How has AI affected your views?

satchmosatchmo
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Just wondering if AppleInsider has made a big difference in the way you see things. It's a great forum for Mac stuff but it also provides a place for good debate and differing views on many subjects.



Perhaps the opinion of others have made you more aware of the view of others and hence made you change your outlook on things. Maybe you're a more caring person, maybe more cynical.
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  • Reply 1 of 42
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    i have grown angry with the public education system.
  • Reply 2 of 42
    ijerryijerry Posts: 615member
    I am now a PeeCee person... hehe. J/K

    No, not really. I think I have gotten a lot better at arguing with the wife. Thanks AI <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[oyvey]" /> <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" />
  • Reply 2 of 42
    thegeldingthegelding Posts: 3,230member
    lol....



    i use to like republicans....AI cured me of that...ha
  • Reply 2 of 42
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    More cynical. I'll go with that one.
  • Reply 5 of 42
    artman @_@artman @_@ Posts: 2,546member
    View?







    Blurred....
  • Reply 6 of 42
    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    Definitely better at arguing clearly... in single syllables when possible.



    Definitely less impressed with our education system in general. *sigh*
  • Reply 7 of 42
    der kopfder kopf Posts: 2,275member
    It taught me that many leftist Americans are righter (more right-wing if you will) than rightist Europeans.



    [ 02-07-2003: Message edited by: der Kopf ]</p>
  • Reply 8 of 42
    toweltowel Posts: 1,479member
    [quote]It taught me that many leftist Americans are righter[.]<hr></blockquote>



    Exactly.



    Edit: And it taught me how to use smileys.



    [ 02-07-2003: Message edited by: Towel ]</p>
  • Reply 9 of 42
    vandewaalsvandewaals Posts: 450member
    It taught me that not many people are willing to listen to opposing points of view. Not to name names ( ), but more often then not it seems like many threads end up being shouting matches between leftist and right-wing posters, with an occasional tidbit of actual factual info to back up an argument. And I know that's WHY we have the AO forum here on AI, to allow people to rant and flame each other (within reason), however there is quite a small number of people who are capable of saying the words "you know what, you're right". If there is anything I am firmly against its an idealog. But thats me . Carry on....
  • Reply 10 of 42
    objra10objra10 Posts: 679member
    I learned that leftist a#$%)@#'s are people too, and even though I don't agree with them most of the time, that's okay. They help me to challenge why I believe what I do. They don't very often change my thinking, but they help me clarify why I think what I think (and sometimes reinforce it).





    But they're still as$h@l*s



    (sorry, I had to say something so you wouldn't think I was getting all soft here.)
  • Reply 11 of 42
    vandewaalsvandewaals Posts: 450member
    [quote]Originally posted by OBJRA10:

    <strong>I learned that leftist a#$%)@#'s are people too, and even though I don't agree with them most of the time, that's okay. They help me to challenge why I believe what I do. They don't very often change my thinking, but they help me clarify why I think what I think (and sometimes reinforce it).





    But they're still as$h@l*s



    (sorry, I had to say something so you wouldn't think I was getting all soft here.)</strong><hr></blockquote>



    I say we all hold hands and sing Kumbya...(sniff) I love all of you dammit! Quick...someone give me a hug. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />



    AI...bringing people togeter
  • Reply 12 of 42
    pfflampfflam Posts: 5,053member
    My father is an ultra right anti-communist republican who lived for years in Yugoslavia while working for the American Military.



