Have you ever completely questioned your values and beliefs?

Yes.Living life led to that.
I know how I think and why I think the way I do.
I am confident in my beliefs.;)

Yes I have…a few times. The first was when I made the choice to walk away from my Catholic belief system and embrace a wider encompassing spiritual beliefs system and values.

The other is reviewing for better or for worse the choices I made in life. It blows my mind to see where my ass has wound up and with what I have around me. I think I have only just begun to question my beliefs…I am content with my values but I feel my beliefs have a bit more work to do.

A lot of the times. More so as I grow older and learn not to believe something just because my teacher or my friends say so. I think it will take me more self discovery and self questioning to truly be comfortable with myself.

Yes, through situations in life, discussions here on Fluther and with friends. I am always reexamining what I believe and fine-tuning it.

Of course, although I don’t know when it started, but we’re always questioning and evaluating them (or we should be).

I’ll use the cheating spouse thread as an example. When I was in high school and didn’t understand much about relationships, I was under the impression that one could simply do whatever they wanted as long as thry didn’t physically hurt anyone. I didn’t quite place physical pain on the same plateau as emotional pain.

So I got in some relationships thoughout my short life, some went well, some didn’t, but they ended amicably for the most part. But it wasn’t until I really hurt a woman emotionally that I saw the pain that is possible to cause someone, without even laying a hand on them. It was almost like I wasn’t aware I could do that to someone. The crying, the sinking into depression, and that feeling of thinking you really need someone that leaves you can be equal if not worse than physical pain.

After seeing that, I started to think more about it, because I didn’t quite fully understand, because it had never happened to me (still hasn’t, but that doesn’t mean it can’t). I tried to place myself in various scenarios where I would be in another person’s shoes, and it gave me even more of an understanding.

I pictured myself actually falling in love and being with someone I truly felt was totally compatible with me and someone I knew I could be with for a long time (even though I haven’t felt that way yet), and then I imagined them doing something despicable to me like cheating, or coming home to a note telling me they’re gone or something arbitrary like that.

I could somehow simulate the pain, even though the situation wasn’t real. It wasn’t real pain, and I wasn’t truly hurt, but a sort of sympathetic wave came over me. And I think it’s good to place ourselves in all types of situations to help us understand others problems.

Yes, many times. As far as I’m concerned, the unexamined belief system is actually no belief system at all… it’s only a belief system handed down from your parents ( or other caregivers ) like any other heirloom. This applies to religion as well.

Any belief system which cannot stand up to scrutiny doesn’t deserve the name.

About three months after I got sober I realized a lot of my beliefs and assumptions about how I lived were tied to my drinking and how I had structured my life around it. I had a bit of a panic attack and crisis for about 24 hours, with the realization that sobriety really did mean my “whole attitude and outlook on life” needed to change.

No – only whether I was living up to them.

I used to believe money grew on a tree at the bottom of the garden, the local branch.
I no longer believe this to be true, well, I was 26 at the time ;¬}

Yes, I have questioned my values and beliefs. What led me to it was depression and from that point on I changed my life completely, which made me realise how stupid I was feeling and to insecure about myself : ’)

Yes. And I had times when I doubted God is really a solution for a lot of things. I’m glad it only lasted a few hours only.

And it takes to long to explain and describe it. If you want I can message you in private because I’m not interested into sharing it and just read comments about it because others do not believe in God.

I don’t think I ever completely questioned my beliefs at once, but certainly there has bee gradual change. Inspired by @Blackberry‘s comment, I kind of went the other way. I think I spent most of my life thinking I was pretty much worthless and that it was only responsibility to others that mattered, no matter what it cost me. When that nearly killed me, I realized I had to raise my sense of self value even if that meant disappointing or hurting others, or I probably wouldn’t survive.

It’s really hard, and if I think about it, I kind of start hating myself again. Which I can’t afford to do. So I have to live with hurting others that I care about or forget about myself and only try to do what’s best for everyone else, which looks like it’ll end up sending me to an early grave. I’m opting for selfishness at the moment. But that has a cost, too. I think there are many situations in life where it is impossible to be good. Self-sacrifice is not always a good thing, much though people admire it.

Completely? Maybe not entirely, but I sure do question them all the time.
For example, I don’t believe in God. But I really don’t understand how the Big Bang could have happened outta nowhere, either. Just like I don’t get how God appeared before there was nothing. Then again, I’m no good in either of these subjects. Stuff like this, I usually build my beliefs and opinions on people, behaviours and what I may recognize as thought patterns and what they seem to pertain to. Because that’s all I got to go on without being a professional about something. That’s probably out of order.
Maybe I’m doing it wrong, because I don’t actually see a relation to people and God other than that I’ve only heard of God from people, so when in doubt, one must question. Same for the idea of evolution. It’s not because the latter has theories and signs of being real that it is what we define it as; we don’t even know half of what lives in the ocean, so meh to that. Even though I do believe evolution is real, I question it.
I think I’m far off from knowing anything, however I’m pretty good at being all convincty and biased, so I try to watch my step.
Mostly. The truth is, I ask myself, why does it matter anyway lol? It’s not like I’m ever gonna figure any of this out, and what the hell would it change even if I did?
Ah but see, there goes my nihilistic mindset again, judging and making a conclusion about something I don’t have an answer to. How can I know it won’t make a difference if I don’t know what it is? I’m lame lol. :D

So yeah, I question my beliefs on their technical side, but not much about why I believe or disbelieve in things. Maybe I should try that lol.

Yes. Not all of them at once, but I’m always trying to analyze why I think certain things and how it affects the way I am and the way I treat/think of other people.

I’m currently trying to cut down on the value I place on material things, and to be more content with what I do have. I’m not obsessed with having things or even shopping, but I know that I spend too much money on things I don’t need and I already have too much.

I’m also taking a closer look at how I judge people without even realizing it. I was talking to an acquaintance the other day and he made a comment on how a girl we’re both familiar with ‘always dresses slutty’ (with a negative connotation). What a stupid thing to judge someone by! I know I’ve passed judgment on people in similar ways before, but I’ve come to realize how ridiculous that is. If someone is comfortable wearing something or looking a certain way, more power to them!

I’ve also been reexamining the way I present myself and my own motivation behind it. Why do I change my whole outfit because I realized I didn’t shave my legs? Why do I take so much time making sure something doesn’t make me ‘look fat’? I’ve always thought I was pretty good at avoiding doing things just because they’ve been given the okay by the general public (though not in spite of it) but I realized that there are a lot of things that I just naturally do or avoid doing because it’s what is generally acceptable; I’m trying to make sure that if I do do that, I at least know I’m doing it rather than letting the media have one over on me.