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Originally posted by chaney3Your giant propensity for lying and talking nonsense will allow you to say just about anything without shame. ( I suspect a few drinks helped you along )
His giant ego will allow him to comfortably move on. 🙂
Just because people are obviously smarter than you, it does not follow that they have giant egos. That's just your own insecurity talking.
Originally posted by humyGood point. In fairness though, I never said that anything currently unexplained should be considered supernatural.
We don't yet understand high temperature superconductivity -so high temperature superconductivity is "supernatural"? Rubbish!
Maybe I should tweak my quote to match the pattern of the Clarke quote.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
~Clarke
Any sufficiently mysterious natural event is indistinguishable from the supernatural
or maybe
Any sufficiently unknown natural event is indistinguishable from the supernatural
~apathist
Originally posted by Ghost of a DukeI too am reluctant to use it. But when a scientist talks of having a spiritual experience while looking at Jupiter through a telescope, I understand what they mean and do not automatically take it to be a religious experience. I would typically not describe it that way myself.
You've just highlighted my reluctance to use the word 'spiritual' to describe natural occurrences of 'sentience.'
Originally posted by apathistSo like the continents on the second planet around Alpha Centuri?
supernatural: any natural event undetectable to current science.
Anyway, my challenge was not to just make up any definition as you could merely say:
supernatural: grass that is a metre high.
My challenge was to give a definition that meets common usage but remains coherent.