grasping the after wind
That's grasping after the wind
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I have no opinion on the Doomsday clock. To say that you have seen no evidence that the Doomsday clock is a reliable guide is fine - I agree with you. But you originally wrote this:
There is a made up device that proports to measure something unmeasurable and some gullible people decide to believe in it as if it actually measured something. I hardly see that as being a valid argument for the rest of us to engage in self deception
That is a much stronger claim. In particular, how do you know that our nearness to doomsday is unmeasurable. Is this just an opinion. If so, fair enough.
It is an opinion that is based upon logically examining the question. I cannot come up with any plausible way to even to begin to measure our nearness to a doomsday using objective criterion. Should someone come up with a time machine I could be persuaded that they might also come up with an objective way to measure the nearness to a doomsday of some sort.
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