Are You Open-minded?
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BarstoolProphet
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I\'m willing to accept the possibility that I\'m close-minded, but you\'re going to have to present more evidence to support your claim.
ScottRadom
Shogun of Saskatchewan
I\'m so closed minded I don\'t need to click your link. And I hated Eraserhead. Yet I liked Lynch\'s Dune.
Closed Minded 4-Life!
Closed Minded 4-Life!
Infidel Castro
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I can be VERY open-minded when it suits 
freakinacage
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we are NOT going to talk about thatOriginally posted by reverend
I can be VERY open-minded when it suits
edit - bloody interesting vid there!
You still not got that hole in your skull fixed yet?
wiccanpony
Official Freak Bar Witch
:cussing: who! left this door open, close it at once!
mines more like a revolving door
mines more like a revolving door
No Such Agency
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Well obviously there\'s a difference between being willing to consider extreme possibilities:
And Wanting To Believe:
My \"skepticism\" is labeled \"cynicism\" by my girlfriend (who is a good person, and not a wooly-headed idiot) but who has a much lower standard of proof than I do with regards to things like \"alternative medicines\" etc. She also simply doesn\'t accept that he default position must be to assume something is not happening or does not exist, and only in the face of evidence do we accept an alternate theory. She\'s willing to accept many claims, until evidence is produced which disproves them.
Also, LOL @ Jack Kirby style graphics. I half expected Mister Fantastic to appear, or someone\'s hand to get extraordinarily foreshortened*.
* oh, wait, this just happened at 5:35 hehehe
And Wanting To Believe:
My \"skepticism\" is labeled \"cynicism\" by my girlfriend (who is a good person, and not a wooly-headed idiot) but who has a much lower standard of proof than I do with regards to things like \"alternative medicines\" etc. She also simply doesn\'t accept that he default position must be to assume something is not happening or does not exist, and only in the face of evidence do we accept an alternate theory. She\'s willing to accept many claims, until evidence is produced which disproves them.
Also, LOL @ Jack Kirby style graphics. I half expected Mister Fantastic to appear, or someone\'s hand to get extraordinarily foreshortened*.
* oh, wait, this just happened at 5:35 hehehe
Shawn R. L.
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Seems that open minded is defined by agreeing with scientific conclusions. Sad to limit the openness so severely.......or am I being intolerant?
Amazon warrior
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Umm no. As in, that\'s not what they\'re saying. Science *demands* enquiry - it is founded on people trying to shoot down the established theories and replace them with something that fits the observed evidence better. If a new theory doesn\'t do this, it should be thrown out or modified. If a theory has been around a long time without it having been shown to be false or without something better being proposed, then it\'s held on to, but it\'s still a theory and could still be replaced at a future point as knowledge about the topic expands. Good science means always having to question what you know and gaining as much evidence as you can before you propose something new. If you don\'t like scientific method, fine, what would you do instead?
freakinacage
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on the contrary, if we were so open as to assume how things work without questioning how and why, we would still be living in caves and worshiping the sun
No Such Agency
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I think the whole point of the video was that for a lot of people, being open-minded means agreeing with THEM about whatever they think is out there. Scientists generally understand that personal faith is not really within our realm, but we are sick of being told we\'re \"closed-minded\" simply because we ask questions and ask for proof when someone makes an assertion about the material world, especially if that assertion involves something which seemingly goes against well-established principles of physics, chemistry etc.
So you are perfectly free to disagree with scientific conclusions.
i see the mans point on many areas....but he draws conclusions from what someone might think about \"ghosts\" and doesnt look at their point of view in different ways. for example, instead of lookign at the heater moving the lampshade, was the man certain he had left it on before? or did a ghost by chance turn on the fan to move the lampshade. this is a possibility. by that rationale he becomes close minded. i felt like this man was a bit one sided, and if truly wants to be \"open minded\" then he should have another person debate these ideas. just my opinion.
