i find it delightfully fitting that a thread started with a reference to that layman preacher deutsch devolves into such idiotic metaphysical blathering (redundant, i know), fluffy teleological retorts, pointless semantic arguments, straight-faced berkelian idealism, etc. by laymen for whom physics stopped at 18th century determinism, infinite regress constitutes the utmost stretch of their intellectual skills, and poe's is (apparently) a natural, not ironic, law.
in short: kek

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