Have you ever met someone so close minded you couldn't believe it?

Question

Please tell me about it.. thnx

Answer 1

"The measure of a minds evolution is the ability to believe the unbelievable."--unknown...humans have the ability to be open, closed, and everything in between, for me to not believe it would make me closed minded.

Answer 2

yes i worked for a woman that owns the grocery store in my small town, who was so closed minded about the American Indians and Mexicans in our community that she couldn't see that some of her white employees were stealing more from her then the non white shoppers.

Answer 3

I've 'met' entirely TOO many people of that ilk right here! And it galls me to no end to realize so many people are so ill informed; racist, biased, prejudiced and just filled with hate and making generalizations about entire groups of people either based on their religion, race, or nationality.

As long as there are people like that there will ALWAYS BE HATE.

Answer 4

Oh yes! I'm a huge supernateralist believer and I've showed one of my friends a ton of evidence on it, but whatever I do he just says totally the opppsite, he's so closeminded it's actually funny!

Answer 5

well i wish i could find someone close minded that doesn't mean all people i know are opposite to me just we have things the same but not close minded you know

Answer 6

yes i have and it irritates me so much it irritates me even more that they dont listen to anything that will make them more open minded
as long as these ppl are the way they are there will always be conflict of differences

Answer 7

Yeah, most of them run the United States.

Answer 8

Thought you might find this interesting:

The Big Five
After years of compiling data from self-report inventories (that is, from questionnaires) and subjecting it to the mathematical process of factor analysis, five major factors of personality showed up in thousands of individuals across cultures. These factors were named according to what they appeared to represent:

-Openness - imagination, artistic interests, intellectance, creativity, curiosity
-Conscientiousness - responsibility, orderliness, dependability, self control
-Extraversion - gregariousness, assertiveness, energy, excitement seeking, cheerfulness
-Agreeableness - cooperation, altruism, honesty, sympathy, trust
-Neuroticism - proneness to depression, stress levels, anger, anxiety, negative emotions

Note that the Big Five traits have positive and negative connotations - that is, while all personality traits have been found to be good in some situations (no trait is wholly positive or wholly negative), for the most part some traits are more desirable than others….

1. Discoveries about Openness
-When asked to complete unfinished sentences, low O's give simpler answers. (Compare "Rules are... there to be obeyed" to "Rules are... things that should be flexible to fit the real world.")

-Individuals high on O have a richer fantasy life and have a greater variety of experiences, being interested in a wide variety of occupations, and more likely to shift careers in mid life. High O individuals have broad intellectual interests and generally welcome change.

-Individuals low on O tend to have more traditional views on authority. It is therefore unsurprising that O shows strong correlations with political liberalism.

-Individuals high on O tend to be more succeptible to hypnotism.

-In gradeschool children, O correlates positively with GPA.

-Openness is inversely related to conventional religiosity. When faced with difficulties, those high on O tend to cope with humor, while those low on O tend to cope through faith.

-There is an inverse correlation between O and racial prejudice; that is, those low in O strongly tend to be more ethnocentric

- In therapy, for an individual with high O, it is better to use imagery techniques, while for low O patients it better to use biofeedback.

-O decreases with age.

High O individuals score better for IQ than their peers; the correlation between O and VB or verbal ability, (as measured by vocabulary, understanding of analogies, and so on,) is near 30%. The correlation between O and g itself is less well established, but also shows up as positive in a number of studies…

Additional Findings

-All over the world, women score higher in A and N than men do. (Women also experience higher rates of depression than men). Men therefore tend to be less charitable towards others, and also less prone to emotional instability and unhappiness.
-Cross cultural research has also demonstrated that A and C rise from puberty onward, while N and O tend to decrease (although the trends slow markedly by the age of 30).
-Certain factors relate to one another. A positive relationship near 30% has been found between A and E, while E and N have a similar relationship near -40%. (The negative correlation indicates that higher E tends to go with lower N rather than the reverse.) This may underlie many of the tendencies for E; for instance Extroverts may be more cheerful and optimistic, and may respond poorly to punishment precisely because they are less N.

Studies have found that not all national groups score the same. Results on cross cultural research indicate that people from America and Europe test higher on E, lower on A, and higher on O than individuals from Asia.

Answer 9

Only on Y!A. All the bigotry anyone can stomach can be found here....

Answer 10

yes, my husband. he thinks there is only one answer to everything and it is his answer.. okay a couple years ago he told me that "stretch marks" are from shrinking!!!!! hello i told him if stretch marks are from shrinking they'd be called shrink marks!!! he still argues with me to this day.ahhhhh