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Do you belive in magic?
Yes
82%
 82%  [ 23 ]
No
17%
 17%  [ 5 ]
Total Votes : 28


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PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 2:17 pm


I've always thought that magic was just something they gave people more power and security. Oh, sure I believe in magic. It works, it's real, but I belive that it is entertaining spirits. Tarot, astrology, they can be right on, but it's entertaining spirits. I get truth from a spirit inside my(the holy spirit, not my own). Respond. I'm curious if you belive and what you think magic is.
PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 3:27 pm


I view magic as simple energy manipulation.

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Liberi Glacialis

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 5:16 pm


I believe in magic, but it can take many forms. It can be simple energy manuplation, being able to work crazy things on a computer, or whatever you can think of. Magic can even be just living.
PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 6:36 pm


I don't really know. A force that defies science? A force of altering one's environment that doesn't exist in this universe? Life itself? I have no idea.

SyphaBelnades


Starlock
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 5:59 am


My answer to the poll would be yes and no. Or rather, I want to believe, but am simply not convinced to entirety. Magic is only one possible explanation for phenomena and there are many others with much more substantiation to them. There is some sort of energy to be sure, but whether this is magic or the power of the divine or something entirely different can't really be determined with precision. People define magic in different ways, so depending on how you define it... will change my answer to this question. whee
PostPosted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 3:10 pm


some things just have no scientific explanation. thats what i call magic. ghosts, will o' the wisps, sixth senses.....what else could it be?

Ninth Pariah


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 3:14 pm


Schildkrote
some things just have no scientific explanation. thats what i call magic. ghosts, will o' the wisps, sixth senses.....what else could it be?

Ghosts: Figments of imagination, Hallucinations.
Will O' the Wisps: I'm not familiar with that, could you explain this further?
Sixth Sense: Conning, Extreme Alertness.
PostPosted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 3:34 pm


will o' the wisps are glowing orbs that commonly appear over swamps and fens. the government explained them as "swamp gas refracting off venus," which definitly smells like a pile of bullshit. and ghost sure as hell aint hallucinations. ive seen a window broken by a poltergeist. sixth sense....yeah, sometimes. but that doesnt explain my brother getting a sick feeling in his gut at the same time our step grandma found out her nephew had been stealing from her. thats in Puerto Rico. cant explain that.

Ninth Pariah


Tamiko_kitten

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 9:24 pm


I believe in magic, though probably at it's purest and most simple form, or way of interpreting it. I believe that magic is a sort of force, a type of energy, that flows through all living/natural things. By natural I mean not created by man. I think that that energy can be changed and guided and shfited, or stuff to that sort. And also, that it can be used to help gain spiritual awareness and such. I don't really have a definition of it exactly, and it's sort of hard for me to explain, but sort of non physical energies. I think that some people are more in touch with it than others, but that we all have potential and ability to recognize it, though we often don't see it as "magic." That's sort of what I think anyways.
PostPosted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 10:52 am


Schildkrote
will o' the wisps are glowing orbs that commonly appear over swamps and fens. the government explained them as "swamp gas refracting off venus," which definitly smells like a pile of bullshit. and ghost sure as hell aint hallucinations. ive seen a window broken by a poltergeist. sixth sense....yeah, sometimes. but that doesnt explain my brother getting a sick feeling in his gut at the same time our step grandma found out her nephew had been stealing from her. thats in Puerto Rico. cant explain that.


Why can't will o' the wisps be gas? When gasses react with other gasses, they sometimes emit light.

As for the poltergeist; did you see something break a window, or did the window simply just break, and you assumed it was a poltergeist?

About your brother: It could be mere coincidence.

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Ziekara

PostPosted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 2:08 pm


Yes I believe in magic. I think it comes in different forms but is ultimately just energy or depending on how you're using the word, energy manipulation.
PostPosted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 2:30 pm


Love is magic wink magic is something that we can't explain with reason, something that we don't understand, but yet it happens and exists

chocfudge
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chaoticpuppet
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 7:28 pm


chocfudge
Love is magic wink magic is something that we can't explain with reason, something that we don't understand, but yet it happens and exists

That's an interesting definition.

Most people consider love to be an emotion. Would you then say that other emotions are magic? For example would wrath also be magic? Why/Why not?
PostPosted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 8:55 pm


Schildkrote
will o' the wisps are glowing orbs that commonly appear over swamps and fens. the government explained them as "swamp gas refracting off venus," which definitly smells like a pile of bullshit. and ghost sure as hell aint hallucinations. ive seen a window broken by a poltergeist. sixth sense....yeah, sometimes. but that doesnt explain my brother getting a sick feeling in his gut at the same time our step grandma found out her nephew had been stealing from her. thats in Puerto Rico. cant explain that.

Will o' the wisps has been proven to be ignited methane gas, which comes from swamps and burns under the swamp water.

As for me I believe in magic yes, I belive it is the will of the gods and it is energy manipulation also. I think that the Gods help to make the manipulation possible and thats why people who do magic are allways tired if thy over use it.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 4:13 pm


chocfudge
Love is magic wink magic is something that we can't explain with reason, something that we don't understand, but yet it happens and exists

God is love. We can't explain God. Maybe what we think is magic is God. huh? huh? rofl
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