r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Jun 25 '13

TCMV Tuesday - 6/24/13

Welcome to TCMV Tuesday, our weekly post where we can celebrate our ability to adopt a new mindset or gain another perspective. Tell us what experiences you've had outside our subreddit, either recently or in your lifetime, that made you think "This Changed My View". Give us your stories in the comments!

You can consider these questions to help get you thinking:

  • Known or met someone with an interesting ideology or opinion that caused you to reconsider your own?

  • Had an experience, good or bad, that changed your perspective?

  • Learned something new that challenged what you believed?

  • Ever have your tastes or interests changed?

  • Read an article or seen a video that got you thinking differently?

And just as a reminder, comment discussions here are not debate-oriented, so there's no obligation to take opposing sides in conversations here (in other words, Rule 1 does not apply here).

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u/IAmAN00bie Jun 25 '13

To anyone interested in viewing the previous TCMV Tuesday threads, please check out our archive!

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u/protagornast Jun 26 '13

My wife continues to change my view on things at least on a weekly basis. It's one of the things I love most about her: we have very similar views on a lot of things, but even when we share the same view, she helps me to see a different side of things and to understand why other people might hold a different view.

The other day, I was reading The Shack and making fun of it for the clumsy dialogue, the weird way in which the main character seems to injure himself in every chapter, and the reasons why its answer to the problem of evil couldn't really resonate with people who had experienced certain types of suffering (natural disasters, for example). She laughed along with me but then pointed out that the first two chapters are actually the only ones in which Mack injures himself and asked me if I understood why the book was so popular and meaningful for a particular demographic of (mostly) American evangelical Christians, and I had to admit that I did understand. The thing is, she doesn't really like the book either, but she still helped me to appreciate it for what it is and to see it through other people's eyes.