My views are far from set in stone

• Kingofrunes wrote on 2012-10-23 00:57
  As each year goes by, I realize just how loose my views on things are. In the past few years, I've dropped my religion, eased up on abortion to the point where I no longer care what women do. It's their body and life who am I to say if they should get an abortion?
  
  I used to say no to alcohol but I threw that out the door about a year ago. Only thing that I've kept stern and steady on is no drugs/smoking, no killing, and no harming of others physically that is. Emotionally is usually done unintionally. I need to work on that portion...
  
  How set in stone are your views?
• Loopulse wrote on 2012-10-23 01:00
  It goes without saying for me.
• Cynic wrote on 2012-10-23 01:05
  Pretty much everything I believe in has always stayed the same. I do learn new things every day, but once I know certain things and figure out my own stance, they never really seem to change.
  
  What's funny is I've actually changed my Mom's views (mostly on abortion) more than my own, lol. But anything can happen so who knows.
• Milk wrote on 2012-10-23 01:06
  My view's on things haven't changed much after I hit high school so I guess my views and opinion on things are set in stone so far.
• Episkey wrote on 2012-10-23 01:27
  Hmmm. This is a good thread because I've noticed my viewpoint concerning certain things have changed over the past couple of months.
  
  
  While certain views are set in stone for me (e.g The dualistic nature of Jesus and the theopneustos "God-breathed" nature of the Bible), I find that with my knowledge increasing ... my views of the world are changing.
  
  I don't look at things so white and black anymore. I'm still an adolescent and I'm going to transition to becoming a young (or "emerging") adult.
  While I may hold some absolute positions, I recognize that those views may not be of benefit in our current society. Especially now that elections are soon, making my decision of the future President of the United States has prompt me to do more introspection.
  
  "Do I really believe this is the right way to rule a country? How strongly do I believe this?"
  
  As for specific examples, you could consider abortion. Since I'm studying human growth and development and I've been doing some research on the topic - I personally feel when an embryo reaches about 6 weeks ... it already possesses the characteristics of personhood. Before - I was fine with an abortion before the first trimester. Now I believe 3 months is simply too much time for the embryo to develop.
  
  I'm still trying to form my views on abortion, but that's just a recent example that came to my mind.
  
  
  Now - try asking me topics concerning homosexuality and ... uhhh ... yeah. My views on that have changed so much, in the complete opposite directions, I currently feel a bit lost. Therefore - at this point, I try not to make any "authoritative" claims/stances in favor or against it.
  
  I'm still developing after all. Haha.
  
  @_@
  
  
  

  Quote from Kingofrunes;967574:

  In the past few years, I've dropped my religion

  
  
  The concept of dropping your religion seems interesting, by this - you mean any organized system of beliefs, I assume.
  
  Because spiritual beliefs compose the identity of an individual.~
• Chiyuri wrote on 2012-10-23 01:31
  My moral code is iron burned into the back of my mind.
  As far as I can remember, I knew what was wrong to do and I have never been able, even for a single moment, to go against those. Those moral code don't seem to be from my childhood since the people I knew never followed such things. It feel more like it was with me from the start instead of having it been learned from outside source. I have tried many times to image or try to comprend how peopel are even able to go against those moral code but it's just out of my reach. I don't understand how the mind can possibly go against that, probably because my mind cannot do it.
  
  But other than morality, my views usually change only if something is there to cause them to change. If I was wrong about something, it will change, if I am not wrong, it will not change.
• TLCBonaparte wrote on 2012-10-23 01:56
  The longer I live, the less black and white this world becomes, morality to me has become just a mean to enable people to live in a society in peace, it's not some higher law that makes people a better person, it's just that when you act moral, you benefit society thus society praise you for it because you have done something that's not just for your individual self.
  
  I also begin to see problems in the world, and feel powerless to change things. Last month I just gave up, if the man is going to screw the world over, then fine, nothing I can do anyway, might as well enjoy life as much as possible, make the best out of it before someone's greed destroy the world.
• Reptile wrote on 2012-10-23 02:25
  Honestly, this is one of the things I can't stand about being here, my opinions are being warped, whether I want them to or not.
  
