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proximoception ([personal profile] proximoception) wrote2009-12-21 12:59 pm

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This would have been my father's 76th. We never gave him enough presents. It got to the point where we tried to institute a compensatory summer half-birthday called Dad's Day (he dismissed Father's Day as Hallmark commercialism) but he was uncooperative.

jones_casey clearly believes in something.

[identity profile] jones-casey.livejournal.com 2009-12-22 10:08 am (UTC)(link)
the perfect way to put it.

and similarly, andalus' commentary is perfect.

no, i don't believe that roughly four hundred million people born in the same stretch of days are identical.

i do believe that the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible and that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Re: jones_casey clearly believes in something.

[identity profile] proximoception.livejournal.com 2009-12-23 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Doesn't mean any given magical explanation will ever be vindicated by technology.