Have you ever changed a long-held opinion?

fonda · 15-01-2012 05:58PM

I used to think PES was better than Fifa!

floutingmaxims · 15-01-2012 06:31PM

I used to be dead set against Dubstep. Bashed it on several occasions. Oops.

floutingmaxims · 15-01-2012 06:32PM

fonda wrote: »

I used to think PES was better than Fifa!

But it is! :eek:

Novella · 15-01-2012 06:33PM

I used to really think abortion was wrong. I didn't change my mind instantly. I guess as I got older I began to understand that life isn't black and white, just many shades of grey.

Sunnyisland · 15-01-2012 06:35PM

Yes,

Sunnyisland · 15-01-2012 06:37PM

I used to luv her................

Eve_Dublin · 15-01-2012 06:49PM

I grew up in a Republican family and to be honest, had a serious chip on my shoulder about the English growing up. That changed when I moved there and people generally were very decent to me and very kind. Now I'd always defend them if i heard anyone bad mouthing them.

strobe · 15-01-2012 07:11PM

44leto wrote: »

No-one can predict the chaos of markets

http://k.wigflip.com/I5AntEYh/roflbot.jpg :pac:

suicide_circus · 15-01-2012 07:20PM

lazygal wrote: »

I did recently on something that I had a very black and white view on

Racist.

cassid · 15-01-2012 08:34PM

I used to think my career was really important, now it's a job

I used to think I knew what love meant, then I had children

I used to think doctors knew everything medical, now I know different

I used to think not a great mother would be the same as a grand parent but I was wrong

panda100 · 15-01-2012 08:42PM

Millicent wrote: »

I was pro-life when I was a kid. I was also anti-divorce. Fucking religion. I've since learned to think for myself.

+1

Used to be raving pro lifer when in college, and now am vehemently pro choice.
Used to believe in God, and no longer do.

Sindri · 15-01-2012 08:43PM

Millicent wrote: »

I've heard that but I don't get it. My views are much the same for the last decade. I really can't see them changing much as I get older.

Freud was of the opinion that as we age we move in narrower circles. It's a lovely analogy, but psychologically he's right.

af_thefragile · 15-01-2012 08:44PM

I used to be an adventurer like you....

Ok, on a more serious note. I used to believe the Gold backed currency was the only way to have a sound monetary system which couldn't fail. Then I leant a stable monetary system can be found on fiat money too as long as the money circulating is tightly regulated to not cause any rampant inflation.

Still hold my views that its the interest based fractional reserve monetary system that is the root of all this financial instability and till interest and fractional reserve lending is not abolished, economies will continue to collapse in boom-bust cycles.

Lots other views I have changed over the years too. I guess as you grow up and learn more about reality, your views change or evolve would be a better word. I think quite differently now as how I did as a teenager.

Sindri · 15-01-2012 08:45PM

fonda wrote: »

I used to think PES was better than Fifa!

It was until all the Koreans who worked for PES went to work for Fifa.

Ghost Buster · 15-01-2012 08:48PM

Peetrik wrote: »

The Beatles... and fish, I can eat fish now

Oh yeah. I used to hate loads of food due to a Mayo Mammy who boiled everything to death and called it cooking. I hated fish and now eat sushi, roll mop and oysters and just about every thing else i hated.(My wife is a cook!)

Nailz · 15-01-2012 09:07PM

I used to be strongly against the war in Iraq, but since having heard educated points of view on both sides of the debate and validified particular references made I've veered toward supporting the war, but I'm open towards points-against...

Seomra Mushie · 15-01-2012 09:11PM

Eve_Dublin wrote: »

I grew up in a Republican family and to be honest, had a serious chip on my shoulder about the English growing up. That changed when I moved there and people generally were very decent to me and very kind. Now I'd always defend them if i heard anyone bad mouthing them.

It's kinda sad that you had to move to the country to realise you were wrong. What if you had never lived there?

Deus Ex Machina · 15-01-2012 09:14PM

Immaculate Pasta wrote: »

How about the fella David Myatt though? He was a former neo Nazi who ended up converting to become an Islamic extremist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Myatt

Just when his mates were thinking he couldn't get any sweeter.

To answer the Q, yes I changed my mind on a shower of things. In my early teens I became more and more sceptical (in the scientific sense, not cynical, as many people interpret the word to mean) and therefore began to shed eschew a lot of the woo-woo I reveled in throughout my childhood. I still love the notion of the paranormal, I am still fascinated by religion, but they passed from belief to sort of entertainment, which is quite a turnaround. I was a right aul bible thumper back in the day!

ascanbe · 15-01-2012 09:20PM

Well, when i was young and my heart was like an open book, i used to say live and let live.
I still say it now but not as often.

pickarooney · 15-01-2012 09:31PM

Immaculate Pasta wrote: »

I think it's natural you change opinions about certain things as you get older.

How about the fella David Myatt though? He was a former neo Nazi who ended up converting to become an Islamic extremist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Myatt

It must have been really hard to adapt his feelings for Jews.

ItsAWindUp · 15-01-2012 09:33PM

I used to think that eating meat was okay, no longer though.

southsiderosie · 15-01-2012 09:53PM

Millicent wrote: »

I've heard that but I don't get it. My views are much the same for the last decade. I really can't see them changing much as I get older.

Hm, I find myself a bit more to the right on some issues, and actually more to the left on others as I have grown older. I think I've shifted to the right on a lot of stuff around personal responsibility, child-rearing, marriage, etc. But I am more liberal on issues like education. I guess some of this is a function of life-stages; I would not have cared so much about early childhood education and parental leave, or been so annoyed by dysfunctional families and bad parents until I got to the point where I wanted to start a family of my own.

daithi1970 · 15-01-2012 10:03PM

I used to be pro-death penalty, until I read The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer in my mid 20's. Now, having had 2 daughters, my mind has changed back...

daithi

LighterGuy · 15-01-2012 10:09PM

I think it depends.

If its something trivial ... then the more information about it can make us change our opinions.

If its an opinion formed from something we have personally experienced. Then, I personally think we'd need another experience to change that opinion.

Sam Vimes · 15-01-2012 10:20PM

PK2008 wrote: »

They say you get more right wing as you get older

Happened to me. I still wouldn't call myself right wing but the apparent total lack of ideas and practicality from the left since the recession started has pushed me further right. Ideas beyond "cancel all cuts and tax the rich" that is

Eric Cartman · 15-01-2012 10:23PM

PK2008 wrote: »

They say you get more right wing as you get older

its because you get wiser.

and I started out fairly right wing, making maggie thatcher look like a socialist at this stage and im only 22

goose2005 · 15-01-2012 11:28PM

I used to think Internet memes were hilarious; then I took an arrow to the knee.

Dudess · 15-01-2012 11:31PM

Used to think really left-wing (well ok, not quite hardline communism) = good; conservative = always bad.
More flexible now - lots of hardline left-wingers can be dicks, lots of conservative people can be reasonable and moderate. It's an age thing though I'd assume.

jam_mac_jam · 15-01-2012 11:33PM

Loads of stuff. Used to think violence was ok for political means , now I am competely against it. Used to be a vegetarian now eat meat all the time. Used to be quite left wing. I even believed in God but I was only little then. Loads of things, find myself getting waay more right wing sometimes.

ICANN · 15-01-2012 11:35PM

I'm 23, I change my mind all the time, as in every 11 minutes (estimate).

Have you ever changed a long-held opinion?

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