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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
There is a member on another forum who has had a signature tag which says "I am not young enough to know everything."
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This isnt just to you willow, but just an idea about that quote.
With discussion on forums, everything discussed doesnt tend to have one set answer, but many different views, and if you always stick by your own principles and ignore everyone else without thinking, you wont ever change, but if you attempt to contend every argument thrown at you, only then will you learn if that argument is actually more plausible than your own, and change your ways, but once you age, you tend to set your principles in stone more as you have argued most angles of every argument and chosen the one you struggled most to contend against yourself.
So of course, the older you get, the more angles you have had chance to look from in detail, and the more decided you are in your view point, to put it in a shorter definition. Does my idea make sense?
A young person who bows down to the first idea everytime, isn't really going to be their own true person, but just a reflection of other individuals ideas but not be able to truly adhere to them, and I dont think they'd ever really learn much, and if young people never challenged ideas then I dont think the world would be as advanced as it is today, do you?