Is it normal ppl live by wishful thinking

Is it normal that you can prove something to somebody with evidence, that without a shadow of a doubt that something is a certain way. And they won't like the direction that the evidence points to so they just deny it out right and choose to believe another way just because thats the way they believed before you showed them the evidence. They will basically believe what they want to believe despite irrefutable evidence to the contrary. And most of the time they will get angry with you for showing them the evidence. They will basically put the ear muffs on and bury their head in the sand and say you're stupid.

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  • leggs91200

    Why let reality wreck your day?

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  • Over thinking

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  • RoseIsabella

    Can you give an example of what you are trying to disprove?

    Also, why is it so important to you?

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    • AMERICANsavage

      I cant remember at this point. I think it was about how too many laborers in a country drive the labor wages down.

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    • leggs91200

      I am not the OP but this sounds familiar. This argument comes up all the time when people do not like how us transgenders live.

      I can only guess the OP recently got into a debate with someone who supports TG rights or whatever.

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      • AMERICANsavage

        Im all for human rights so naturally im for transgender rights too. I dont think transgenders should have their rights taken. I just dont encourage everyone who considers transitioning to take hormones. I think you should really be sure someone is dead set on it and wont regret it before you throw some hormones at em. Cause those are permanent.

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        • leggs91200

          Hormones do not have nearly the effects that some think. Unless someone is pretty young, like prepubescent.

          The younger someone is, the more effect they have.
          The irony of that, like many life-changing decisions, is that one pretty much has to decide before they can understand what they are getting into.

          I live as a woman, I am not taking hormones or any of that though because at my age, they would do pretty much nothing except drain my wallet.

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      • RoseIsabella

        It might be, but maybe it's not. I wish OP would answer my question.

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  • litelander8

    Google is a easy way to prove a point.

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  • Doesnormalmatter

    Sounds like 2 types of people:

    - People who get mad at me for calli g them the gender pronoun of their anatomy

    - Christians or other religious cunts

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  • Grunewald

    Yup. It's normal. My grandma is an old-style 'scientistic' militant atheist and her understanding of the world and vision of 'progress' is based on the reality and ideals of the 1970s. As much as we love her and value all that she does and has done for us, my atheist family members agree that she won't listen to anything that disturbs her ideas of how the world is, or should be. She is too frightened of her own computer to switch it on, calls smartphones 'backwards progress' and preferred not to be 'introduced' to my Amazon Alexa. She thinks that all psychiatric medication causes physical dependancy, assumes that a Christian that can get excited about science and engineering is either a contradiction in terms or an extremely rare bird, and the science that she tries to 'teach' me is pretty much the contents of the middle school science exam I took 13 years ago...
    She thinks my faith is dangerous, and our conversations do occasionally verge into minor skirmishes around the existence of God. But she seems to think that her enthusing about the wonders of astrophysics will destabilize my belief in God in some way. I was excited as anyone I know to see the first telescopic image of the black hole.

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    • AMERICANsavage

      Physics can increase your belief in god. It did mine atleast.

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    • Freedom_

      That photograph looked like a blur created on paint shop to me.

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    • McBean

      I get the impression that zeal runs in the family. Am I right?

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      • Father is a politician so probably accurate

        Oh youre talkin to him

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        • McBean

          I was actually interested in AspiringRuth's family. Btw, I don't bother talking to politicians. IMHO, politics and government have far less influence on society than people realize. You wouldn't believe how many people think Senator Al Gore invented the Internet.

          Look to business leaders in the private sector and investable research and development if you want to anticipate the future.

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          • You're right.

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            • McBean

              👍

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