are you really open-minded ?
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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!
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Any extreme belief isn't beneficial to anyone. I agree with you that everyone should have an open mind, listen to all sides, quit trying to convince everyone else and just be level headed about things. It doesn't mean we all have to agree with one another!
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it all depends on your own point of view. your opinion
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.
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Being open minded sometimes has a disadvantages, your mind can overflow, jokes apart, internet is just the combination of all these and much more
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Are you willing to say that ignorance IS bliss?
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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.
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Depends on the person. A closeminded person -willfully- ignores evidence that are contrary to personal beliefs, while an openminded person will integrate them into their belief system, granted that the evidence is justified. However people have a natural tendency to resist new ideas and evidence.
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Really, is that the truth?
838255
You may need to just open your eyes.
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You are practicing open-ended questions?
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I think you are very open minded and willing to allow others to voice there opinion without inciting them.  I think you try to see both sides of an issue and could probably argue either side if you wanted to.\n\nBut to answer your question, you trust Bush about as far as you can throw him.\n(is that good enough for ten?)
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do you believe yourself?
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none of the above. it makes you an independent thinker. the best kind of thinker i might add.
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Judging by myself i would say an open bright mind.
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as a opened eyed Christian. I say: This is your right.\n\nYou have your "EYES WIDE SHUT".\n\nThis is called choice.\n\n\n\nHave a nice week.
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The state of your mind?