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|    JTEM to jillery    |
|    Re: Is Belief in God Rational? A Fresh L    |
|    27 Jun 25 06:25:01    |
      From: jtem01@gmail.com              On 6/27/25 6:05 AM, jillery wrote:              > Consider the question: Is it possible to sufficiently analyze magic?       > If technology is phenomena based on natural law, and magic is       > phenomena based on supernatural law, then in principle anything that       > can be sufficiently analyzed is by definition technology. If I could       > reliably make phenomena happen by waving a stick and/or chanting odd       > words, then I would have identified a natural law, which makes it not       > magic by definition.              Autism isn't an argument, you nimrod.              Honey; it ain't a law unless it's first a theory, and it ain't       a theory unless it's first a hypothesis and it ain't a       hypothesis without predictions -- the basis for experimentation.              You need to stick to arguing that "Paradox" is French for "An       erroneous assumption." You shit at that too, but you're a lot       more practiced at it....                                                                      --       https://jtem.tumblr.com/tagged/The%20Book%20of%20JTEM/page/5              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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