Opinions and Discussions. Is their room for all?

I also dont answer because of the lack of time and sometimes my brain just doesnt respond to any kind of discussion :) Thanks for the response

Annierose - You make some good points, and I agree with you for the most part. However, I do not think that you necessarily have to do research on a topic if you do not have much experience with the topic, and you will still be able to give a quality response, because the lack of knowledge could actually be a different perspective on the topic. Let's take the beauty products discussion as an example. Of course it depends upon how it is worded, but let's say that the original poster is asking for advice on beauty routines and beauty products. If you do not use make-up, then your response could just be that you think natural beauty is the best and talk about how you keep your skin healthy looking without make-up. There is no research required, and it gives another view on the topic, which creates more opportunity for discussion.

I guess I could try to learn more and do some more research on things that I find interesting. I do have available time right now, the only thing that will bother me is if I feel I am wasting my time. Don't want that to happen.

The hardest thing here i think is to actually find something that is worth discussing. Some people just limit themselves to saying a story and letting others comment but i dont find that as good as a discussion that can be debated for hours, minutes, days, whatever.

Now should it be coffee or... Oh help, I can't decide! I'm SO stupid that I'll have to ask the mylot members!

There have actually been some real "discussions" lately, and I have seen you being very active in them, Peter, which is definitely a nice change around here. Speaking of coffee and ice cream, though, now I really want some coffee ice cream.

I know what you mean by avoiding problems and controversy but sometimes we just need to express our opinion. All we need to do is express it is a way we wont gernerate problems :) I think it is great to respond to topics we have no clue about because this is how we learn more about several thing round the world, especially culture

Oh I have no problem stating my opinion, and I often do it, even if the discussion is considered "controversial". Of course I always try to remain polite and respectful regardless of the difference of opinion. However, I have come to realize that there are some people that just are not happy unless you agree with them 100%, and many times I do not, so I try to avoid them, even when I do agree with them, because it is just easier.

I do agree that there are some discussion that we can't repond to in proper conditions. We just dont have that strong opinion to be able to show our point of view. I think that is what you meant. Thanks for responding.

Oh God! That's deep! Now I'm going to get a complex or something, thinking I've missed the point somewhere. I never knew mylot could be such hard work mentally!

What i mean is that there are so many discussions, some more alike than others, right? Now even with all these diferent kind of topics (about the same subject or not) is it possible to always have an opinion? Imagine you answer something that is about religion. The typical question "Do you believe in God?", if there were serveral discussion about this particular question but by diferent people with diferent points of views and diferent ways of putting the question. Would you answer all these discussions or would yu rather tell your opinion to just one discussion and leave the other to be? (Somehow i got myself confused)

@petersum I suppose mylot can be what you want it to be for each person which is fine as long as the guidelines are observed. You said, “I'm SO stupid that I'll have to ask the mylot members!” – petersum That is the correct thing to do as the guidelines tell us to do so. If you don’t understand something ask, so it can be made clear. That’s what I do. @Absinto Thanks for telling me this, truely I wasn’t 100% sure of what you meant and that helped me understand. Maybe this question in this topic has been asked before in a different way. Now that I understand, I can give my opinion. Of course it depends on just how similar the discussions are and also on the people making them, as we know some people are just here to make the money for example and not so much to have a discussion but some actually do have different perspectives on the same topics and wanting to have a discussion. In general, I would say, sure, if I see something different in the topic, with a slightly different spin to it I will discuss. Also I can learn and change my opinion over time depending on the subject so that means constant discussion is needed. Now maybe “do I believe in God” will not change, that is a belief not an opinion however if someone’s topic was “do you think the attitude of most mylot members are friendly” that is a topic that can change over time and of course it depends on how someone defines friend in online communities which can vary from person to person.

I guess. I mean the whole point of mylot is to find discussions of your interest and have fun giving out our opinions and seeing the opinions of others. :) Thanks for the response

Yup :) Your welcome.

I do agree. thnks for the response.

I think that there are so many discussions and so many topics that after a while we tend to lose our imagination for new discussions becuse somehow everything has be discussed. Dont you think?