Virtually all of my opinions are qualified as I never believe I have all the facts. As I get more facts, my opinion becomes less qualified, but rarely approaching zero(hmm...reminds me of the calculus

Not seeking to be "right"...just factually correct; admitting that you might only have the correct answer now but it could change if given new information...

Just having an open mind is not enough...you have to be able to determine if what you are researching or trying to figure out is actually correct...there are a lot of "open minded" people that just have the incorrect information...

I also think that those who do not take into consideration the "experts" who spent years of study and research and, instead, rely on pundits in media, talk shows, etc., are closed minded in a different way...there is a reason for listening to educated people with knowledge and experience...to at least get a baseline of facts to formulate your own opinions...opinions not based on facts is what? shit...

Sometimes I throw a rock into a hornet's nest on this forum by saying something controversial;

1. such as mentioning that gender identity, traits, sexual orientation, and gender presentation are different things, and that everyone has these aspects on separate sliding scales.
   Despite their "open-minded" agnostic positions, many here still think everyone is a "girl" or a "boy" with a certain rigid set of characteristics and interests, based on ancient Christian teachings.
   Many even think that if people get operations to transition to the opposite gender, that means they also change which gender attracts them.

2. For all the "nothing is supernatural, and all must be proven physically" atheists on this forum, who ridicule the idea of reincarnation or consciousness continuing beyond their life, I often mention that Einstein taught us that all matter is a form of energy, so since energy can neither be created nor destroyed, we have always existed and will always exist in some energy form.

No reason to think energy souls or entities don't exist, and quantum physics already tells us different dimensions exist.
"For physicists, the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." -Einstein.

When trolls rush in to insult and attack me for writing such erroneous travesties, I start blocking them. I can clean out entire groups of rude people that I'd never want to date anyway.