Does anyone here belive in magic?

[Fox]

Ive never had experiances like that, the main one I had was when I was in Primary school I must of been about 8ish and I was running around on the tarmac and I found that if I held my body a certain way I did not have to run to move, I sort of glided around and used body weight to steer. This not only happened once but on three occasions! It was amazing!
Now to me its just werid that I did not panic or tell anyone! It just happened like it was meant to. I would love for it to happen again so I could develope it! How sad am I remember and wishing for a repeat of something that happened 17 years ago!
Foxx

[Alianne]

ok this is kina weird of me to ask and definetly way off topic but does anyone here understand how Julian Day schedule works?????????

[Fox]

Have not got a clue and you would think that consider Ive been on here a long time I would. I would like the answer to that and how the back of the manual works, you know all that ratings stuff under their names!
Fox

[Peter Murray]

Originally posted by Alianne:
ok this is kina weird of me to ask and definetly way off topic but does anyone here understand how Julian Day schedule works?????????

I think it was Nathan who posted this link to a webpage that'll convert back and forth - I've been using that in the timeline I've been trying to do. It also has an explanation of how it works, but no explanation of how they chose the starting date, which is over 300 years before the Earth's creation, according to Bishop Ussher's calculations .

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[Alianne]

Yeah the ratings thing confused me too. well u never know maybe it will be explained in a later book.

thanks for that link Peter Murray it helped.

[wildflower]

I've had the song "Do you believe in Magic" stuck in my head all day.

I don't think I believe in magic. I used to, due to little coincidences like being able to tell what song is coming up next on the radio, or hearing exactly what someone is going to say before they say it. But they're just that to me: coincidences. I used to start hoping whenever someone said something about real magic; now I'm just skeptical.

[bluesalamanders]

People remember coincidences and forget about the times that the same things don't happen.

I'm sure there were many more times that, wf, that you didn't know what someone was going to say (which could, of course, simply be a reaction to knowing someone well) or what was going to be on the radio (which probably has an explanation, as well - for example, I can often tell what a song is going to be by the first note or two if I'm listening to the same type of radio station I listen to a lot, and there are times when the announcers give lists of "what's coming up next" that you might have heard without realizing it) than times that you did. But what people remember are the times that it did happen.

It's like the silly superstitions that some sports players have, lucky socks or eating something weird or whatever. They happened to be wearing those socks or to eat that food and then they had a good game, but correlation isn't the same as causation - that is, just because two things happen near each other in time and space doesn't mean that one caused the other.

Say I flapped my arms up and down, and suddenly saw a bird fly by my window. If correlation and causation were the same, well, then flapping my arms would make another bird fly by the window, right? No...but if I stood by my window flapping my arms long enough, another bird would probably fly by, because there are a lot of birds around here. If I believe this sort of thing, than that would reinforce the idea that flapping my arms caused birds to fly in front of my window. But I didn't cause the bird to fly by. I just happened to be flapping my arms when it did. Coincidence.

~Pont

[Fox]

Your right of course, alot of things are coincidence but by human nature we have to have something to believe in. Be it religion, Gods, Aliens etc. So for me even though I DO BELIEVE in magic of a sort i would put it there with god and aliens. WHY? Well becuase I'm not saying they are real and im not saying there not. I need it proved either way!

By the way Is it a coincidence that so many strange things happen to people?
Fox

[Gigo]

Originally posted by KsSk8er:
Rysade: this took a while but:
Jabberwocky!! I love thi poem!!
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Etc.

Oh noes you're gonna be haunted by the ghost of Charles Dodgson for the rest of your life! Or not.

Ah. Well. Maybe. There MIGHT be magic, and it would be cool if it did exist, but *shrugs* I don't really care. Unless I get to be a wizard, of course.

> Well, there's always two sides of the coin. And since we don't know WHAT type and format the magic comes in, it really depends. If EVERYONE had magic, yeah, think worst-case scenario. But, um, we're human. Not sure what that's supposed to mean, but yeah, lol.

I think most cases are coincidences. Or extreme chance. A person could flip a coin all his life, and have it never come down as tails. Or vice-versa. It isn't impossible, but the chances of it happening are minimal.

But there are unexplained instances of Power...

Well, y'know, levitation, teleknesis...

being in control of your dreams? I've had a few of those...

There _is_ NNTK, anyway.

[bluesalamanders]

I don't believe in gods, religion, or magic. I do believe in science, but that's not the same kind of belief. I also believe in aliens (as in, the existance of non-earth-life in other galaxies, not alien abductions and that stuff), but again, not the same kind of belief.

Fox said:
by human nature we have to have something to believe in.

I disagree. What we have to have is a way to understand and so be able to deal with our surroundings. Gods, magic, and so on, are ways of explaining things that we don't yet understand. But science - and thus our understanding of the world and universe around us - is expanding constantly and explaining those things that were previously unknowable.

Fox said:
Is it a coincidence that so many strange things happen to people?

Well...yes.

Gigo said:
There MIGHT be magic, and it would be cool if it did exist

I find the idea far more terrifying than cool. Life isn't like books and movies. The good guys don't always win. I don't even want to imagine the truly horrific things that the bad guys could do if any sort of magic were real. They do enough terrible things without it.

~Pont

[Cassandra125]

quote:

There Might be magic, and it would be cool if it did exist
Gigo


I don't really see why it would be so cool. Yeah, it would be fun, but think of the responsiblity, and how a person could either hurt someone eles, or hurt themselves. I would rather live and not know if there was magic, then live and know people were getting hurt because of it, but I guss that might just be the way I see things.


The Trojan Princess

[The Wind-Whisperer]

Hey, everyone. As cheesy as this sounds (I'm not expecting you to believe me, I practice wizardry, only its not anything like the young wizards series. Its sort of like Wicca, but with more concentration techniques, and theory.

The Wind-Whisperer

[Fox]

What you mean like willing something to happen? Or moving things with your mind etc? Cause I've looked that up and it's said to take years on practice to move a pencil even a little! Not that it might not be worth it
Fox

[Cassandra125]

My mom was into Wicca a few years ago. Sometimes I got to get a drink late at night, and I would find her up chanting, and burining different kinds of colored candles. Then the next day things would happen, or we would hear things that didn't really make sense, people doing things they would not normally do. So I guss I sort of believe in it, but not totally.

She tried to get me into it also, but at the time I wasn't really intrested.

[Fox]

Does that mean she is not in it now? Have you asked her about what she did and if they worked? My mum tried that board with the alphabet on it ()Cant spell it! 22 and cant spell aghhh) and she wont talk about what happened. I mean I'm interested about what happened to her, I love talking about these things. I can think about nothing better than talking to a proper witch or wizard about what they do why they do it, what happens when they do things.

PS I'm really sorry everyone, Ive been writing on this topic too much! thing is I put it on instant noticfication a couple of days ago so ... well... I'm just sorry I will try and cut it down a bit

Fox