While this might not be an answer to your question, I'd say it's still a valid viewpoint.

I don't know that I have any "cherished" opinions.

Maybe that's just nihilistic, but I honestly just run any idea through the "does this produce the desired result?" If yes, keep going. If no, change the idea. Furthermore, any idea whose outcome is insignificant or meaningless (I.e - clouds shaped like ducks must be divinely inspired), I don't put any weight into any way. Just an "empty" thought that can come and go as it pleases. shoulder shrug

I can't think of anything right now, but I'm going to take this in kind of a different direction. You might not have implied something like this in your OP, but it's how I interpreted it and it's on my mind now.

God is different. There is no empirical evidence and there never can be. Even if a more powerful being descended from the stars and actually turned water into wine, it's not proof of a "God", but of a more powerful being than ourselves that can turn water into wine.

Even if a being did create us and showed proof, it doesn't mean they are "God" in the traditional sense of the term.

Humans have created beings before. Does that mean they are Gods?

What if an "alien" showed proof they created us? I'm talking about a typical alien as we portray them to be from our imagination with lanky bodies and big heads with gray skin etc. Would a religious person accept them as God? Or would it have to be a long haired white human? Most Christians, if not all Christians, see Jesus as a white guy and not a darker skinned Middle Easterner.

So changing ones mind on God after being shown "evidence" still might not solidly prove anything. We would never be able to tell if something was all powerful either.

So there is my brain fart for the day lol

I am considering a vegan life. I used to be all about bacon, meat, comforting foods, basically unhealthy style etc. but it has recently been explained in such a way that makes perfect sense. So in the interest of all things healthy for me, I will research, and make the appropriate conclusions for me.

My ex and I have joint custody. One week me, one week him. We share holidays and come together as a family then and on all our birthdays to celebrate. It's the right thing to do when children are involved. A united front of civility as adults is one of the ideal role models we can give our children in times of divorce/separation. (In my opinion)

Good question. Thanks for the post.

I was pro Hillary Clinton in the last election. Between trump and Comey attaching her I defended all the accusations being thrown at her. Now I've learned more about the Deep State and how Dems and Pubs both were involved in our Secret Govt. I am now paying closer attention to what politicians stand for.

As long as both households are positive influences on the kid(s) always saying "I love you".
I am in that situation... and I tell my son I love him over and over until we are both saying it and laughing. I am glad I insisted on "codomilicary" in the custody papers.

I think that we would all be rather irritating and boring if we still had the all opinions of our youth. I grew up in a blue collar neighborhood. A lot of my opinions were wrong. I am glad that I ditched them.
One thing that is quite frivolous but nevertheless proved how open minded I still am. Was when I watched the documentary "thriller in Manila". It was Joe Frazier's point of view of his encounters with Mohamed Ali. As a youth I saw Ali as the hero of their exchanges. However seeing it from the other side changed my opinion. Worth a watch even if you don`t like boxing.

Hmmm.... I don't know about cherished beliefs, but there's tons of things I used to believe that I now don't, I used to believe that most people were interested in reality, that they weren't wishful thinkers, typically I used to believe in santa, the tooth fairy and the bible god.

Ohhhhhh. I don't want to start any arguments but it is a big example for me. I will start by saying it is just a big shift in my personal thinking. A change in my opinion. I used to think the Democratic Party was all in for helping the average worker, and not corrupt. My entire life I was a proud Democrat, and I'm 55 years old. After the 2016 primary my views had changed and it broke my heart. I went through a lot of cognitive dissonance and anger and sadness.....the stages of grief. Let me end by saying that what the GOP has become causes me even more pain than that, and since I put it out there feel free to voice your opposition to this comment. I will only respond if I read something I haven't heard or thought of before.

I used to honestly believe there was a god, and that religion just had the wrong way of interpreting what god was. In my search for the facts about what god was actually like, I found less and less evidence that there was a god. What I was seeing was just the natural world.

I used to think everyone had good intentions in life. I learned that the hard way. I was a younger adult then. I was naive.

I once believed that people had an inherent desire to seek a god from birth. I mentioned to some friends that told me that we are all born atheist. It took six months of research. I found out that we were all wrong. There have been entire cultures that have had not spirit or god concept at all. Thus if we were born with a desire to seek a god concept that would not be the case.

We are not born atheist. A god concept must exist in a society for us not to believe in. We are born with no concept of God at all. We are taught it and then must either accept it or not or perhaps become some sort of Agnostic.

I must confess I don't really 'cherish' opinions. I have opinions, but they are not of themselves valuable, except in the way they fit and explain what happens.

I used to believe there was at least some good in all people, life has taught me otherwise. As for kids sharing separated parents & diff households it can work fine & is even the norm in some countries. Certainly better than being trapped with parents involved in a toxic relationship.

My personal experience and that of others i know support the 2 households as being better.
I had a meltdown in my very early 30s. I always knew my father was despicable, but believed/wanted to believe my mother was kind caring and I also felt sorry for her. Until my kids were the age that I could remember myself at. Thinking what I would do to anyone who would try and harm them, and remembering my mother doing nothing to stop my father and even deflecting his anger from herself and my siblings onto me. I raised this with her, she didn't deny it and got all condescending, how it made me better person and all the crap you could imagine. So my world fell apart, a big part of my belief system came crashing down and so many hidden memories came back. The comment that really bites is, "I took my marriage vows seriously".

I used to believe in God, I wouldn't say I cherished the belief so much as I cherished God as a living being. Needless to say, that belief changed!

I am still waiting on changing my opinion of hiphop/rap/flow whatever they label it... now they can not even speak except with their nose... what kind of man is that? I will wait for the next modality of popular music. I reckon I am stuck in the 20th century. But I will accept new evidence as convincing... No doubt.