The universe didn’t force you not to believe in magic. You could have spent your whole life believing magnets are magical stones, that the electromagnetic force is magical energy, and that computer engineers are wizards who conjure spirits from magic. And you could have been 100% factually and scientifically correct.

But you chose to believe that magic is by definition not real, because you didn’t want to live in a world of whimsy and wonder. You defined magic as supernatural, in opposition to the natural world. While every scientist knows that nature is just a word for everything that exists. You chose to define magic in a way that it wouldn’t exist, denying it through tautology and not through science.

Why did you choose that?

  • AVincentInSpace@pawb.social
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    1 month ago

    Fucking act like it then!

    It’s cool you have a unique worldview about what constitutes magic and that brings you joy, but stop asking people to apologize for not sharing it!

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      1 month ago

      It’s not a unique worldview. It’s a normal worldview anywhere that Christians haven’t colonised the local people’s brains.