If a person thinks everyone should just turn off their cars and stop “idling”, then obviously the next step is also to stop driving slowly. Driving slowly is as close as it gets to running a car “in idle”. The next step would be deciding at what speed a car could not be mistaken as idling. I’d suggest a round number such as 100. Obviously there’s going to be that transition from idle to 100. Every speed in between is positively criminal, regardless of how necessary it is for the transition. 50 is right there in Zeno’s-wine-induced-paradox* territory, so it’s going to have to be outlawed altogether. At no time shall a car be in the realm of “never going to get there.”
If a person believes there are no such things as ghosts, then what do they do with the word G-H-O-S-T?? Does the word also not exist? How can there be a definition of something, and multiple meanings for the thing in our collective brain, and that thing not really exist? It blows your mind when you realize there’s no such thing as nothing, except that there is a word for that thing, and it has an accepted definition. Nothing is a thing we can only hold in our minds, and even then only for a little while before it fritters away and becomes even more like nothing when we stop thinking about it. Ghosts, I suppose, could be the same. They feel less substantial if you don’t think about them. Aha! Maybe that’s the real reason some people refuse to believe in ghosts: because if you fear them you don’t want them to solidify in your thoughts.
If a person contemplates for too long the disciples of Jesus following him literally, when what he wanted them to do was to follow his example, that person might get upset with those disciples and judgingly wonder how stupid they could be. But then, if the disciples of the time of Christ can be judged by someone 2000 years later, what gives the later person any authority on the subject? How much schooling was there so many thousands of years ago? How many logic probes were defined in the culture? How many self-help books were on the shelves at the meridian of time to help people know the difference between following someone on foot or following their example?
(*Yes, Zeno was on the Vino.)
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