Can you change your mind?

Well, can you?

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sufi

sufi

lala
Someone said on another thread about inflexibility of attitudes here, they may have a point.

So this is the thread for those who want to recant their anti-Corbynism in the face of our current state, or not.
Or for testing robustness of any of your other strongly held opinions - have you (not just @you) ever changed your mind about anything? has this place changed your mind about anything?

We can cross reference with the age groups poll to demonstrate that elderlies like Luke and Tea are incapable of mental flexibility.
 
luka

luka

Well-known member
I would never ever change my mind on anything not the smallest detail not the most casually held and inconsequential opinion. Never never never never.
 
sufi

sufi

lala
Yes me too because I am CORRECT
but i have occasionally learned new informations from this place
 
Leo

Leo

Well-known member
funny how it's difficult to admit (even just to yourself) for even the most inconsequential things.

part of the reason why trump was right when he said he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and his base would still love him.
 
sufi

sufi

lala
i also believe in compulsive unconscious post-rationalisation that makes you think you've always done the right thing in retrospect, even if at the time your motivations were pragmatic or shabby
 
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luka

luka

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sufi said:
i also believe in compulsive unconscious post-rationalisation that makes you think you've always done the right thing in retrospect, even if at the time your motivations were pragmatic or shabby
Click to expand...

Weed can be a good drug for retrospectively casting your actions in another, horrible, light. Not that I need to tell you that!
 
sus

sus

Moderator
Come back to this thread in a year, I will be proven right. All the community members who don't currently like me will like me loads. Then I'll be correct AND loved.
 
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RWY

Well-known member
Over the course of a year (with the help of my gardening job in the Cotswolds may I add), I successfully managed to change my mindset from that of a David Harvey reading, Grime listening, FALC advocate to a socially conservative One Nation Tory, so yes, it can be done.
 
john eden

john eden

male pale and stale
I don’t really think it matters what I believe in the grand scheme of things. So changing my mind is no biggie. But I do have some core beliefs I guess that have proved quite resilient.

Yer chaos magickians would do that paradigm shifting thing where they would rigorously adopt a whole belief system for a fixed period of time. They were largely fashy goths though so it was a bit shit.
 
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DannyL

Wild Horses
I played with chaos magic ideas about changing beliefs and it was definitely useful and interesting. But John's right, most of the people talking about sort of thing never dug away at their big core beliefs. I do know someone who went from gay to straight as part of that belief play though.

You can and will change your mind in therapy if you care to commit to it. Certainly your beliefs about the self if they're negative get shifted.
 
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DannyL

Wild Horses
I can give you a few examples but they all involve me sliding more away from more trad leftie/anti intervention stance I once had. Was a long process though, and not maybe what you're looking for, because of that. Not realising "oh, I'm wrong" but something that happened of time. More like "I was wrong, once". A lot of this is the traditional slide to more world weary conservative and cynical positions on foreign policy and away from youthful utopianism generally so maybe a bit cliched and boring.
 
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boxedjoy

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if people can't change their mind then what's the point of fighting for equality of opportunity in the face of bigotry and prejudice?
 
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