When you step off a cliff...

[zarathustra]

' When you come to the edge of a cliff and jump off, just 'believing' you can fly won't help - or will it?

z

[Philosophaster]

Nope.

[Nick]

Try it!

[Dan Rowden]

"Obviously if you fall to the rocks below and break every bone in your body all that proves is that your belief wasn't strong enough." Mary Baker Eddy

[zarathustra]

Yeah right, and its true: George Bush really does have a phd in philosophy...or in his own words: 'It will take some time to restore chaos...'

z

[hsandman]

' When you come to the edge of a cliff and jump off, just 'believing' you can fly won't help - or will it?

z

The magic 8 ball, says: "Unclear."
History says: "NO."
Science says: "Yes, Time of flight = Distance to Ground / Velocity."
Religion says: "Unclear."
I say: "Yes, If you are high up enough".

[sear]

"When you step off a cliff..."

It's an unforgiving way of distinguishing reality from opinion.

Art Linkletter's daughter got drugged up on LSD, and leapt to her death from a building, hallucinating that she could fly.

It seems to me, if you think you can fly unassisted, it would make sense to try it out from a flat, level, safe surface.

I've leapt from a cliff to escape an explosion. I got some sutures for that one.
But I've also stepped off the top of a mountain. That's fun.
Around here, we call it "hang gliding".

[zarathustra]

hsandman - woooow! Well said.
z

[Imadrongo]

I'll get back to you after I try it, if I am still around.