On Wednesday, August 16, 2000 11:33 AM, nessie [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes:
> >
> >So the story of using Boys Town for this purpose makes perfect sense to
> >me.
>
> It makes perfect sense to me too. That alone, however, does not make it
> true. Unimpeachable evidence makes it true, nothing else. Sometimes,
> things that make sense turn out to be true. Sometimes they don't.
> Sometimes things that make no sense whatsoever turn out to have been true
> all along. Another problem with using what makes sense as an indicator of
> truth is that it is subjective. What makes sense to one person does not
> make sense to another. Hense, smart people rely only on evidence. Dumb
> people believe what they're told, without bothering to check it out first.
I agree with this for the most part and have tried to apply it to childhood
sexual abuse. The problem is since incest or other abuse involves two people
with no evidence or eyewitnesses and both parties may be in complete denial
there will never be any unimpeachable evidence or eyewitness testimony. So
by your standard some events may actually happen and not be true.
The same problem holds sway in cases of Dissociative Identity Disorder,
formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, and CE-4, or alien
abduction. So do we label all such events as possible but untrue?
I must conclude from your legitimate analysis that we live in a world where
some real events are untrue because they cannot be proven to have happened.
Isn't this how the Apollo moon landings first "happened" and then years
later by some accounts "unhappened?"
Stoney
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