open minds Community Group
Respectful, open discussion of philosophy, religion,spirituality, and other topics with the purpose of opening our minds and broadening our horizons. Differences of opinion are welcomed but intolerance will not be tolerated, so please show respect at all times.
Alphonsus
What does an open mind mean to you?
I consider myself a hardcore skeptic. I am well versed in the ways of science and in the fallibility of the human mind. I love to think, and to embrace new ideas...
That being said, I am far from a new-age mystic. I don't believe that aliens are walking among us. Why? Not because I am closed minded, but because in all of the thousands of cases not a single one has been substantiated. I don't believe in spirit guides. I don't believe in telepathy, horoscopes, psychics, faith healing, or crystals. Does this make me closed minded? I once believed in all of these things. Scientific evidence has not supported any of them. I am open minded, but I am grounded in the scientific method.
Religiously, I am a militant agnostic. I don't know about what happens to us after death, and I don't know about God, and I am not in the least wishy-washy about it. "I don't know" is sometimes the correct answer to a question.
So, I don't know. I'm beginning to feel a little out of place in this group. What do y'all think?
I consider myself a hardcore skeptic. I am well versed in the ways of science and in the fallibility of the human mind. I love to think, and to embrace new ideas...
That being said, I am far from a new-age mystic. I don't believe that aliens are walking among us. Why? Not because I am closed minded, but because in all of the thousands of cases not a single one has been substantiated. I don't believe in spirit guides. I don't believe in telepathy, horoscopes, psychics, faith healing, or crystals. Does this make me closed minded? I once believed in all of these things. Scientific evidence has not supported any of them. I am open minded, but I am grounded in the scientific method.
Religiously, I am a militant agnostic. I don't know about what happens to us after death, and I don't know about God, and I am not in the least wishy-washy about it. "I don't know" is sometimes the correct answer to a question.
So, I don't know. I'm beginning to feel a little out of place in this group. What do y'all think?
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The last time. More like the end of time. Not the end of everything, just time. Maybe to exist without time.
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well im kinda an ecletic so im kinda like a sponge. I think open mindedness just means that you are always open to others views and willing to listen without judgement and once you have researched the other view some then you make your own conclusions, but to me an open mind just means that you don't shut down someone else's view to be false just because you have learned or believe another way. You are open to learning about someone else.
muskrattiger
.scgirl ...........I like.your answer the best .................Alphonse's ..........you are right ware you belong ........you are honest with us as to who you are ....and you are ...and ..what you don't belive in .....but you also say you love to ..think ......and I embreace new ideas .........and you shair your viewers with us ....................you belive in what you can see and experance ..I think science excites you and you are pashent about it .......I think you have a great deal to shair in here ........and what a boring world if everyone belived the exact same thing what would we talk about ........I love this ...bord .....and like very much to here from .you ..... .......I am a skeptic .....witch ...is ..if you knew me ...who I am ....would be puzeling ....at the very least .........I feel that ....opend mindedness ...also if affected by our life experances ....I think ..opend mindedness has leavels ...and ....scgirl .....is the first and basic ..leavel ..that most people fall under ........than you have ..those who are affected ..by there experances that set them apart from others ...and don't ...misunderstand my words I am not saying better I am saying .....apart on a diferant leavel ...not a higher leavel .just a diferant leavel ...these levels are all equal in importance ....not like the levals of love ..that can be felt ..lesser and greater .....these ..leavels ..of ...opendmindness ....are equal and just as important as the next one ..........but opendmindness is nessecery for a siviulision ... to ..move forward in there evolution ...................and to be a skeptic ...is ..a very healthy ..part .of ..what we are made of ...with out that ...we would be gullible ...to every ..crazie out there ........so those two things go hand in hand ..I belive .............................................................................................................since you have been so honest and open about who you are ..I think you deserve not short of the same thing from me .......................................................I don't expect you to belive me ....but I do know you will here me ...read ..my post and that is being open minded ...and that is all I ask ...................I am not sure what new age mistic is ............I do belive in Alines ...because ..I and ..a number of people I know have seen there space ships ...I don't know in they walk on this earth ..I have no evedince but I do belive they are having some kind of an infulince ..but don't know what influnce .................I belive in telepathy ...because ...the beings in the spaships ship ..used it on me ..to push me back in my seet in my truck because they were trying to make me belive that I wasent seeing them that I was seeing the medal of the vergian merry ...in bright gold the colour of ther shill ..at that moment ..amd when they found it wasent working ...because what I.did was I could not stop them from puting that in my head ..but I pushed it aside and continued watching them I was on my way to work .and was nearly calling ..they ..gave me a very hard mental push ..to back off ..and I was right up in my window and it through me right back in my seet .......they were cold ..had no emotions as we know them .....I felt like we are no more than ..bugs or cattle to them ......I hope I never come across them again ...................................................I belive in spirit guides because I have had 5 throught out my life .....come to me .....and help me through dificult times .....and I have one I visit with .........................I think horoscopes are fun to read but I wouldent plan my life around them ....................................................I do belive in phychics......because I am one I was born wide open it runs in my mothers side of the family ..and in each jenerations there is one who is the strongests .....and others can have one or two experances ....most have none..in the rest of the family ..my grand mother was a twin amd now it also runs Dowen her twins side of the family ................................................mine is way to strong ...I have hid from it for all of my life ..leaving few people into my life ....and when I came on line to this suport group I thought I was going to be in a safe place ......what a mistake that was .....this is not a safe place for me .....but I need to be here .....and I for years would not tell people the hole of who I was ..for fear of rejection ....and that wasent why I was here ....anyway ........................................I do belive in healing .....not sure what you mean by fath healing ....but ...you can heal with smudging and there are people who have the gift ....of healing .....I have had healing ...emotional healing ....and ....my mother can stop the flow of blod ....but that her only talent ...and we never even new about it untill my brother moved out and he got a bleating nose and he blew his nose and it dident stop ....it just kept going ..she use to put one hand on the back of your head and tell you to blue your nose ..and that would be the end of the nose bleed ....I once busted the window out of the screan door and got glass inmy rost ..we puled it out and she held my rost and he bleeding stoped ..and we went to get me stiches .....the doctor mentioned somthing about he was surprised it wasent bleating ...my daughter is the strongest in her generation .............................and one of her sons will be the next after that ...and it is very rare for a man to have the gift ...and we all have slitly diferant gifts ......but they are very strong ....................I don't know what to think about cristals ....I think you need to be tought about them .................................................................................................................................................................................not sure what agnostic is ..is it a religion or the lack of a religion .................I am very spiritual ......I dont go to church ..I did off and on ...but ..when I was old enough to understand how they were describing God I knew that that was not God ..you can not huminise God .....and ....that is what religions do ....as far as I know ...the ones I have ..tried ......I came into this world with memories ...most of us don't ......so I knew my god .......I know that I came from gog and I will return to God ..and I ...alwayes wanted to go back home it is only since I turned 50 that I have decided that I want to stay here a little longer .......................................................................I think I don't know can be one of the most honest answers you can give ...there are many things I don't know eather ....but these are my truths ....all I ask is you don't step on them ..you let them be my truths ...not reject me for my truths ......and I will do the same for all of you .....I look forward to ..hearing yout truths ...and having many new conversations ....on many subjects ........only thing I can't get ..and answers on the posts I have answered .....so I don't know what is going on ....these are all going to my first page .........I hope this is still a group ......I am computer elite rate ..so I might just need a little help ...lol ............thankyou ....take care ...God bless .....
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