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\\\"The supernatural is make believe\\\" says the UNICORN to the DRAGON. - Youtube comment on My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic

Supernatural means it isn\\\'t part of the natural world, aka reality. In MLP unicorns and dragons are very much real. To them, they are not supernatural, but to the viewer. This is the difference between the definition of supernatural and the _label_ supernatural which is applied from our perspective. The MLP unicorn is correct.

Wash: \\\"Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.\\\" --
Zoe: \\\"You live on a spaceship, dear.\\\" --
Wash: \\\"...So?\\\"
— Firefly

An extended response from Wash would make this obvious. -- Wash \\\"So? Space ships are science fact. I should know, I live on one.\\\"

\\\"Oh come on, there\\\'s no such thing as crop circles! What it really was was a ghost. And that dinosaur the principal saw? Ghost dinosaur.\\\"\\\'\\\'
— Random fifth grader, Digimon Tamers

This is an example of Type 4, a schoolkid blames everything on ghosts. The dinosaur was actually a dinosaur type digimon. Even if a digi-tamer tried to explain this, they might be met with disbelief because their reality(of digimon) would seem stranger than fiction(ghosts).
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\\\"The supernatural is make believe\\\" says the UNICORN to the DRAGON. - Youtube comment on My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic

Supernatural means it isn\\\'t part of the natural world, aka reality. In MLP unicorns and dragons are very much real. To them, they are not supernatural, but to the viewer. This is the difference between the definition of supernatural and the _label_ supernatural which is applied from our perspective. The MLP unicorn is correct.

Wash: \\\"Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.\\\" --
Zoe: \\\"You live on a spaceship, dear.\\\" --
Wash: \\\"...So?\\\"
— Firefly

An extended response from Wash would make this obvious. \\\"So? Space ships are science fact. I should know, I live on one.\\\"
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\\\"The supernatural is make believe\\\" says the UNICORN to the DRAGON. - Youtube comment on My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic

Supernatural means it isn\\\'t part of the natural world, aka reality. In MLP unicorns and dragons are very much real. To them, they are not supernatural, but to the viewer. This is the difference between the definition of supernatural and the _label_ supernatural which is applied from our perspective. The MLP unicorn is correct.

Wash: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.
Zoe: You live on a spaceship, dear.
Wash: ...So?
— Firefly

An extended response from Wash would make this obvious. \\\"So? Space ships are science fact. I should know, I live on one.\\\"
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