Do you find you are closed minded?

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If something doesn't interest me, if I am not comfortable with something, I am closed minded because I won't do it or read about it or learn about it. Also when I don't change my opinions and views which also makes me closed minded. To me that comes off as "Agree with everything I say or else you are closed minded" but ironically I think they are the ones being closed minded because they are not accepting my own views so they must think of me as being closed minded so they feel threatened with any view that is different than theirs. I would think that agreeing to disagree would be open mindedness. Yeah there are some views out there I don't like I feel threatened by but that is pretty common in politics which is why I tend to stay away from those topics and not get into it. It's like "I am not going to even go there" and not bother discussing it and argue about it. I would rather avoid topics that bring out my strong feelings and get me so upset because is a ruined friendship really worth it? Some people might see that as closed mindedness because I even refuse to talk about something when my opinions are so strong and the other person has a different view but to me they are the ones being closed minded because they are not respecting my wishes and would rather shove it in my face because they think they can change your mind and view but that doesn't work with anyone.

Even if these things do make me closed minded, oh well, I would say no one is truly open minded so anyone who claims to be I take as a grain of salt. They would have to prove they actually are until I believe it. Also closed mindedness seems to be a subjective word because everyone has their own definition of it. I used to think it meant not caring what others do in their lives just as long as it's not hurting anyone and it doesn't affect you and you don't hate them for it and think of them as bad people. But apparently it means not having any negative opinions about things people do or changing you views easily when people tell you things so it's like you can never have any views of your own because you are always changing them so it's like you contradict yourself and yeah those people don't impress me because I then don't take them seriously and not believe any word they say because I then think they can't even form their own views and are not capable of jumping to their own conclusion based on facts and research and hearing different perspectives because they just can't stick with a view for long and opinion. Instead they have to go by what people say. I could tell that person the sky is green and bam they now think the sky is green until another person tells them it's black so they now think it's black instead of green. Now I find out from the quiz it means still being with someone and communicating with someone even if they are a racist or a mygnosist. Okay what if someone thought Hitler was a good person and thought all the genocide and the death camps were all propaganda? I guess the majority of us would be all closed minded because we would then want nothing to do with that person.

So no shame here in being closed minded.