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Do you do magick? How? What way do you do it? Are you a psi user? What is your favorite technique?

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I'm definitely a skeptic... I partly want it all to be real, but at the same time believe it too good to be true. However, I find there is actually a fair amount of logic in a lot of the general ideas and thus am attempting some experiments with it.

I'm skeptical more because I find a lot of the people who claim to do magick/use psy seem to want to attribute everything to something along the lines of spirits or psy. It seems quite a bit like religion to me and in a lot of ways it is a lot like religion. Religion is something I'm naturally skeptical of due to the inability to prove or disprove it and its refusal to argue its validity based on logic.

I am a Chaos magician. I use any and all techniques. I destroy and create gods and reshape the cosmos in my own image. And that's just on monday.

As for being a skeptic, I am. But more than that, I am a cynic. I see hundreds of teenagers fighting to preserve what's most important in their lives, and what will surely save the world and all in it. Nobility seems to grow stale for me, and everything seems melodrama. Pride and reverence are rapidly becoming my most hated emotions.

Do you do magick? How? What way do you do it? Are you a psi user? What is your favorite technique?

I don't think of myself as using magick, largely because I believe the term is a very fuzzy one, and I know what I'm doing. I have an innate tendency toward weak personal boundaries, so I learned to strengthen them and now can open and close myself to others' thoughts and emotions as needed (well, mostly - sometimes I still end up wide open by accident). In fuzzier terms, I think that puts me down as an empath. And I've been talked to since before I can remember by (take deep breath, grind teeth) the Good Neighbors, whom most people call fairies - which is a diminutive, and in the old days using it was a sure way to get on their bad side. I don't like to talk about it for obvious reasons (I get patronized a lot, and I hate that, plus it smacks of either psychosis or attention-whoring), but I just started learning to work with them instead of tuning them out. I'm sure this probably goes under "communing with spirits", but I think of it as conversing with invisible sarcastic know-it-alls who are nevertheless helpful.

Are you a skeptic? What do you look for, as a flaw in someones point? What is your major backing? Einstein, or someone else? Why be so skeptical? Why do you think you are skeptic and others aren't?

Yep. I've spent so long being skeptical about my own stuff, I see no reason not to look critically at anyone else's claims. My major backing is usually simple common sense which, granted, does not offer a lot of credibility, but works for me. Essentially, I'll let anyone make any kind of claim, because I firmly believe that people should be allowed to do so. I just reserve the right to think that it's bunk unless the person seems to otherwise have both feet on the ground and isn't obviously dying for attention or escapism. I'm sure many self-described skeptics would firmly refuse to count me as one. That's fine. I rarely fit into groups.

If it helps at all, if I was in a group it'd probably be headed by Terry Pratchett. According to himself, due to a bad education, he reads everything he can get his hands on as science fiction, so any theory holds as much possibility of being true as any other, including myths, math and psychobabble. The idea is to look at them all with your business eye and decide which ones are useful for you.