You can't look to an opinion as any indicator of truthfulness. An opinion is simply a perspective on a situation that is typically influenced by a persons experience. Depending on that experience you might regard one opinion as more valid than another, but it doesn't make it true or false.
There are opinions that play to a popular vote because they don't like to be challenged or rejected. Some people stay in this area either because they might generally occupy the average ground in society, or they don't like to be, or can't be provocative and controversial.
For example, in the UK if you said 'All Bankers are Crooks' you'd probably guarantee yourself plenty of thumbs up, but I'd personally be more interested in someone who held an off beat opinion, or at least one that acknowledged that of course not all bankers are crooks.
Bottom line: Maybe you have alot of original perspectives, just because you don't get a stack of affirming comments does not mean you are wrong (or right), all the same - you might also want to be sure that your opinion is actually your opinion that it is sound to you at least. Sometimes people don't think their opinions through and it turns out more often they are just regurgitating someone else's because it sounds good. I think people have an instinct for sensing someones lack of conviction and so might whale on that person with the reward being to watch them make fools of themselves.
My feelings cannot respect opinions
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You can't look to an opinion as any indicator of truthfulness. An opinion is simply a perspective on a situation that is typically influenced by a persons experience. Depending on that experience you might regard one opinion as more valid than another, but it doesn't make it true or false.
There are opinions that play to a popular vote because they don't like to be challenged or rejected. Some people stay in this area either because they might generally occupy the average ground in society, or they don't like to be, or can't be provocative and controversial.
For example, in the UK if you said 'All Bankers are Crooks' you'd probably guarantee yourself plenty of thumbs up, but I'd personally be more interested in someone who held an off beat opinion, or at least one that acknowledged that of course not all bankers are crooks.
Bottom line: Maybe you have alot of original perspectives, just because you don't get a stack of affirming comments does not mean you are wrong (or right), all the same - you might also want to be sure that your opinion is actually your opinion that it is sound to you at least. Sometimes people don't think their opinions through and it turns out more often they are just regurgitating someone else's because it sounds good. I think people have an instinct for sensing someones lack of conviction and so might whale on that person with the reward being to watch them make fools of themselves.