Artifus is exactly correct.
Things are either natural and in existence (or potential existence), or they're supernatural and they're not.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Sat 20 Feb 2021, 14:45,
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the opposite of natural is artificial, not supernatural
happily, language is democratic: it's not that you're wrong per se, just that very, very few people will agree with you.
perhaps there's a facebook group you can join :)
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cool - now tell us all what pedantic means
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Sat 20 Feb 2021, 20:14,
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is it like
bending the runners in a three-drawer filing cabinet, so that the drawer doesn't stop when it's pulled out? or filling the stationery tray with thumb tacks?
(, Sat 20 Feb 2021, 20:34, Reply)
oh wait,
add lead weights to the drawer-fronts and super-glue the stationery tray first?
(, Sun 21 Feb 2021, 4:10, Reply)
there ya go
not that hard this thinking thing, is it?
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Sun 21 Feb 2021, 4:41,
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'the opposite of natural is artificial, not supernatural'
Nice, we're nearly in agreement. We're close, I promise.
Artificiality is an illogical conceptual throwback to a time when it was common to think of mankind as special and separate from nature (because God made everything for us, and nature must be tamed). But man is not special, separate, artificial, contrived, or fake. We exist entirely within nature. We are as natural as the other tool using animals, and the stuff we make is as natural as the stuff they make.
Why should a birds nest, termite colony, or beaver dam be considered natural, but something built by a human is artificial? What exactly is the distinction being made?
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Sat 20 Feb 2021, 21:37,
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