How easily can you be friends with someone who does not share your beliefs or mo!
Question: I can have a superficial acquaintance with someone who does not have the same spiritual or political views that I have. But for me, deeper relationships require that we are on the same page when it comes to our deepest values. Other things, such as a preference for dogs over cats, when I prefer cats over dogs, and differences in favorite colors, or favorite movies, or favorite authors, and so forth...are important too, especially when choosing a life partner (as opposed to a platonic friend), but these things (while still important) are not as crucial as political and spiritual views. *sm*
Answers: I can have a superficial acquaintance with someone who does not have the same spiritual or political views that I have. But for me, deeper relationships require that we are on the same page when it comes to our deepest values. Other things, such as a preference for dogs over cats, when I prefer cats over dogs, and differences in favorite colors, or favorite movies, or favorite authors, and so forth...are important too, especially when choosing a life partner (as opposed to a platonic friend), but these things (while still important) are not as crucial as political and spiritual views. *sm*
i guess, it is easy....
I am more accepting of different beliefs than different morals.
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fairly easy, because I respect differences in all people. Just because they have different views than I does not mean I cannot like them. I know who I am enough to be friends with a person who is different than me.
I can be friends with alot of people, just because they dont believe the same things doesnt make them less of a person to me,but it can have a little bit of a downside,
It ain't easy but it is not impossible.
You both have to learn to respect one another's beliefs...
I cannot be friends with someone that doesn't have the same morals
my best friend's a Mormon and my good friend is an atheist.
I really have no "friends" I have a lot of people I Know but just to know or be friends with them I love them for their points of view on somethings
there's plenty more common ground available than narrow minded sh!t
if the person is an understanding individual.. its not really difficult....a good listener just adds to the enjoyment also!!
Well opposites attract so i guess pretty easily but i dont think they can be friends for too long....the differences would interfere too much. At least in my experiences that has happened.
I can be friends with anyone that is willing to respect my beliefs and treat me with respect even if we don't agree on everything.
since it is my morals that are usually lacking, i have no problems at all with any of it. whether or not the other peson finds a problem with me would be an extirely different question,tho.
It's easy!! Just don't talk about religion or politics!! lol ?
Rediculously easy. If you were meant to be friends, nothing about them would keep them away from you. :)
Ps: I like your picture. Liv Tyler is one of my favorite people. :)
Very easily if they also have an open mind to differences all humans have, if they don't I can't befriend them.
My best friend is Catholic, my husband is Christian, my youngest brother who I adore, enjoys the daily use of drugs & alcohol and I believe I also get along with a few republicans.
I don't think it ever really works . I've tried .
Let them charge on your Platinum Amex Card ....only when they are nice to you.
Not easily at all. Maybe when I was younger, but at age 47 those conflicts cause too much trouble. Plus whether we like it or not, people tend to judge us on the people we are with. I don't have time to hang out with the misfits anymore. I live my life in a positive mode. I have a grand daughter who looks up to me and I want her to see me in a positive mode. Don't have time to be a rebel anymore, those days are gone and over.
its fine as long as he / doesnt stop me from believing in what i already believing in.. lol
oh quite easily!!! since i dont have any i get along with most people! i had a friend who was jahovas witness we just didnt talk about our belifes!
look at it this way: if your a like, christian do you expect to be friends with all and only chritians?
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I guess it depends on the people. I'm an atheist and my husband cuts meat for a living and yet one of my best friends is a hard-core Christian and another of my best friends is Vegan. We respect one another and I think that's the most important part. You can have different beliefs as long as you repsect the other person's beliefs.
As for morals, that may be a bit different... I don't know if I could be close friends with, say, a woman who cheats on her husband, since that is something I absolutely abhor and find unforgivable. So, like I said, I guess it depends.
We are so different and individual. I find difference facinating. I am an atheist and have friends that are Christian. I am a recovering alcoholic and have friends that drink.
If we were all the same and hung around the same, where would the color and texture of the world come from?
I am a converted Catholic ... I am the godmother of a Muslim child (who turns 18 in 2012) ... I am GOOD FRIENDS with both of her parents, whom I know well, and who know me well enough to know that if anything happened to them, I would do EVERYTHING to see that their daughter grew up to be a GOOD MUSLIM ... without 'violating' my own 'beliefs and morals' ... THAT is a TRUE friendship, and we got here by TALKING ABOUT EVERYTHING ... he used to ask my man if he could 'borrow' something that was in MY control ... and I had to 'fight' to get him to ask ME ... but once I did that, we started talking and becoming good friends ... it takes time and patience but it is WELL WORTH THE 'bother'.
It depends on you. Do you view people who don't share your beliefs an affront to your character and view them as a project to fix or are you able to accept all people for who they are and celebrate diverse views? I think getting to know people of all shapes, sizes and colors would not only make you a better person but this world. Sound cheesy, I know but can you really stereotype all people of a particular race, religion or creed based on what you see on the news or read in the paper? I've traveled the world and I can tell you the French are not rude, some of the nicest people I've met are Iraqi and I never ate a single dog while visiting Korea and China. The list goes on.
The only thing you can judge someone by is character. If they are a good person, it doesn't matter who or what they are. If they're a jerk, they're a jerk. End of story.
Depends how deep, your beliefs are?
Would you put thoughts above a friendship?
Regarding morals, well any one that has any regard for you will accept your thoughts, if they do not.
Well they are no friend.
Regards Keith
Not very easily ,
It really depends on what they are ..
and the degrees of what the differences are..
for example ,
if I met someone and found out that they like to hurt people , or they do some really cruel thing to others ,& or even they ( think it is funny ) = to be mean to or to hurt others,
Well , they would not be OK with me, and therefore I would choose to not be with people like that..
i don't know what you mean by easily. but if you can't deal with what something they doing dump them. quick. they mite drag you down with them.