(September 17, 2014 at 10:42 pm)snowtracks Wrote: 'magic' connotes deception,
Not necessarily, but that depends on how you're defining 'magic'. Shall I swap it for 'Miracle'? Does that make more sense?
See, you run into trouble when you can replace one undefined word with another undefined word and have no change in the sense of the argument.
(September 17, 2014 at 10:42 pm)snowtracks Wrote: 'then' that's the wrong word.
Frivolous and fatuous. It's my word of choice, for structural purposes.
(September 17, 2014 at 10:42 pm)snowtracks Wrote: we know that the random universe generator or whatever your ilk believes in didn't do it because beings have the potential capability to reflect back upon it, but it has no capability to reflect on us.
My ilk? My ilk? I'm tempted to lose my cool and call you an arrogant arsehole, but I prophesy that's exactly what you want. So I won't.
Who says that I or my "ilk" believes in this thing which you're mocking? Regardless, how do we "know" what you're asserting? Please share a peer-reviewed article supporting it.
(September 17, 2014 at 10:42 pm)snowtracks Wrote: the mind has an infinite order of magnitude greater than matter. matter cannot generate mind.
Try removing your brain, drop it into a blender, then get back to us with the evidence that your mind is unaffected.
(I leave all the low-hanging fruit for others to pick.)
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
