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If sufficiently advanced techology is indistinguishable from magic...
Creed of Heresy Offline
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RE: If sufficiently advanced techology is indistinguishable from magic...
May 11, 2013 at 3:57 pm
I think he was broken looong, long ago, personally.

Quote:Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.

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RE: If sufficiently advanced techology is indistinguishable from magic...
May 11, 2013 at 4:04 pm
He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.
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RE: If sufficiently advanced techology is indistinguishable from magic...
May 11, 2013 at 4:07 pm
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Take your own advice and "holdeth [your] peace" if you're really so understanding instead of blathering away with these pointless platitudes.
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RE: If sufficiently advanced techology is indistinguishable from magic...
May 11, 2013 at 4:26 pm
(May 11, 2013 at 4:04 pm)goodnews Wrote: He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour:

Weren't you calling us "lovers of lies" and giving us vague threats of hell a few pages back?
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RE: If sufficiently advanced techology is indistinguishable from magic...
May 11, 2013 at 5:32 pm
Why do I get the feeling that goodnews is just opening fortune cookies and posting what they say?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: If sufficiently advanced techology is indistinguishable from magic...
May 11, 2013 at 7:35 pm
(May 11, 2013 at 5:32 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Why do I get the feeling that goodnews is just opening fortune cookies and posting what they say?

Communion wafers come with fortunes?
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RE: If sufficiently advanced techology is indistinguishable from magic...
May 12, 2013 at 12:31 am
(May 10, 2013 at 4:34 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:
(May 10, 2013 at 4:21 pm)Raven Wrote: Not true. Magic, by definition, is a supernatural occurrence. It would be something against the laws of physics.
You mean like appearing in two places at the same time or instantaneous communication without interaction or effects preceding their causes. That stuff never happens in physics.

Yeah...That quantum entanglement is a real brain-buster...
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RE: If sufficiently advanced techology is indistinguishable from magic...
May 12, 2013 at 1:43 am
(May 12, 2013 at 12:31 am)Texas Sailor Wrote:
(May 10, 2013 at 4:34 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: You mean like appearing in two places at the same time or instantaneous communication without interaction or effects preceding their causes. That stuff never happens in physics.

Yeah...That quantum entanglement is a real brain-buster...

But those things do happen. TV and radio are instantaneous to the viewer. It is only a third party observer that can tell it is not. Same with effects before causes in Feyman diagrams some things must be traveling backwards in time. What he is saying does not happen really does happen. The boy has no idea what he is talking about.
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RE: If sufficiently advanced techology is indistinguishable from magic...
May 13, 2013 at 12:57 am
(May 12, 2013 at 1:43 am)A_Nony_Mouse Wrote:
(May 12, 2013 at 12:31 am)Texas Sailor Wrote: Yeah...That quantum entanglement is a real brain-buster...

But those things do happen. TV and radio are instantaneous to the viewer. It is only a third party observer that can tell it is not. Same with effects before causes in Feyman diagrams some things must be traveling backwards in time. What he is saying does not happen really does happen. The boy has no idea what he is talking about.

...I like you any-mouse...But the last sentence confused me. Please give me the benefit of the doubt, as I have perhaps had 2 too many glasses of wine tonight! Nevertheless, I would enjoy it if you could expand on your thoughts. Quantum theory fascinates me!
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RE: If sufficiently advanced techology is indistinguishable from magic...
May 13, 2013 at 8:15 am (This post was last modified: May 13, 2013 at 8:17 am by John V.)
(May 10, 2013 at 5:24 pm)Ryantology Wrote: Making that admission negates the veracity of supernatural claims. It is an admission that they are just natural mechanics we have yet to figure out. It is either physical phenomena or it is magic.
Doesn't bother me. IMO the definitions of natural/supernatural don't stand up to scrutiny anyway.
(May 10, 2013 at 9:31 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: No it is not. Any technology can be explained scientifically and presumably understood by sufficient intellect. Magic is simply not the same, it's like faith, unexplainable (and fake).
So, if God understands the mechanics of what he does, it's not magic.
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