'Tis a way to look at it, isn't it?

May the durrty south boyzs Baseball team beat the pants off the lily-clean north gurls team. No, wait while I rephrase that.

Trivial example: Uncle and Uncle-2 are identical. They have a choice to be either open or closed minded. So what?

Open mindedness brings truth. You have said it yourself in another way. Truth does not require inquiry to be discovered. It often comes unexpected. No assumptions need be made, but they are sometimes useful. A model with its assumptions is often helpful in discovering truth, but not always. God, I hope this clears up the matter.

I think you are not open minded enough to receive the truth.

You assume belief is something you can turn on or off at will - nonsense!

I don't know what position you think I am taking that is "goddamn madcap." Maybe it's the position of responding to every silky comment left on my poems.

-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.'s Important Theorem is not very important. Here’s why. If there were an equivalent closed mind for every open mind – equivalent in every way except openness or closedness – then the two minds belong to the same person. The rest of your argument breaks down.
Corollary: Dovina has said that minds have the ability to open themselves to the possibility of truthful input and they have the ability to close themselves to it.

I'm happy to be considered preposterous in your view. It gives me hope that I have not succumbed to the mire.

Try "point of view." Maybe you'll find it easier to understand.

Since you will not answer my objection to your original argument and insist instead on going in other directions, alright, I’ll object instead to this new argument. Models are not closed minded. They are tools, assumptive answers to be tested. They help us think. How does that make them closed minded? You are the closed minded one for not opening your mind to receive truth from any source available to you, especially not from any woman spouting off on an internet forum.

Yeah, it's a bit rough, but not sucking bad. Kinda funny and serious too.

You're just twiddling words; you know what I mean. But for the record, love is not the opposite of hate, sensibility is.

Again, you're trifuling with some petty point and ignoring the poem.

None at the moment, but thank you for asking.

The only thing zodiac is right about is that they will nag like old women until you become bored.

DA will be pleased. Receive your reward.

I did not say that an open mind is better at receiving truth than one that uses a model to understand the world. I said that truth is something which can be picked up by an open mind and deflected by a closed one. If you wish to argue with me please argue with me and not with some straw falsity of what I say. I also did not say that having a model of the world is closed minded. I said that the important thing here is to be receptive to truth, even if comes through an unlikely source. Models are useful and not closed minded. What you are really doing here is avoiding the second paragraph in my comment because it defeats your original statement.

"surely I've kept my heart pure" The "in vain" means nothing til I stop laughing about that one.