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A literary device, employed

jollyroger — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 00:25:00 +0000

In reply to The author and the commenter

A literary device, employed mostly in the interest of framing the Bill Buckner comparison,which as a Mets fan I find too apt to eschew. ymmv.

The author and the commenter

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 19:01:36 +0000

In reply to The conceit of the hypothesis

The author and the commenter above have clearly not read James Lovelock at all. He, (along with Marguilis) the creators of the original idea, specifically stated that they believe the Earth acts as an organism, but they also stated that they do not think there is evidence of it being sentient. -- possessing self awareness and having goals, etc.

Please, do not do these amazing people and their brilliant hard-science work the disservice of spreading false information about their hypothesis (which now, BTW, is properly called the Gaia Theory within scientific circles, since it has passed so many tests of a Hypothesis to warrant the upgraded status.)

The conceit of the hypothesis

jollyroger — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 15:25:22 +0000

In reply to Now batting, Mother "Big Mama" Nature. At first base, Donald "Bill Buckner" Trump.

The conceit of the hypothesis, of course, assumes a recognition by some inchoate global entity of the the existential threat to all life on earth that is a Trump reelection.

The threat is a given; the recognition, supposing an agent, requires suspension of disbelief, but soit.