Comments | iam_aghost: veinteuno: like the baby rum.

iam_aghost

veinteuno: like the baby rum.

Dec 01, 2011 13:06

It is curious, to some extent, to see reactions to something which quite firmly belongs in... superstition, fairy stories. Some of us will believe quite easily, some will react angrily, and some will not quite believe it, but find pleasure in the reminder of childhood - to believe without skepticism or logic impeding ( Read more... )

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Private mrs_persson December 1 2011, 15:45:01 UTC

Certainly. What is it?

Re: Private iam_aghost December 1 2011, 15:50:13 UTC

You know Jane quite well, don't you?

Re: Private mrs_persson December 1 2011, 15:56:52 UTC

Fairly well, yes.

Re: Private iam_aghost December 1 2011, 16:04:39 UTC

Is she alright? I... I was intending to ask myself, but I think she... would rather I did not talk to her.

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timesbureaucrat December 1 2011, 22:52:47 UTC

Those...creatures need not be the product of superstition at all, except to primitives who lack the knowledge to interpret their existence any other way. There was a fascinating study done centuries ago that suggested that many of Earth's superstitions about inhuman entities might originate from various early alien contacts.

[Narvin will cling to his cold, hard logic to his dying breath.]

iam_aghost December 1 2011, 22:56:25 UTC

A fair summation, Coordinator. But I do wonder how you explain the... continued demonstrations of life after death, so to speak?

[Caesares luffs it really, Narvin. He's just a doubting atheist instead of a doubting believer.]

timesbureaucrat December 1 2011, 23:15:21 UTC

There's a variety of ways it could be done with advanced technology. Simulated reality. Brain matrix storage. Jumps between near-parallel universes. Time manipulation. It would take a fair amount of power and technological resources, but it's not impossible.

iam_aghost December 1 2011, 23:18:43 UTC

Except... now, this is nothing more than a thought to be humoured, not my actual opinion, but could you not be doing the same thing in the other direction? Putting blind belief in science - that there must be a scientific explanation and anything else has no worth and is impossible... much like some people would say everything can be explained by God, and find a way to make it fit.

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darknessb4me December 3 2011, 04:09:56 UTC

If you refuse to believe something is real, that won't stop it from killing you. That's my philosophy.

iam_aghost December 3 2011, 18:21:31 UTC

...Not entirely inaccurate, in my opinion.