Metallic sphere recovered in Colombia--being examined by scientists

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(Jun 2, 2025 10:50 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: He's talking about anything people habitually try to "explain away", which includes miracles as well as all anomalous phenomena..

Not even close, dipshit.

The process which, if not checked, will abolish Man goes on apace among Communists and Democrats no less than among Fascists. The methods may (at first) differ in brutality. But many a mild-eyed scientist in pince-nez, many a popular dramatist, many an amateur philosopher in our midst, means in the long run just the same as the Nazi rulers of Germany. Traditional values are to be “debunked” and mankind to be cut out into some fresh shape at the will (which must, by hypothesis, be an arbitrary will) of some few lucky people in one lucky generation which has learned how to do it.

You cannot go on “explaining away” for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on “seeing through” things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is no use trying to “see through” first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To “see though” all things is the same as not to see. - C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man


C.S. Lewis was a Christian, talking about Christian values.
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Magical Realist Online
He's talking about everything people try to explain away. The typical reductionism and materialism of skeptics and scientists. It applies to everything that those mindsets reject, including the supernatural.
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Syne Offline
As usual, MR can't read worth a damn, even if you spell it out for him.

No comprehension, just pure motivated reasoning.
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