Has anyone ever changed their opinion?

Has a post, thread or particular words of a poster ever changed your opinion or caused you to look into an issue further?

There are some intelligent people who post here and I am thankful that some of them have intellgently inspired me to question some of my beliefs while others have educated me regarding certain issues.

Has anyone else had that experience, or do we just post here to shout about how right we are?

Many people have said things I haven't necessarily thought of but end up agreeing with once brought to light.

Not necessarily changed a belief though.

-AC

Sure. I'm open minded enough to look at facts.

Sure of course many posts have inspired me..some made me agree in the end....some later thinking on my own.

Only one I can really think of now is a rather stupid one "Goku vs. Superman"

When it comes to serious topic a change is much harder and slower to achieve...after all I am a little stubborn...or let's jsut call it pride.

No

Originally posted by WrathfulDwarf
No

Haha..you are infallible....except for your choice in names.

you misspelled "impossible"

Originally posted by PVS
you misspelled "impossible"

You mean me? Fact of the matter is that I misspelled Infallible .....I didn't even attempt to spell impossible...then again you might want to argue that since I said infallible I misspelled "impossible"...but applying that same logic I also misspelled "dog" since I didn't want to say it.

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Infallible is a word 😛

And yes, actually.

Originally posted by §cooter
Infallible is a word 😛

And yes, actually.

Originally posted by KharmaDog
Has a post, thread or particular words of a poster ever changed your opinion or caused you to look into an issue further?

There are some intelligent people who post here and I am thankful that some of them have intellgently inspired me to question some of my beliefs while others have educated me regarding certain issues.

Has anyone else had that experience, or do we just post here to shout about how right we are?

Yes! I stumbled into Shakyamunison in the Religion forum, can't remember the exact thread. Something in his posts really caught my attention and I started to PM him. At the time I was a full blown, pessimistic atheist and heavily, painfully addicted to prescription drugs for depression and anxiety. He told me about Buddhism. Slowly but surely it started to really interest me, then it became part of my thoughts and now I am a Buddhist myself. I shifted my entire view of life into a more spiritual direction, I even started to feel the pressence of something greater in life...maybe even God and the real effect of Buddha's practical (mentally medicinal) wisdom, methods and advice. I also freed myself from my addictions.

If I had not come accross Shakyamunison in the Religion forum, I don't know whether my beliefs and views would ever have changed.

Originally posted by KharmaDog
Has a post, thread or particular words of a poster ever changed your opinion or caused you to look into an issue further?

There are some intelligent people who post here and I am thankful that some of them have intellgently inspired me to question some of my beliefs while others have educated me regarding certain issues.

Has anyone else had that experience, or do we just post here to shout about how right we are?

Originally posted by KharmaDog
Has a post, thread or particular words of a poster ever changed your opinion or caused you to look into an issue further?

There are some intelligent people who post here and I am thankful that some of them have intellgently inspired me to question some of my beliefs while others have educated me regarding certain issues.

Has anyone else had that experience, or do we just post here to shout about how right we are?

Of course.

There are some things which I have thought of differently before reading certain articles and certain points of view - I take into consideration everything that is said, with a particular manner of course.

Someone who speaks with a patronising tone, or with a superiority complex, I do not deem as knowledgable, but insecure, and I tend not to respond or read their posts.

The chances of their posts ever changing my mind are minimal.

it happens, used to happen more tho, before the downfall of the gdf, but it still happens now and then.

I have had things brought to my attention here but It's never changed an oppinion.

Originally posted by Wonderer
Yes! I stumbled into Shakyamunison in the Religion forum, can't remember the exact thread. Something in his posts really caught my attention and I started to PM him. At the time I was a full blown, pessimistic atheist and heavily, painfully addicted to prescription drugs for depression and anxiety. He told me about Buddhism. Slowly but surely it started to really interest me, then it became part of my thoughts and now I am a Buddhist myself. I shifted my entire view of life into a more spiritual direction, I even started to feel the pressence of something greater in life...maybe even God and the real effect of Buddha's practical (mentally medicinal) wisdom, methods and advice. I also freed myself from my addictions.

If I had not come accross Shakyamunison in the Religion forum, I don't know whether my beliefs and views would ever have changed.

wow...thats pretty big...cant say shakyamunison would change my religious beliefs...he makes some pretty good music though

With the amount of people here who find it hard to admit there wrong sometimes I would be surprised if anybody ever changed there thoughts here!

Changed my opinion on the subject matter? Very, very rarely.
Changed my opinion on the poster? All the time!

Originally posted by botankus
Changed my opinion on the subject matter? Very, very rarely.
Changed my opinion on the poster? All the time!

"Truth here, there be" - Yoda