Always be open to change .....

Not sure if this is true but it should be for more people.  No matter the subject, if confronted with a strong enough argument (aka proof, facts), one should be willing to alter their stance on the issue, or at least be willing to question their stance.

Recently I've had some of my stances challenged, not necessarily with facts but with human behavior.

It's a remarkable experience when you see one of your own walls torn down, especially when you weren't even aware it was there, it's a growth experience.

One of my biggest dislikes is when people "throw blankets", and I was doing it myself, I was wrong.

Throwing Blankets is when you take one group of people and you "throw a blanket" on them.  One of the most obvious ones, how the psychological community tries to handle depression, and it's one of the main reasons we've seen a rise in suicides because people aren't being diagnosed and/or treated properly.

We are all individuals, and in many cases, we need to be treated that way.  Not everyone is going to handle this treatment or that treatment the same, it all changes from one person to the next.  Today's psychological community is very lazy and cowardly, but that's for another blog sometime.

I had thrown a blanket over a group of people, when I need to look at them as individuals, take the time to see what an individuals life led them to where they are, and not to condemn them but try to find a way to help them from where they are at now, not just based on the decisions they made to get them there, but with all parts factored in.

Bottom line is, we have too many people who are not, open to change, and FAR too many who aren't even open to the possibility that they are wrong, irrationality has taken over.  Nowhere is this more well seen than in modern religion and in the modern liberalism movement.

We need to keep our minds open, active and aware, even if it means we're the one that's full of shit on the subject that we think we're "right" about.