Does anyone here belive in magic?

fox, i think it could work.

trish

what's an atheist?

trish

[Poliester]

Hovering is to hard. i tried it. it takes a lot of energy. i am still trying to harden air. i still cant do anything though. i am starting to have doubts about magic...SNAP OUT OF IT!!!!! magic is real. cant have any doubts. must believe... must believe... I DO BELIEVE!!!! YAY!!!!sry.i dont make any sense when that happens. just tellin all u ppl that have doubts that MAGIC IS REAL!!!!

Thanx
Dia stiho

I definitely believe in magic. I believe in automatic magic, which is like focusing energies to make magics. Who else believes in automatic magic?

trish

Please tell me how to hover, please!

trish

[Darkdna]

Man this topic is old, but heres my 2 3/4 cents anway...
I am a practicing runemaster, and I do believe that, if nothing else, belief itself is all the magic you need. But then again everyone who knows me thinks I'm wierd in one way or another... so maybe I'm just a wacko.

My heart, my weapon, my money, my tool... Just a simple deck of cards

[molly]

I used to wish and dream that there was such a thing as magic but i never really thought that it could be true. One night i confided in my dad and told him that i wished there was Magic and he told me that there are some people that beleive that if you can dream it, it's real. I lived by that thought ever since. It would mean that magic is real, star wars is real, and all of my dreams are real. I love to sit and think about this.
!molly!

*Molly*

[Fox]

[calliope]

what's an atheist?

An atheist is someone who doesn't believe in anything.

As for magic, I believe! I've taken the Oath a few times. And yes, I do talk to the trees, wind, and the rock in my yard that I lean against when I write. And I'm know they talk back. I just have to learn how to listen. The only problem I had that science and magic kept interfering with each other. Then I picked up the YW books and everything flowed again.

Calliope, the muse of poetry and song

http://headintheclouds.blogdrive.com

[This message was edited by calliope on 24 February 2004 at 16:04.]

[Rysade]

No no, an atheist is someone who does not believe in god or gods. A Nihilist beleives in nothing. Then there's agnostics, who maintain that you cannot know if there is or is a god (i.e, god is not provable or disprovable.)

As for me, I'm an Atheist, and a Bright and proud of it!

--Dai Stihó
"Our world is rule by people with issues, not brains." - Gryphon
ha (hä) interj. [echoic] an exclamation variously expressing wonder, surprise, anger, triumph, etc.: repeated (ha-han. the sound of this exclamation or of a laugh
-Webster's Dictionary of the American Language, Second College Edition

[Gryphon]

Cheers, Rysade! I'm an atheist too!

Nihilist... I'll remember that. Nice, new funny word.

And err... just so you know, I don't beleive in magic.

-MaThFrEaK
"Hehehe. You smell funny."
"I love fish and chicken and turkey and ham and squirrels and pork and..."
"Izza mousey!"
~Gryphon~

[Rysade]

Congrats, Gryphon! I think that makes a confirmed three of us here...

I'm not precisely sure what nihilism entails, though. I mean, can you believe in science, or that the world is real? Or in yourself? I'm not sure. I think that it's strict: Belief in nothing means NOTHING, no exceptions.

--Dai Stihó
"Our world is rule by people with issues, not brains." - Gryphon
ha (hä) interj. [echoic] an exclamation variously expressing wonder, surprise, anger, triumph, etc.: repeated (ha-han. the sound of this exclamation or of a laugh
-Webster's Dictionary of the American Language, Second College Edition

[calliope]

Atheist, nihilist...agnostic? Now I'm confused. (yeah, it doesn't take much)Thanks for setting me straight.

Calliope, the muse of poetry and song

http://headintheclouds.blogdrive.com

[Gryphon]

Cheers! Now I feel not-alone.

Nihilsm... A very weird word. Now I have to look it up somewhere!

Calliope, I'm too sure on what the others mean, but I know what an atheist means. It means that ya don't beleive in any gods.

'Atheist' always makes me think of this bit in a Terry Pratchett book. What was it...?

Something like:

Don't stand on a peak of the mountain in full metal armor during a lightning storm and shout "forget-which-god has the facial features of a mutant toad!"

As I said, something like that. I'd have to look it up. Might be in either "The Light Fantastic' or... uhoh. Cam't think of the other book's title. Anyway, it's by Terry Pratchett.

-MaThFrEaK
"Hehehe. You smell funny."
"I love fish and chicken and turkey and ham and squirrels and pork and..."
"Izza mousey!"
~Gryphon~

[Rysade]

Would you believe that I'm reading that book right now. By accident?

Yeah.

It's The Color of Magic.

"Fire-raiser, is he?" said Bravd at last.
"No," said Rincewind. "Not precisely. Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos were lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armor and shouting 'All gods are bastards.' Got any food?"

I like discworld. That's the way the world would work if religionists actually were right. For example, an imp in an Iconograph is talking to Rincewind about 'harnessing lightning':

The imp gave him a kind but pitying look.
"Lightning is the spears hurled by the thunder giants when they fight," it said gently. "Established meteorological fact. You can't harness it."

Discworld's magic works because all it's natural laws say it does. In our world, magic goes away when scientific scrutiny is applied to it. On the discworld, it's purified, distilled, and made even more useful.