Your views: How much have they changed over time?

Have your overall views changed much over the years, or mostly stayed the same?

My views I think have been pretty consistent for over a decade. You can read my posts on these forums from 2004, and I still hold the same beliefs in 2014.

 

Pretty consistent overall but a lot more nuanced happily! I wish it counted for your views too sometimes

 

I saw some pretty nice views in washington state and arizona. Very pretty scenery

 

I am no longer a socialist,because it seems a pointless cause.I still dream of a better more egalitarian society.I still hate violence,even though of course I have my own demons.I take politics and current events less seriously,because there's fuck all I can do about anything.I know...If everyone is apathetic then nothing changes...Communal apathy.Most of the time I am just fighting for my mind and the the little place I occupy in this so called society.

 

growing up my parents attempted to program me as a conservative, it took a while to throw off everything and I made a slow but constant shift to being a progressive

now an anarcho-socialist if a label is needed. On a grid I normally test about -10 on the left right scale and -9.5 on authoritarian/libertarian scale and that has been consistent for a while

 

Changed. For the worst. Drastically.

 

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It is good that you at least acknowledge that :biggrin:

 

I would use the word evolved. There are some things that I feel quite a bit differently about now than 20 years ago. But I don't think that's uncommon. When confronted with a fact that isn't supported by your opinion....the fact isn't wrong, you are.

 

Too bad we don't always know for sure if it's a fact or not..

 

If the preponderance of the evidence points to my opinion being wrong, I am probably choosing to be willfully ignorant if I don't consider it. There are some people who I can only describe as willfully ignorant. I mean....they almost have to try to sound as dumb as they do. They have to practice that shit by being dumb over and over until they perfect it.

 

My views on my family ( mother & my brother & sister) have changed for the worse recently. They don't let me know sometimes of a death of any of my aunties / uncles until after they have been buried or sometimes up to a few months later. They just 'presume' I knew. Had bad is that for family communications - seems they forget I exist at times!

 

My views and opinions have a habit of changing daily

 

I'm pretty disillusioned with a lot of things but my beliefs are still centered around my idealism. I still wish for a better world, I just know now it isn't going to happen.

I don't really care as much about politics and global issues in general anymore, whereas when I was younger I cared too much. I mostly think everything is bullshit on a global scale, puppeteers pulling strings and idiots making horrible decisions, whereas good things happen on a local level so I focus much more on my immediate surroundings.

 

On most inner core values my views have probably not changed very much.

On a lot of other topics or issues my views have changed over time, thankfully. That means I am still learning and that is a good thing.

 

I think if you don't change over time, you are just a stubborn person who thinks (s)he knows all and is always right.

 

Nailed him.

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Consistency used to be a value. Today's world seems to value aimless change.

 

The world isn't static.

 

Consistency used to be a value.

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Today's world seems to value aimless change.

I don't think Pressed_Rat is engaged in a stubborn, die-hard pursuit of self-righteousness. It appears to me to be *consistency* .. not a lack of growth or change.

 

We disagree then. I do think PR is stubborn and not very open to other people's views, but instead trying to force his own views upon people. And calling them things like 'idiots' if they have a different viewpoint than him.

Which often makes for entertaining reads, so my message to our favorite Rat: never change. :2thumbsup: