Liz, Are you describing YOUR inability to understand MY satirical comment perchance? I even included a smiley to indicate that which you didn't...
Lighten up and smile! :-) Edgar On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 8:52:46 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: > > Wow, did you really misunderstand what I was saying to that extent? You > are starting to remind me of those people who come to the door to persuade > me to accept Jesus as my saviour. They're also incapable of spotting the > intent of a satirical comment, or a metaphor, or drawing a parallel, or - > of course - getting their heads around intelligent criticism. > > And they keep banging on about how they have a unique insight into the > nature of the universe... > > > On 15 January 2014 14:42, Edgar L. Owen <edga...@att.net <javascript:>>wrote: > >> Liz, >> >> Thanks for confirming what I've long suspected, that you actually live in >> the 19th century! >> >> I have some good news for you, flying machines, robots, and rockets to >> the moon are actually real now. If you read my book you'll discover some >> other things that are real as well - but not simulated human beings.... >> :-) >> >> Edgar >> >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 4:30:00 PM UTC-5, Liz R wrote: >> >>> On 15 January 2014 09:08, Edgar L. Owen <edga...@att.net> wrote: >>> >>>> John, >>>> >>>> The simplest and by far most likely answer is to assume that the world >>>> we appear to live in IS the real actual world (though heavily filtered >>>> through our own internal simulation as I've explained before). To assume >>>> otherwise in the absence of any actual evidence is a waste of time. We can >>>> imagine we live in some simulation by some super beings and that may or >>>> may >>>> not be a possibility (I maintain there will always be a way to figure that >>>> out), but there is no evidence at all that it's an actuality or even >>>> remotely likely. >>>> >>>> Until there is some actual evidence it's just sci fi and not the proper >>>> subject of science... >>>> >>>> Yes, "just sci-fi" like heavier than air flying machines, robots and >>> rockets to the Moon. >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to everything-li...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to everyth...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
