Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Michael Moore talks Brexit and US elections" video.

  1. What a simplistic idiot. We won't CEASE to be part of Europe if we opt out of the EU, we'll simply cease to be bullied by it. And by "it" I mean Germany. You know Michael, the nation we gave all those lives to oppose.
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  2. And Dumbledore is going to revive Sauron...
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  3. Why would I be butt-hurt that some person made up a vague "prophesy" in incredibly cryptic language, and now somebody else is making that fit some event in the modern world? It's not as though that's a new thing, and it's not as if such claims haven't been wrong every generation since they were first foretold. If there WAS a supernatural dimension to existence, I wish it would just come out and unequivocally reveal itself so I could start learning me some magic powers.
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  4. "Supernatural" - outside nature. Not really any ambiguity to that is there? As for "magic" it's a much more fluid term with many contextual meanings.So EVERY other "seer" has interpreted the prophesy wrong down the ages, but YOU'RE the one that has it right? Hmmm, maybe you DO see yourself as grand ruler. Would I be right in thinking that you see the US/UK as the two horned beast. Not any other military alliance that has ever existed right? And why be cryptic in the first place? If you were imparting vital information to future generations, why wouldn't you just say "The most powerful kingdom in the world, which comes from the across the sea to the West, and their ally from an Island in the north"? Why, because as every confidence trickster knows, the more vague you are, the harder it is to be proven wrong, and the more valuable those who can interpret will appear.Except we live in an age of science now, not magic, and believing such stuff simply marks you as being of questionable sanity.
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  5. I'm proposing that God, by definition would have to be outside nature. And the reason I didn't define "magic" is because as I said, it means many things, and is context dependent. But, for the purpose of this conversation, and this is just a superficial, top of my head definition: supernatural is an event which occurs beyond the rules of nature and physics as we comprehend them to be. Magic is the capacity to bring about such an event. I don't believe in either such notion, and if you showed me such an event, I would simply assume that it was a part of physics that we have yet to explore or understand. I don't "worship" science at all. I am only too well aware of some of its flaws. However, I also believe that it is the only MEANINGFUL way of explaining the world accurately, in such a way that results can be consistent regardless of your beliefs or interpretations. Contrast that with personal experience (which MAY accurately reflect reality) but is subject to a million pressures to skew its results, and I know which I would sooner trust my future to.As for science having no capacity to define ontological understanding, as I understand the world "ontology" (having just looked it up), I see NO reason why science is unable to explain the nature of being. If science revealed every minute thing about our origination, the way that every tiniest component of our bodies and brains worked, and WHY we exist as we do, would that not fulfil your requirement? If you are using the word to ask questions such as "what is the purpose of existence", I would suggest that you are asking malformed questions, akin to "Why do ladybugs love Beethoven?" You would first have to prove that there IS a purpose, before asking what it is.How do you think that these prophesies were passed down to the person who wrote them down, and where do you believe they originated from?
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