Open-mindedness

A look at some of the flawed thinking that prompts people who believe in certain non-scientific concepts to advise others who don't to be more open-minded.

music © QualiaSoup

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A note on spelling: A number of people have commented that 'close-minded' should be spelt 'closeD-minded'. This is incorrect. It's one of those cases in English where what you might suspect to be the case, doesn't necessarily apply. See:

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/close-minded

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/close-minded

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/close-minded

Category:

Education

Tags:

• open-mindedness
• pseudoscience
• paranormal
• supernatural
• contradiction
• anecdotal evidence
• prejudice
• close-mindedness
• fallacious thinking
• educational

[looneytoohey]

Brilliant.

[IntricateRhetoric]

As Sherlock Holmes once said (paraphrased):

Consider the evidence before coming to a conclusion. A conclusion before evidence inevitably leads to bending of facts to suit the conclusion, instead of the conclusion to suit the facts.

[liljade53]

wow. this guy is really closeminded.



[PaladinswordSaurfang]

klohzd-mahyn-did or kləʊs ˈmaɪndɪd?

[phantasmagorial]

Such a fantastic video! Very glad I ran into this and now get to watch all your others. :)

[phantasmagorial]

@JesusgavemeHolySpiri You're acting like the examples in the video lol.

[grayziehobbes]

@JesusgavemeHolySpiri Retard.

[JesusgavemeHolySpiri]

@TheGrizzlyWilly YES YES AND I read more than those , I read almost all religious texts. You know what they have in common? NONE say - ALONE in your room do X, y, and Z, carefully though, and GOD will give you a new SPIRIT, heal you, reveal heaven within you and come to you and make His home with you. Three weeks reading the Gospel and JESUS and the Father did just that!

[werqe1]

@qualiasoup. Thank you for doing these videos. Myself and a few of my friends attend a religious school and have all been independently questioning the given status quo (that the given religion is infallable) and doing personal research for some time. This year we managed to find one another (atheists/agnostics), not in a quest to hate rebel or go vandalize something as our school professes that those who do not believe in god do, but to have common ground for conversation and to compare indivi

[TheGrizzlyWilly]

@JesusgavemeHolySpiri Have your read the Quran? How about the Talmud? Why is your book the one that we should be using to "cover our eternally burning rears?" Why don't you read those, so that you can possibly cover your own rear?