Anonymous wrote:Abortion. I was always pro-abortion. Grew up in soviet union where abortion was just as common method of contraception as condoms in US. Now, when I know so many women who have had it and knowing how it impacted their mental health, I became more pro-life.

You became anti-abortion. Only vegan pacifists can call themselves pro-life without being hypocrites.

Anonymous wrote:I used to be more sympathetic to poor people. I have no patience for people who spend beyond their means and get into debt. I live frugally to save and shouldn’t have my tax dollars pay for others’ poor choices. In hearing them talk, they say things they shouldn’t have to live like beggars, yolo and drinking a daily Starbucks won’t make a difference. I’m sorry but if you are getting handouts, then you better be dressed in rags and have no asserts left.

is this your attitude to children living in poverty too?

Voting

I've always believed every adult should have a vote in a democracy. Since 2016 I changed my mind. Previously people who didn't understand or pay attention to politics, the issues, what's going on in the country and the world, mostly just didn't bother voting. Then Trump ran and they all decided to vote despite their intense lack of knowledge and understanding. That's how he got elected and might get elected again.

So now I think maybe there should be an IQ test or a general knowledge test or something. Deliberately ignorant or intellectually impaired people should not be deciding the fate of our country.

Anonymous wrote:Peaches. I always thought they were dry and kind of bitter. Then I had a ripe one picked right off the tree, juice running down my chin. OMG. It's like s totally different fruit.

Yes, so many fruits and vegetables are like that - people are used to eating blah versions of them. But when you get really fresh in-season produce - and prepared in a decent way (if it needs cooking)- it's a revelation.

And it's peach season now!

Religion. Belief in a deity and an afterlife. Grew up a weekly church-going Catholic who used to pray all the time. Now I think that after we die it's just like before we were born, in terms of our consciousness and that there's no benevolent being watching over the world and intervening in it.

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Anonymous wrote:Nature/nurture

I used to think people were all pretty much born blank slates and became who they are because of their culture and education and experiences.

Having lived 50 years and raised children and known a lot of people, I think nature (inheritance from your parents) is a MUCH greater influence.

Absolutely agree.

Which makes me laugh at all the parents on here who attribute their kids behavior to their stellar parenting. It’s really not that. You got lucky with easy kids.

+1

I have one neurotypical child and one neurodivergent child and they are so different. I’m sure when other adults see the behavior of the ND child, they assume they are just a “bad kid” which was caused by my lousy parenting. To be honest, I probably would have thought the the same thing before I had kids. If I just had the NT kid I would consider myself parent of the year.

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Anonymous wrote:I was a staunch agnostic influenced by Carl Sagan ...now I am Catholic and a true believer. This happened around my late 20s. I was highly influenced by my colleagues among whom all religion is a joke.
Similarly with abortion, I used to feel it was regrettable but necessary. After 15 years in healthcare I have seen way too much glibness about this, too many patients with histories of 10+, too much postponement for weeks due to seeing if the father steps up. It should be taken much more soberly and seriously.

How did you come to your conclusion? Did you have an experience that cemented it?

Yes, but not something I'm exposing to the ridicule of atheist DCUM.
Also a lot of reading, CS Lewis and Evelyn Waugh (which I had to order because these books aren't even carried by my public library.)

Atheist here. Those books are classics. Staples in our OWN library. Along with the Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking (our kids even have lucy and Stephen Hawking books). Maybe buy more books?

Snubby elitist response. A lot of people are relying on public libraries for their kids and not many people with multiple kids can afford buying books. And for people who live in the city, space to keep the books at home is simply not an option due to the space limits.

There are currently 50 C.S. Lewis books and 37 Carl Sagan in Montgomery county libraries and you can have anyone that is not at your local branch sent there.

1. Poverty. I used to think people could get out of poverty if they just did the right things. Now I know it’s not possible. It’s heartbreaking and those in poverty need help.

2. Education. I used to think everyone had a basic similar high school education that included science, history, etc….now I see that isn’t the case, and people fear what they don’t understand.

Covid. I still didn't have one. Keep waiting because I updated my will in 2021.

