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Care to give some examples? I can think of a few general counterexamples: * Fad diets (people flit from fad to fad, not outright reject all fad diets from the
by mfoy_ 9y ago
Care to give some examples?
I can think of a few general counterexamples:
* Fad diets (people flit from fad to fad, not outright reject all fad diets from then on)
* Losing your faith, but then being fascinated by a foreign religion (i.e. The trope of the ex-Christian falling in love with Buddhism)
- dwringer 9y agoRegarding fad diets, I can think of times when I've seen people (myself included) act biased toward new fad diets if they resemble older, popularly discredited fad diets in some way (even if it is only a superficial similarity). I think the same can apply to religion; someone might be completely turned off of Abrahamic religions by their experiences with only one of them, regardless of whether this is a "fair" assessment.
- mfoy_ 9y agoRegarding GP's comment, then... is that type of closed-mindedness actually bad? If they've finally changed their mind about a deeply seated belief, that means they must have had some pretty compelling reason to do so... why would they backtrack casually?