(February 9, 2015 at 1:35 pm)Lek Wrote: My only argument you attacked directly so far is my "told you so" argument, as if I didn't say anything else. I just gave you that one so that you'd have something to respond to and wouldn't feel so bad.
Apparently you didn't read page 7.
The baby story is ridiculous for several reasons, the biggest being that it's "correct" because the author has knowledge their characters lack, and the hero baby is written to express those things despite there being no in-story evidence for them.
I'm pretty sure you wouldn't come to the defense of the story if it was written honestly, and the second baby said that the post-birth universe was really a substrate of Spam and Tang, where Underpants Gnomes wage a vicious conflict against the Nose Goblins. Because, for the womb-universe presented in the story, that's just as likely an outcome.
Even more, the story's womb-universe is flawed. Sound can travel from outside a mother's womb to the inside. So neither baby would be without clear, verified evidence of a life outside the womb. I understand the flowery "sit still and listen and you can find god" statement, but it's worthless. It's conflating a false premise (that a womb is, apparently, a vacuum where no outside stimuli can be detected) for a true one (there isn't any verifiable evidence for a god, any god).
It's an intellectually dishonest story at its core, propped up by flowery language that doesn't actually mean anything. Sounds like religion to me.
"I was thirsty for everything, but blood wasn't my style" - Live, "Voodoo Lady"
