The dictionary is wrong – science can be a religion too

[patrice]

42. There are none who live off of the lives of others? Would NOT exist were it not for that?

And, yes, just because language, and English in particular I hear, has both denotative and connotative meanings, both of which can be more or less relevant to a given phenomenon, doesn't mean that anyone has ever walked on water in anything more than a metaphorical sense (and I'd like to suggest the OED on the etymology of the prefix "meta-" ... oh, and eco- too, as in economics, which also has an interesting evolution).

Some things may in fact FUNCTION like seas with their own nature(s), similar in all traits but wetness and what wetness entails, and some folks may seem capable of skating/sailing/flying/walking across those elements, perhaps sustained by their very turmoil, events and persons of the last year come to mind, but diligent watchers, RESPONSIBLE "knowers", know the difference between the kind of awareness that goes into that particular estimate of more or less valid and reliable significance/relationships, within its own context, and different other descriptions of other more or less reliable validities.