No matter how open-minded...

[Shadowmech88]

I dislike illogical and irrational people, rap music, people who wear gauges, people who say "like" between every other word, & people who abbreviate or misspell just because they're lazy.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

I just can't understand people who get excited to screaming fever-pitch over sports. I really fail to grasp the excitement of sports in general.

I mean I get worked up and really into professional wrestling, but that's more like a TV show because it pretty much is. And because they have characters and people you can actually get behind. Football is just 11 people from a city or country you like or are from kicking a ball around on a pitch somewhere, it just isn't the same thing.

 

[JoJo]

I'll never understand people who dislike or hate children, I can understand that some people feel awkward around them because of lack of experience and/or social skills but those who down-right do not like? Seems to me to go against natural biology though it is often something people will grow out of as they mature. Also those who are against family values in general and chase money/hedonistic pleasures, never understood why possessions are so important to some people.

 

[Soods]

German grammar...
IT MAKES NO SENSE!!

Edit: So many people saying they can't understand religious people. Here is a slightly logical answer:
If [insert deity here] does exist: you will go to heaven or be reborn as a cow or something.
If it doesn't exist: doesn't matter now that you're dead, does it?

German grammar makes total sense, although it depends on where you're from.

Ok, it does make sense, but the endless lists of exceptions make it hard to grasp.

 

[Davroth]

I can't wrap my head around how people can still take politicians at face value. You'd think centuries of lies and deception would teach us something, but nope!

Now, I didn't read all of this thread and maybe it has been covered already, but although I'm not religious in the slightest, I do understand why people seek the comfort of religion.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

I just can't understand people who get excited to screaming fever-pitch over sports. I really fail to grasp the excitement of sports in general.

I mean I get worked up and really into professional wrestling, but that's more like a TV show because it pretty much is. And because they have characters and people you can actually get behind. Football is just 11 people from a city or country you like or are from kicking a ball around on a pitch somewhere, it just isn't the same thing.

Football has strict rules and requires teamwork, and strategy on part of the manager. It has a skill cap that is more or less unreachable, and people dedicate their lives to it. Don't just look at the ball. Look behind the scenes. If you've ever gotten excited over a Starcraft match, you're completely elligible to understand football. Hell, if you've ever enjoyed an FPS frag movie as a display of skill, you're elligible to understand football.
Same can be said for other sports.

People get excited over Starcraft matches? Playing them I could maybe understand, but watching them? Who gets excited watching other people play strategy games?

 

[Farson89]

Reading books. I can't get into it no matter how much the book fits my interests.

Ok, I'll throw another idea in that's not quite as poignant as my previous one. I cannot comprehend why people would not like to read books. It blows my mind. What blew my mind even more was at university, there were people on my English Literature course that didn't like reading books. Now that thought definitely makes my face twist grotesquely in confusion.

Wait... Why in the fuck were they taking a literature course then?

Oh God I think my brain is melting from the lack of any form of logic.

 

[Tips_of_Fingers]

Wait... Why in the fuck were they taking a literature course then?

Oh God I think my brain is melting from the lack of any form of logic.

Exactly.

Admittedly, it was more that they only liked one specific genre of literature and hated having to branch out/read something out of their comfort zone. There were indeed people who disliked reading in general...I think they took the course because they thought it would be "easy"? Also, some of them were doing a joint honours degree and English was their minor. We had people doing History/English, Drama/English, Psychology/English...a whole host of crazy combinations.

 

[rutger5000]

There are way to many things that I can't wrap my mind around to mention. You just have to come to peace with it that you won't ever be able to understand some people

 

[Insanum]

There are just two things I cant stand, People who are intolerant of other peoples races & beliefs, and the dutch.

Aww come on, that's harsh!

There are just two things I cant stand, People who are intolerant of other peoples races & beliefs, and the dutch.

Okay, I have to ask, why the dutch?

