[ZULU]

Well, an open mind about SOME things.

[dsc]

“Well, an open mind about SOME things.”

The rule I try to apply is that I only reopen consideration of settled matters when I encounter *new* evidence or arguments that appear to pose a credible argument against my position.

I don’t think we are required to reconsider old arguments again and again, after we have once examined them to the limits of the possible.

The application of this rule has often provoked people to call me closed-minded and bigoted. I don’t really enjoy that, but (Sopranos mode ON) whaddaya gonnna do (Sopranos mode off)? Certainly, great men like Cardinal Merry del Val have it much, much worse than ordinary schmucks like me.