Who was the last person who really made you think, or see things from a totally different perspective?

Question

Who was the last person who really made you think, or see things from a totally different perspective?

Answer 1

Hello,

(ANS) My therapist !!

Ivan

Answer 2

Professor Michio Kaku in his book Parallel Worlds.

Answer 3

both of them happened to be my music teachers.

Answer 4

Probably that French fella, Jean Paul Sartre, after we read 'Being and Nothingness' we were almost ready to do ourselves in...........

Answer 5

Prof. Peter Kreeft of Boston University

Answer 6

My best friend who after ten years is losing her battle with cancer. She really made realize we should live every moment to it's fullest and appreciate every breathe we take.

Answer 7

the judge

Answer 8

i would say probably at least 1 person lets me see things from a different perspective or something everyday  

Answer 9

Dalai Lama.

Answer 10

my best friend.  

Answer 11

Jeremy Clarkson a very inspirational man

Answer 12

my dad... he was talking about polotics... :P

Answer 13

my boss he is very intuitive and wise beyond his years,he recently bought our factory,in the shadow of a huge recession looming,he is honest ,committed and not afraid of anything,and i am grizzled cynic who trusts nobody,definitely not a sycophantic girlie type.

Answer 14

myself!

Answer 15

A bi-guy I met as a friend a few years ago, before meeting him I was a tad homophobic, narrow minded and a bit naive. After we became friends I did a bit of research online and had my eyes opened.  Now very laid back and non judgemental.  We are all human and are entitled to our preferences as long as we dont hurt anyone else.

Answer 16

I have always been very anti- the death penalty. I'd prefer that people were locked up for life than killed. I was debating it with someone from work who was pro-death penalty and one thing he said really made me think. "Why are you happy to take away their freedom, but so disturbed by taking away their life?".

I still haven't worked out the answer...

Answer 17

My best friend - we met on a counselling course 21 years ago and have been processing together since that time and still find new bits to work on - At the moment we are in the middle of developing a new perspective about personal boundaries and the unconscious it is hard learning and we are always on an  edge of 'falling out' but a tenuous thread keep us in there - learning.

Answer 18

A character from a book sadly. Or you could actually say the author of the book and the actors James McAvoy, David Tennant, and Jack Barrowman.

For various reasons. No one I've met in real life has actually made me see things differently...

& to think..i really was being honest about my answer.

Answer 19

Gary Sheffield and Gordon Corrigan.

"Forgotten Victory.  The First World War: myths and realities."

"Mud, Blood, and Poppycock."

They brought me up short and made me realise how many popular myths and untruths I'd swallowed about WW1.  

I'd already discovered tons of junk in my mental attic, stored there without examination during my childhood years, when you tend to believe what you're told.  "Columbus discovered America..."

But it's an on-going process, sorting through that.

Answer 20

I just stumbled across and was reading some answers posted by another user called Chris.

I can't talk about him because I haven't actually talked to him, if you get me. Just by what's he been talking about, is quite inspiring. He's someone I probably wish to be later on in my life, putting something positive back into the world.

It's very odd, actually. This minor epiphany has happened in the last 20 minutes that has suddenly made me want to be a better person.

You know when something hits you, because hope suddenly comes alive, you know? Rain in an arid desert, that kind of thing.

I hope there are more people like you, Chris :)

Answer 21

The last person that got me thinking was one of my contacts answered a question of mine by stating they love to discuss the merits and demerits of existentialism with particular reference to Nietzschean nihilism. The 'Is God dead?' scenario........... that left me thinking, mostly in bewilderment, but bewilderment is underestimated in my eyes.  Not being an expert or knowing much about it I wracked my brains to remember the little I knew about nihilism, which is next to nil…..Apart from that it’s my lectures who are trying to teach me about linear costings, amongst other things, but I’m glad to say there are a lot of people that get me thinking.  I’ll rue the day when I’m not left wondering.  Its great to have people giving a completely different point of view to me on anything and everything.

Answer 22

Watching Two and a Half Men. Normally that show is all about self-gratification. Which is funny to watch, but this episode was about their mother. Her argument for interfering with her son's lives was because 'she cares and wants them to have the best lives they could have'. Charlie replied saying he IS living his best life. Which made her laugh...

My mother gives me all sorts of education, sending me here and there, and I get annoyed sometimes. Watching this made me realize she does want the best for me. Pity all this came from a TV show ^_^