Important issues you have changed your mind on

KingOfFairview · 07-08-2013 11:38AM #1

I used to be very pro abortion, now I can't decide (obviously would allow it in many cases)

Have you come round to a new perspective on any major issues?

tin79 · 07-08-2013 11:40AM

When I was young and naïve I considered voting for the greens :mad:

Being a young student of environmental science at the time their taglines seemed to fit. Then I realised what their policies were like. Thankfully I never actually voted for them.

lazygal · 07-08-2013 11:40AM

Opposite, was brainwashed by a religious education to believe abortion was always wrong. Now I'm very prochoice. I've become even more prochoice since having children.

I also now think Maggie Thatcher wasn't all bad.

Seachmall · 07-08-2013 11:47AM

Religion is the obvious one, and I've flip-flopped on abortion once or twice.

EdenHazard · 07-08-2013 11:47AM

I had a U-Turn on my spiritual beliefs. Considered myself Atheist but then had a change of heart. We're only human, as we view the world there is nothing that stands out to make me think 'Yeah there definitely is something more' but it would be arrogant position to take(not that it matters, and it could be perceived as arrogant to think that we(humans, animals) go somewhere once our physical bodies cease to function.

Abortion-I think saying someone is pro abortion sounds so wrong, as if you take joy in the abortions(I actually think some people are more preoccupied with the idea of being for it than have any care for the people it effects) Anyway its not as clear cut as the pro side pretend it to be. Life is the greatest gift you can get, I'd rather have lived even if I do have to be born into a broken home. Life is a lesson, and many people born into such homes have gone onto having successful and happy lives.

KingOfFairview · 07-08-2013 11:49AM

EdenHazard wrote: »

I had a U-Turn on my spiritual beliefs. Considered myself Atheist but then had a change of heart.

Abortion-I think saying someone is pro abortion sounds so wrong, as if you take joy in the abortions(I actually think some people are more preoccupied with the idea of being for it than have any care for the people it effects) Anyway its not as clear cut as the pro side pretend it to be. Life is the greatest gift you can get, I'd rather have lived even if I do have to be born into a broken home. Life is a lesson, and many people born into such homes have gone onto having successful and happy lives.

This thread ain't for debating the merits of abortion

EdenHazard · 07-08-2013 11:52AM

KingOfFairview wrote: »

This thread ain't for debating the merits of abortion

Had to state why I've had a change of heart, believe me I'm not particularly passionate about the subject.

dharma200 · 07-08-2013 11:52AM

KingOfFairview wrote: »

I used to be very pro abortion, now I can't decide (obviously would allow it in many cases)

Have you come round to a new perspective on any major issues?

eh, just wondering on which cases YOU would allow it.. lol.. like perhaps the only case to not allow it is with yourself if you dont require one, and allow other women to choose. Seems reasonable.

I have come round to the fact that whatever I beleive, i shouldnt make other people live to my will...

I Heart Internet · 07-08-2013 11:55AM

KingOfFairview wrote: »

This thread ain't for debating the merits of abortion

You chose the wrong example in your initial post so OP!!

I used to be very pro nationalised services/state assets e.g. public transport, energy, waste.

I felt that in any privatisation, only the end user/consumer would lose out.

I no longer think that way and now think that for the vast majortiy of industries, products and services, the private sector performs much, much better.

RikkFlair · 07-08-2013 11:58AM

I was Oasis, then I was Blur.

I Heart Internet · 07-08-2013 11:59AM

RikkFlair wrote: »

I was Oasis, then I was Blur.

Me too. I now look back on those Oasis days with anger, despite advice not to.

sugar_fiend · 07-08-2013 12:02PM

became a full blown atheist around six years ago , never missed mass until I was twenty one

MonstaMash · 07-08-2013 12:03PM

I used to like Diagio beers until I educated myself & became a craft beer tosser snob

EdenHazard · 07-08-2013 12:04PM

Oh another thing, I was very pro EU(federal EU type) now I'm just ambivalent to it.

Murt10 · 07-08-2013 12:06PM

Religion, smoking in the workplace, plastic bags.

Roger_007 · 07-08-2013 12:06PM

I have been a socialist all my life and I used to regard rich people and high earners as the 'enemy'. I now realise that it is much better for the economy if there are lots of rich people. Provided the tax system is fair and proper taxes are being paid, the more rich people there are the less everyone else has to pay in tax. As well as that, rich people tend to employ other people, e.g. house cleaning and garden/house maintenance. They also tend to spend money in restaurants and hotels and buy luxury goods thereby keeping others in employment.
I am not rich and I do not want to be as long as I have sufficient means to have modest and reasonable lifestyle. I do not envy people who have loads of dosh. If there were more of them, spending more money we would all be better off.
As that famous philosopher Ben Dunne once said: "Money is like manure, it's no good unless you spread it around".