Anonymous wrote:Abortion. I was always pro-abortion. Grew up in soviet union where abortion was just as common method of contraception as condoms in US. Now, when I know so many women who have had it and knowing how it impacted their mental health, I became more pro-life.

Giving birth to a child that you don’t want/ is the the product of rape/ etc. can also impact a woman’s mental health.

Anonymous wrote:Abortion

But not like the other posters.

My mom is brainwashed by conservatives. I never understood it. And finally, my sister-in-law and I sat down with her to understand it.

It was wild.

She explained to me how babies were born after 38 weeks, fully formed and healthy. Then Doctors took a huge needle, stuck it in the babies head and killed it and threw it away in a trashcan.

This is why Republicans are against abortion because that’s what they think abortion is.

It’s wild, how propaganda controls the ignorant.

How did this changed your mind about abortion?

Abortion. I was always pro-abortion. Grew up in soviet union where abortion was just as common method of contraception as condoms in US. Now, when I know so many women who have had it and knowing how it impacted their mental health, I became more pro-life.

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Anonymous wrote:I was a staunch agnostic influenced by Carl Sagan ...now I am Catholic and a true believer. This happened around my late 20s. I was highly influenced by my colleagues among whom all religion is a joke.
Similarly with abortion, I used to feel it was regrettable but necessary. After 15 years in healthcare I have seen way too much glibness about this, too many patients with histories of 10+, too much postponement for weeks due to seeing if the father steps up. It should be taken much more soberly and seriously.

How did you come to your conclusion? Did you have an experience that cemented it?

Yes, but not something I'm exposing to the ridicule of atheist DCUM.
Also a lot of reading, CS Lewis and Evelyn Waugh (which I had to order because these books aren't even carried by my public library.)

Atheist here. Those books are classics. Staples in our OWN library. Along with the Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking (our kids even have lucy and Stephen Hawking books). Maybe buy more books?

Snubby elitist response. A lot of people are relying on public libraries for their kids and not many people with multiple kids can afford buying books. And for people who live in the city, space to keep the books at home is simply not an option due to the space limits.

100% It is like telling the person who is getting their food from the food bank to go try to shop at Whole Foods.

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Anonymous wrote:I was a staunch agnostic influenced by Carl Sagan ...now I am Catholic and a true believer. This happened around my late 20s. I was highly influenced by my colleagues among whom all religion is a joke.
Similarly with abortion, I used to feel it was regrettable but necessary. After 15 years in healthcare I have seen way too much glibness about this, too many patients with histories of 10+, too much postponement for weeks due to seeing if the father steps up. It should be taken much more soberly and seriously.

How did you come to your conclusion? Did you have an experience that cemented it?

Yes, but not something I'm exposing to the ridicule of atheist DCUM.
Also a lot of reading, CS Lewis and Evelyn Waugh (which I had to order because these books aren't even carried by my public library.)

Atheist here. Those books are classics. Staples in our OWN library. Along with the Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking (our kids even have lucy and Stephen Hawking books). Maybe buy more books?

Snubby elitist response. A lot of people are relying on public libraries for their kids and not many people with multiple kids can afford buying books. And for people who live in the city, space to keep the books at home is simply not an option due to the space limits.

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Anonymous wrote:I was a staunch agnostic influenced by Carl Sagan ...now I am Catholic and a true believer. This happened around my late 20s. I was highly influenced by my colleagues among whom all religion is a joke.
Similarly with abortion, I used to feel it was regrettable but necessary. After 15 years in healthcare I have seen way too much glibness about this, too many patients with histories of 10+, too much postponement for weeks due to seeing if the father steps up. It should be taken much more soberly and seriously.

How did you come to your conclusion? Did you have an experience that cemented it?

Yes, but not something I'm exposing to the ridicule of atheist DCUM.
Also a lot of reading, CS Lewis and Evelyn Waugh (which I had to order because these books aren't even carried by my public library.)

Atheist here. Those books are classics. Staples in our OWN library. Along with the Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking (our kids even have lucy and Stephen Hawking books). Maybe buy more books?