I dunno. I think mermaids are unlikely, but that does not mean I think they are an impossibility.
I have seen things that I have no real explanation for, other than what other folks explain it as.
All of the mermaids I have seen were fake, but it does not follow that all of them reported are also fake. Just because I've never seen a real one does not mean they cannot exist. I've never seen an atom, either, but feel fairly confident that they are real. I have never seen the planet circling Proxima Centauri, but the does not mean it is not there. I have never seen Mount Everest, but I think it might exist, because people who DO have experience of it say it does.
I have never been to Kazhakstan, but I have to trust the people who have been there and who say it really exists.
I am not a man of the sea, so who am I to second guess the likes of Columbus and John Smith - who ARE men of the sea - and who claim they HAVE seen mermaids in their usual haunts, where they are familiar?
I know what I know, and have knowledge of things I have experienced, so why would I say those fellas don't know what they DO know, what they DO have experience in?
So, yeah, I think it is unlikely, but I also think it is possible.
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I have seen things that I have no real explanation for, other than what other folks explain it as.
All of the mermaids I have seen were fake, but it does not follow that all of them reported are also fake. Just because I've never seen a real one does not mean they cannot exist. I've never seen an atom, either, but feel fairly confident that they are real. I have never seen the planet circling Proxima Centauri, but the does not mean it is not there. I have never seen Mount Everest, but I think it might exist, because people who DO have experience of it say it does.
I have never been to Kazhakstan, but I have to trust the people who have been there and who say it really exists.
I am not a man of the sea, so who am I to second guess the likes of Columbus and John Smith - who ARE men of the sea - and who claim they HAVE seen mermaids in their usual haunts, where they are familiar?
I know what I know, and have knowledge of things I have experienced, so why would I say those fellas don't know what they DO know, what they DO have experience in?
So, yeah, I think it is unlikely, but I also think it is possible.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’