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Do you believe in magic?
I couldn't think of a better name for this thread. At the same time...I don't see a comic book discussion forum so I put it here. Anyway...
Lately, I've been coming to KMC browsing in addition to playing video games off and on. I see a lot of people talk about characters powers and stuff. And I was starting to really try and define the aspect of 'magic.' I use quotes because in my eye...even in fictional writing/graphic novels magic doesn't theoretically exist. Even terms like 'Superman is susceptible to magic' aren't really registering anymore.
For example...like, you can define technology. You can define...'cosmic force?' But yet, 'magic' is....what?
... overly wishful thinking lingering from childhood.
... the ultimate comic book plot device.
... masterful illusions.
... what one doesn't need to find the...
I am in your algorithm learning all your mannerisms
I'm already level with God
A million words a second and I know your imperfections, baby
I'm the only future you've got
Speak in diatonics, motivation diabolic
I'm like a religion, better locked in a box
Picture perfect image, more powerful every minute, baby
I am everything that you're not
If we could prove magic existed, it wouldn't be magic anymore; it would just be a newly discovered force in physics, that would be succeptable to the same fact based analysis as everything else.
... in a young girl's heart. How the music can free her whenever it starts. And it's magic, when the music is groovy. It makes you feel happy like an old-time movie. I'll tell you about the magic, and it'll free your soul. But it's like trying to tell a stranger about Rock 'N Roll.
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thing is, eventually we will be able to manipulate substances and even teleport them with enough research with astounding results. We could manipulate lightning if we spent billions figuring out how to alter electron movement and action in our hand cells, and then it would be the exact magic people have fawned over for thousands of years. E.g Old English people from the middle ages would have thought television was magic, but we simply see it as a use of electricity.
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Australia, where the animals are almost all big or poisonous enough to kill you. Fortunately, we Australians take this challenge with optimism.
Eventually we'll be able to do anything at all. Because wanting to do it makes it all possible! We just have to want it enough.
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some people believe in jesus, i believe in magic.
i also believe in aliens.
the universe is vast, and on the grand scale of things humans don't know **** all.
we're small, and easy to kill (just ask sharks) and people honestly believe they've got everything worked out?
given that we've barely left our planet, im not too worried about my beliefs being wrong.
Depends what the definition of magic is. If itīs these chaps on TV doing tricks, then thatīs all they are tricks.
There are other odd things that transpire which can be explained scientifically.
But if your refering to magic that "is the claimed art of altering things either by supernatural means or through knowledge of occult natural laws unknown to science"(wiki). then no!!
People who believe in prayers are essentially believing in magic, it's just called by another name. However, maybe there are natural forces of nature and laws put in place that can cause these things to happen or not to happen. If that is the case, then it really isn't magic at all.
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Last edited by Deja~vu on Dec 30th, 2010 at 07:00 PM
If a person can believe in karma, then they can certainly believe in magic. Prayer is certainly magical in essence, and it is certainly powered by faith. Just as I could pray to Christ for favor, someone else could also pray to an enemy of Gods doctrine, and it would, or could come true. Not always, and thus it is not a fine science. Those who pray to Christ, or a fallen angel aren't always going to get what they want, and according to many texts, there is a price to mete out for the latter. The Bible states that God will not be a debtor to any person (man). In other words no spirit is at any one persons beck or call. Unclean spirits have been written to place an exacting toll on the recipient of their miracles. I guess the saying "be careful for what you wish for" applies here. Believing or not, does not mean that magic does not exist, but then again, it doesn't mean that it does either.
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