What major opinions have you changed?

At this point in my life I've come to believe that some people are just beyond redemption. It's a huge waste of time and effort trying to help toxic friends and family who won't help themselves. If all they're going to do is take take and take, what's the point?

The idea that men and women are literally equal. I don’t think many people genuinely believe this, but I’ve seen some try to push the whole “women can do the same things as men” to extremes, such as sport performance and sex drive, when there are of course biological differences affecting those.

Also I think there are far less “real” trans people now. I still belief there are real ones, but Fetishes exist, trenders exist, confused / delusional people exist. And I’m on the fence of the idea that if you’re a man attracted to a trans woman you’re straight (and same for every other gender / orientation combo). I thought that’s what the word pansexual was made for.

Stacy is more attractive than Stacy's mom.

I would bet by this point in the USA there are a lot that are beginning to think, maybe Trump wasn't so bad or at least that Biden and Harris weren't the best choice.

Review of history will show the Dems basically forced Biden on the people. They were so afraid of Sanders, that they paid or bribed others to drop out and hid Biden in the basement to conceal how bad he really was.

I’ve generally become more positive, I used to be a very negative, self destructive person. I’m all about self development now.

Madonna is a witch.

Was raised a southern baptist, became an atheist.

I used to be extremely racist but now I'm only subcontiously racist

I remember I used to hate boxing and MMA, thinking that they were only for violent moronic thugs. I used to think karate and kung fu were more refined and elegant. I thought boxing/MMA were just mindlessly clobbering your opponent, but karate/kung fu were more intelligent and tactical. Then I began looking into martial arts and discovered that I couldn't have been more wrong. Boxing/MMA are actually two of the most effective martial arts in the world, where as kung fu is extremely ineffective. Karate is decent depending on the style, but even with that I thought it was more like kung fu than it really is. I never considered boxing could be very intelligent and tactical, but it is. And I thought the more elaborate a martial art looked, the more effective it must be, which is more often than not completely wrong.

I had all these notions entirely because of Hollywood. In the movies, it's the bad guys, the muscle-bound blockheads, that just try to punch the hero into submission. But then the clever hero utilises some elaborate kung fu move to counter them, and soon takes out all six enemies surrounding him. But that's all just a Hollywood myth. I also thought it didn't matter how big or strong you were once you knew all these fancy moves, that only unskilled brutes relied on their strength in a fight, and so an expert female kung fu master would easily be able to take out an unskilled male combatant. But that's not true either unfortunately.

So learning all this completely shattered my view on fighting. It was disappointing learning that all those legends of mystical kung fu masters in the Tibetan mountains that could kill a man with a single move were all false though, it was like learning that Santa Claus isn't real. But I soon got over it.

I grew up in a Pentecostal area and genuinely believed in it until my early teenage years. I was actually super involved with the church and a lot of the adults saw me as potentially becoming a preacher.

At somepoint in my early teen years, I had a sudden change of heart. It's hard to pin point exactly what caused the change but I started to question aspects of the religion. I then switch to a more...distasteful approach to religion. At that point I was a devote athiest. One of the ones that went around on social media and proudly claimed that I was right and you were wrong. (Part of this was me being bullied for *not* being Christian. I let it go to my head.)

After I graduated highschool, I finally settled with a more neutral viewpoint towards religion. I just don't want it forced onto me any longer.

Religions such as Wicca, Hinduism, and Judaism have attracted a lot of my interests. (In some ways Bushism fits here, but it is not a religion in the traditionalsense.)

Seriously though, fuck Pentecostalism. If you look into that sect of Christianity.

The most recent large change of belief that I realized is that the theory of evolution in general makes little sense. You may just dismiss this as stupidity, but this website actually makes a considerable amount of sense:

https://www.kolbecenter.org/

I like how you articulate this issue.

Smoke some pot

If I gave you a lineup of my transgender and non-transgender friends, you'd fail at guessing which is which. How would it be disasterous? The only disaster I see is people forcing open someone's bathroom door to check their genitals when the actual purpose of a bathroom is to pee or poop. Do you segregate your bathroom at home? Why not? More and more men are wearing skirts and dresses in my city. How does it effect me, a cisgender woman? I get jealous of their fashion sense and have to ask a stranger where he got such a cute skirt. It literally doesn't hurt anything to change someone's gender. If you're worried about perverts in the bathroom, check Republican politicians. I have a list of ones that are sex pests, if you'd like.

I don’t technically hold opinions. I’ve always been able to reconcile any actions or thoughts that contradict without issue.

I put forth opinions so that people will find things to, and then think I’m more like them than I actually am. A strong opinion shows that there’s something to know about me, or to work with. I don’t feel anything about much unless it either hinders or helps me at the time.

That’s the best I can come up with to explain it.

When I was a teenager I was taught to be a racist by my parents, and also leaned politically to the left.

In the Navy I recognized that what I was seeing in the performance of other races and ethnic groups did not match what I was taught. I eliminated the racism (which took a few years).

I also realized by my mid 20's that many of the left policies did not work... and then investigated what was considered the right politics... and I leaned right. There came a point about a decade later where I realized that many of the right ideologies did not really work either. I then transitioned to be a moderate, where on some issues I lean conservative, and others I lean more liberal.

What is currently portrayed in the media as solidly left and solidly right we considered extremism decades ago. I still consider it extremism.

You cant change peoples opinions, but you can influence their actions

Can't think of any. I'm a pretty consistent person with core beliefs.

I used to be strong left wing when I was a teenager whereas nowadays I'm right wing

Spot on