Are you open minded?

Answer 1

By open-minded, if you mean willing to listen to someone else's point of view, yes, of course. If by open-minded, you mean will to believe what someone else does no. It has taken my whole life to get where I am. I listen for truths and reason. I take all those things into account.

Answer 2

I believe in right and wrong, and I won't give up on that because it's en vogue in our society to condone anything most people want to do.

That said, yes, I think I'm open minded, but not in a way some people would appreciate. The big hot topic is, of course, homosexuality, and among my own personal friends who are gay, they know what my stance is on it, I respect the way they live their lives (even if I think it's wrong) and they respect the fact that I don't give them all the juicy details of my sex life, and I don't want to hear thier's (that does go for heterosexual people, too). People who don't bother to get to know me probably think I'm closed-minded, but I'm not about to throw away a childhood full of friendship based on a decision someone makes when they become an adult.

And I do try VERY hard to separate what I feel like the wrong behavior is with the person themself, and I also try very hard to be kind to people, regardless of the way they live their lives.

Most importantly, the thing that most Christians forget to do: I try to be frank about my own sins. If I say that someone is doing something wrong, then try to act like I'm not, I'm being a hypocrite. If I say I think someone is doing something wrong in one area, and I can say without fear that I struggle with a different, just as vital, sin, then it's not really hypocritical.

Answer 3

Depends on your definition of 'open mind'.

I am willing to accept any hypothetical and draw logical conclusions from it. "Assume the sky is purple and green in color, swirling around. What are the chances you might see something that resembled a flower in the swirls?" I'd answer, "Probably pretty good." Under that hypothetical, my answer would make sense to me. It doesn't matter that the hypothetical is false in this universe.

However, I use logic against any hypothesis put to me as a fact. Since in the above case, it was obviously a "hey, this is just a hypothetical situation..." I can accept it for debate on its own merits. If someone comes to me and asserts, however, that the derivative of x^3 is 3x^2, I'm going to think to myself, "the derivative of x^n is nx^(n-1)... so yes, they're correct."

So, I'm willing to accept hypotheticals, but I question all facts until they make reasonable sense given the pre-existing information I have available to me.

Is this open minded or closed minded in your book?

Answer 4

Depends on your definition.
Am I so open to every thing that I don't believe in any thing and my brains fall out the opening? no.
Am I open to things helping, connecting, strengthening all that I know to be true? Yes. Am I open to people believing what they do and that being a good thing? With a few exceptions (things that are harmful) Yes!

I think some one who is just open with no reserves hasn't found what they are looking for. When you have you just start building.

Answer 5

No; open mindedness leaves people weak. Our current culture praises people that are open minded but it ends up leaving generations of mindless zombies with no passion about important issues. If I were open minded, I would lose my perspective and dislike for homosexuality, radical Islam, illegal immigration, abortion, minority abuse of social programs, and liberals in general. A truly open minded person is an all accepting zombie; the real "sheep" in our society. I also hate being called ignorant because most of the people pleading anothers ignorance are the real ignorant ones.

I think it is funny that although every one here is saying that they are open minded, I am the first one to have a down thumb; you feel-good hedonistic liberals.

Just got an up thumb, maybe people do appreciate reason and honesty.

Answer 6

Define open minded. The combination of words imply the openness to something, and therefore you need to define the terms. Are you open to ideas? physical experiences? mental experiences? food?
an immersion to sounds? tastes? feelings? sights?

My answer is : to a few things- Yes, Maybe.To a lot of things No, Most definitely No and heck No.

I would expect everyone to pretty much answer in the same way.

Answer 7

Yes.

That reminds me of a saying around this parts:

"if you are too open minded, your brain will fall off"

of course, I guess if someone confuses the mind with the skull, it's not someone worth talking to ;-)

-jose-

Answer 8

I'd like to think I am, but I'm also sure that there are others who would think I wasn't. I think being open minded is a subjective term. We probably all define it differently.

Answer 9

Yes, but not so open-minded as to let my brain fall out.

Answer 10

I try to be, but not to the point I am so open-minded that my brains fall out.