Natural philosophy means physics, and I never claimed Shakespeare wrote in the same way I didn’t claim he name-checked you, Horatio. Nice you can recognise an everyday quote though and react with a modicum of humour tho’.
“You don’t know how your parents reacted. You know how they remember reacting a decade later. I’m not calling them liars, but that’s a different situation.”
Yes, they could misremembering and I could be misremembering, but at some point enough people who have experienced a unexplainable event should be investigated rationally, not sarcastically. That’s the history of science in a nutshell.
Oh puhlease spare me the victimhood. Would it be condescending of someone who experiences synetheisa to say to someone who dismissed synetheisa as delusion to say “I feel sorry that you can’t see the colours in sounds the way I do”? Is that evidence synethesia doesn’t exist? No. So stop whining and debate without pulling rank or forget about this whole ‘fighting ignorance’ pretence.
As far as you interpret the rules. Are you sure you are of the temprement both to take part in a football match and referee it? Because most referees prefer to stay neutral. At first impression you don’t seem to be, Diogenes seems better suited to that but it doesn’t seem a good idea for the judge to be part of the prosecution.
Just as well I didn’t then. Would it be a personal attack if I was to call you a ‘heid the ba’ - and if so, can you explain why?
Ah, there’s the rub though. I wasn’t condescending to him I’m sure you’ll agree, and I had no intention of condescending towards you - at the time.
I apologise if that sounded that sounded like condecension to you, but I don’t know you, you haven’t earned any respect from me yet, and you aren’t going about it the right way by demanding it. For a start, if I was condescending, I was condescending to you not him. I repeat, is it condescending of someone who experiences synethesia to say that they are sorry that people who dismiss them as deluded are
No, I wasn’t, I was expressing an opinion as a poster who had been treated perfectly reasonably by Diogenes among others. You see, when I have moderated debates I don’t get involved because I know it would be impossible to maintain neutrality. This thread promised my ‘ghost story’ would be debunked, but when you failed to do that you resorted to ‘moderating’ in a biased manner.
I can see why you just want to move on.