    He used to tell me this: " you can not change someone's point of view"

    he would than always tell me about meeting communists on the trains that would argue about the none existence of God

    or how the Croats could care less about killing Russians but only about the Serbs and vice a versa (1950s when he was in Yugoslavia)

    Of course, he always meant that you could never change their point of view NOT that his point of view ever needed to be recalibrated in any way . . . that never entered his mind



    but



    after arguing on these boards I have come to see just how right he was: peoople's opinions are motivated not so much by logic or reason as they are by a kind of veneer of style:

    or better, an imagined style,

    or even better: an Image



    an image of who they are when they take a position

    an image that includes the image of imaginary peers who also support that fictitious image that they represent with their opinions



    Forget reason and critical thought, when it comes up against that IMAGE of the adversary, the CORRECT thought. critique flies out the window

    and you might as well shrug your shoulders and admit what my father always said: "you can not change someone's point of view"





    I do believe however that therre is the possibitlity of widdling down that image:

    I for one have openned my perspecctives a little towards recognizing some valid points in the camps of MY ENEMIES



    But I have also come to see how profoundly wrong they are
  • Reply 13 of 42
    powerdocpowerdoc Posts: 8,123member
    AI affected my views dramatically : Thegelding told me that exercising medecine in US sucks, my dream is destroyed
  • Reply 14 of 42
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    It taught me I´m always right.



    And some fundamental flaws in Habermas theory about "Discurs Ethics"
  • Reply 15 of 42
    thegeldingthegelding Posts: 3,230member
    sorry about that powerdoc....please come practice medicene here, we would love to have you...of course it can also be noted that you are just what L.A. needs, another plastics doc....



    plastics and cardiology...the only fields making money in medicene right now....as people and money flee OB and Pediatrics....the heck with the next generation and the young, let's keep the old people around for 10 more years and let all the young women have tiny noses and large breasts....



    yea the future....old, big breasted people with no kids....g
  • Reply 16 of 42
    der kopfder kopf Posts: 2,275member
    It has taught me that there is a horrible type of rampant idiocy in this world, a kind of idiocy you thought had less chance of existing than a scale-covered unicorn. A kind of stupidity that makes you want to spoon your eyes out and kick them into orbit all the while wailing insults to the God who didn't prevent this. A kind of imbecility that is described best by the term groverat <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[oyvey]" />



    [ 02-07-2003: Message edited by: der Kopf ]</p>
  • Reply 17 of 42
    pfflampfflam Posts: 5,053member
    Habermas!!!!.....Haa!





    Here we have it...The ideal uncoerced "situation" . . . and what do we get......SDW!!!!..... so much for the "unforced force of a better arguement"
  • Reply 18 of 42
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    someone's mad ?



    Affected my views ? well, a little bit:



    1. This is a online discussion forum.

    If I do not agree with someone, it's of no use to argue until the sun goes up, it's better to leave.

    Also if you get pissed on from someone, it's better to stay calm and go out through the backdoor. Sure, you'll get pissed about that, but hey, don't you have lives to get on with ?!!? <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />



    2. Car-drivers are assholes in every country. ( )



    3. There are people who don't know that there is a thread about <a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=6;t=002505;p=1"; target="_blank">The hottest photo ever</a>.



    4. People who are discussing matters with you over the internet still can hurt you.



    5. Life is wonderful, no matter what you may say.



    6. Looks isn't everything. I mean look at <a href="http://www.bullz-eye.com/gnd/2003/01Sarah_Jones/Sarah_Jones-41.jpg"; target="_blank">murbot</a>. (oops, wrong picture... <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/murbot/.Pictures/AI/hottie.jpg"; target="_blank">this</a> one is right.)



    7. Seven ? You go !
  • Reply 19 of 42
    der kopfder kopf Posts: 2,275member
    [quote]Originally posted by Defiant:

    <strong>

    [snip]



    2. Car-drivers are assholes in every country. ( )



    [snip]



    4. People who are discussing matters with you over the internet still can hurt you.

    </strong><hr></blockquote>



    It taught me that there is a lot of wisdom in this world. The kind of wisdom that makes you wish you had a hot cup of tea within arms' reach.
  • Reply 20 of 42
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    I don't completely understand your post, der Kopf. :confused: You sound like you're making a good point... but I'm still <img src="confused.gif" border="0">
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