Fly Away, Fly Away, Fly Away Home
by karmat

Comment:
ursula: this is natural unless it's DrAchoo. there's nothing natural about shoving a dead ladybug across a window.

scalvert: refrigerated ladybug.

ursula: oh, I forgot a DrAchoo fan was here. Well there's nothing natural with torturing a ladybug across a window, either.

scalvert: well, it's not DrAchoo.

ursula: that's a relief. I get enough torture on the 6 o'clock news.

Coming in for a Splash Landing!!!
by RitaD

Comment:
scalvert: the physics of falling and landing. natural.

GeneralE: splashing is natural.

ursula: oceans are natural.

sher: naturally!

Happy New Year
by whiterook

Comment:
scalvert: fireworks are natural. we've had them in too many challenges to declare them unnatural now.

GeneralE: but each firework represents a conscious decision in planning and execution. I am arguing against human intelligence as being natural. I mean just look at the mess we've made of this world. And fireworks was the first application of gunpowder. You know where that led us.

scalvert: yes, but it is physics in action, all lit up and everything!

Sleepy Lion
by ErikV

Comment:
frisca: well this is natural. even if you think that animals think, this animal is in a semi-conscious state. surely this is completely natural motion at this point.

scalvert: nothing attached to musculature is moving in a "natural" way. too many variables.

GeneralE: you can't even tell which way the head is moving.

ursula: it's a lion with three heads! not natural!

sher: that lion is so natural he scares me.

Going home
by KHolt

Comment:
scalvert: cross-country skiing isn't natural enough. It's gotta be downhill.

muckpond: no, dude! skiing is totally natural! cold on your face, fighting the elements, adrenaline rush!

A Lapse In Time
by Ivory

Comment:
ursula: this isn't natural. it's man-made.

scalvert: yes but it is a man-made object that acts completely on Newtonian principles. It's natural.

GeneralE: yes but it acts in an arbitrary way decided by man. There's no natural reason why the day has to be divided twice into twelve.

frisca: so you're saying that God must be the clockmaker, and not Man?

GeneralE: um... I think so.

Jenga!!!
by SoulMan1978

Comment:
scalvert: falling is Newtonian and natural. I was going to say that the movement of the hand is not natural, but there is no movement of the hand! the hand is only in one exposure.

GeneralE: yes, but that is motion of a sort. To be not there, and then there, and then not there. That is an Individual Will working in the universe. Not natural.

scalvert: hmmm you could have a point.

muckpond: knocking stuff down! totally natural!

The Catch
by brownsm

Comment:
muckpond: yes! a boy making the play. totally natural.

GeneralE: I bet he doesn't even want to be there. Dad is making him do it. Unnatural.

scalvert: ball is natural. kid is unnatural.

muckpond: but his eye is on the ball at all times. everything he does is to catch the ball. It's natural.

scalvert: he could have caught the ball one-handed. he could have headed the ball first. he had to make a large number of decisions. not natural.

muckpond: headed the ball? that's soccer.

scalvert: most countries call it football.

Bass Line
by gzupruk

Comment:
muckpond: oh yeah, rock and roll is natural!

GeneralE: actually, that looks more like folk music. I think it's Black is the Color of my True Love's Hair.

scalvert: music isn't natural.

GeneralE: Pythagoras thought so.

scalvert: I'm wayyy past Pythagoras. I'm well into the 16th century. And none of Newton's Laws apply to this. This is a brain moving fingers.

sher: actually, in order to play properly, something deeper than conscious thought must be at play. Perhaps we can allow that this sort of instinctive motion is indeed natural.

ursula: it looks like he's got 11 fingers on one hand. That is NOT natural.

bucket: you never met my cousin Brunhilde.

scalvert: how did YOU get in here??

Follow Me Boys
by JuliBoc

Comment:
sher: so shots of people walking are not natural but shots of a gull walking is natural?

scalvert: no. nothing's natural (except physics).

frisca: gulls have no Will. they are natural. everything they do is driven by instinct.

ursula: how do you know that gulls aren't thinking. have you ever looked on in the eye?

frisca: it's theologically impossible.

scalvert: ag! no theology! physics says no. Physics is going to give me another ribbon.

GeneralE: walking requires physics.

scalvert: yes, but not one single smooth motion of physics.

ursula: I don't recall seeing "single" or "smooth" in the rules.

scalvert: it's implied by natural.

ursula: that's funny. I've never seen nature be singular or smooth.

scalvert: what are you? a Quantum physicist?