Moments/conversation that drastically changed your views - Life changing moments

[Monika H.]

Hallo, hallo!!!

Generally, but not always, we go through our lives with a set of views and attitude that we develop early in our lives.
Although this largely depends on our personalities and character, we human beings are generally dynamic animals, in the sense that we change our attitude and adapt for better or worse in the face of drastic events in our lives, be them positive or negative.
This can be in a small scale, regarding our consideration of people we knew or things we approach; or our own ethical, political and moral compass.

Watching the :powerlevel:, you can share here events, moments, or even simple conversations that changed your perception of the world, life, things or people.

 

[Cake Farts]

Seeing you with an anime pfp inspired me to go look up anime Nazi chicks to see if there’s any hentai related

 

[MemeGray]

I used to class myself as a feminist, the idea that including women in video games or pushing for them to enter typically male only workplaces seemed like a step toward equality. Until I spoke to a girl I had been friends with since childhood about her career, she was adamant that working part time for 2 years in a cafe should make her eligible for a middle management position at a retail outlets main office because and I quote "They don't have any female managers". The level of entitlement from this person I respected and had grown up with just staggered me, I talked to other girls about it and most agreed with her thinking, citing things like equality and patriarchy. Also America should annex Canada and Mexico.

 

[Monika H.]

Also America should annex Canada and Mexico

That seems quite a Fascist/Ultranationalist thing for a feminist to say.

 

[Draza]

Being banned for the second time over a lewd waifu and being forced to be stuck with this av, made me realise that waifus just like women can get you in trouble and are simply worth your time. Time for me go my own way again, but this time by waifus.

 

[Nekromantik]

A little old angry Chinese lady helped me become more open minded about trying new food.

At least twice a month my family would take us to eat at this little Asian restaurant run by a family. I was about 5 and every time I would get a burger because I was a picky little shit and my parents had gotten tired of me being a picky little shit, so they let me get a burger. Well I guess the grandma that ran the place got tired of the and wouldn't let me order a burger. "You order that every time. It boring, you boring. I'm going to get you something nice and you try it, if you don't like it it free." My dad laughed and thought this was a great deal, my mom approved hoping this would get me to try different things. So the old lady brought orange chicken, and sat there till I tired it. And I did, and liked it. She said, "See, it's good to try new things." And I got a free ice cream. And every time we went after I tired something new.

Now I'm the first to try something new. Fried alligator strips, give me, hunter friend just shot an emu and wants to make burgers, I'll bring the beer. Jokes on my mom, now I love curry, and she hates it, always asks how I can eat it. Thank you little old Chinese lady.

 

[Monika H.]

I've met three people that actually changed my view of life and how human beings can go on with life and overcome the most insurmountable difficulties; apart from my SO but that would be too long and powerlevel to put here.

The first person was a bartender I met when I was 16, and still go to his bar from time to time. He was very chatty and professional when serving drinks in his bar, and brought service to the tables. Seems fairly standard for a bartender, yes?
Well, he was completely blind. And not from birth, no. He got hit in the head in an accident and that compromised his sight. He told me it has been hard to reprise working, but he never gave up and now works basing everything on his sense of touch, hearing and smell.
This was very inspirational for me, there are persons, me included, that give up for even less.

The second was a patron of said bar, a cheery and friendly old man that helped me a lot in setting some things and chores in my house and I asked him how he managed to always be so happy-go and optimistic. He told me how he he had been a career soldier in his youth, and had participated both in the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the quelling of the Prague revolts. He told me he had saw so much blood and despair in those scenarios that he learned to cherish every moment of peace and tranquil life he could have from those moments onwards. In his own words "We can be real assholes in certain moments, but we have to try and be good people most of the time.".

The third was a girl I knew, of my age, with whom I was friends with and did not approve of my at the time girlfriend (now my wife). She constantly bashed her as needy, clingy, unstable and demanding; and although this is partially true, my greatest suspect was that she disliked her because she dig me.
Well, there was a moment where me and my SO had a very violent argument regarding how at times I can be brash, curt and keeping things to myself. Said argument occurred in front of friends and family, this girl included.
So, after my SO storms off and someone goes to console her, the girl takes me to the side because she wants to speak with me. I almost expected her to say that I was right, that I should have left my SO, that I needed someone more understanding, etc..
Instead, she roastes me telling me that I'm an idiot, insensible and selfish; that I did not recognize how lucky I was to have such a girl (my SO) that was that madly in love in with me, and that if I kept acting that way, then she would have been better off without me.
Still today she can't quite see my SO eye to eye, and my theory was that she scolded me that way because she genuinely cared about me and recognized that my SO was the right person for me.

 

[Yellow Yam Scam]

Watching a white tourist in Brazil get robbed but be too afraid to of being called a racist to call the thief out. Weird world.

