mikkel_the_dane
My own religion
I love wrong. You can't be a skeptic without being wrong.
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When You've Been Wrong
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I love wrong. You can't be a skeptic without being wrong.
That sounds like a tough experience. I suggest that maybe it wasn't simply the debate but your attitude and something unique about you which allowed you to benefit from debate.
I've no doubt been wrong about so many things, and if I haven't learnt from such, and often amended my views, then I'm still the duffer I probably was then. As to politics or religion - nothing much has changed over the course of my life - with the former almost certainly never to change and the latter I'll find our when I die - or I won't.
I'm no doubt wrong about many things. I just hope most others realise the same could be said about them too.
I wish there was a way for me to quickly realize and get past what I'm currently wrong about. Simply telling me I'm wrong doesn't seem to work.
I don't know. Perhaps I was right, but thought I was wrong, or perhaps I was wrong and thought I was right. Again, I don't believe that personal views are necessarily wrong or right. They're more on a range.
mikkel_the_dane
My own religion
It depends. Right and wrong are dependent on brains in one sense, but not all of the world is in practice dependent on the brain(s).
Thus sometimes some people will claim something is independent of the brain(s), when it is not.
The standard one is to say to another human: You are wrong.
If i'm growing, I should be testing my beliefs in the waters of reality. so yes, my beliefs could very much be wrong.
I've never been wrong.
Once, I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken.
Like @Heyo, I was rooting for MOND before the Bullet cluster data came out.
I remember having a debate with a friend back in junior high school about whether digital or analog computers would win out. I supported analog.
I also thought Trump could be ignored as a joke. Then the election of 202 happened.
I thought people would see through Reagan's grandfatherly figure and see how bad his policies were. Then the election of 1984 happened.
Once, I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken.
Like @Heyo, I was rooting for MOND before the Bullet cluster data came out.
I remember having a debate with a friend back in junior high school about whether digital or analog computers would win out. I supported analog.
I also thought Trump could be ignored as a joke. Then the election of 202 happened.
I thought people would see through Reagan's grandfatherly figure and see how bad his policies were. Then the election of 1984 happened.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
If you ask my wife of 55 years, her question would be have I ever been right?
Of course. I do my best to keep an open mind as that's what I was trained to do within science, and then go in the direction that the evidence takes me.
The advantage of being in my "vintage" is that my life expectancy is probably short enough whereas I may not find out if I'm wrong again.
Audie
Veteran Member
Just never wrong about fundamentals
Probably more times than I've been right!
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
Of course i am wrong about them too.
Agreed! It's wise to stay humble and honest about our own views. Being wrong helps us learn that lesson, although it's painful.
mikkel_the_dane
My own religion
Agreed! It's wise to stay humble and honest about our own views. Being wrong helps us learn that lesson, although it's painful.
A note about being wrong as connected to cognitive dissonance and thus logical contradictions. With training sometimes all I experience when with Piaget I adjust an old schemata to a new one, is a slight feeling of being off.
Audie
Veteran Member
Are you sure that is what you mean to say?
Spirit of Light
Be who ever you want
I dont know everything within religion or e ery religious or fanatic person claiming to be religious.
So I can be wrong in my understanding of others
I thought I was wrong once.
Turned out that I was actually right.
So I was wrong about being wrong.
BTW, many years ago, I once thought
that the country could become libertarian.
(Then reality became clearer.) I'm still one
of those, but I ditched that illusion.
Turned out that I was actually right.
So I was wrong about being wrong.
BTW, many years ago, I once thought
that the country could become libertarian.
(Then reality became clearer.) I'm still one
of those, but I ditched that illusion.
Audie
Veteran Member
S you are open to question or doubt on actually fundamental issues, just details of this and that.