LevitatingGod said:
It's not non sense. There were pyramids build that sat over "pools of mercury" and the idea Mercury can be turned to gold dates further back than our bodies are old. So I'm saying the idea it's possible existed before you were here telling me it's nonsense.
Can you provide me with any reasonably solid references for your statements above about pyramids and pools of mercury? I am genuinely curious.
As for the ideas about transmutation of mercury into gold: humanity has entertained fairy tales for ages, too. One of the main distinctions that separates experimental science from fairy tales is
independently reproducible evidence. AFAIK there is none of that good stuff for these "alchemical" claims about transmutation.
Personally, I don't mind talk about alchemical transmutation, as long as it is positioned clearly in a metaphorical context. I actually like such allegories, fairy tales with a serious undertone, as an inspirational musing and a wellspring for more factually sound and healthy inquisitiveness.
Misinterpreting figurative thinking with a literal mind is the main source of the bane of religious nonsense and all the horrors of its excesses. Attempting to give it a scientific veneer by calling it "alchemy" doesn't make it respectable in my perspective.
LevitatingGod said:
Who is to say what is nonsense or truth anyway?
Truth is just another allegory, to be understood with appropriate nuances and subtleties. It is a work in progress, forever. Hence the scientific method.
Stating that truth is difficult to ascertain can never be used as a justification to run off into fact free twilight zones of speculative ramblings, even if these might be highly amusing or entertaining (subject to perspective, of course).
LevitatingGod said:
I respect you and everyone I come across, but I would appreciate it if you would please stop classifiying what I know inside to resonate truth as 'nonsense'.
The problems may be arising due to your publicly posting here, what resonates inside you as truth, in such a manner that it in other people's perspective implies that you are also proclaiming these to be common truth.
Unless you add disclaimers in bold that your musings are not meant to be making any claims in public "truthspace", people are IMHO rightly assuming that you are making public claims and are rightfully responding critically.
Anyway, welcome to the nexus!