ecco
Veteran Member
I would call cargo cults a prime example of the truth of Clark's third law, myself, It certainly is from the POV of those believers.
It doesn't matter how it "appeared" to the ignorant people. It was not a supernatural event. Perception does not change reality.
The problem here is that if there were an 'atheist' among the folks of the cargo cult, who utterly dismissed the idea of planes dropping goodies when they flew over the island as 'supernatural nonsense,' he would have been utterly wrong, wouldn't he?
Indeed he would have been wrong. But he saw the packages actually being dropped, so his use of the phrase "supernatural nonsense" must have been caused by something else entirely. Perhaps one of the cartons hit him in the head causing his denial. I have not seen your God deliver anything.
I mean, those planes did exist. They did deliver food and supplies. (shrug)
Unlike anything from your God.
My point is, taking something that someone else attributes to 'magic,' and dismissing it as impossible BECAUSE it is attributed to magic, is probably a stupid thing to do. It might not have been caused by 'supernatural' means. it just may have been caused by 'mysterious' (meaning, we don't know...) means, that we might eventually figure out.
But that is not the case with what we do with your imaginary God.
You really don't even realize that you are making my argument against your earlier comments. No one considers flying on broomsticks to be supernatural events because no one has ever seen anyone playing Quiditch. It's laughable that you don't understand the difference.....but I'll bet you SOMEONE figures out how to make a flying device (broom?) that people can play Quiditch on, using methods and laws of physics that we can understand. Just wait.