How do you form an opinion?

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To form an opinion on a topic or issue I believe the following!
By reading newspapers or watching the news is just an item or report based on that one person’s interpretations of that item or topic.
To gather ones own opinion is to question and listen to others views research such issues see whats happened before, gather facts from all sorts of resources only then in my opinion can we gathered enough facts to form our own opinion.
But I do find a lot of people are unable to gather their own opinion as they believe totally what they have read, or seen by a couple of resources.
But there are a lot here that have an opinion but keep an open mind, we read what others say and think.
I like to think others can help me change my opinion as we don’t know all the facts and sometimes what people say can make me see something in a different light that I haven’t thought of before.
We all form our opinions in different ways and we are all entitled to do so.
How do you form an opinion?
Are you open to change you opinion?

so how do you take someone who says " your entilted to your opinion, but mine is right"?
I don't believe anyone can always be right.
Unless is it is a proven and tested fact.
So people that say that I just see as not being able to boarden their mind!
I think you are being charitable....
I don't think I am being charitable,
I know of one person that thinks he is right, as I have said openly before I think he is delusioned.
People do have more that one side about them, from what you see in here.
In here you see more of my serious side my innermost feelings and thoughts etc.
Where in Chat rooms my happy fun and a laugh side comes out. All what you see is me just strange how the two different me comes out in two different places.
If one opens their mind then opinions can change... but people hold steadfast for a number of different reasons... some of which defy logic!!
I would hope I have an open mind, I believe I have, I read what everyone says and I think about their responses, but in life I have also met people that are stuck in their ways so hard to budge, I can understand this as I have a Mother like me and a Father that is stuck in his ways, I just think they have a much more victorian approach to life, it is a bit like being stuck in a time warp!
You say.."I don't believe anyone can always be right.
Unless is it is a proven and tested fact"
i agree with the first part... no one can always be right .... but i think you have to expand the final bit.
Facts can be tested... but an "opinion" is only another word for "interpretation" of what they actually tend to infer.
Sorry I went off on a brach here and thought when would I believe someone is right!
My mind drifted to Isaac Newton for example he must of formed an opinion about gavity he must of questioned then proved it to be a fact.
Sorry my mind diverses at times, I don't expect others to understand me.
One fact on its own doesnt prove much... there needs to be a few together to support an , more than inference or interpretation is often possible based on any given (substantiated) fact.
Hope I have answered your points and that is makes some sense!

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I can handle that, this is cyber crap. What I do not like is someone then taking it a step further by pm'ing me away from the forum.

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He had also something about not replying in a minute, but using that time to think about his comments, well talk about not doing what you say you are going to do. :shock:

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As for going down to my level, come and join me...it's nice and warm here.

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Dont appologise Deecee, as it is not sincere,and if you cannot debate without slagging someone off, then may I make a suggestion and not post.

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Of course this is always only my opinion. Also I do not hold grudges, and I hope Deecee we can put this behind us, and continue to discuss and debate and sometimes get a tad angry with each other, on other threads.

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To form an opinion on a topic or issue I believe the following!
By reading newspapers or watching the news is just an item or report based on that one person’s interpretations of that item or topic.
To gather ones own opinion is to question and listen to others views research such issues see whats happened before, gather facts from all sorts of resources only then in my opinion can we gathered enough facts to form our own opinion.
But I do find a lot of people are unable to gather their own opinion as they believe totally what they have read, or seen by a couple of resources.
But there are a lot here that have an opinion but keep an open mind, we read what others say and think.
I like to think others can help me change my opinion as we don’t know all the facts and sometimes what people say can make me see something in a different light that I haven’t thought of before.
We all form our opinions in different ways and we are all entitled to do so.
How do you form an opinion?
Are you open to change you opinion?

so how do you take someone who says " your entilted to your opinion, but mine is right"?
I don't believe anyone can always be right.
Unless is it is a proven and tested fact.
So people that say that I just see as not being able to boarden their mind!
I think you are being charitable....
I don't think I am being charitable,
I know of one person that thinks he is right, as I have said openly before I think he is delusioned.
People do have more that one side about them, from what you see in here.
In here you see more of my serious side my innermost feelings and thoughts etc.
Where in Chat rooms my happy fun and a laugh side comes out. All what you see is me just strange how the two different me comes out in two different places.
If one opens their mind then opinions can change... but people hold steadfast for a number of different reasons... some of which defy logic!!
I would hope I have an open mind, I believe I have, I read what everyone says and I think about their responses, but in life I have also met people that are stuck in their ways so hard to budge, I can understand this as I have a Mother like me and a Father that is stuck in his ways, I just think they have a much more victorian approach to life, it is a bit like being stuck in a time warp!
You say.."I don't believe anyone can always be right.
Unless is it is a proven and tested fact"
i agree with the first part... no one can always be right .... but i think you have to expand the final bit.
Facts can be tested... but an "opinion" is only another word for "interpretation" of what they actually tend to infer.
Sorry I went off on a brach here and thought when would I believe someone is right!
My mind drifted to Isaac Newton for example he must of formed an opinion about gavity he must of questioned then proved it to be a fact.
Sorry my mind diverses at times, I don't expect others to understand me.
One fact on its own doesnt prove much... there needs to be a few together to support an , more than inference or interpretation is often possible based on any given (substantiated) fact.
Hope I have answered your points and that is makes some sense!
it makes sense.
With your Isaac Newton example i see it as follows..
he questioned what made the apple fall from the tree.
he didnt prove gravity exists.. he showed a way of explaining it (through experiment and formula) , and called it gravity. But surely it is still just a theory??
it doesnt prove the truth of things.
another factor of what makes an apple fall from the tree... is nature.
Newton showed the force which keeps things drawn to earth... and was able to theorise it.
he was also , as all scientists were then as indeed they are now... bound by the rules of "scientific theory" which postulates that theory is only theory and not proof.
I can point you to some good resources if you like...

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OK fact might have been the wrong word to use. But hopefully you get my point.

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OK fact might have been the wrong word to use. But hopefully you get my point.

I am interested in the mechanics of the mind, as it is here we form opinions, ideas, how we act react etc
The mind to me is a complex place I like to ask questions and see how others think how they react etc.
I enjoy watching how they react to a question how they communicate etc
To me it is fascinating to watch as we are all so different and respond and act in different ways.
I just find people fascinating they entertain me, make me think, make me angry at times, but it is how we all react is the most fascinating of all.
I often wonder why someone thinks the way they do, why they responded the way they did, how they formed an opinion etc.
But also I see the mind as something that can constantly be reprogrammed a bit like a computer really.
Damn I think my mind is going a little adrift here

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I did wonder why you both reacted the way you did.

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I did wonder why you both reacted the way you did.

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But also I see the mind as something that can constantly be reprogrammed a bit like a computer really.

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I did wonder why you both reacted the way you did.

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I did wonder why you both reacted the way you did.

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Some dogs are all bark and no bite.

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But also I see the mind as something that can constantly be reprogrammed a bit like a computer really.

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Some dogs are all bark and no bite.

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I did wonder why you both reacted the way you did.

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I did wonder why you both reacted the way you did.

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But also I see the mind as something that can constantly be reprogrammed a bit like a computer really.

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Some dogs are all bark and no bite.

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But also I see the mind as something that can constantly be reprogrammed a bit like a computer really.

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But also I see the mind as something that can constantly be reprogrammed a bit like a computer really.