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Originally Posted by Og 
"So if a bright eyed 8-year old comes up to you and asks, "But Dad, is it possible?", do you say "Nope, can't happen--finish your plantain," (Ath-) or take a deep breath, sigh, and say, "Well, I suppose it could ... just please don't tell your friends I said so." (Ag-)
-- Om"
I'd rather describe the nature of the earth orbiting the sun and inertia using clever methods that connected with the child's mind. I'd try to impress upon her the majesty of the cosmos in terms that a child can understand.
There's a difference between dealing with a forming brain that is still necessarily dependent on you and an adult through the intarweb on an agnostic forum  |
Aha, you ARE a dreamer. Or maybe just
really good with kids.
If the latter ... wish you'd been around when I went that route with each of the three 8-year-olds I've raised. Oh, I bordered on clever a couple times ... and I'm pretty sure they heard me ... and I think I may even have connected with their minds once or twice. Inevitably though, whether immediately following a session of such elevated parenting or at dinner a couple days later, we always cycled back to ...
"Pretty cool, Dad. So ... is it possible?"
I love my kids.
Meanwhile, and more germane to the discussion, with you 100% that that end result, be it in life or on an interweb forum, is rather less cute when you're discussing this kind of thing with a "grown up."