@MCcuddles2: Have fun!
Man. I sure am glad that I don't need to believe in certain things. Seems like a lot of work for very little.
@DarkLordChungus Thank you for carrying the flag of common sense. Just because we do not know the why of something does not make it magic, but some people need to believe in magic to explain their ignorance or chance coincidences they encounter.
The funny thing here is that I probably have a more firm grasp of reality than most people here. Mechanical engineering design works requires have a precision understanding of the laws of physics, so you can make things that can withstand pressures and forces, often designing the material to its physical limits, so you can use the minimum material and optimize weight and cost.
If our understanding of reality is anyway deficient, things can blow up and people can die.
@MCcuddles2: Everyone has to have a pretty solid grasp of reality in their own area.
Even a kid has to understand that food exists and their body needs it, at the very least (or they die, and their genes don't get passed on). Whatever a person works with, they have to understand enough to work with it.
That's not the same as having a good grasp of reality generally. If it were, we'd have a lot fewer experts making ridiculous statements about things outside their area of expertise.
Gotta disagree.
I'm talking about the laws of physics that the universe functions on. Such as newtons laws, thermodynamics and conservation of energy. It's a model of how the universe works from the molecular level to the macro. It's a model of reality, how it came to be, and how it will behave. These laws govern reality and we are taught how to understand and apply them.
It's a systematic and scientific way of establishing what is possible and isn't possible in this universe. That's my profession. When someone like Elon Musk wants to know if something violates the laws of reality, he comes to people like us to tell him.
It's not a grasp of a small area of reality, but the totality of the laws governing it.
The actual world is so astonishing I’m always a bit surprised by how much humanity has had to add on to it to make it “better”.
Just based on how little we actually know about things we tend to think we fully understand (the human brain, for one), I’m inclined to assume that our realm of evidence is also limited. I used to be a lot more cynical, but a near death experience deeply changed the way I think and feel about a lot of things. Not saying anyone has to agree or should believe how certain things work, but I think it’s a lot more likely we don’t fully understand the universe’s machinations and don’t yet have all the tools or fundamentals to divine fully unimpeachable understanding.
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The power of belief can be sufficient to bring wellness. Placebo effect is real, in other words. What we call magic is simply that we have no ability to explain how an event might occur. Electronics achieve today what would have seemed to be magic a few centuries ago. It's therefore conceivable that there's some kind of "crystal" that one can have shipped over from China, that glows when in proximity with another like it. There's no magic. Instead of a belief in crystals, one feels jaded.
@MCcuddles2: Still doesn't make you a doctor. Or a neurologist. Or a psychiatrist. Or anybody who knows how often the human brain farts, and in what ways it usually does it.
Preponderance of evidence, man. There's a reason we laugh at the idea of JO crystals.
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Beg to differ, the amount a human farts is proportional to bean consumption. 😄
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Ah, right. I tend to forget that reading comprehension isn't a thing most people have. Give them a funny word and of course they ignore the rest of the sentence. My bad.