Posted by Larry Hoover on January 1, 2006, at 19:58:11
In reply to Re: Astrology » Larry Hoover, posted by alexandra_k on January 1, 2006, at 18:58:07
> > I don't even care *how* she did it. It was impressive.
> i don't believe in ghosts or demons or spirits or souls or phlogiston or the tooth fairy etc etc etc
If it makes you more comfortable, let's rule those out. Where are we then? No further, IMHO.
My sense of "impressive" was that her presentation was so beyond chance as to be startling. And, just for clarity, much of that sense arose years later when I chanced again upon her written words, and sat down and compared the chronology of real events to hers.
> that is not scientific.
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> it is not.Precisely my point in mentioning it at all.
> but if you believe in good magic and that helps you...
I didn't once say I believed in magic.
> of course we don't have everything explained yet.
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> science is far from complete.Right. And just as it was once believed that maggots were a property of meat, and where viral infection was a spiritual curse, so we stand with other phenomena.
> but i'd rather work towards its completion (which may never arrive...) but i'd rather work towards it than...
>
> accept a magical explanation.I wasn't invoking magic. I'm not explaining anything.
> which is of course akin to accepting defeat.
You make assumptions which are simply beyond my ken.
> some experiments to see whether she can tell the past / future / heal people?
Of course. As I said, I'd seek her out if I had any idea where she'd gone.
I would seek to obtain more observations.
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