Henlars67 · 07-08-2013 12:09PM

Always considered myself catholic without giving it much thought, until about 5 or 6 years ago.

Went to mass about once a month.

Then I actually started to question everything and realised that the teachings of the catholic church on a lot of things could hardly be any more at odds to my own views. I began to doubt the existence of god, but one thing I was certain of, is that if there was a god, being a catholic was not the way to him.

Over the following few months I came to the realisation that to believe in the existence of a god is utterly ridiculous.

I now detest all organised religion, it makes my skin crawl.

sugar_fiend · 07-08-2013 12:10PM

Roger_007 wrote: »

I have been a socialist all my life and I used to regard rich people and high earners as the 'enemy'. I now realise that it is much better for the economy if there are lots of rich people. Provided the tax system is fair and proper taxes are being paid, the more rich people there are the less everyone else has to pay in tax. As well as that, rich people tend to employ other people, e.g. house cleaning and garden/house maintenance. They also tend to spend money in restaurants and hotels and buy luxury goods thereby keeping others in employment.
I am not rich and I do not want to be as long as I have sufficient means to have modest and reasonable lifestyle. I do not envy people who have loads of dosh. If there were more of them, spending more money we would all be better off.
As that famous philosopher Ben Dunne once said: "Money is like manure, it's no good unless you spread it around".

I was never a socialist but then again I never went to college and so dodged the overwhelming Marxism which permeates third level in this country

xXxkorixXx · 07-08-2013 12:13PM

i used to think leo varadker was a radical now he is just the 'minister for ribbon cutting and everything else bar his own brief'

bradolf pittler · 07-08-2013 12:15PM

I seriously considered supporting Liverpool at one stage.Dodged a bullet there....phewwwww

roast · 07-08-2013 12:15PM

Religion, for sure. Several times, back and forth. :pac:

Ihatecuddles-old · 07-08-2013 12:16PM

sugar_fiend wrote: »

became a full blown atheist around six years ago , never missed mass until I was twenty one

I'm kind of the opposite. Went to mass every week until I was 15, stopped going for 5 years. Now I'm back, more religious than ever.

sugar_fiend · 07-08-2013 12:16PM

xXxkorixXx wrote: »

i used to think leo varadker was a radical now he is just the 'minister for ribbon cutting and everything else bar his own brief'

I used to think he might be the first proper conservative in dail eireann

sugar_fiend · 07-08-2013 12:17PM

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

I'm kind of the opposite. Went to mass every week until I was 15, stopped going for 5 years. Now I'm back, more religious than ever.

can never understand those who claim they went from being atheist to religious , I doubt they were ever atheist at all , for me their could never be a going back

Roger_007 · 07-08-2013 12:18PM

sugar_fiend wrote: »

I was never a socialist but then again I never went to college and so dodged the overwhelming Marxism which permeates third level in this country

I never went to college either but it is a strange phenomenon that most of the far-lefties who inhabit our third-level educational establishments soon morph into arch-conservatives after a couple of years in the 'real world'.

Celly Smunt · 07-08-2013 12:18PM

I used to hate the new boards front page,but I've grown to accept it.

kunst nugget · 07-08-2013 12:18PM

I used to think getting off my tits was the only way to enjoy a weekend. These days a nice cup of tea and a good sh¡te (ideally not at the same time) sound like more fun most of the time.

Ihatecuddles-old · 07-08-2013 12:21PM

sugar_fiend wrote: »

can never understand those who claim they went from being atheist to religious , I doubt they were ever atheist at all , for me their could never be a going back

I wasn't athiest, just stopped going to mass!

Potatoeman · 07-08-2013 12:21PM

KingOfFairview wrote: »

I used to be very pro abortion, now I can't decide (obviously would allow it in many cases)

Have you come round to a new perspective on any major issues?

I find many people pro abortion believe a mans right to choose ends at conception but a womans does not. I dont think either should be forced into parenthood but many have double standards.

sugar_fiend · 07-08-2013 12:21PM

Roger_007 wrote: »

I never went to college either but it is a strange phenomenon that most of the far-lefties who inhabit our third-level educational establishments soon morph into arch-conservatives after a couple of years in the 'real world'.

they realise two things

1 . idealogy doesn't put food on the table

2. their trendy lefty over paid lecturers were windbags

Ihatecuddles-old · 07-08-2013 12:22PM

kunst nugget wrote: »

I used to think getting off my tits was the only way to enjoy a weekend. These days a nice cup of tea and a good sh¡te (ideally not at the same time) sound like more fun most of the time.

Couldn't agree more. The most fun I've had outside the bedroom in the last 6 months involved pictionary and a documentary about chess

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