Chickenpox Lollipops

[Elok]

Well, that's retarded.

No, it would only be retarded if, after being corrected by more knowledgeable people, I insisted that they didn't know this stuff, I did, and went on multiple rants about how Europe is full of crazies who think just like this and they're a menace to society who also ran over my puppy and blah blah blah. As it is, it may be incorrect or ignorant. But not really retarded.

[Kidlicious]

That's not very fundamentalist of you. Where is your belief in miracles? Clearly you have a disturbing lack of faith.

Joke: (farmer and minister are talking)

Minister: You and God are doing a great job on the farm.

Farmer: You should have seen it when only God was working on it.

[Lorizael]

I didn't know goblins were supernatural.

Awesome.

[Kidlicious]

They aren't necessarily magical.

[Elok]

Ah, so Tolkien-style orcs are not supernatural, while the traditional kind who do magic mischief are. Good to know.

WhyTF doesn't Firefox's autocorrect recognize "orcs"?

[Lorizael]

They aren't necessarily magical.

Given that you don't believe in evolution, what differentiates non-magical from magical?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Chain, Fleming and Florey- all responsible for the development of penicillin. There's a plaque on St Mary's Hospital in Paddington attesting to the fact.

And who gave them what was necessary to make the discovery and develop it? I'd say a divine spirit was with them.

Not to sound too sceptical, but do you have any expertise in diseases of the ear or of the mind ?

There is such a thing as hysterical deafness, as well as hysterical blindness, etc, etc:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7115592

Not much, but when a person who has been deaf for the vast majority of their life and has big blocky hearing aids in both ears in order to hear anything all (though I believe that was something fairly recent techologically speaking, as he still talks like a deaf person who hasn't heard human voice) of sudden has no need for those big blocky hearing aids and can hear unaided for the first time in their life (after a really intense worship/prayer service), that's something I just can't explain. All I know is that I witnessed a physical miracle.

[Kidlicious]

Given that you don't believe in evolution, what differentiates non-magical from magical?

More correct, I don't believe the same way that materialists believe. But do you think I have some strange definition of magic?

[Lorizael]

I honestly have no idea what your definition of magic is.

[Kidlicious]

What do you assume?

[rah]

Wouldn't it be easier to just tell him.

[Lorizael]

Seriously. Your definitions for words are so completely out of whack, Kid, that I'm not going to bother guessing. I'd much rather see what crazy meaning you're ascribing to that word and go from there.

[Kidlicious]

I already know what you think about dictionary definitions. What is your definition of magic?

[Flubber]

Seriously. Your definitions for words are so completely out of whack, Kid, that I'm not going to bother guessing. I'd much rather see what crazy meaning you're ascribing to that word and go from there.

His definitions were far whackier when he was a communist

[Kidlicious]

Flubber, when did I ever use falses definitions?