• PeteWheeler@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 month ago

    Only if they want to.

    And that is a HUGE if. Most people after their formal education decide to stop learning. And learning is the most important form of change.

    • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      1 month ago

      I have, in small ways. I think it’s less about changing but more about opening up though. I’m not sure my value system ever changed but it has been challenged again and again with new ideas and things I never knew to consider.

  • rhacer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    I’m an old guy. I started my life as a right-wing Conservative Christian. I’m now. Both an atheist and an anarchist. So yes people change. My journey has been six decades long.

      • rhacer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        I have espoused views in my life I’m not proud of, but I think the same can be said of anyone.

        Part of my journey was a search for intellectual consistency. Their are people of faith who are able to do that, I am not one of them. When it comes to politics, there are two contemporary thinkers (Ken White and Radley Balko) who forced me to re-evaluate my beliefs.

        I believe there are many Conservative thinkers who hold their positions in good faith. Sometimes they are even correct! I believe there are also many Liberal thinkers who hold their positions in good faith, sometimes they are right also.

        So to answer your question, I don’t think my values were bad, some of my thinking about how to implement those values definitely was though.

        As with most people we morph over time.

        • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          1 month ago

          I guess that’s what I am kinda curious about. I think some christians have good values that fit into the chrsitian world view but then they are isolated by christianity and never expand those values. I don’t think they are inherently bad or anything they’ve just been so insular they’re afraid to grant the outsider the same consideration as the in group. I dunno.

      • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        1 month ago

        Glass house, white Ferrari, live for New Year’s Eve, sloppy steaks at Truffoni’s. Big, rare cut of meat with water dumped all over it, water splashing around the table? Makes the night *so* much more fun. After the club, go to Truffoni’s for sloppy steaks. They’d say, ‘No sloppy steaks,’ but they can’t stop you from ordering a steak and a glass of water! Before you knew it, we were dumping that water on those steaks. The waiters were coming to try and snatch 'em up; we had to eat as fast as we could. Oh, I miss those nights; I *was* a piece of shit though!