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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Douglas @Rushkoff had an experience that finally convinced him there's more on heaven and earth than is dreamt of in a purely materialist paradigm;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-CKQFdKD-s

It's the sort of thing that a determined sceptic can easily dismiss as an anecdote, and indeed, there's no way to prove it unless you were there. It's not the sort of thing that's repeatable in the way scientific experiments are. Nevertheless, Rushkoff is not given to making up events for rhetorical impact. So ...

#magic

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Ooze 饟仧
@Ooze@wirejunkie.net replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@strypey It has been super interesting watching magic being realised in a more and more widespread way over the last fifty years. And, like everything else, this realisation is speeding up. I wonder if in my lifetime I will get to see the reversal become complete?

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@Ooze You might enjoy the Team Human episode where I heard about the fly dropping incident, a fantastic interview with Arden Leigh of The Re-Patterning Project;

https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/115607855456970749

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Ooze 饟仧
@Ooze@wirejunkie.net replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@strypey I saw that yesterday and already have it on my list to listen to today while I am tractoring. 馃榾

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h4890
@h4890@liberdon.com replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@strypey @Rushkoff Not repeatable, empirical evidence? Not interested. Next!

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

(1/2)

Alice: Look at this picture I just painted!

Bob: If you want me to believe you painted that, paint it again, right now. Exactly like this one.

Alice: Um, I ... don't think I can do that.

Bob: Not repeatable, empirical evidence? Not interested. Next!

@h4890

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

(2/2)

Alice: Uh, OK Bob. Look at this egg I just cracked. It's a double-yoker!

Bob: If you want me to believe both those eggs came out of one egg, I want you to do it again, right now. There's a pile of eggs right there.

Alice: But ... double-yokers are rare. There probably isn't another one in the same tray.

Bob: Not repeatable, empirical evidence? Not interested. Next!

Alice: You remember my son Bert.

Bob: If you want me to believe you gave birth to this boy, do it again, right now ...

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h4890
@h4890@liberdon.com replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@strypey Jesus christ. Do you even know the meaning of the word?

Alice: There is a painting I made in the box.
Bob: Prove it.
Alice: Opens the box, there it is.

Empirical evidence produced.

Your intepretation is utterly ridiculous.

Alice: Hypothesis, there exists double-yokers.
Bob: Produce them.
Alice: After collecting and analyzing several eggs, she produces them.
Bob: Empirical evidence produced.

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  路  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

You know as well as I do that you're dodging the point, in a vain attempt to make the cognitive dissonance go away. It won't, but you're welcome to keep trying until you figure that out for yourself.

@h4890
> Do you even know the meaning of the word?

> Your intepretation is utterly ridiculous.

Does this way of speaking to people you don't know make you a lot of friends where you live? Here it gets you muted for a week. Laters.

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