I don't understand your definition of a belief that's important to you, if importance is not synonymous with a big deal. But I'm sure it follows logically from whatever your position on the topic is. I don't consider my beliefs important unless they are the ones that influential opinion leaders are horrifically, dangerously wrong about. Which is why it's difficult for me to be silent, because I've experienced the consequences first-hand. Take for instance, my brother. This fall he's going to the same college I went to, despite my protests that he will be miserable and never acheive his career goals that way. This is why our parents belief in God's will is an important problem. He doesn't have to listen to me, but he knows my opinion. And that I'm there for him if he wants to know where are the gaps in the compound's barbed-wire.
I am quite envious that when you state your opinion the conversation can move on to something else all by itself. Where do you find people to talk to, who will treat it like sky-diving? When I want that to happen I have to tell people to drop it.
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Date: 2004-07-15 07:09 am (UTC)I am quite envious that when you state your opinion the conversation can move on to something else all by itself. Where do you find people to talk to, who will treat it like sky-diving? When I want that to happen I have to tell people to drop it.