“You are correct. It is not proof that Hobbes is alive.”
Once again, you’re forced to back off a claim you can’t prove.
“Watterson’s own comments later confirmed that he does NOT see Hobbes as part of Calvin’s imagination. He has also explained that he isn’t sure but he doesn’t think that Calvin imagines Hobbes.”
Watterson admitted it’s Calvin’s fantasy when he said “I would hope that the friendship between Calvin and Hobbes is so complex that it would transcend a normal fantasy.” He did not say “I would hope that the friendship between Calvin and Hobbes is so complex that it would transcend a fantasy.” And once again, the washing machine strips prove beyond all doubt that Hobbes CANNOT be the large living tiger YOU claim he is.
“I do NOT try to prove that Hobbes is alive”
You’ve tried to do that many times with me. You’ve always failed. Your failures are the ONLY reason you don’t try.
“Watterson shows us things about Hobbes that Calvin does not know.”
“you.. keep saying you have proved Bill Watterson wrong in his view that Calvin probably does not imagine Hobbes.”
Of course I have. You have no argument against the fact that the washing machine strips demonstrate beyond all doubt that Hobbes is objectively the size of a doll, disproving your claim that he’s really a large living tiger. Watterson was forced to admit that those strips show that Hobbes has no definite reality.
“There is a lot of disagreement over whether Calvin was pretending or whether the duplicate was real. “
Your suggestion that a cardboard box could actually duplicate a person is utterly ludicrous, every bit as ludicrous as claiming that Calvin could “really”’ travel to Mars in a toy wagon with no spacesuit or enclosure of any kind. You’re being ridiculous.
“Several readers pointed out that Calvin’s duplicate shows parts of Calvin that he wants to keep hidden.”
To the suggestion that Calvin simply decided to exhibit a different persona, the response is “ yeah, and it has NOTHING to do with there being a “real” duplicate.
It’s hilarious that you think the FBI and Dept of Energy are run by GOP partisans. If anything, the opposite is the case.
“The science shows that the wet market being the source of Covid-19 than the lab nonsense. PER peer reviewed science.”
Spare me the attempt to coat that which you agree with with a veneer of objectivity. The very fact that you brought partisan politics into this shows where you’re coming from.
You obviously didn’t understand what I was referring to at all. Read what I said again, and try to get it right this time. I didn’t say the strip is nonsense. I said Calvinist’s claims are nonsense.
Hobbes is utterly indistinguishable from an imaginary being. He cannot interact with, be sensed by, or affect anyone but Calvin. The objective fact that he fits in a top loading washing machine with an agitator (even Calvin admits this) proves objectively beyond all question that he cannot be the large living tiger that Calvin pretends he is.
“that Covid-19 was released by a lab is a conspiracy theory pushed by people with an agenda.”
Does that include the FBI and the Dept of Energy? You think the people trying to claim it didn’t come from a lab don’t have an agenda? Your claim is a crock. In medical school, they say, “If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably not a zebra.”
We knew in 2020 that there was a virology lab in Wuhan studying SARS-CoV-1 and related coronaviruses, and that the same city, Wuhan, was the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused a world-wide pandemic. But we’re asked to believe that THIS particular time, the virus didn’t come from a lab. Interesting that you swallow this.
Fauci’s National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases funded coronavirus research that included work at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. The idea was to study the ability of such viruses to attack humans. In an exhaustive account of the viral possibilities published this week by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Nicholas Wade, a science writer, editor, and author who has worked on the staff of Nature, Science, and, for many years, the New York argues that the Chinese lab is the most likely source of the world-wide agony. Given his establishment credentials, you can hardly dismiss him.
Also, research from the journal Risk Analysis, examined the likelihood of an unnatural origin (i.e. from a laboratory.) That research points to an unnatural origin as the likely source for COVID-19.
“You are correct. It is not proof that Hobbes is alive.”
Once again, you’re forced to back off a claim you can’t prove.
“Watterson’s own comments later confirmed that he does NOT see Hobbes as part of Calvin’s imagination. He has also explained that he isn’t sure but he doesn’t think that Calvin imagines Hobbes.”
Watterson admitted it’s Calvin’s fantasy when he said “I would hope that the friendship between Calvin and Hobbes is so complex that it would transcend a normal fantasy.” He did not say “I would hope that the friendship between Calvin and Hobbes is so complex that it would transcend a fantasy.” And once again, the washing machine strips prove beyond all doubt that Hobbes CANNOT be the large living tiger YOU claim he is.
“I do NOT try to prove that Hobbes is alive”
You’ve tried to do that many times with me. You’ve always failed. Your failures are the ONLY reason you don’t try.
“Watterson shows us things about Hobbes that Calvin does not know.”
Calvin can easily pretend not to know them.