@MirkoS77 said:
@mrbojangles25 said:
@MirkoS77 said:
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If the supernatural exists, would it not, by definition, immediately become natural by virtue of its manifestations in nature...
I think that is why we call it super natural; not because it exists within the confines of natural law, but in spite of it. Outside of it.
We see it, sure. We believe, because seeing is believing. But we can't quantify it, assign laws of physics or natural order to it.
I'm curious to hear from someone who believes in miracles.....maybe a Christian can explain. Isn't nod_calypse religious?
I agree with others in here that the term is really just one of convivence for what we don't yet or haven't been able to explain, but I'd like to hear how miracles and the like work.
Yeah I'd like to hear that perspective as well.
As a filthy dirty pagan non-believer, I've always sort of viewed the belief in miracles as the mental gymnastics needed to get over one's inability to accept the unknown.
For example, they see something unbelievable, they go "Woh that doesn't make any sense? How did that happen? Is it random...no no no...it must be God! Yes, God is the answer. OK good now I can go on with my life".
I don't mean that as a criticism or anything btw, I just think there's a certain percentage of the population that can't live with not knowing things (or, more specifically, unexplainable things) and sometimes when knowing things isn't possible they have to supplement that with belief and that's just as good (if not better) than knowing to some people.
One of my favorite scenesfrom any movie ever is Men in Black:
I don't put that much stock in it--it's a campy sci-fi film, after all--but it's a good attitude to maintain I feel. It reminds me of the old Socrates quote where before every debate he would tell himself "I know that I know nothing" because, relatively speaking, nobody knows anything.
The ending of the MiB films always seemed to reinforce that mentality; for example, in the first movie their whole galaxy is inside a marble that aliens are playing with, and I think in the second movie they're part of a train station locker lol.
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