An open mind only means you're willing to listen to what someone says not that you have to except what they're speaking as anything more than trash. So let's break this down.
1. Okay, you put this out there.
2. Doesn't make it true, also doesn't make it false.
3. You're a scumbag if you're actually "pretending" and not a real one.
4. May be entirely true, you might not hear it on mainstream media. They may in fact be ranting. Lots of people rant doesn't mean anything. Doesn't make the thing true or false.
5. Yep, lots of people do this. Lot's a people put stuff on the internet and make money from the content. No difference between them and main stream media who make money on the same thing as these guys.
Now lets add some.
6. Thinking something has to be false because some nut says it's true on youtube means you're close minded.
7. Thinking that unless mainstream media takes it up it's probably not true or researched correctly makes you close minded.
8. Thinking that because it's on mainstream media it's probably true makes you the same type of idiot who believes the small time content providers over the big ones.
9. Mainstream media pretends to have experts too, doesn't mean they're any more real.
10. Real experts lie all the time when it suits their purposes. Just because one says something doesn't mean you shouldn't double check it. Getting a second opinion is perfectly acceptable behaviour.
11. If a bunch of experts say one thing and a bunch of experts say the opposite doesn't mean one is wrong and the other is right. It can, but it may also mean that we just don't know enough yet and they're both actually right, or both wrong.
Being open minded means you're willing to think for yourself. Alot of people would rather not. Alot of close minded people think they're open minded when they're not. An open minded person can have very definitive beliefs. Rejecting an opinion is completely normal for both open and close minded people. Claiming that rejecting an opinion is proof of close mindedness, is in fact, proof of their own close mindedness.
1. Okay, you put this out there.
2. Doesn't make it true, also doesn't make it false.
3. You're a scumbag if you're actually "pretending" and not a real one.
4. May be entirely true, you might not hear it on mainstream media. They may in fact be ranting. Lots of people rant doesn't mean anything. Doesn't make the thing true or false.
5. Yep, lots of people do this. Lot's a people put stuff on the internet and make money from the content. No difference between them and main stream media who make money on the same thing as these guys.
Now lets add some.
6. Thinking something has to be false because some nut says it's true on youtube means you're close minded.
7. Thinking that unless mainstream media takes it up it's probably not true or researched correctly makes you close minded.
9. Mainstream media pretends to have experts too, doesn't mean they're any more real.
10. Real experts lie all the time when it suits their purposes. Just because one says something doesn't mean you shouldn't double check it. Getting a second opinion is perfectly acceptable behaviour.
11. If a bunch of experts say one thing and a bunch of experts say the opposite doesn't mean one is wrong and the other is right. It can, but it may also mean that we just don't know enough yet and they're both actually right, or both wrong.