<spoiler=Allow me to educate you> <youtube=QJ882QYzr-M>

 

[Dastardly]

Being open-minded doesn't mean that you can comprehend everything, it just means that you don't shut things out. If you don't understand why somebody does something that doesn't make you close-minded. You're close-minded if you refuse to give the subject or their reasoning any consideration.

I'll also add that being open-minded doesn't mean agreeing with everything. I understand that desperation can lead someone to do stupid things, but that doesn't mean I automatically excuse someone for doing this.

Winner!

Empathy is an important skill, as it allows us to make predictions about what people will do, and how they will react to what we do. But empathizing with someone doesn't mean agreeing with them. I can understand how a serial killer arrives at the conclusions he does, and that might help me catch him, or treat him (if that's the goal), or even predict other killers' patterns in the future... but that doesn't mean I think he's okay to do what he did.

 

[viking97]

but i'd never in a million years try to tell anyone else what to believe, as long as their beliefs don't affect me in any way.

Really? This is a bit of a departure from our earlier conversation, but you wouldn't try to right someone's wrong even if the belief didn't affect you? What if I believed that the integral from 0 to pi of sin(x) was 1? That belief is completely harmless. Would you not try to correct me?

well, in the area of objective fact i might try to correct you.

There are quite a few objective facts that religious people deny. Would you try to correct those?

not really, it's pretty futile. unless they a genuinely deceived by another person and need some lies revealed, they're gonna believe what they want to believe.

 

[Dangernick42]

Militant Athiests. The majority of religious people aren't stupid, or violent, or trying to convert everyone they meet in the street. So why do many atheists feel that they have to continually point out to all followers of any religion (or sometimes just to each other) how stupid they think religion is. All it does is cause a bigger rift between believers and non-believers and force people to choose a side on religion/science.
I am a Christian doing a maths degree, and I believe in a scientific world, but that doesn't mean I can't accept that a God exists as well. The fact that everything fits together so beautifully through science is proof of an intelligent creator for me.
I don't mind if someone chooses to believe in something different to me, or not believe in anything at all, so why should my choices matter so much to them? Saying how much death religion has caused isn't an argument against the existence of God, and it isn't an argument against religion. The cause of that death was still man, maybe using religion as an excuse, but still ultimately man doing wrong. If religion wasn't the excuse, something else would be.

Edit: So many people saying they can't understand religious people. Here is a slightly logical answer:
If [insert deity here] does exist: you will go to heaven or be reborn as a cow or something.
If it doesn't exist: doesn't matter now that you're dead, does it?

Like the use of Pascal's Wager here, was going to mention it myself.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Obsessive fans of anything, and also how people can do such terrible things to each other for the flimsiest of reasons...

 

[Kriptonite]

I cannot, as of yet, quite understand how people can look down at others simply because of gender or race. I was actually just thinking about this the other day. I just don't understand how having darker or lighter skin makes a person superior or inferior to another. The same goes for the sexes. A penis does not make someone better, nor does a vagina. People are people. That's it. I guess I'm still close-minded, but I just don't get it. Some people say that it's hard to overcome what you are taught growing up, but I think that as an adult, or even an adolescent, you have the tools available to think, and therefore make decisions, for yourself. You, at that point in your life, are able to decide what is right, what is wrong and what is plain preposterous.

 

[Durgiun]

For the life of me, I'll never understand people who see 2001: A Space Odyssey as THE greatest movie of all time.

It was filmed in 1968 and looks better than most movies made in the 2000's.

It is also a f)(*_(* epic novel.

It is also f(*( Kubrick.

Not my greatest movie of all time personally, but its in my top 20.

In the sense that they were busting their ass to make excellent set pieces and so forth, yes. But Special Effects do not a great movie make (Star Wars prequels, Michael Bay's Transformers etc.)

Never read the novel, but I plan to.

I did like the Shining and A Clockwork Orange, but 2001 was just so boring. I usually refer to it as a SFX Demo reel, than an actual movie.

 

[Wuggy]

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