Ok so I am not a fantasy obsessed freak, BUT I would like to know other peoples opinions on the concept of "magic"... There are so many legends and tales of such powers in great detail that I find it hard to believe it didn't exist at one time or another...
I think everything is possible. The million dollar question is; what makes things real? If you find out the answer you could perceivably do anything imaginable (with more or less effort of course). The solution might be harmony with the world in some way. If little things you do harmonise in the correct way, big things can happen somewhere else...but I guess you would have to know something about how all the world looks like in a given moment and how the actions you do affect the world.
I would suggest that if a man appeared to you from 300 years forward in time and displayed a piece of technology and it's use it would seem to be "magic" Think back to 1708. You approach average Joe Farmer. You say,"hello. this is a flashlight. It will project light in the darkness for a finite period of time." I suggest he would flip out of his gourd, possibly accusing you of witchcraft. Same idea.
Yep, I think so too. But I do think that there are other less technical ways of achieving magical things. The only criteria is that no one knows how you do it. There's always a way though.
Why do you think we see stone image carvings of flying saucers and various other high tech stuff in many different ancient civilizations? Theres your magic.
Welcome to the forums, also... Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I guess perhaps Enmos beat me to it, but he called you Dryz so that doesn't count...
Voodoo is real to Haitians. You should read Serpent and the Rainbow. It's a true story about zombies.
I'm using magic right know to talk to you. Tell me how do you think someone from 50 000 years ago would react to our technology?
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Orcot, I am talking about the stereotypical meaning of magic with all the fireballs, dark rituals, and stuff like that...
Humans excel at several things: one is wishing things would be other than they actually are. (If only I could flap my arms and fly to work instead of sitting in a traffic jam... What if...?) the other is finding (or making up) explanations for things not understood We're all human and all have the same basic "wiring", which explains similarities between the legends (which were mixes of wish-fulfilment and incorrect explanation).
Oli, perhaps, but we Humans can also get to work on making it so. If you want to snap your fingers to get to work, work on the technology and research of how to do so! Who knows, in a thousand years or so, that might be the case.
