Dear Rex.
I particularly hate it when I do something because knowing the rules and the situation I know that I can and then someone else does it because they see me do it. The only thing is the other person doesn't know the rules, does the same thing (which in their circumstances may not be permitted) but does it much bigger. I know inevitably that they will point to me and say, "AntiBuddha did it so I can too".
If you wish to do something then do so, but don't attempt to justify something through my actions unless you understand exactly what I've done and why. (it's safest to assume that you don't).
Quote:How can you make assumptions about the physical world because of some sense you have... and not make the same types of inferences in regard to the metaphysical world.
Yes, I assumed that the world exists and has rules governing its behaviour without any assumption of what the actual state of the world is or what rules govern its behaviour. Wow, I must be a gambling man to take such an immense leap of faith.
*rolls eyes*
Quote:There is no proof that these elements are not supernatural.
Absence of proof is not proof of absence. Haha, yes. Sorry, been waiting years for a chance to throw that quote back in the face of theists, couldn't resist.
Anyway, Define supernatural.
Quote:There had to be something to initiate the physical world.
There really doesn't, but for sake of argument you could assume that there was.
Quote:One thing to think about... That a "reflection" of light is only an image of the real thing.
Reflected light is the same thing as normal light. By impacting with solid matter it may have altered its frequency slightly but that happens even in travelling through air.
Quote:Yet a reflection has energy and intensity and it's own space and time.
This is EXACTLY why people shouldn't make assumptions about the metaphysical from their senses. "ooohhhh, mirror shiny, me see self in mirror but can't touch self. Must be other universe in there." Dude, it's rebounding light creating an optical illusion.
Quote:It can be physically seen
As opposed to non-physically being seen.
Quote:and has reflective properties
The reflective surface has reflective properties. The "reflection" (if such a thing can be said to even exist beyond an optical illusion) does not. A reflection of a mirror is not any more reflective than the reflective surface in which it appears. Only the original is still reflective.
Quote:even though it is only a copy of the thing that produced it.
No... it's light bouncing off the original being reflected off a surface. It is not a copy and does not exist.
Quote:Light has a way of making a remarkable copy of itself in a reflection that even though it is only a reflection it is "real" light.
Yeah, it bounces. Remarkable. I have a remarkable plastic ball I should show you some day with magically and wondrous properties.
