05-03-2010, 11:15 PM
(05-03-2010, 10:48 PM)kandrathe Wrote: I reserve the right to speculate and have an imagination about the possible.Me too. In fact, we're speculating about it right now. I have no problem with idle musings, or fanciful hypotheses, or what have you. So long as they remain that. But any suggestion that they are in fact real has as much weight with me as faeries, or unicorns, or the flying spaghetti monster. Fun ideas, but not real.
Quote:I certainly do not call my idle musing and speculation science, so you can get off the damn soap box.There are obviously people here who take these notions seriously, not just as "weird speculation hour", but as something that actually happens, something which should be studied as part of our world. I disagree strongly, and say why. That's kind of what we do here.
(Plus, seriously. How many hundred soapboxes have you got up on? We run a whole bloody soap factory here. Sauce for the gander, as they say.)
Quote:I've explained some of my reasoning for keeping an open mind to the possibility of quantum processes that may change our understanding of our capabilities.Mmm hmm. And I'm waiting for someone to actually deliver the goods before I go beyond just idly thinking about it. I don't see how this is so much different from what you do, except that I look at the track record of these abilities and see a gigantic string of failures, rightly banished to obscurity, whereas you apparently see promising avenues of research ignored by "closed minded" scientists.
Quote:It must be hard to live in your reality where every box is square.It's not really very hard to live in my reality. It just involves withholding belief until sufficient evidence is found. I don't find myself any the poorer for not being "open minded" (in your apparent sense) about unicorns, the survival of Elvis, or necromancy - why is this any different?
Quote:Gee-sh, It's like you got dumped by a psychic or something.Do you have personal grudges against all the groups you rant and rail about? Because there sure are a lot of those, Mr. Kettle.
-Jester