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What bit of new learning has ever caused you to completely rethink your previous position on a serious topic?

Posted - May 19, 2020

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  • 53509

      Becoming a father for the first time. Everything that I thought I already knew, all of my supposed “preparations”, paled in comparison to the reality of the event. 

    ~ This post was edited by Randy D at May 24, 2020 7:55 AM MDT
      May 19, 2020 8:05 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    The path of life is uncertain, the cost high, and the rewards unexpected and fleeting, Grasshopper. ;)
      May 19, 2020 8:18 PM MDT
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  • 4624
    Recent theories about dark matter and energy and their influence on the life of the universe; equal forces are simultaneously pushing expansion and contraction.
      May 19, 2020 10:25 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    This is one I’ve yet to take a position on because it is still a relatively emerging field. Deep nerd stuff. Fascinating, though. 
      May 20, 2020 4:27 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    I used to think technology (the Internet in particular) would be nothing short of beneficial to humanity.  I have now come to realize that some of the results are more negative than positive, i.e., people are less civil when they don't have to look each other in the eye; the advent of "fake news" and the seeming inability to differentiate between what's real and what isn't; the ability to hack into accounts and steal personal information that can be used later to disadvantage others.  Those are just the ones off the top of my head.  Of course, there are positives as well.
      May 20, 2020 8:25 AM MDT
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  • 5391
    It seems to me there are never a shortage of reasons to be disappointed in our kind. 
      May 20, 2020 2:39 PM MDT
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  • 19937
    That's the truth.  
      May 21, 2020 8:10 AM MDT
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  • 5808
    The actual experience
    of seeing, feeling, and understanding
    of that oneness which is beyond the Ego.
      May 24, 2020 7:55 AM MDT
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  • 5391
    Does not Buddhism refer to this state as Enlightenment? A worthy goal. 
      May 25, 2020 8:51 PM MDT
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