I don't consider it a magic but an unsolved mystery which may be solved or not...Donnavila Marie01 wrote:I just consider things which are beyond the explanation of science to be magic. They will remain magic until science can give explanations to them.Dh_ wrote:I don't believe in magic, as much as I want it to be real. I think there's an explanation for everything and can't wrap my head around things appearing out of thin air. I would like it to be real though.
Do you believe in magic?
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Re: Do you believe in magic?
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I rewatched Disney's "Sword in the Stone" recently and am now puzzling Wort's lessons against modern knowledge. During the battle with Madam Mimm, Merlin turns into a pathogen to get her sick. No one bats an eye in the scene but my familiarity with history reminds me that viruses/bacteria/all that stuff is a very modern discovery in the grand scheme of things. The fact that we have medicines that help the symptoms or vaccines to prevent disease is a sort of magic. I can watch Animal Planet or the Discovery Channel to learn what Wort learned about buoyancy and fish (but maybe not the bravery he was supposed to learn). That's a form of magic when you think about it.
In terms of the original question of fortune tellers and mediums, to some degree I consider them carnival magic that's intended to take your money and leave you with a happy feeling. I have not personally seen enough proof either way to decide if I fully believe that I could walk up to someone on the street who is going to tell me the gender of my first child or why I've felt unlucky lately.
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I don't believe in magic, but I enjoy reading about it.