Do on-line forums change views?
 

Please vote.

From a religious standpoint?

Actually yes. Not in how much fertilizer you use on your tomatoes! :winkgrin

Views on what? The UPCI? Makeup? Doctrine of salvation? Christmas trees? :D

When I first started posting on FCF I was an ultra con. However by the time I got to NFCF and had read a few of Coop's wonderful threads I realized the error of my ways and immediately became a lib.:slaphappy :happydance :toofunny

:igotit

Anthing significant. Anything that would be potentially divisive, lifechanging, etc. .... for some who post here that would include all of the above.

Dr. Hoover,

I meant to tell you that I really enjoyed reading the Ninety and Nine interview with you and your wife about the Swapping Wives TV show experience.

Thank you.
I was glad the venue of Ninety & Nine was there and available to us.
Our thehooverhouse.net website has had thousands of hits but I am sure many more read Ninety & Nine.

The whole experience has been somewhat 'life changing' for our family.

My conclusion is this...

Those who cannot be changed cannot be changed online or offline.

Those who can be changed can be changed anywhere.

I think the fertilizer on the tomatoes is actually a good analogy!:tiphat

Oh...maybe I voted wrong then! LOL

I know that online forums do change people's way of thinking...some at least. Not mine though.

I don't know that I can say an online forum could or does change my views, but I do believe it helps me understand other points of view also.

No one told me we were supposed to think....

:slaphappy

I may be the only one here who can say this but I have become more conservitive since joining one of these forums.

Yep. :winkgrin

That's because you are not supposed to think :slaphappy

While I haven't changed my views, the mental calisthenics going on around here have helped me consider the way I think about things. The secondary influence (conversations and relationships made outside the forums), ironically has been the most helpful along those same lines.

'influenced' my ways of thinking - yes.

'changed' my ways of thinking - no

I agree tho, reading here has helped me to become more understanding of how others think and believe about things. I think that's important.

LOL!!!!

Maybe we have found the problem!

Has not changed my views on anything.

I voted the last option - but admittedly these were not major changes.

My views on the new birth, inspiration of the Scriptures, water baptism, pre-trib rapture, Holy Spirit baptism, predestination and free will, outward dress code or holiness "standards," are the same now as they were when I joined the old FCF board. I'm probably considered a liberal although I think I'm pretty conservative.

Re: Do on-line forums change views?
 

Bump!

Re: Do on-line forums change views?
 

Like several of the others have replied, my views have changed slightly because of online resources/forums, etc., and it does help to understand how others view issues, etc. I think these kinds of venues most definitely help those who cannot see things in any other light. Perhaps they also learn to at least appreciate those who have different viewpoints, even if their views never change. I believe that dialogue always helps to clear the air some. It can also have the opposite affect if you bark up the same tree for too long a period.

Re: Do on-line forums change views?
 

Nope, experience is the only thing that has changed me at all. But I have learned to be a little obsessive about spelling!