(originally published May 17th, 2005)<\/p>\n
Things aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always what they seem to be. Have you ever been in a position where you know you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re right and just can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe the other person wants to debate you on something? How often, if ever, are you proven to be wrong? If rarely, is it because you really weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wrong, or that you just refused to be wrong?<\/p>\n
Can two people be right, even if they have a different take on things? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an interesting conundrum, one that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve thought about for a long time. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve come to realize that not only can two people be correct, but multiples of people can be correct, yet be on the opposite sides of something.<\/p>\n
What makes it occur is that the issue doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really have a yes or no answer, and the variables are so vast that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really no way of saying that one person is ultimately correct or not. Time may prove it one way or another, but right then are there who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s to really say?<\/p>\n
I make this point to help open eyes just a little bit more. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m no different than anyone else in saying I have some strong opinions about a few things, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m fair to middlin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 about many others. What I like to believe, however, is that I can see the other person\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s side, even if I disagree with it in principle. I can kind of equate it to Christianity; if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so agreeable, then why are there so many different variations and sects and ways to show belief in what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s essentially the same thing? Are they all wrong or all they all right, or are they all just whatever they wish it to be?<\/p>\n
Try to give others the benefit of the doubt when plausible; you might be amazed at the insight you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll gain. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(originally published May 17th, 2005) Things aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always what they seem to be. Have you ever been in a position where you know you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re right and just can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe the other person wants to debate you on something? How often, if ever, are you proven to be wrong? If rarely, is it because you really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}