Are You "Open-Minded" Or Not?

ClassicRockr

ClassicRockr

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First......this Thread isn't to criticize anyone who is not, or very little "open-minded" OR to criticize anyone for being totally "open-minded".

You could be either an "anything goes" type of person, or "no way" type of person.

Wife and I lean more towards the "no way" type of couple. Actually, I couldn't wait to move out of So California and go somewhere that things weren't nearly as "open-minded" as they were there. But, now we are living in a city/area where pretty much "anything goes" it seems like. Didn't seem to be that way at all when we first moved here.

Most farmers and ranchers aren't "open-minded" and don't live in areas that are. During my teen years, that's the way it was for me on a small farm.

There are a number of things that go on in the U.S. today that I don't like and don't understand. Neither of those, "don't like" and "don't understand" are being "open-minded".

So, which type are you........."open-minded" or not?
 

The Pastor my wife watches on her laptop on Sunday morning, is definitely not “open-minded” and definitely lets his congregation know that.
Generally, Christian people aren’t known to be “open minded”.
 
At 68 I've been around long enough to where I've pretty much already made my mind up and formed an opinion on everything that matters to me.......having said that I suppose you could put me down as close minded.
 
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"There are a number of things that go on in the U.S. today that I don't like and don't understand. Neither of those, "don't like" and "don't understand" are being "open-minded".

Not necessarily , I may not like something...but be open minded to the fact that others do. And just because I may not like something , doesn't make it necessarily bad / wrong.

That said...along the same line, I may not understand something, but that only speaks to my ignorance about it. I may not understand quantum physics . But I am open-minded to the fact that in the grand scheme of things...it is a good thing.


 
I'm similar to rgp in that I have strong opinions on things as they relate to me. I'm definitely set in my ways on certain things, LOL!!!

If something that I'm against does not hurt anyone or anything then I have no problem with others doing it.

I also think that on many issues I'm more curious than open-minded, I want to understand the need or the attraction.

“I am what I am, and that's all that I am.” - Popeye
 
Well, whether something affects me or not, if I don’t like, I don’t like it.

There are certain cities and states I’d rather live in than others, because those “others” seem to be WAY to much of “anything goes”.
 
Everyone likes to think of themselves as being "open minded". We are not our own best judge....ask those around us. The majority of people today are close minded.
 
I'm definitely not of the open minded type.

I have my standards and I'm really not very tolerant to any other claims that don't agree with my standards.

Sorry but I just cannot accept some of the modern claims to freedom.

And on top of that. I'm honest.

It's like the bald eagle flying around and saying, tolerance?, well no I'm going to go out and kill something.
 
I'm definitely not of the open minded type.

I have my standards and I'm really not very tolerant to any other claims that don't agree with my standards.

Sorry but I just cannot accept some of the modern claims to freedom.

And on top of that. I'm honest.

It's like the bald eagle flying around and saying, tolerance?, well no I'm going to go out and kill something.


The song:

Lyrics
So take me as I am
Or have nothing at all (nothing at all)
Just take me as I am
Or have nothing at all (at all)… More



Artist: Mary J. Blige


Album: The Breakthrough


Released: 2005


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Not saying that I live by it......but there is something said about the fact that....It is the rigid old Oak tree that blows over in a strong wind.....But the more flexible Palm tree stands ready for the next storm..........
 
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ClassicRockr said:
Well, whether something affects me or not, if I don’t like, I don’t like it.

There are certain cities and states I’d rather live in than others, because those “others” seem to be WAY to much of “anything goes”.
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How can you judge a whole state? or city. For instance, What do you know of NY? Very Liberal, very Democrat, right?

Try getting North of Poughkeepsie and West of the Hudson. I can guarantee that we would make Kentucky look like a flaming hotbed of liberalism and intellectual elitism.

Personally I have standards and limits for myself. You can do what you want with yourself. I promise you that I will judge you internally, I may chuckle, I may turn to my wife and say, "Holy crap What the hell is that?", or, "That boy must be from Western NY",
or some such comment, but keep on doin what you are doin, I need the entertainment!
 
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How can you judge a whole state? or city. For instance, What do you know of NY? Very Liberal, very Democrat, right?

Try getting North of Poughkeepsie and West of the Hudson. I can guarantee that we would make Kentucky look like a flaming hotbed of liberalism and intellectual elitism.

Personally I have standards and limits for myself. You can do what you want with yourself. I promise you that I will judge you internally, I may chuckle, I may turn to my wife and say, "Holy crap What the hell is that?", or, "That boy must be from Western NY",
or some such comment, but keep on doin what you are doin, I need the entertainment!
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Actually, to a point, some of the "other" states that I wouldn't chose to live in would be any of the Southern ones or East Coast ones. No Western/Cowboy stuff (that we really like), like in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, the Dakota's, parts of Kansas and Nebraska, Oklahoma and some others. The farming areas of Iowa, I'd be attracted to, because I know how farmers think.

Cities I stay away from would be Los Angeles, Chicago, NYC, Baltimore, different cities in Florida, Dallas/Ft Worth.........these big cities are way to "open minded" for me.
 
See, I could list the things that I'm not "open-minded" about, but I pretty much think you folks know why I won't. Don't want to start WWIII. Listing things would be like the "very debatable" Thread about gun ownership. "Why I do" and "Why I don't and won't". Good reasons on both sides, but a very debatable topic.

What I don't like is...........those that push others to believe in what they believe in.
 
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See, I could list the things that I'm not "open-minded" about, but I pretty much think you folks know why I won't. Don't want to start WWIII. Listing things would be like the "very debatable" Thread about gun ownership. "Why I do" and "Why I don't and won't". Good reasons on both sides, but a very debatable topic.

What I don't like is...........those that push others to believe in what they believe in.
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In my mind, I am closed to many things that others practice, think, or support. That being said,I also keep it to myself. Nothing and I mean nothing you do affects me.
If a large group of people wants to get together on a Saturday afternoon, wearing leather harness and having Ostrich plumes waving from their butts, that's fine with me. I won't be attending, anyone there will be there because they want to be.

If on a Sunday morning a large group of people want to gather, listen to oration, ring bells and chant supplications to an invisible spirit in the sky, that's also fine with me. I will not be there, and anyone present will be there presumably of their own free will.

All this is coming from a guy who is decidedly provincial. Other than my military time and excursions of a year or less, I have not moved more than a mile of my birthplace.
 
I'm trying to be open minded on things, some habits die hard. I no longer give people "the benefit of the doubt" ..... too many evil hearts out there.
 
I'm fairly open-minded. I know what I like, but I'm usually open to trying new things, from time to time, especially when it comes to playing new types of tunes. Part of me still feels eighteen.
 

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