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Originally Posted by Daffy Duck  Temporarily falling horizontally is not the same thing as flying. I'm about to use the S word. 
I never said it was impossible. Just that 99.999% of humans can't seem to naturally fly (without a machine or device or special suit that catches wind).
This seems like a pointless explanation. You know what I mean, Angela. I'm not interested in playing semantics. I see no growth in doing so... only mental masturbation.  |
I'm sorry you see it as pointless; I don't. What you see as "temporarily falling horizontally," I see as the possibility of flying -- these people are not just falling; they are moving parallel to the earth for extended periods of time, and not only in a downward path. It's just a matter of perspective.
So far in the conversations we've had here on the thread, there has been no stipulation that human flight must take place with no winged suit or equipment or whatever. I can see how you (or anyone) might think, "oh, semantics, trickery, etc... she KNEW what we were talking about." But only imagine how impossible even flying with a plane might have seemed to people at one point. The idea that it goes from impossible, to possible but only in a plane, to possible in a harness & parachute, to possible in nothing but a spandex suit -- presents a pattern to me. It's not hard for me to see that pattern leading to something that looks more and more like what would qualify under your unspoken rules.
It's the same thing with any inspiring possibility. If we, as humans, have the capability of inventing new *helps* for ourselves, things that are extraneous to our bodies and that did not exist until very recently, then I believe it's logical to assume we *can* believe in and do what we don't currently believe is possible.
It might not look exactly like what you think it *should* -- it probably won't -- but shoulds are how people get old.