 

[RG 448]

I was a card-carrying democrat who believed everyone deserved equal rights regardless of race or gender until Kiwi Farms showed me the way. And then there was another time a transient taught me about edging. Both had an equal impact on my life and drastically improved my bathroom time.

 

[Xetzyr]

When I was in like the 6th and 7th grade back in the early 90s I used to like to pretend I knew a lot about computers, basically a kind of wannabe hacker and such. I would essentially just mess around and screw stuff up and had no idea what I was doing. So one day in our crappy computer class the instructor, who was kind of an old crotchety asshole just suddenly went off on me, pretty well humiliated me in front of the whole class and pointed out how much of a stupid poser I was.

It made me angry.

I wanted to get back at the guy.

I wanted to show him up.

So then I spent the next summer doing absolutely nothing but learning about computers. Every manual, every text book, any little tidbit of knowledge I could get my grubby little hands on I committed to memory. Eventually I became just as knowledgeable as him and signed up for his computer class next year. I was going to blow him away with everything I learned! I was going to prove I wasn't a poser. I was going to throw his insults and belittlement right back in his face!

...only that didn't happen. Instead he very quickly recognized just how much I had learned and immediately started to treat me with respect and admiration. Eventually he signed me on to a special class he had setup where we built the school's network, repaired all the computers and basically acted as free tech coordinators for the school district in exchange for various perks and entitlements.

What I got out of it all though, what I learned was... knowledge/information is respect... knowledge/information is power... knowledge/information is everything. The more you learn, the more important you become to others.

 

[OhGoy]

What I got out of it all though, what I learned was... knowledge/information is respect... knowledge/information is power... knowledge/information is everything. The more you learn, the more important you become to others.

then how come i don't rule the world with my 200 IQ?

 

[Xetzyr]

then how come i don't rule the world with my 200 IQ?

You obviously haven't watched enough Rick And Morty.

...or you lack motivation/drive. Procrastination is a cruel mistress.

 

[Piss Clam]

The Crack epidemic and daily reading about the wholesale slaughter that accompanied it.

Made me a stronger advocate for legalizing drugs.

 

[Commander Keen]

When I was 13 years old I saw Starship Troopers at the theater and was like "wow, that's cool" and then went to research the movie. From that day forward I was a staunch nationalist, right-wing, fascist, goose-stepping Brownshirt.

I'm only slightly joking. I was pretty liberal as a child and around the time I hit my teenage years I started shifting to a "fatherland first" mindset. I grew up in a democrat stronghold, that was actually rural, so I rebelled against the culture of my hometown by being right-leaning.

 

[millais]

I wasn't that enthusiastic about Trump until I discovered two other very enthusiastic Trump supporters in my social circle. It was a very big surprise to me that I was not alone. The fact that they even existed in my social circle, which leaned heavily liberal due to simple fact of geography, made me much more optimistic about his prospects in 2016.

 

[GnomeofDoc]

Literally LiveLeak. Oh people can be REALLY fucked up people and you don't learn that anywhere else unless it happens to you. So basically I got the Red Pill or whatever meme pill thing from watching everyone Chimp Out over shit. But especially shows how fucked Islam was for me.

 

[DNA_JACKED]

I was a staunch Democrat, through my teenage years bought into the democrat's arguments against republicans, how they were hysterical liars that manipulated their way into power, ece. The 2016 election has brought a LOT of autism. I watched my family members and co workers, people I used to respect, lose their goddamn minds over benal bullshit because DRUMPF. I watched my party embrace progressively more insane ideals, embrace people that shout out racist remarks against white people and get away with it because FUCK WHITEY, and watched communist ideals be brought to the forefront of the democrats and actually be EMBRACED by my generation.

It made me question my own political beliefs. I've gone from left wing to more center right, and much more nationalist and constitutionalist then a few years ago. I also distrust the media in general a lot more then I did as a teenager, where I thought the right's cries of the media being dishonest were the wailing of a party that was out of power. Which it sort of was, but at the same time it wasnt entirely wrong either.

 

[Ravelord]

Probably the Kiwi Farms, but also one of my best friends whose skill to find weird news ended up making me question everything and not be too naive.

 

[Gone_Fission]

Honestly, I've probably done a full lap around the political spectrum since I was a teen, going from Republican conservative, to libertarian/borderline An-Cap, to liberal, to social democrat, to marxist-Leninist, to anarchist, to Left-communism (aka actual Marxism). Now I'm probably a socially moderate/civil libertarian who favors social democratic and pro-environment policies. Actually reading Marx himself and not his autistic idiot followers greatly clarified how fundamentally radical the transition from capitalism to socialism actually is, and how all the "socialists" put there are really just welfare capitalists and co-op fetishists. Since I personally don't see any viable way to currently make our global capitalist economy into a socialist one, I'd much rather push for an ecologically and economically sustainable form of capitalism, as much h as that is possible.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

When I was younger and in my early 20's I wanted to help homeless people that I saw. Until I saw most of the ones that are in California and saw that most of them didn't want real help.