@cicerone imposter,
Quote:No; the reality for humans is that once anything is believed to be true, it's no longer a "wild guess." You may be able to say that as an observer, but to the individual, their belief is their fact and reality. How do you deny people their reality? You or anyone else as an outsider can't decide for the individual what they wish to believe or not.
How does anyone go about questioning all humans about their perspective of life based on guesses? What does it matter to you whether John and Jane believes in god, and Joe and Mary doesn't believe in god? That's their choice, isn't it?
I disagree.
A man who believes he is a woman, he passes thru surgery to acquire women's physical appearance, he talks like a woman, he walks like a woman, he changes his name for a woman's name, he claims here and there that he felt he was a woman since he can remember in his childhood... etc... etc... etc...
Excuse me, but "his reality" is not "reality", because regardless of what he thinks about himself, and regardless of all surgery and make up, he still is a man, a man who believes he is a woman, but he is not a woman.
Then, it is not blind guess either, because never becomes a reality, the dude still is a man not so a woman.
Quote:Are all your decisions based on total knowledge of everything? Have you made guesses and acted upon them - even when they turned out to be wrong? Who has the right to criticize you for the choices you have made based on guesses?
Is their life in your hands? Why is it that what you consider a wild guess isn't that important to the person making the decision for their own life? Are you that much smarter than the people who believe in god?
Everybody makes wrong guesses and acts upon them. I know, I have. What difference does it make that my choice is a wild guess? Why should that concern you or anyone else?
All of life is a wild guess; that's the reason everybody has their own subjective perception of how they lead their lives.
Now here, is when your argument reaches the mature age. There is a difference between belief and reality.
Yes, I can state that the dude believes he is a woman, that is a reality, that he believes so.
But do not confuse my statement as saying that he is a woman, or that being a woman is his reality.
By no means, because if you think about it, any patient of a mental institution who believes that he is Alexander the Great, according to your proposal, we must have to accept such as a reality.
There are established limits, like us who can't survive without protection in outer space. The same as well, reality limits its dominion to truth, fact, etc.
Reality is to have a dream, and the dream itself is reality as a dream, but if your dream is about you being elastic enough to reach the Moon with your hand from ground zero... come on... you won't convince anyone that such is a reality.
