Allow people the opportunity to change their minds through a realization or new evidence.

Everybody who studies anything can draw incorrect conclusions from the evidence they have. Particularly when the study is largely based on personal observation (empiric evidence), the chances of it being lacking or, inconclusive or misdirected at first is high. This doesn’t mean that they were lying to you or that they are not worth their salt as a thinker, but it means they’ve done some more thinking and now, they have made new conclusions.

the Young Soul* hate change. They have trouble trusting changing theories, or new discoveries that make them feel they cannot fully know their own world. Information is added to constantly, and one of the skills we all must learn is to accept that our perception of things changes, but the thing itself very often stays the same. It is good to base one’s world view on the truth and reality, because EVENTUALLY, it’ll all be discovered, and there are always some things that you can trust in high level of reliability… Like gravity (close enough a large celestial body like the Earth), maybe that if you run you will sweat… At least if you don’t wear deororant, which quite nicely illustrates the point that nothing is as is everywhere or in every situation, but depending on your perspective or what part of reality you’re observing, you may report a different thing.

An old example—I think this is Buddhist—points out that if there are three people in a dark room accompanied by an elephant, they will all describe the thing in a different way. The guy who grabs a hold of his trunk will describe a very different animal than the one describing its tail, let alone its massive tree trunk of a leg. Eventually, all of this information comes together and forms the whole elephant, but our initial reports of the same animal may vary drastically.

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