Sorry, Bob. No, it doesn’t. Nothing I have stated can be contradicted by what another sees. You might say you don’t see God or angels. But, guess what? I say the same thing.
If you think you can observe any of my unobservable beliefs, then I’m afraid you’re the one who’s got a disconnect with reality.
Sorry, I haven’t followed the teachings of Fred Smith much. I’m not an anti-any-particular-Forumosan. But, most likely, his views aren’t actually in contradiction with observable reality. He probably doesn’t look at the polar ice caps and say they are getting bigger when they are getting smaller. He probably looks at different data and/or weighs evidence differently according to his own particular view, and that may or may not be entirely rational. (I don’t know at all.) But I doubt it is actually insane.
Nope. That’s not actually observable reality. Belief in a potential future is not reality. If they think, “wow, by not focusing on my problems earlier I no longer have problems now” yet they clearly still have the same problems, then they are experiencing some level of insanity, but not until then.
How does encouraging someone to pray conflict with observable reality?? Unless the newscaster is at the epicenter of an earth-quake which is located at the Center for Praying for the Prevention of Earthquakes where people constantly pray for no earthquakes, and then the newscaster goes on to say that praying for the prevention of earthquakes is obviously effective, then that isn’t actually insane.
Possibly, but the key is that they are disputing the observations. However, as long as they see the same data everyone else sees, their means of interpreting and valuing the data does not actually make them insane. They are vulnerable to attacks on their objectivity, and even rationality in some cases, but not their sanity for the most part.
Actually, no. You shouldn’t have said “every”. It is possible to be diagnosed with schizophrenia but not have hallucinations or delusions. You only need to of about 5 symptoms to be diagnosed as schizophrenic, and hallucination and delusion are only two of them.
You can’t observe a chance or the future. He might be grossly mistaken. And he may even be delusional, but that still is not a disconnect with reality unless the false belief is pathological.
You’re right. You haven’t been making much sense. That’s the view that contradicts reality. :raspberry:
See the above statement about making sense. You might as well invoke the Chewbacca defense.
Only when they go and look for themselves. As far as they see, everybody is happy and nobody is getting hurt. If they look closer and see where people get hurt and then pathologically still cannot process that people are getting hurt, then there’s a view that contradicts observable reality.
What is or is not a “good idea” is based on a subjective valuation. That combined with different evidence available to different people affects observable reality. If they don’t observe it, it can’t be observable reality for them.
You’re basing that idea on statistics and some faulty logic. But even if it were certainly true, most people can’t “see” the results of this proposition.
Again, bad logic. Thinking “there are no drugs” when the person in question can go outside and see them would be, but simply a belief that the war can be won is not something that can actually be observed.
Actually, that is perfectly in line with logic and observable reality. People who don’t have any sex don’t get AIDS from sex. Thinking using a condom is more effective than abstinence in light of medical statistics to the contrary would potentially be a disconnect from reality.
Thinking people will actually listen to you, and that it is better not to allow any condom at all, however, is naive. Still not insane, though.
Not observable.
Depends on what you mean by effort, and depends on if you mean they believe they have progressed without effort when they haven’t, and if such a reality is actually observable.
… absolutely suck?
Bob, you’ve shown nothing but your own inability to properly apply the term “insane” or “observable reality” to a situation.
But seriously, I’ve gotten very confused by your statements about hell, so that’s why I think I’m off track. I thought the fire and brimstone hell was gone. Presumably that’s what the chainsaw is supposed to imply. If hell isn’t a painful place, I would have thought a different analogy would have been used.
