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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Nov 20, 2020, Harry Krishna wrote   
   (in article):   
      
   > On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 17:04:41 -0330, David Dalton   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   > > On Nov 19, 2020, Harry Krishna wrote   
   > > (in article<8pqcrf5ant1a0tqd45r59kecpeigjv3ggm@4ax.com>):   
   > >   
   > > > On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 01:17:18 -0330, David Dalton   
   > > > wrote:   
   > > >   
   > > > > On Nov 18, 2020, Harry Krishna wrote   
   > > > > (in article):   
   > > > >   
   > > > > > If my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon. Aren't you a little   
   > > > > > old to be believing in magic(k)?   
   > > > >   
   > > > > Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.   
   > > > > (Arthur C. Clarke)   
   > > >   
   > > > That's not an answer. Technology has the advantage that it actually   
   > > > exists, but there's no magic to it, that's just a metaphor. Try again.   
   > >   
   > > If my “magickal workings” do have an effect I hope to be able   
   > > to eventually explain them to atheists in an at least arm-waving   
   > > (possible explanation if not proven explanation) fashion   
   > > involving, as I mentioned earlier in the thread, nonlinear   
   > > chaos/catastrophe theory, higher dimensional mathematics,   
   > > and I also add here, overlapping consciousness wavelets   
   > > with both a spacial extent and a time window extent centred   
   > > on the present, with problems if the window is too wide or   
   > > too narrow or skewed.   
   > >   
   > > But for now at least my workings seem dependent on the   
   > > Earth, sun, and moon being conscious, and to a lesser   
   > > extent on there being species someones (like a collective   
   > > consciousness of a species only also containing bodies).   
   > > I will eventually work on scientific theories as to how   
   > > these things might be possible. Of course, even if they   
   > > are proven to be conscious, they don’t have to be   
   > > considered deities (worshipped) by anyone.   
   > >   
   > > My theories/workings do not depend any more on there   
   > > being a match to my definition of God as the ruler of   
   > > the region all/everything.   
   > >   
   > > And again, if the workings have no effect, then of course   
   > > no explanation is needed, and you can ignore me.   
   >   
   > Wow. That's some mighty powerful woo-woo!   
      
   Ha, thanks!   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   "I'm going to take a good sharp ax/Shining steel tempered in the fire   
   We'll chop you down like an old dead tree/Dirty old town" (E. MacColl)   
      
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