Hey,
It's all about what the words mean. Symbology, semantics...
I beleive in the supernatural, in the sense that there are things as of yet outside of our full comprehension. Please don't God Of The Gaps that one, you will lose. It is only GOTG is we will never invent a better mousetrap. Bonus points if you understand that.
Magic, ghosts, vampires, the supernatural, either exist or don't based on definition.
Magic, a good one. Do you beleive in magic, do do do do doo. Of course magic exists, if you defoine it as something that does or can exist. But if you choose to define magic as something than can't exist, then it doesn't. Still on board? I may not be...
I think magic exists because I define the abstract term 'magic' as something that exists. Ergo, when anything is larger than the sum of it's parts, it is magic. If you can fool someone into accepting a non-reality, magic. That means cars and bluffing in poker count. There, can't be any more fallacious than saying bunnies don't REALLY come from hats, so there is no such thing as magic.
Vampires, not as much. Goth kids, yes. People that wish for whatever fucked up reason that they were vampires, sure. The type of person referred to as a 'psychic vampire', absolutely. Real, out of the book undead? No. But take a virus, it is neither dead nor alive and it's sole purpose is to survive (as a not alive thing) and by doing such it destroys us. Close...
Ghosts, this is starting to step on the toes of UFO's. If there is and have never been such a thing as a real ghost, we have an even bigger problem in how many people think they have seen one.
Or what about Crop Circles? That is a phenomenon 180 degrees from the rest. It is not evidence of the existence of crop circles we are lacking, in fact the only thing we know about them is that everyone can see them, and they appear to be real. Oh and that people like to claim they made them without being thoroughly convincing.
And some good points already made about real witchcraft. Witches of course exist, I was one for a few years. I dated one once. My Mum is a Druid. But you could also say that the things we dress up as on halo ween don't really exist, and get away with it. All semantics.
I guess most atheists have a little less room for superstition because of their skeptical nature. That isn't a slight though.
Thanks,
-Pip
It's all about what the words mean. Symbology, semantics...
I beleive in the supernatural, in the sense that there are things as of yet outside of our full comprehension. Please don't God Of The Gaps that one, you will lose. It is only GOTG is we will never invent a better mousetrap. Bonus points if you understand that.
Magic, ghosts, vampires, the supernatural, either exist or don't based on definition.
Magic, a good one. Do you beleive in magic, do do do do doo. Of course magic exists, if you defoine it as something that does or can exist. But if you choose to define magic as something than can't exist, then it doesn't. Still on board? I may not be...
I think magic exists because I define the abstract term 'magic' as something that exists. Ergo, when anything is larger than the sum of it's parts, it is magic. If you can fool someone into accepting a non-reality, magic. That means cars and bluffing in poker count. There, can't be any more fallacious than saying bunnies don't REALLY come from hats, so there is no such thing as magic.
Vampires, not as much. Goth kids, yes. People that wish for whatever fucked up reason that they were vampires, sure. The type of person referred to as a 'psychic vampire', absolutely. Real, out of the book undead? No. But take a virus, it is neither dead nor alive and it's sole purpose is to survive (as a not alive thing) and by doing such it destroys us. Close...
Ghosts, this is starting to step on the toes of UFO's. If there is and have never been such a thing as a real ghost, we have an even bigger problem in how many people think they have seen one.
Or what about Crop Circles? That is a phenomenon 180 degrees from the rest. It is not evidence of the existence of crop circles we are lacking, in fact the only thing we know about them is that everyone can see them, and they appear to be real. Oh and that people like to claim they made them without being thoroughly convincing.
And some good points already made about real witchcraft. Witches of course exist, I was one for a few years. I dated one once. My Mum is a Druid. But you could also say that the things we dress up as on halo ween don't really exist, and get away with it. All semantics.
I guess most atheists have a little less room for superstition because of their skeptical nature. That isn't a slight though.
Thanks,
-Pip
