That's the only resource you guys know how to use.
"Dictionary definition says marriage is no longer between a man and a woman so..." If you don't understand the how and why of knowledge and facts, you shouldn't trust them.
Dictionaries give meanings not based on objective truth but on
most common meaning of a term. This means that words can be distorted and can even have the opposite meaning.
Literallyadv.
1.in the literal or strict sense
2. in a literal manner; word for word
3. actually; without exaggeration or inaccuracy
4. in effect; in substance; very nearly; virtually
Definition 4 is bending the truth. With the introduction of definition 4, you have people saying stuff like "I literally died of stage fright." You figuratively died of stage fright.
In effect or virtually stretches to mean "not at all, but sorta."
The point being that a fact is worthless, if you can't understand where they come from or how to know they are true.
There used to be a section in libraries known as methodology. That is, how do we know what we know. But that got phased out I think. Now people are allowed to be cocksure of "facts." Facts don't exist.
Here's a simple math problem.
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I aligned the math order of operations because some people confuse the hierarchy, and skip subtraction to add first. But the order of operations goes left to right, except when a higher hierarchy comes along.
So in school we were taught that this is just left to right:
2+4-2+1-3,
while this multiplies first before adding:
2+4x3,
or 2 and 14.
With me so far? Well when I was working in a library I discovered that what you are taught isn't necessarily right.
I would have to average something (I forget what), and I quickly discovered that the technical calculator for the computer would do it wrong. The more sophisticated the calculator, the more I would have to use brackets, because it would add all previous numbers. In other words, the cheap solar calculator would always average right because it had no memory.
84+85+86/3 according to order of operations is
86/3 first, then 84+85+28.6667=197.6667
Congratulations. If you had a job as a teacher, all your kids are doing brilliantly according to this. You however are fired.
If you aren't able to question facts, you will always believe things that aren't so.
How does a thing get created when nobody is there to create it? Oh right, "It just happens." So by your logic, trees don't come from seeds, but just kinda appear fully formed without a cause.
Cause and effect is one of the simplest science rules, and it was developed when science worked hand in hand with religion. Now that science has taken leave of religion, the very basic logic that a canoe doesn't just appear on the banks of a shore, someone built it and bought it and owns it, this escapes the minds of so-called non-superstitious people. Or they think that doesn't apply to the universe and to life.
There must be an Origin. Sorry.
Supernatural truth will always and should always trump "facts."
Were I your teacher, I'd teach cause and effect, then critical thinking, then launch into Hawking and the others in science who proposed a godless universe. I'd gush over them to give you the impression that I really liked them. Then I'd give you an essay test that asked "Given what we know about cause and effect, use critical thinking to form a conclusion about Hawking's (et al) theories of a self-created universe." And I'd enjoy giving you an F for that test, as you wrote a long complicated answer telling me what you thought I wanted to hear, that nonetheless missed the part where Hawking was wrong.
忍者は明白なことを超えて考える必要があります