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I still cherish letters written to the jolly old elf by my kids almost 30 years ago. There is no danger in the belief of a spirit that brings good feelings and charitable thoughts. The original St Nicholas is considered a real individual. Look it up. Does that spirit still exist? Only if you are willing to forget logic and look for the "magic". Those who do not have a right to do so. I, for one, believe there is a lot of "magic" in the universe, based upon the quote:
"Any technology, sufficiently advanced from your own will appear as magic". Arthur C. Clarke and others in slightly different forms.
Clarke also said: "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them to the impossible".
Then, there is Oppenheimer: "There is no place for dogma in science.The scientist is free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any error. Where science has been used in the past to erect a new dogmatism, that dogmatism has found itself incompatable with the progress of science; and in the end, the dogma has yielded, or science and freedom have perished together".
I cannot count anything as impossible.
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Bob S. former owner of a 1984 silver 944
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