What If?
I posted the following question on Pagan Space.net, What if you were told that you were not part of the human race becuase of your beliefs or becuase of the way you were born?Society does this to people. Think about the last time you ran across a bum on the street you probably avoided him.Society has trained us to avoid things that are different from what it wants.The thought might be well that is in the largely christian people yes but that is not as bad in the pagan society becuase in pagan society we have an open mind and are able to accept things that most others would just close off.So my question is what is an open mind? And how open minded should a person be?
My answer to this is rather simple. An open mind is the ability of a person to be able to understand and have empathy for other people' opinions, beliefs and ideas. How open minded should a person be? Well in my opinion I believe they should be able to be completely open minded. However I do understand as humans it sometimes is hard to take an empathetic look at things that directly go against us. Therefore complete open mindedness is a goal that those who embrace the value off open mindedness but rarely becomes reality. All things being equal the attempt to be open minded is a virtue that is appreciated by everyone even if you do not even succeed. As the old saying says "if at first you don't succeed try, try again" in the end if you take the challenge of having an open mind in the end you and your life will be better for it.