  In the last 2 years I've been here you guys have
  
  -Destroyed my patriotism
  -Made me doubt my religion
  -More irritable about the people around me irl
  -Made me more sarcastic and blunt
  
  Things were much more simple before I came here :sigh:
  
  That doesn't mean I hate this places or you guys, it's just one of the main drawbacks for me.
• TLCBonaparte wrote on 2012-10-23 02:27

  Quote from Reptile;967643:

  Honestly, this is one of the things I can't stand about being here, my opinions are being warped, whether I want them to or not.
  
  In the last 2 years I've been here you guys have
  
  -Destroyed my patriotism
  -Made me doubt my religion
  -More irritable about the people around me irl
  -Made me more sarcastic and blunt
  
  Things were much more simple before I came here :sigh:
  
  That doesn't mean I hate this places or you guys, it's just one of the main drawbacks for me.

  
  
  don't forget my little pony lol
• Cynic wrote on 2012-10-23 02:29

  Quote from Reptile;967643:

  Honestly, this is one of the things I can't stand about being here, my opinions are being warped, whether I want them to or not.
  
  In the last 2 years I've been here you guys have
  
  -Destroyed my patriotism
  -Made me doubt my religion
  -More irritable about the people around me irl
  -Made me more sarcastic and blunt
  
  Things were much more simple before I came here :sigh:
  
  That doesn't mean I hate this places or you guys, it's just one of the main drawbacks for me.

  
  
  Well, the truth ain't always pretty. Life makes a lot of people bitter, but as long as you can still see the few bits of good in it, I see no reason why opening your eyes always has to be a bad thing.
  
  I'd much rather face the truth than have a veil over my eyes my entire life. It sucks.. but it's worth knowing if you ask me.
• TLCBonaparte wrote on 2012-10-23 02:31
  I dono, sometime I wish I don't know what I know. Ignorance is bliss.
• Cynic wrote on 2012-10-23 02:37
  Sometimes I do, too. But then I look at the blessings I've had in life and I realize that there is still good out there. And it's worth believing in and fighting for, regardless of all the other stuff.
  
  All the shit I've been through has really opened my eyes, made me mature (perhaps a bit too quickly for my age, but still), and ultimately made me appreciate the small things and the good things.
  
  So yeah, every now and again I wonder what it would be like to be a sheep wandering around, blissfully ignorant of the truth.. but at the end of the day I deal with what I have and hold on tight to what good I do have, because that good makes it all worthwhile.
  
  [SIZE="1"]/cue sappy music[/SIZE]
• Reptile wrote on 2012-10-23 02:38

  Quote from Cynic;967647:

  Well, the truth ain't always pretty. Life makes a lot of people bitter, but as long as you can still see the few bits of good in it, I see no reason why opening your eyes always has to be a bad thing.
  
  I'd much rather face the truth than have a veil over my eyes my entire life. It sucks.. but it's worth knowing if you ask me.

  
  
  I rather be ignorant and happy about the country I'm in and the people I'm surrounded by than grouchy
• Kollin wrote on 2012-10-23 02:54

  Quote from Reptile;967654:

  I rather be ignorant and happy about the country I'm in and the people I'm surrounded by than grouchy

  
  
  Even if it means that those people can extort everything they possibly can from you then toss you aside like absolute trash once they are done? I would rather be slightly bitter and try and find those worthwhile things in life that make it worth living.
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2012-10-23 03:11

  Quote from Episkey;967609:

  
  
  The concept of dropping your religion seems interesting, by this - you mean any organized system of beliefs, I assume.
  
  Because spiritual beliefs compose the identity of an individual.~

  
  
  By religion I mean Catholism. I stopped following it long ago, much to the disappointment of my mother who actually took me aside to lecture me about it. There some aspects that I acknowledge and respect but as a whole I don't follow it.
  
  I'd say I've become more liberal thanks to College/being away from my conservative father, and of course these forums have made me liberal at a much faster rate than I would have gone at if at all.