Religion is almost always untrue... yet it makes a huge difference in our practical reality. It does not have to be true, proven, or even logical to make a difference... yet it effects all of our lives in many aspects.
'so until proven it's just semantic'... can you prove anything without logic? To dismiss logic as something non-important... is alike to accepting the illogical as something enormously important. You are EvidenceVsFaith... and all of your views are strictly non-religious... yet you would seem to suggest that logic is irrelevant as evidence, and therefore the illogical 'facts' (this is faith) are all that one need consider to formulate evidence.
Refusal to discuss that which does not concern oneself rationally, is responsible for a great deal of injustice in our world. How, in a logical community, could such a lapse of reason occur that people of unusual color, sex, and deformities be given unfair treatment? It could not happen... if ours was a "semantic" world. But ours is not a semantic world... ours is a world populated mostly by non-thought, and mistake. All of our knowledge is the assumption that we are right... and we are often wrong. Recognize this fact, and your brain won't cement its misinformation into your 'database'. Lack of recognizing this truth is one of the easiest ways to lose, or at least stall, one's ability to learn...
'so until proven it's just semantic'... can you prove anything without logic? To dismiss logic as something non-important... is alike to accepting the illogical as something enormously important. You are EvidenceVsFaith... and all of your views are strictly non-religious... yet you would seem to suggest that logic is irrelevant as evidence, and therefore the illogical 'facts' (this is faith) are all that one need consider to formulate evidence.
Refusal to discuss that which does not concern oneself rationally, is responsible for a great deal of injustice in our world. How, in a logical community, could such a lapse of reason occur that people of unusual color, sex, and deformities be given unfair treatment? It could not happen... if ours was a "semantic" world. But ours is not a semantic world... ours is a world populated mostly by non-thought, and mistake. All of our knowledge is the assumption that we are right... and we are often wrong. Recognize this fact, and your brain won't cement its misinformation into your 'database'. Lack of recognizing this truth is one of the easiest ways to lose, or at least stall, one's ability to learn...
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
