Fact is, we're overcrowding the planet. If indeed being homosexual is a trait given at birth, then I'd assume the gene pool is telling us that enough's enough as far as procreating goes, and that we're exceeding the limit.
I doubt that men's testes and women's ovaries are ordering themselves so the differently-orientated get priority over the straight little gametes.
"Hey! Gays first."
"Thanks darling, that's simply fabulous!"
...no.
Existentialism is I think, the closest to how I operate on a daily basis which works for me, care to brief me on the rough tenets of it? I live how I live, I don't care for belief structures or anything like that.
Existentialism is the concept that this world is it, and that there is no other 'supernatural' world containing (the orthodox perception of) God, ghosts, spirits, souls, demons, the ethereal planes, astral bodies and all that stuff. Therefore, according to the existentialist, those things do not exist.
Transcendentalism is the opposite belief - that there is or are other layers of existence which contain God, ghosts, demons, etc. Religions are generally transcendental in nature. Science is, I suppose, existential, due to the unverifiable nature of the transcendental, although I'm given to understand that there are scientists who do believe in the transcendental.
But the God existing statement verifies what I'm trying to say, I'm not saying that all thoughts and theories are stupid, just beliefs that are unsubstantiated and unfounded (which is most of them as that is there very nature, a belief requires no evidence) are not usually anything worth taking with more than a grain of salt. Maybe I'm still missing your point though.
A problem with the 'BELIEFS ARE WRONG' school is that of reality - namely, are we truly here and are we who we really are? Thing is, you can't be certain that this world is what it seems to us or if there really even is a world out there. This in turn throws many other concepts like 'truth' and 'knowledge' and 'I' into Limbo, leaving us up the ol' creek. Oh, and no, Descartes isn't an answer. "Cogito, ergo sum?" What the hell is
that supposed to mean?
Regardless, chances are you believe in a reality as much as some people believe in a God. Unless, of course, you don't actually *believe* this world is real - rather you're just coasting along because it's not as if you could do anything about it if it was false, could you?
Sometimes you really do have to ask what the definition of 'is' is.
I'm also somewhat disappointed that nobody has bothered to actually explain
why all these sacred cows are so very sacred. Disappointed, and very, very irritated, as it is always annoying to be confronted with the eternal blank wall of "Damnit, marriage is between a Man and a Woman!" Alas, nobody has actually bothered to explain matters - methinks they lack the answers themselves.
