(December 4, 2018 at 3:11 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: I've never really understood "hiddenness" arguments. They seem like the last thing a person looking to establish (or at least maintain the credibility of) somethings existence would want to field.
The only conclusion science could reach in the case of some hidden thing is..that..if it exists, it;s doing such a great job at playing hide and seek we can;t tell it;s existence from non-existence.
OFC, with respect to gods, ghosts, and vampires...that;s not really true, is it? Theyre all over our folklore. Ghosts were practically falling out of the trees, you had to beat the vampires back nightly, and gods popped down to chit chat with randos about nothing important....to hear the tales told. So they weren't very good at hiding, then. It's only now, when there's a camera in everyone's pocket, that we find them thin on the ground.
As I said before, these things require "definitions." What is a ghost? What is a vampire?
Vampire - A mystical creature that can turn into a bat and feeds off the blood of the living.
Vampire - A high school kid that wears all black, smears ketchup all over their face, and tries to scare people. (yeah, i know that was exaggerated a bit). Anyway, they attempt to be Gothic (goth).
Vampire - An electrical device that unnecessarily draws large amounts of energy beyond the intended parameters of its usage and often requires extra maintenance by its owner.
All three definitions apply to things significantly different.
