Changing Your Mind Is Changing Your Identity: 12-22-2025

1. You cannot reason people out of positions that are not based on reason.
2. Changing your mind is changing your identity (being, self). This way of changing exists because we are adults bound to hundreds of egos.
3. Feelings do not respond to logic or reason because they are based on sensations, not on the connections and organization of thoughts.
4. People resist changing their minds because changing their minds involves changing their identity, and changing their identity means losing attachment to various ego forms (mental-objects, semantic-objects, self-constructions).
5. People resist changing their minds because changing their minds involves changing their identity, and changing their identity means losing attachment to various aesthetic, contemporary, fandom, ideological, lifestyle, modern, national, political, popular, professional, religious, scientific, subcultural, therapeutic, and tribal mental objects.