Being wrong and then admitting it.

[Gramps]

As I've pointed out many times we never get too old to learn. I never said we never get too old to admit we're wrong but I know for a fact that I have changed my thinking on many issues in my older days.

HERE'S ONE:

Most of my life I never considered women as being "gay" but, like so many other people, just assumed the term referred to men.

TODAY I noted a photo in the newspaper of couples in line to get marriage licenses thst there were as many women holding hands while the paper work was being done as there were men.

Still, I never noted in my daily routines women cuddling while I had seen men many times in compromising clutches. NOW, even seeing men doing that in public came in later years but women? No, not until quite recently.

Gays in the military? C'mon, now! We had a gay T/Sgt back during WWII but everyone ignored it even though when we did go on pass for some R&R he never tagged along with any of us. Not that we never mentioned it because his name was Gerald and we called him (behind his back, of course) Geraldine.

So, later in life I've had to admit how really naive I once was. And it's true about many topics that I've learned to re-assess. Which puzzles me when I note other folks who maintain they will never change any mindset regardless of what occurs that might be contrary to their long-standing beliefs.

gramps

 

[JuliefromOhio]

there are those who evolve with the times and those who don't. the lack of doing so seems based on having a rigid personality or adherence to religious dogma.

 

[Constitutional Sheepdog]

there are those who evolve with the times and those who don't. the lack of doing so seems based on having a rigid personality or adherence to religious dogma.

It's called never accepting the abnormal as normal.

 

[Jen]

As I've pointed out many times we never get too old to learn. I never said we never get too old to admit we're wrong but I know for a fact that I have changed my thinking on many issues in my older days.

HERE'S ONE:

Most of my life I never considered women as being "gay" but, like so many other people, just assumed the term referred to men.

TODAY I noted a photo in the newspaper of couples in line to get marriage licenses thst there were as many women holding hands while the paper work was being done as there were men.

Still, I never noted in my daily routines women cuddling while I had seen men many times in compromising clutches. NOW, even seeing men doing that in public came in later years but women? No, not until quite recently.

Gays in the military? C'mon, now! We had a gay T/Sgt back during WWII but everyone ignored it even though when we did go on pass for some R&R he never tagged along with any of us. Not that we never mentioned it because his name was Gerald and we called him (behind his back, of course) Geraldine.

So, later in life I've had to admit how really naive I once was. And it's true about many topics that I've learned to re-assess. Which puzzles me when I note other folks who maintain they will never change any mindset regardless of what occurs that might be contrary to their long-standing beliefs.

gramps

Part of it is because if someone changes their outlook on something (here at least, and in politics) they are called a "flipper-flopper".

My opinion is that we grow and learn throughout life and if we learn that we have believed something that's not quite right, it's better to be a "flip flop" than someone who believes something they know is wrong and refuses to change so as to not be called a name. Change and growth is a good thing.

Good post, Gramps.

 

[Dawg]

As I've pointed out many times we never get too old to learn. I never said we never get too old to admit we're wrong but I know for a fact that I have changed my thinking on many issues in my older days.

HERE'S ONE:

Most of my life I never considered women as being "gay" but, like so many other people, just assumed the term referred to men.

TODAY I noted a photo in the newspaper of couples in line to get marriage licenses thst there were as many women holding hands while the paper work was being done as there were men.

Still, I never noted in my daily routines women cuddling while I had seen men many times in compromising clutches. NOW, even seeing men doing that in public came in later years but women? No, not until quite recently.

Gays in the military? C'mon, now! We had a gay T/Sgt back during WWII but everyone ignored it even though when we did go on pass for some R&R he never tagged along with any of us. Not that we never mentioned it because his name was Gerald and we called him (behind his back, of course) Geraldine.

So, later in life I've had to admit how really naive I once was. And it's true about many topics that I've learned to re-assess. Which puzzles me when I note other folks who maintain they will never change any mindset regardless of what occurs that might be contrary to their long-standing beliefs.

gramps

gramps if you didn't realize women were gay in your youth...............well, surely you didn't live that big a sheltered life.............
'O' will never reach what you've reached...........even if he lives that long..........he's always right.

 

[Gramps]

gramps if you didn't realize women were gay in your youth...............well, surely you didn't live that big a sheltered life.............
'O' will never reach what you've reached...........even if he lives that long..........he's always right.

However odd that might seem "gay" which back then was called "queer" wasn't a prime time topic as it is today. When I was young divorced ladies were frowned down on. It was a different world than it's become in more recent times. People really haven't changed that much, most likely, but openness has and I haven't yet decided if that's really in our best interest. It was like the country boy who was telling his best friend about his encounter with a worldly gal from the big city and he said he'd given here a lift when she was hitch-hiking. "D'ya know what she did?" he asked and his friend said "no" so he explained, "well, I was driving along and she threw her purse in the back seat, then pulled off her undies and tossed them into the back seat and said, "You can have anything you want".

"God," his friend shouted, "what did you do?"

"Hell" he replied, "I took her purse. I didn't figure her panties would fit me anyhow".

As I said, times have changed.

gramps

 

[Gramps]

Part of it is because if someone changes their outlook on something (here at least, and in politics) they are called a "flipper-flopper".

My opinion is that we grow and learn throughout life and if we learn that we have believed something that's not quite right, it's better to be a "flip flop" than someone who believes something they know is wrong and refuses to change so as to not be called a name. Change and growth is a good thing.

Good post, Gramps.

Well, Jen, we don't always disagree, just in politics. Some of your takes on religion aren't too far afield as mine. (some, I said).

gramps

 

[Jen]

Well, Jen, we don't always disagree, just in politics. Some of your takes on religion aren't too far afield as mine. (some, I said).

gramps

"Some" is enough.
More than that might be too much to be interesting.