Ideas, Not Beliefs

During the XMLDevCon I noticed that you could divide the people into two groups: those with ideas, and those with beliefs. Whatâ€s the difference between them? To borrow from Kevin Smith's movie Dogma, People are comfortable changing ideas, but usually don't change beliefs.

 
Why do I bring this up? To remind people to have an open mind, and bring their ideas, but leave their beliefs at home. I'm not going to mention any names, the believers know who they are. Conferences are for disseminating ideas, not to fight over beliefs. I guess that's why we label those types of fights as "religious wars". That being said, I look forward to seeing everyone at the PDC.


DonXML
[Listening to: I Feel Fine - Riddlin' Kids ]

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  • Great post! Before I even got to the part where you referred to Dogma, I was sitting there reading what was right before it thinking...man, Don needs to make a comment about Dogma! ;)

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