Like I said, I can't test non-linear time. Period. There is no experiment I can run to prove that it exists in a way we can utilize. It's a thought experiment, nothing more.
It works on faith. That's it. If you believe in it, you either have faith in the theory that we can exist in non-linear time, or you have faith that Q knew what he was talking about when he talked about it.
I have faith in neither of those things, because I don't operate on faith, I operate on falsifiability.
I can't stop you from believing that Q can operate with godlike powers, nor do I have any interest in doing so. But I can't really have a conversation about Q under the assumption that he exists outside of testable hypotheses. It just leads to circular, faith-based conversations, which is just a religious debate in disguise, and I'm not interested in that.
So you're suggesting that modern humans lost some sort of profound psychic capabilities to predict the future, the precise movements of millions of individual people, and countless details (needed in order to carry out a Plan like Q's) because at some point, we decided to start communicating information over long distances using the media?
And that if I just stopped taking anyone but Q as a reliable source of information on how things work, I would regain these powers, and I too could see time the way Q does, with perfect clarity, being able to think far outside of everyone else's OODA loop, and so forth?
Look, I don't want you to think I am dismissing you out of hand. I am not. I just don't really have a way to talk about nonfalsifiable beliefs in Q World. Some people might be interested in the faith-based stuff in order to justify your beliefs in the Plan, but I am not one of them, and I can't pretend to be just to provide conversation.
For instance, I understand that Jesus returning to Earth is important to Christians, and that they believe some day, it will happen. They have been believing it for thousands of years, and will continue believing it until it either happens, or Christianity dies out as a religion.
I enjoy talking about potential ends to the Earth, and recognize that religious people believe it will involve Jesus directly, but that's not really something I can talk about falsifiably. I can't use real-world evidence to justify a non-falsifiable belief. I can only make predictions with falsifiable evidence.
I do like the "memes and genes" saying, though. Even though you took it in a different direction than I would.
Like I said, I can't test non-linear time. Period. There is no experiment I can run to prove that it exists in a way we can utilize. It's a thought experiment, nothing more.
It works on faith. That's it. If you believe in it, you either have faith in the theory that we can exist in non-linear time, or you have faith that Q knew what he was talking about when he talked about it.
I have faith in neither of those things, because I don't operate on faith, I operate on falsifiability.
I can't stop you from believing that Q can operate with godlike powers, nor do I have any interest in doing so. But I can't really have a conversation about Q under the assumption that he exists outside of testable hypotheses. It just leads to circular, faith-based conversations, which is just a religious debate in disguise, and I'm not interested in that.
So you're suggesting that modern humans lost some sort of profound psychic capabilities to predict the future, the precise movements of millions of individual people, and countless details (needed in order to carry out a Plan like Q's) because at some point, we decided to start communicating information over long distances using the media?
And that if I just stopped taking anyone but Q as a reliable source of information on how things work, I would regain these powers, and I too could see time the way Q does, with perfect clarity, being able to think far outside of everyone else's OODA loop, and so forth?
Look, I don't want you to think I am dismissing you out of hand. I am not. I just don't really have a way to talk about nonfalsifiable beliefs in Q World. Some people might be interested in the faith-based stuff in order to justify your beliefs in the Plan, but I am not one of them, and I can't pretend to be just to provide conversation.
For instance, I understand that Jesus returning to Earth is important to Christians, and that they believe some day, it will happen. They have been believing it for thousands of years, and will continue believing it until it either happens, or Christianity dies out as a religion.
I enjoy talking about potential ends to the Earth, and recognize that religious people believe it will involve Jesus directly, but that's not really something I can talk about falsifiably. I can't use real-world evidence to justify a non-falsifiable belief. I can only make predictions with falsifiable evidence.
I do like the "memes and genes" saying, though. Even though you took it in a different direction than I would.