Do you ever wonder how much you're wrong about?

I have had my horizons broadened incredibly by this site. Hearing from people with other viewpoints is always instructive.

I ran into this quote a few days back & it made me start thinking…much like Fluther…

I deny nothing but doubt everything. Opinions are made to be changed. How else is the truth to be ascertained???

Just because your truth is wrong for me, it does NOT mean that it is wrong in general….The reverse is also true as BOTH truths came from completely different life experiences!!!

When I debate MY truth, I’m NOT trying to change YOUR truth. I’m just trying to HOLD ON to MY truth!!! That’s WHY I am sometimes so freaking passionate about what I’m saying…MY truth is VERY important to me as YOUR truth also should be. Anyway, when you think I’m NOT listening is when I’m hearing the most!!!

I’ve lived 68 years & think NOTHING like I did 50 years ago. I’m slow to anger & even slower to learn; but, I eventually do BOTH!!!

In all honesty, I thught I was the ONLY person doubting my wisdom!!!

@LadyMarissa I like that answer, but often I feel like people are trying to change MY truth instead of just telling me THEIR truth.

@KNOWITALL Maybe they are; but that does NOT mean that “you have to” change YOUR truth!!! A lot of time when I’m trying to say what I believe & I’m being told I’m wrong. I just keep explaining how I see it in hopes I say something they can understand. In the end I often just STOP explaining because I can see I’m butting my head against a brick wall & I understand that MY truth won’t be THEIR truth until they have experienced MORE of life!!!.

On my last job, I was the oldest of the females that worked there. Those girls rode me constantly because I didn’t see things their way. In order to get through it, I just laughed to myself that it won’t be long before the incoming generation will be doing the same thing to them & they won’t take it as kindly as I did!!!

I’ve left many a debate here on Fluther doubting MY truth. Then I’d step back & think about it for a day or two.Sometimes I decided MY truth was correct to begin with & other times this old dog learned a NEW truth. It still doesn’t mean that my OLD truth was wrong!!! It simply means that my life experiences have shifted s little bit & I now think a bit different than I did before. Sometimes I hold onto BOTH truths until I can determine which I believe in the most!!!

Changing my outlook makes NOTHING I believed before wrong…just adjusted for my current situation aka my NEW truth!!!

I am never wrong about anything.

GA @LadyMarissa

I find that life is very humbling.

No.

Disclaimer. This is just my personal experience, and not meant to judge anyone else.

The biggest thing I was ever “wrong” about, was my former religion. I was raised a Baptist. Sunday school, and all.

In my teens, I was pretty sure that my religion was wrong. I still talked, and prayed to my God frequently though. I no longer went to church, and I suppose I was becoming an agnostic.
As I learned more about the world, and science, I started drifting further towards atheism.

By my mid twenties, I was almost a full atheist. I worked in emergency medicine, at the time. I witnessed indescribably terrible things. I decided after some time, that there was no possibility of a “loving” God. Or that he/she/it either hated all life, maybe was sadistic even, or was perhaps just powerless and more of an observer.

At this point, I am an atheist.

It took many years to let go of any form of a deity. It took lots of soul searching, and introspection. It was scary. I didn’t want to feel that this “god” was no longer protecting me. This “god,” I had probably talked to, more than any person.

As my belief in that God faded, many of my other beliefs unraveled as well. I had to reexamine every belief I ever had. I turned them all around, and looked from every angle. It was a big change, or series of changes. I wanted to believe. That was the ultimate conclusion that I had to accept. Many of my fears drove me to exclude sense, and reason from the things I believed.

At first, I felt scared, and very alone. I no longer had that someone to talk to, or seek counsel from. I didn’t make deals with God anymore, or pray for anything. And death became WAY scarier. Still is…

Eventually, I felt more confident though. I realized that I did have some beliefs. I believed in science and most importantly, I believed in myself. I felt like a man who had walked on crutches my whole life, and then had the power to cast them away. When I would get into a bad situation, I didn’t have anyone looking out for me. I was alone. But I learned to be capable. I learned to be innovative, and resourceful. I learned more about self defense. I learned to trust my instincts. I learned about how deceptive, and manipulative people are.
I learned to respect all life. I no longer saw the trees and the grass as a backdrop from my god. I saw each thing, as an individual. Each star. Each planet. The universe became far more interesting.

I’m not trying to get anyone to look at their faith. I’m just explaining what was a really big deal,to me, to be wrong about.

I’ve also learned a LOT here. I have a deep value of this place.

Edit. I thought of something I was more wronger about.

I was making a badass egg sandwich, on croissant bread. When I was completing it, I realized that we were out of mayonnaise. So. I just used Miracle Whip.

Totally COMPLETELY ruined what may have been my best sandwich ever…..FTW….And FUCK Miracle Whip….

The few things we can be sure of in life is that we know very little, our lives are not long enough, death will come and we have all pay the piper at some point in our lives, and that growth is better than being stunted. What we know about the world the universe, our friends our family, about spirituality is so tiny. So self examination, and learning is the spice that makes us who we are.

Only a fool supposes to know everything.
It is when someone is becoming wise they realize there is very little they actually know.
Eventually we age enough to have the understanding that damn little of it meant anything anyway.

All the time. It’s basically the core of my profession, which is one of the big things that drew me to it. This sort of self-examination has led me to alter or even abandon many former beliefs, including some that were deeply held. It continues to be one of the most rewarding activities in my life, though I find very few people are appreciative when I attempt to share it.

I just try to pay attention to facts, and science. When my beliefs turn out to be wrong, such as when new information and facts are presented, I try to wrap my head around it, and change my behavior (if necessary).

A lot of people’s beliefs are based on “what they were told” by their family, and how they react emotionally. We are all guilty of that, to some degree, but when we don’t change our behavior, and our beliefs in the face of scientific evidence, we are guilty of being ignorant at best, and dangerous at worst.

There is no wrong or right. Our perceptions are based on our life experience, from a very micro to macro level. Meaning our family, culture, education and socioeconomic background. Or more simply, our internal constructs, are a puzzle of what we have experienced, what has been reinforced by that experience (i.e. repeatedly).

We are growing beings, we learn all the time, or at least should be. We change and as we change so do our internal beliefs based on experience.

Life is not as simple as black and white, left or right.

I like that old saying ‘The more you know the more you realize you know nothing’.

All the friggin time. And not just about my opinions, but about basic stuff like definitions or biology. All I really know is that I know nothing.