its amazing to me how quick i am to judge my own rightness in reference to differing opinions. that is, i immediately accept my view, way of thought, or paradigm as the one in which others need to, ought to, adjust themselves to accordingly. whithout question i immediately (i believe this is an instantaneous assumption on my part. at the very moment a controversy arizes) judge myself to be right. what is so remarkable to me is that experience has revealed to me that...
1) i'm usually wrong!
or
2) there is only a degree to which i am right.
i wonder two things. no three. first, what could i learn if i chose to bring an open mind to all conversations. if i held loosely to what i believed i was right about and pursued truth through conversation instead of presuming to lecture on truth.
please allow me to clarify. im not only speaking of the theoretical, theological, or philosophical conversations im a part of. im also speaking of the practical daily conversations such as...how to correctly change one's oil, who has the better college football team, and how much should the sox pay matsusake as well as from what level of dante's hell did boras come from. secondly, how might i be a better instrument of God or how might i love with God and creation better if i were more humble in my opinions and, well, if i was just more humble and meek. finally, and most of all wonderment, how might i allow God to change me? how much does He want to change me? is He capable of changing me? i have my thoughts on these questions. but i won't presume to be right. maybe you could share your thoughts with me and together we could help me change. please comment
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I dont know who said it first but, it sounds like your going the direction of "seek first to understand and then to be understood."
Sometimes I feel like I have to hold on to my opinions even if I'm not sure about them just so that I can have an opinion.
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