances, some of the patients included peadophilesand worse ... As a nurse it was my duty to treat anyone the same, regardless of what they had done (Be it alleged pending trial or proven) And i did it because it was what i did! This doesn't mean to say that i approved of what they had done (Alleged to have done) because other patients were in the ward following crimes perpetrated against them ... Same crimes these people were in for a psychiatric assessment! But it didn't reflect on my care and the way i spoke to them.  \n\nMy interpretation of open mindedness is that, and no matter how our own perception/values affect our judgement ... Not to let it show and treat people the same if privately we may feel that we do not condone what a person did!
48250
are you closer with one of them? do you have similar beliefs, temperaments, etc? Its hard to say which person you should choose, not knowing much about either one.
729829
Reminds me of the quip:\n"Minds, like Umbrellas, work best when open."\n\nThen I rememebr watching Kung Fu and hearing the master say\n"The open mind is like a root, absorbing all things, including the poison that will kill it".\n\nSo maybe mostly open is best. Trust, but verify.
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Most people don't simply believe theories.........they just acknowledge them as a possible reason or explanation.\n\nIt's called having an open mind.
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It's easy to give an opinion but hard to listen to another especially if it's not the same as yours.\n\nI for one invite opposing views life's more interesting that way.\n\nWould rather hear what you really believe than being surrounded by yes men.
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Perhaps both.\nThe two are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
538499
The irony here is somebody (even baptists) may consider you narrow minded. Because you don't agree with someone does not necessarily mean the other party is narrow minded. It does however mean you're as insistent they are wrong as they are you. Narrow Minded comes down to perception and who's perception.\n\nIf you are against morality - I would consider you narrow minded.  If you couldn't fathom the existence of a vastly superior being (known as God) who's technology is above human kind a gabillion times over - I would consider you narrow minded.\n\nPerspective.
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I believe in both but, when we analyze our lives in relationship with the universe there is still MUCH we don't know and understand. So, looking at in from a non-religious and non-scholarly point-of-view; trying to make sense of it which you believe...doesn't much make sense. So pick one, both, or neither and you'll be RIGHT!!!
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funny thing...their "closed Mindedness" kind of helps them think that they are right (about everything) and that they know (pretty much) everything, so it's like (in their mind) they're doing us "dee-de-dees"(retards) a favor by telling us how things really are. But you gotta love'em, because without people like that who else could I make fun of (that is,without being politically incorrect)?
95464
It can be a maturity issue, too, irrespective of the actual age of the person using the epithet.  My 16 year old daughter always tells me that I "don't understand" when the truth is that I understand just fine, I just don't agree.  "Lack of Understanding" is similar to me as "close-minded" and sounds like it comes from someone frustrated by his or her inability to change the mind of the person being spoken to in a matter about which the speaker is passionate. Passion is a feeling, feelings often calm down when maturity lends perspective.
1000470
No. She's probably just a regular b))ch. Nothing special about that. Opinionated is fine if  you can change your mind when you are wrong about something, but a one-track train of thought is hard to get turned around when the reality bridge goes out.