[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by blazey

Dont pretend to know better than me just because your such a close knit community and stick by everything eachother says.

Have you actually read many threads on here? We agree on some things and disagree on others. I can agree with one person on one topic and then disagree with the same person on a different topic.

Originally Posted by blazey

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?

You may well discover as you age that far from having your principles set in stone you will have had more experiences on which to base a wider variety of opinions and become more flexible. It seems to me that it is the younger people who are far more rigid in their attitude. Of course we old fogies have the advantage over you in that we too were once 18 and we remember what it was like and we remember how we thought we knew it all. Then we grew older and realise how little we did know.

Oh and simply because something is printed in a text book that doesn't make it irrefutable. It's merely the author's viewpoint. Many text book opinions have later been proved to be inaccurate.